September 21-27 2014

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Azure Sea of Dreams in paperback now on Amazon!

 

Sunday 21- 96 degrees.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, took Cassie for a mile run, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for three minutes.

I got a email that said my paperback version was up and ready to sell on Amazon.

Took Cassie for her evening and night walks.

Monday 22- 99 degrees.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, took Cassie for a walk, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for two minutes.

I started working on a new book (working title) “Thought of the Week” where I go grab all the good stuff I wrote for 11 years on my column I wrote for the Hi-Desert Star. I had one year almost done and I remembered I should email the Star to ask about Copyrights. I emailed the editor of the paper and attached a sample of what I was attempting to do.

I took Cassie for her evening and night walks.

Tuesday 23- 100 degrees.

I did my stretches and took Cassie for a walk.

My brother called to tell me we/I brought the trailer at the resort in Tucson.

I worked a little more on the “Thought book (working title)” I really don’t want to do too much until I find out about the Copyrights from the Editor.

Took Cassie for her night end evening walks.

Wednesday 24-  96 degrees with clouds.

I went to bed at 3am, Cassie woke me up at 5am, let back in at 7pm, let back out at 9pm and then she woke me up at 11am to be let in... but this time I couldn’t go back to sleep because I had lots on my mind. So I got up at 5am and did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, took Cassie for a mile run, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for three minutes.

I made breakfast and drank coffee, was working on my new book (working title) “Thought of the Week” and fell asleep and slept until 2pm.

I hadn’t heard from the Hi-Desert Star about the Copyrights and called the editor a little bit before 4pm. She said it wouldn’t be a problem and my email to her had gotten lost in the hundreds she gets everyday; I remember I had that problem before with the Star when I added an attachment to one of my columns.

 

I made the eBook “A Little Desert Home” available on Kindle for free for 5 days.

 

Thursday 25- 101 degrees.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, took Cassie for a mile run, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for three minutes.

I wasn’t feeling to well, kinda down today so I mostly stayed inside and rested. I worked a little on the new book.

 

I made the eBook “A Little Desert Home” available on Kindle for free for 5 days.

I took Cassie for her evening and night walks

Friday 26- 97 degrees.

I did my stretches, took Cassie for a walk.

I went to update the website with Annelies column and found she had written there are now two websites for Copper Mountain Mesa. I went to that other website to find Annelies column was also posted there and archived which made my website kinda redundant. So I wrote a “Farewell Message” on my website www.coppermountainmesa.com instead posting Annelies column:

Our Little Community; I created and have faithfully been running the CopperMountainMesa.COM website for many years since the beginning of November 1999 and haven’t missed writting one column for over a decade; it was a labor of love to me for many years.

I have kept updating the website without fail since Annelies Kuiper took over writing the column for me in February 2011. The past few years I have grown mighty weary of the responsibility of doing these weekly updates and until this day I was looking for someone responsible to take over. I have found there is a new website that kinda duplicates my own hosted by Teresa and Ken Sitz at CopperMountainMesa.ORG who I believe can do a wonderful job of taking over the responsibilities of keeping “Our Little Community” informed throughout the next fifteen years and into the future. The Archives on my website will remain current up to this date and no more will be posted there; this will give the new website access to them.

I will keep the CopperMountainMesa.COM website and use it for my own writings, songs I’ve composed,  Journal, books I have written which I used Copper Mountain Mesa as a setting for my charaters (6 books so far). I have many projects which have been sitting on the back burner of my wood stove waiting patiently for this free time to arrive for many years and arrive it finally has.

I now gracefully bow out and hope only the best of success for the new website.

Respectfully,

 

Bob DeLoyd

www.coppermountainmesa.com

 

 

 

Saturday 27-  94 degrees with clouds and wind.

I did my stretches and took Cassie for a walk.

I made my mystery chili casserole and went to potluck where there was some might good food to share among my good friends. I will be sending a list to Annelies of all the wonderful food that was made so she may write about it in her column if she would like.

After potluck

***** Stuff I Wrote this Week******

A Short Story

There was 24 hours of sunlight when I was there in Narvik. Children played in the streets at 3am and vodka filled the air from the never closing bars as I walked the streets. I was being followed. I saw glimpse of a person slipping back behind a corner of a building or ducking into a doorway every time I looked over my shoulder. I had my 9mm Beretta tucked into my waistband and I pulled it stealthily out careful so others couldn’t see it to make sure the safety was off and a round was chambered ready to fire.

~RD

In a reply to a post on never hitting a woman

I only had to hit a woman once and that was when she was being carried swiftly down the Colorado River screaming help. Because she was deaf she didn’t hear the siren blast the dam attendants use as a warning when they release large amounts of water from the dam. While everyone else on shore just watched her float by I dived into the river to save her life only to have her climb on top of me pushing me down deep into the water; she was in a panic state of mind. I tried a couple of time more, but the same thing would happen and I was getting physically tired and worried I would drown if I didn't do something. So I hit her hard but opened handed on the side of her head stunning her and I was just able to get us both to shallow water and walk her to shore where we both collapsed of exhaustion. Some people would say I should have done this and that, but I had no experience at this at that time; I do now.

~RD

Flowers always amaze me, astonishment is waiting those who stop to look closely.

~RD

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