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Welcome September 2014!

1) First Saturday Breakfast from 8-11am Saturday the 6th
2) BINGO only on the first Tuesday of the month as far as I can tell.
3) CMMA Board meeting second Saturday of the month at 10am
4) USDA Food Distribution is on third Monday of the month unless notified here.
5) Movies Under the Stars 20th at 7PM! (weather permitting)
5) PotLuck is on Saturday the 27th at 4PM

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By Robert DeLoyd
09/27/2014

Me when I started the website
<<< Me when I started the website :)

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 writing 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 characters (six 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









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A Video Blog or Some Such

by Bob DeLoyd
December 2013 to January 2014 Run!

A short video of me running out of 2013 and into 2014. Been doing this for many years and this is my second time videoing it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTt_nIUMQQ8




CopperMountainMesa.Com
SEPTEMBER 2014
Anniversaries Birthdays and Events
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
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Randell Herrera
Birthday

3
Mike Villarreal
Remembered

4
James Kern Watson
Remembered




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CMMA Breakfast
8:30



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10 11
Donna Myers
Remembered




12
Kimberly Herrera
Birthday

13
CMMA meeting at 10 AM
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USDA Food
Distribution



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19 20
Movie Night at 7PM! (weather permiting)
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Roz Drzal
Remembered

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Marcie Hines
Ed Drzal
Birthdays

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POT LUCK
Starts 4:00
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Ruth Denison
Birthday

30




TIPS, STORIES, AND SUCH SECTION:

Roger Smith's Magic Garden
November 2012


By Roger Smith

So a little update on the no digging technique I began using a couple of years ago is due as I have seen enough to now describe my observations.
The technique is helpful as it keeps the soil sheltered from wind erosion. And adds organic matter with all it's benefits. Attracts a mix of beneficial insects and their opposites [though I have not experienced any pest epidemics by growing lush greenery in the summer].
Also it is not a problem to scratch in a row for seed planting; I simply move the debris away for planting the row then rake it back into place. I did notice that the termites ate a significant portion of the material though the remainder still resisted erosion and kept the soil damp. So.... I did find myself digging in bags of compost this year nonetheless. There are not the worms out here to get a year round digestion of vegetative matter process going. When the heat comes, the worms go. And when the black-eyed pea and buckwheat cover crop gets tall enough, about a foot minimum, I will cut it down with hedge shears and let the plants regrow through the trimmings. Probably a good time to place your compost, manure, and or plant food on the surface, cut down the cover crop and then simply let it lay including a GOOD flooding to get the trimmed plants growing again and wash some nutrients down into the soil profile. I have tried this once this year and am pleased enough to make this a standard practice during the summer months.
By mid August or thereabouts, shut off the water. You can leave the dried out cover crop standing, I would think, though the peas are very hardy and slow to die. One might want to pull them out along the planned planting row and leave those not in the way. Leaving the dead crop standing does reduce the wind's erosive impact on your soil and provides a bit of shelter for young seedlings. And of course, their eventual decay provides nutrients for your growing endeavors. In time though, you'll need to clear a seed row to get the fall crops planted. This shouldn't disturb much; a row taking up several inches in width at the most.
This is also a good method to get green matter into your garden. I gave up collecting lawn clippings when down below when I realised there is an ag chemical problem with material from yard cuttings and trimmings. The cover crop supplies this and decomposes well during the cooler times out here. Anyway, that's about it for this missive and the no digging method. It probably should be named the dig less method. Ya think?

Pleasant gardening, Roger





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