Rick's Daily Journal

And then there was light

I just love the northern lights and they have been especially good because of the solar flares last week

�We are never tired as long as we can see far enough.� Emerson....seen this quote today and it intrigued me...I was reading an article about a woman that paints pictures of skies....http://www.anchoragepress.com/newarchives/coverstoryvol12ed43.html...... and I came to realize that is the way I have always been....I love looking at the sky and how it is never the same....lenticulars....altocumulus......cumulonimbus.....nimbostratus....such lovely clouds....snowed most of the day.....finished up the work in the backyard.....did the garden last....perfect time to do it with the soil frozen...peeled off the sod to expose the rich soil underneath and pushed the offal outside the perimeter of the plot into a pile to be composted next summer....am really excited about the prospect of gardening next year....when you no longer have a dream you have nothing....I have been away for so long....

Got a lot done yesterday in the backyard.....used Robs 550 John Deere to clear all the brush and trees that had overtaken the backyard......will finish up today even though it snowed about an inch last night....really looks good and now I can lease some of the land to Rob and his renter to store their stuff for the winter.....will be ready to garden in the spring....need to fix the rototiller this winter....Tacey is still not talking to me....she slept all day and most of the night....Brett called last night....I have him convinced to buy a Mac....he has never owned a computer and is afraid it is too complicated because he sees all these commercials on TV about how to learn to run a PC.....I think he will do well on an entry level Mac....so frustrating talking to him while I am on line and wanting to show him something online....he keeps asking me to look up stuff for him and print it out and send it to him.....and then it was winter....where have I been

Snowed yesterday.....not much but enough to make the roads challenging....Tacey still has an attitude.....her and Robin got into an arguement about grandma Burnie and Tacey went off and said she is moving out again as Robin and I are peices of shit for not getting her up.....I made a nice dinner but she would not eat it to punish me I guess....she really gets mad when I do not cook....this is no way to live...got up this morning and she had been up all night again as I had got up several times last night and she was up all the times I got up.....she just laid down on the couch probably to sleep all day....mornings are such a wonderful time of day....as long as I can remember mornings were my favorite time...I don't liked to be talked to when I first get up for I want to listen and feel the weather ......I have been gone so long.....it's good to be the King

Been a few days since I have written....need to keep this up as I did when I was younger....it is a great reference point to either jog my memory or ascertain my mood....had a real vivid dream night before last..should of written it down then instead of now..the dream was in the future and you could buy a newspaper and then simply by touching a certain place in an article you would be transfered to the locale of the article to get a better feel for the event or place.....I was having a ball touching the paper and going to Australia when I touched a advertisement for their beaches etc....I felt sort of like Jody Foster in Contact when she went to the other world and they said they made it like it was so she would be comfortable....so much nicer to have those dreams instead of the horrible dreams I have had for so many years....had lunch with Roger yesterday and dinner with Rob Siebels....also took Rob shopping ...he is really busted up from his last epileptic seizures....read meters today...I hate this time of year even when it is day the light is not good..today was overcast and using the spotting scope did not work very well due to the poor light conditions....Tacey is mad I did not get her up on time yesterday.....she was up for three days so it was impossible to get her up anyway....more later

really cool image of the northern lights in the Anchorage paper today

Been a few days....not much to report....Brett called again wednesday night and we talked into the wee hours.....went to my meeting on thursday and then went and visited with Roger afterwards..got home abot 12:30 am.....am caught up on most of my bills......paid off all my credit cards....paper says we are going to have a warmer than normal winter....that seems to be the norm for the last several years.....northern lights were awesome last night....stayed out for about 1/2 hour watching them..colors were vivid and they danced all over the sky......quite a display....

Another crisp morning here....was up all night talking to Brett in Walla Walla......we both finally gave it up at 5 this morning....good talking to him.....he is sending me the keychain I asked about

Hate these kind of days....I am up and then down....did not get much done today.....trying to get organized to pay bills ....two of my bill paying websites will not work....hate this frustration....love this operating system.....weather was really cool this morning and did not warm up till late afternoon....Robin says grandma does not want Rebel to live there any longer..he says she is doing really good.....I told this to Tacey and she launches into me like it is my decision or something....I really need to just stop relating things to Tacey for 9 times out of 10 she rags on me.....all this negativity I can live without...maybe I am looking at this wrong but then again I don't think I am....and this where are you going..where have you been....why is there no coke stuff is real old....grandkids.....love them all....but I see them in different lights....I think it has to do with parents.....I am very intuitve.....I can read animals very well...been playing dumb all my life....I am so in tune with nature.....it is like having a second sense about things of the natural world....when I am outdoors it seems like my senses are in overdrive...I feel so alive....wish I could of been a better father and imparted some lasting wisdom upon my children or at least taught them to change a tire or check the oil....working with my hands came so natural to me that I assumed it came natural to everyone....hopefully if I live long enough I can instill in my grandchildren the beauty in seeing a bud turn into a leaf in the spring....a sprout burst forth from the ground that you planted it in and turn into something wonderful to eat....looking into the sky and reading the weather...feeling a breeze portend the future.....rejoicing in rain for it brings life....watching an animal and using its senses to help you in the woods....argh.....it has been so long....so long I have been gone.....

10/13/2003.......Back from San Francisco amid a lot of confusion....conflicting stories on Robins adventure while we are gone.....need to remember to take all I hear with a griain of salt.....it is strange how having a working computer is such a necssity in my life when I grew up in an era where computers were unheard of.....seeing Tatiana for some reason makes me think what will life be like for her at my age......what will she be reflecting on.....what will she say about what it was like back in 2010....will she look upon this era as an age of innocence.....I can remember when we first got televison...my father purchased the only TV for the trailer court and set it up in the community hall.....we all sat and watched a test pattern for the first week till KFAR got programming then it was just one program a day......I cried when I watched one show and then did not watch it anymore because of the intense feeling I had...I had nightmares of that program.....I went back to listening to my shortwave radio ......