July 2020 (1 of 2)
July 2020
Wednesday 01- 99/69F with a nice breeze. I woke up early, did my stretches, had breakfast, and then went right to work Snow Coating the rest of the roof. I used up a whole 5 gallons. I have another 5 gallons left I might use to put a second coat over the whole roof or until it runs out. I was kinda beat after finishing the roof and took a 2-hour nap. I didn’t do much for the rest of the day.
Thursday 02- 102/69F clear. I did my stretches and walked Cassie.
I went to Twentynine Palms with my guest to go to the post office and get supplies at Stater Bros supermarket.
Staters Bros was full of people and I felt my anxiety start to kick in, so I grabbed everything I needed and checked out while my guest spent another 45 minutes inside. I waited for her outside where I met a man called Elton. He was collecting donations for disabled Veterans fund. We had a nice long chat. He was in the Marines and I was in the Army and we found out we were both stationed at Fort Leonard Wood located in the Missouri Ozarks, but decades apart. We had a lot in common to talk about and it was a great way to pass the time while waiting for my guest to complete her shopping.
We got back home, I helped my guest with setting up water to her swamp cooler. It was too late to test it out.
LOL!!!! I just bought CF19 for $45 and the caddy was $35! Had to laugh when I read your comment. Mine has an IMEI and MEID numbers for cell which I hope to get working. There's a crack on the lid which I'll bend back into place and use some hot glue on the insides. I got lucky when I charged the completely dead battery. It held a charge for several hours when I ran Puppy Linux on it. Now I wait for the caddy and an SDD 128 to load an OS on it. :)
Friday 03- 104/73F clear with a late afternoon breeze. I did my stretches.
My guest’s swamp cooler wasn’t getting water. Spent a few hours troubleshooting it and finally had to disassemble the dang thing to find the float wasn’t working. I adjusted it, put it all back together, and it’s working fine now.
I did my studies
Cassie and I jogged a mile in the evening. Just too dang hot on her paws in the daytime. I took her out for a midnight jog up the hill and back too.
Saturday 04- 105/74F clear. I did my stretches, core trainer, and weight bench.
I kicked back. My guest cooked up hamburgers for dinner. We watched the fireworks from my property.
Sunday 05- 107/73F clear. I did my stretches.
Batteries refrigerator
I am gathering up some old French language books I had bought in the past, maybe over 30 years ago, and I’m going to delve into learning the French language.
Monday 06- 111/80F clear. I did my stretches, and weight bench, too hot for anything else.
Funny this should happen now. I received a notice from Rosetta Stone that I can upgrade my course “Spanish” I bought ten years or so ago to the online course for free! I changed my course to French and put in my activation code from the old Spanish box and they accepted it! Now I have the French course to follow.
Tuesday 07- 107/70F kinda hazy. I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, and jogged over a mile. I had to leave Cassie behind because it was too hot for her feet.
I went into my small pool for about the third time since I had it filled... felt mighty refreshing after all that exercise.
I did my studies throughout the day.
I lifted 10lbs dumbbells and took Cassie for a nice evening walk.
I took out my small reflector telescope for the first time this season and spied on Jupiter and Saturn in the southeastern sky. Then I pointed the scope south to the red supergiant Antares 554 light-years away in Scorpus. Nearby was M4 a globular cluster a whopping 7,175 light-years distance. I saw a few satellites and meteors scoot across the sky during my stay outside in the summer night’s bounty of majestic stars and planets.
I did my stretches, exercised with the 15lbs dumbbells, and took Cassie for a midnight jog up the hill and back.
Wednesday 08- 105/70F hazy. I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, and jogged over a mile.
I did my studies throughout the day.
I lifted 10lbs dumbbells and did some yoga that I haven’t done for a while because of my sprained ankle.
Kjtel came by with Bodie for a chat and a nice long evening walk.
I started my French language online Rosetta Stone course.
I did my stretches, exercised with the 15lbs dumbbells, and took Cassie for a midnight jog up the hill and back.
Thursday 09- 107/74F clear. I got up early before the heat of the day to do my stretches and took Cassie for a mile jog.
I worked on the house roof removing old panels and their supports. Tomorrow I’ll go up and put roofing tar on the holes.
I did my studies, but not the French lessons yet.
Took a nice evening walk with Cassie.
I did my stretches and took a midnight jog up the hill and back with Cassie.
Friday 10- 108/79F
I got up early enough before the heat set in to do my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, and took Cassie for a mile jog.
I did my studies throughout the day; including my French lessons.
In the afternoon I did my yoga and exercised with the 10lbs dumbbells.
FedX came with some colored pencils my lovely Sis Lynn sent me... Thank you for your gift! Now instead of not having enough colors, I have too many to choose from.
I took Cassie for an evening walk.
We went for a midnight jog up the hill and back.
Saturday 11- 109/86F with scattered clouds and lots of humidity.
Today was a complete loss for me. I had a hard time sleeping Friday night because of the humidity and heat. I woke up after sleeping only an hour and took Cassie up to the top of the hill Saturday morning at 5:30am to see the comet but unfortunately, that was obscured by clouds :'(
I finally fell asleep and slept until 1pm and spent the rest of Saturday lying around. Really not what I wanted or had planned to do. I took a shower and then jumped in the pool.
Sunday 12- 114/83F a few clouds. I woke up late but did my stretches and jogged a mile anyways: It was 107F when I started.
I did my studies and French lessons too.
Kjtel came by for an evening chat and a short walk with the dogs.
Cassie and I went for a midnight jog up the hill and back.
Monday 13- 111/77F with strong winds out of the southwest. I worked out on the weight bench, and core trainer.
I took Cassie for an evening mile jog. She’s been cooped up in the house all day and thought we both needed to get out.
I did all my studies and even a French lesson.
I took Cassie for a midnight jog up the hill and back.
Tuesday 14- 106/73F with a nice breeze. I did my stretches and went for over a mile jog. I had to leave Cassie at home because the ground was too hot; she stared at me while I left.
Linda Harter dropped off some trash and we chatted for a long spell.
I did all my studies throughout the day; French is very frustrating.
I did yoga, exercised with the 10lbs dumbbells, and then took Cassie for an evening walk.
I did my stretches, exercised with the 15lbs weights and jogged up the hill and back with Cassie.
Wednesday 15- 105/74F. I did my stretches.
I drove to Twentynine Palms to pick up some packages. I stopped at Desert Supply and purchased 7 feet of hose and a hole drill so I can hook up the pool filter system.
I installed a new SSD hard drive and Win 10 on a Panisonic Toughbook CF-30.
I took Cassie for a walk.
Finally sighted the comet in the northwest at 9 PM. That’s a hell of a lot better than getting up at 5 AM!
I did a few of my studies and a little French.
I took Cassie for a night jog up the hill and back.