JUST ANOTHER SPOKE IN THE WHEEL!

First things first I awoke this morning to this Sunrise. Snapped this photo, played short order cook for Hottie and Cujo, that put both of them back down for an early morning snooze. I walked down, actually up, to Bro B's house. I'm first greeted by Angel one of Bob's Seven dog people that share his abode! The horses are mid breakfast as I pass, Here comes three more of the seven, only three left to pet! I open Bro B's leaky squeaky door and there they are, the final three and Bro B stretched out and watching that ID channel! BTW as I write this, Hottie just switched from Man vs Food to ID, I think they're both considering a career change to private investigation!

I know by this time your saying. "Do I want to keep reading this?" And what the hell does another spoke in the wheel have to do with this rhetoric? The answer very soon!

Let's back up. When I woke up this morning I switched on the TV and noticed the DVR was recording something. After rubbing my eyes past the squeaky to the visual mode I discovered it was The Matrix. I remember now I set it to record about a week ago. I'm bored let's see what else is on, "Check it out" the "Super Series" is on! What you don't know what the "Super Series" is? 1975 Red Sox vs the Reds in what was the greatest world series ever (until the Sox broke the curse) As I watched I started to remember everything so vividly, the reason I hate Joe Morgan still to this day! The names started to reappear in my head just the way Mr Draper's advanced algebra lessons did when a few years back I was forced via a radio station bet to remember the quadratic formula. "What" yeah me too! Now this is not a trip down Red Sox's fan memory lane, although email me sometime and we can go on for hours. The way I started to flashback to the '75 series remembering every name, every second, my anger, exhilaration, and eventually sadness and the belief that the world ended when the Reds stole the series from who should have been the world champs! Well let's not debate.

This sudden tidal wave of detailed memories and emotions got me thinking. Why is it that some events in our lives mean so much and seem so relevant then days, weeks, months, years or sometimes just hours are suddenly meaningless. I started thinking about the events of this week! Just a week ago Hottie was released from the hospital from what was at times a life threatening illness. Or when Avril Lavigne appeared on American Idol and I thought what a bitch, then the next night Katie Perry, who is for sure a bitch! (BTW THOSE ARE JUST MY OPINIONS!) The presidents state of the union when it was evident that we voted in another cog in the political machine. Kurt Warner retired, J D Salinger writer of Catcher in the Rye died, Howard Zinn writer of "A Peoples History of The United States" also died, Bret Farve made the worst decision in his life on the football field and now we're are left with "WhoDat" Go ahead sue me!

The point I'm trying to make is simple! These things that we forget, file away or whatever are all just another spoke in the wheel of our lives. Things that are so important then lose the sting after time passes. Does that mean that these memories are not important? On the Contrary, they are our lives. The important details, the threads of the fabric of our lives (Hey is that a commercial). All these memories, good, bad, sad, happy and yes even the ones we want to forget. Yes, these are all "Just another spoke in the wheel" of our lives, but isn't that the reason our lives keep going. Rolling along through thick and thin, bouncing in and out of the ruts we call a lifetime.

As I leave you this week here is the lesson, the past is the past, the future is the future. I invite you to live right here right now, live every moment, every second, say everything you want to say, do everything you want to do, let nothing hold you back because you will never be able to really live this second to the fullest in the future or the past!

Get on with dying or living, you make the call!
NO REGRETS!
David Lee
dave@radiofreedavidlee.com
http://radiofreedavidlee.com

Snowy Arizona?

Well first a week ago today I had to take Hottie to urgent care. She had a fever of 103 for the third day, the Doc does some tests. The next thing I know an ambulance pulls into the parking lot and Hottie is on her way to the horse-pistol! After kicking the fever and pneumonia for the most part, the powers that be in Flagstaff say "okay Hottie you got to go!" Yeah all roads into flag are closed Hottie without a coat, no car and now stuck in a hotel in Flagstaff! I'm stuck here in Seligman. When I say Seligman I mean 12 miles south of I-40 exit 121 on a road that is not maintained by the county or the Home Association that my brother pays for every year! That will be the topic of another blog.
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Let's give you who don't live in AZ a little background. First came the snow then the sun melted most of it. Round two a little more snow, then round three which is still going on! Here comes close to two feet of snow! at this point Dave is feeding chickens, horses, hamsters, iguanas, turtles, fish and of course 8 dogs! I feeling pretty proud actually thinking as I walk through my duties that this reminiscent of a Wyoming cowboy in a frosty old west winter. Just has I am enjoying the romanticism of a cowboy winter and making my way up a small rise I realize that the ground below the snow is slick, very slick! To be sure of this fact I go ahead and get a face to snow look has I go down! By the way that cowboy winter no so romantic at this point. I pick myself up and finish the process of feeding watering and so on! Now I go inside my brother Bob's house where his seven dogs have adjourned on the couch for a wet warm fest! As I complete my inside chores, I sit down at the kitchen table to make some phone calls on my At&T Blackberry Curve with the best 3G network right. Well I may be able to browse while being on the phone which you can't on Verizion, to make a call I must sit at the kitchen table with my left leg propped up, tin foil between my toes. Of course I have my right leg has to be touching the fridge which I believe gives me a bit of a ground. I must freeze my head without moving, luckily I found one of those neck braces for whiplash which helps me to stay still! This is when I get the news, well two types of news first Hottie is getting out and that poses a problem and it's now raining so hard the trees which formerly were literally weighed down to the point of touching the ground in spots due to the heavy snow (I of course did not take the time to snap a pic and now the snow is melting by the second). This did cure the once every thirty minute ritual of climbing up a ladder with a piece of long pipe taped to a broom MacGyver style to allow me to remove snow and ice from my hughesnet and direct TV dishes! Ah the romantic Montana - Wyoming life!

Now with heavy rain and wind but no ice on the dishes I'm inside the 5th Wheeler watching the History Channel's Mountain Men feeling nice and cozy. I'm really starting to get into the Mountain Men show. Cujo is full of bones and at my feet then BOOM! Power goes out! Now I'm not watching the Mountain Men I am One!

It's pitch black freezing and I can't find the flash light or the candles, wait he's a candle now I need a lighter. If I could only find the flashlight then I could light a candle and find the flashlight hang on! Which did come first the chicken or the egg, hey I know this one it's flash on the kitchen counter! Now Cujo are in bed with the flashlight and the candles. When wake the power is on, the TY is back and now instead of the Mountain Men we're learning how to shape our abs in 6 days!

Meanwhile back at the ranch I get the news Hottie is safe the snow as melted from the roadway and I'm off to rescue my damsel! Hottie is home! I'll catch up again soon!

Dave OUT!

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Finally

Here in AZ but not up and running online yet! Unfortunately I have AT&T which I love but my 3g map has a whole where I currently live! it shouldn't be long! Podcasts and Blogcasts coming soon! in the meantime email big D a dave@radiofreedavidlee.com! I'll be on the Air Sooooooonnn!