February 23- March 01 2014

 

 

Sunday 23- sunny with temps around 74 degrees.

I did my stretches and took Cassie for a walk.

Chris Jonas called to tell me that his wife Violet passed away this morning at 12:30am.

We went over to Bonnie and Larry’s for lunch and had spaghetti, pie and cake, yummy! We watched a movie called “Beowulf” (2011) it was all computer animated and it looked pretty dang real.

Jimmy Stonebraker called to tell me his niece Jody had passed away in her sleep last night. Two people I know passing away in one day is a little overwhelming.

Cassie and me went went for a night run at 2am.

Monday 24- a nice sunny day temps in the low 70s.

Cassie woke me up at 8am to go outside. I decided to stay up and did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for 4 minutes. Then we went for a mile and a half run through the desert.

I spent the whole day working around the house repairing this and that, replaced the light in the front seat of the Cougar with an LED light so if it gets left on it won’t drain the battery. Watered all the plants outside and re-planted a small willow cutting into a larger pot.

Seems that Cassie is a little under the weather and I will let her be, but keep an eye on her

Tuesday 25- nice day, but I feel a change in the air this evening.

I just started reading the book "A Better Dog In Six Weeks" by Wayne Shaffer with Carolyn Shaffer’s lovely Illustrations... It was kinda one of them "Hey wait a minute!" moments when I realized it was her artwork. Pretty darn cool if you ask me, and also the book was signed by the Author!

One of the reasons I opened the book; Cassie was running a little bit of a fever and slept all yesterday after we did our morning run; she hacked something up when we got back. Maybe I am pushing her too quick or it is something she ate like the plants which I try to stop her from eating here and there on the trail we take. I kept an eye on her all day and she didn't get any worse. Anyways she is back to her usual hyper self today.

I did my stretches and took Cassie for a short walk.

I called up my childhood friend Doug Dorney and yapped about old times for over an hour.

Again I worked around the house and trying to figure out what I want to keep and what I need to toss or give away; I’m going to downsize what I own. I planted a few cactus I had in a box.

We went for a short evening walk.

Wednesday 26- a windy day with clouds flowing into our area.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for four minutes. Me and Cassie went for a nice walk. I’m not going to run her until she gets another month older.

I cleaned out the Cougar of all the trash that has accumulated since I bought it.

We went to Sherry’s so Cassie can play with the older dogs there in a secure yard, while Sherry and I go out for lunch/dinner or linder as Sherry likes to call it. We did some quick shopping at WalMart and then went to that Chinese Buffet and ate our fill. Kinda made up for not having potluck last Saturday.

Thursday 27- overcast all day with a large storm coming through tonight through Saturday.

I did my stretches and yoga.

I mopped the floors of the house and got everything ready for the storm coming tonight.

Friday 28- rain, rain and more rain.

I did my stretches.

Me and Cassie would go outside to play every time the rain would stop. This is her first rain storm and she seems to enjoy it after she figured out it wasn’t me causing it.

Winters Road got washed out for a few hours because of a cloudburst and there was a large pond that formed at the bottom of my hill on Winters. Linda H called to tell me she had a leak in her roof; other than that there wasn’t any problems at my house or any I heard of from others. We should have lots of wildflowers blooming this spring.

Saturday 01- windy and cloudy with a few sprinkles.

I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for 4 minutes. Then we went for a short walk through the desert.

Monday I will take Cassie down to get her spayed and I have some concerns about any surgery that’s done, even routine as this one appears to be, that something can go wrong. But I feel I am doing the right thing and it will be all over with and me and Cassie can get on with our lives.

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