Monday, January 25, 2010
This morning is a mixed bag of weather. It was 14 degrees, overcast and a few snowflakes when I got up, but as the day went on, it showed signs of improving and then it started snowing again. The high was 30 degrees at 3:30, up from the low of 6 degrees around 7 AM.
I spent most of the day on the computer, posting my blog, reading, listening to a short story, doing research, and keeping the fire stoked. Zack and I played several times and both Zoey and Rusty got some one-on-one time with me. Zoey hasn’t tired of the new toy, which is one of those circular plastic things with a ball in the trace and scratch pad in the center. The ball on this one has a motion sensor and lights a blinking red light when moved. Zoey loves that, but Rusty has only tried it once and since then, ignored it unless Zoey is making a lot of noise with it.
Rusty had a good night and was active before daylight, causing me to wish he would play down stairs instead of on my bed. By noon, he was looking ragged and tired, napping most of the day. I have tried to keep the humidifier going to ease any problems the dry air might cause, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Meanwhile, it seems to be helping Zack’s pads, as they aren’t dry and rough. I have also been putting the pad balm on his pads every night before bedtime, which must be helping also.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Today was a repeat of yesterday’s weather, with overcast and still air, turning to blowing snow in the afternoon, with winds around 4 to 5 mph.
I spent the day working online and finally maxed out my download limit by 4:30 and had to quit for the day. It all started when I received my usual political email from the Ron Paul website that had an interesting link. The grab line stated that we, the U.S, might have caused the Haiti earthquake on purpose, using HAARP. I couldn’t resist reading and viewing videos on just how man could cause an earthquake in a specific, pin point spot, like Port au Prince. The more I read and viewed, the more plausible the theory seemed.
It seems that the United States, along with Russia and Norway, have stations with antenna that emit High-frequency Active Auroral signals called HAARP. The U.S. has two stations in Alaska and one in Puerto Rico, close to Haiti. I haven’t been able to finish my research due to the slowing of my internet downloads, but will continue it tomorrow and report my findings.
Man need not fear the coming of the end of earth due to the planets aligning or mother nature, as he will end it himself.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Clear skies and bright sunshine are the order of today. The problem with clear skies is that allows all the heat to escape, so the low at 7:15 this morning was 0 degrees, with the temperature upon awaking a mere 5 degrees.
I attempted to resume my research on HAARP as my service was showing I was at full speed. As soon as I opened a second search, it slowed down and when I clicked on a third, a message from Hughes Net came up saying they were having trouble charging my monthly fee to my credit card. I spent the next hour trying to remedy the problem only to find out that Citi Corp locked my account for some reason, so I then had to use another card and pay online to regain use of my internet. What a pain in the ass. This is the third time Citi Corp has caused me problems and I won’t be using this card any time soon.
By the time I finished everything, it was still slow and I was told it would take up to an hour before it went back to normal, so I quit and turned to cleaning the cabin. I vacuumed upstairs, the stairs, and all of the downstairs and then cleaned the bathroom and kitchen. While doing all of this, I stopped a few times to cool down and give Zack his playtime.
The day was over before I checked back on the computer and found that my download speed was back to normal. I showered and fixed everyone dinner, then relaxed for the rest of the evening.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
It was cold again last night, with the low being -0.6 and only 8 degrees at 9 AM. As I started the fire, it instantly backed up and started filling the room with smoke. The flue was just too cold to allow the smoke to rise in the chimney, so I fought with getting it to draft and then clearing the room of smoke.
As the computer was running normally, I decided to check my mail and do some poking around. One email I received was for a site that allows you to visually visit almost anyplace and see a 360 view. It is www.vpike.com and a great site that will captivate you for hours, should you let it. Thanks for sending it to me Fred.
Another project that took the remainder of the day was searching for family members and/or relatives for a Lewis Brooks Hazelton. Who is Hazelton? Well, when I was still with the Sheriff’s department, I discovered several letters and a single photo inside of some stolen merchandise. The letters would have been discarded, as the true owner of the items couldn’t be found, so I kept them and tried to discover who Hazelton was, in hopes of returning the letters to the family.
In the course of working the Sheriff’s warehouse, I discovered and returned many items that might be valued memories, such as a videocassette of someone’s wedding, a photo album of old family photos, and some other things, but these letters eluded me finding anyone . . . until today.
The technology and information available to us in today’s world has improved since I found the letters, and in a few simple searches, I found the history of Lewis B. Hazelton. Let me give you a small picture of the man and what happened to him.
Lewis Brooks Hazelton was born in Liberty, Arizona on December 26, 1890, at the family farm of Enos Carter Hazelton and his wife Mattie Julia (Stewart) Hazelton. He was oldest of 8 children, having 5 sisters and 2 brothers. He worked on his father’s farm until he was 19 and then started his own small farm. He never married, but had a sweetheart named Winnie. Whether he and Winnie would be married and have a family is lost to time as at 26, he enlisted in the army to fight in WW I. He was sent to Fort Funston in Kansas for training. The letters start on September 20, 1917, as he is taking the train to Fort Funston. The first letter is to his second and third oldest sisters, Pearl, and Una. Reading the letters, you can tell that he dearly loves his sisters and is lonely for news from back home.
He hadn’t traveled much before now, so he was seeing and describing the landscape of New Mexico, and Texas, not caring for what he saw. His second letter was written September 22, and is to his mother. He arrives at Fort Funston and it has been raining almost the entire trip. He talks about how many boys from Arizona are there, naming several, and that they are all housed together in several barracks. He misses the family and home, but is anxious to get over to Europe and fight. He is in Battalion A, of the 340th F.A.N.A., which I believe is a field artillery battalion.
A third letter, dated November 20, is to Una and Pearl, and talks about a quarantine of the men, but doesn’t say for what, possibly the Spanish flu. He mentions that he wrote to his mother the day before, but that letter isn’t with the others. A fourth letter, December 13, 1917, a couple of weeks before his 27th birthday, is to Pearl and he mentions that he had been on 24 hour guard duty and upon getting off duty, was kicked in the right thigh by a horse. He doesn’t go into detail about the injury, but from a future letter, I concluded that it was bad. He writes that they will probably “cross the water” in January or February and that he has taken out a $10,000.00 life insurance policy for “papa and mama.”
On January 25, 1918, he write to Pearl that he was taken out of 340th, Bat. A, and is now in the depot brigade and expecting to ship out at any moment, but he doesn’t go into any details. He says that his orders are drawn for over seas service, but doesn’t think they will go as “there is something wrong with most every one of us and it does not look reasonable that the cripples would be sent over first.”
The last letter is dated March of 1918, he writes to his sisters that he is at Camp Merritt, New Jersey and in the 69 Causal Company, and will be going overseas soon. I was unable to find anything on the Causal Co., and he spelled it this way three times in the letter. I tried spelling it “casual” without any luck.
On July 28, 1918 he was killed in the Battle of Reims and is buried in the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France, with 6011 other soldiers that died in the Oise-Aisne campaign.
I have contacted a woman that I believe is a relative of Hazelton, to see if she wants the letters, but haven’t heard back from her yet. I’ll let you know what happens if and when she contacts me.
Friday, January 29, 2010
It is overcast with a few snowflakes here and there, but warmer this morning. There is a light breeze and the sun is attempting to break through the overcast, so it may warm to the 33 degrees that NWS is predicting.
I spent most of the day working on the computer, with breaks to play with Zack and bring in more firewood. The temperature has remained right at 30 degrees, give or take 2 degrees, all day. The sun did try to come through but it was only intermittent and didn’t help warm things up too much.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
The sky looks about as it did yesterday, with one or two errant flakes of snow and cold, with the low this morning being 11 degrees, but warming to the 20s by 11 O’clock. NWS is predicting 80% chance of snow for this afternoon and then 60% through the beginning of next week.
Other than working on the computer, I split and stacked more firewood, but not all of the cut sections I still have by the splitter. The sun was out briefly and then the clouds moved in and the wind increased, causing it to be unpleasant outside.
I managed to do three loads of wash, and made up the bed with clean linen and comforters. It’s always nice to climb into a nice fresh bed with Zoey and Rusty joining me. Zoey tolerates having Rusty there is he stays on one side of me with her on the other. Zack often asks to come up just before I get up for the day, and I let him, giving him his good morning pets.
Zack got plenty of playtimes today and both Zoey and Rusty had individual attention from me. Rusty had a great morning, being more active than usual and running up and down the stairs and from the kitchen to the sunroom. By 11:00, he crashed and went into his stupor, with glassy eyes, drooling and in general looking like he was about to die. By evening, he was back to being active and playful. I am beginning to believe that he is having small seizures, which is causing him to go into these stupors, but their isn’t any physical signs that I can see. This behavior occurs at least once every 7 to 10 days and I will start keeping track and recording them to see if there is a pattern.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
It snowed lightly during the night and this morning, but by 10:00, the sun broke through and the sky cleared. Maybe I’ll get some warmer weather today, even through NWS says no.
Yesterday, I had three different groups of snowmobilers go through. I was out splitting wood and playing with Zack when two groups went by and they waved, but none stopped. With their full helmets on it is impossible to tell who they are or even if they are male or female, but each group consisted of 4 or 5 snowmobiles. I don’t like what the snowmobiles do to my road, leaving moguls and ruts, but don’t mind having them come by once and a while. They have no idea how they mess up my road as they only come this way on snowmobiles and probably only once a season. There are miles and miles of labeled snowmobile trails, most of them groomed, through out the Helena National Forest, but the road to my cabin is not one of them, but then it is a public use area and not controlled by gates or fences.
I have no plans to do anything special today, and will probably spend most of it inside by the fire. The morning hasn’t warmed up much, sun or no sun. It is still in the teens with some snow still falling even though the sky is almost clear of clouds.
I will post these updates now as I doubt if anything exciting is going to happen today.
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