its about time to update but i dont feel very inspired. if i was a good writer i could talk about some of the interesting characters that i help in the shop everyday. like the rich people who can spend 2000 dollars on a few ironwood chairs or the men with black bushes growing out of their ears and many others. oh i have a new pet that i keep in the shop. it is a black widow that i found and put in a container and continue to feed flys that i catch throughout the day. its getting a lot bigger than when i caught her. so anyways last evening we played vball with pickens and shiloh youth so that was fun. i hope we can continue to do stuff with them occasionally. today i mowed the yard cleaned me and tonys bathroom washed and cleaned out my vehicle and helped wash my dads truck so ive stayed pretty busy. in a few weeks im headed back up to dryden ontario to blc for the summer again so im really looking forward to that. i would really appreciate you alls prayers as im up there over the summer. so here are a couple pics from last year.

wow what a wakeup call. just about a year and a half ago. i was in the center of that red dot. please remember the people that this affects. especially because of all the unreached in this area. my prayer is that God will use this in some way to reach many people.

if you want a great sense of accomplishment you should put together a few pieces of iron wood furniture. for those of you who dont know what iron wood is let me explain it to you. it is an exotic hardwood that comes out of brazil, and its called iron wood for a reason. it is so hard and heavy that it will actually sink in water. also each screw has to be counter sunk for the head and drilled in the length of the screw or it will break the screw off. so anyways to say the least its not a lot of fun to work with but when you get done with a piece it feels great to be done with it and it really feels like you did something. they are also very beautiful chairs as well. a little expensive (325 dollars for a rocker, treated wood is 120) but they will last a lifetime.

so anyways in other news, friday evening i went with my family and the junior and senior homeschoolers for a cookout and i got this picture.

well shucks. i just went to post and i lost the whole thing. it was pretty long too about my day leaving early this morning driving 2 hours to about a 5 million dollar house to build a gazebo about a 100 yards down a steep hill behind the house. anyways there was a lot of little things that seemed to go wrong like the architectural comittee wanting to make us tear it down becuase we didnt go through them and small things like that. but we got it done and got home around 7 so it was a long tiring day but it was ok. so anyways here are some pics.

the front of the house. slate roof, copper gutter, flashing and drip edge, stone, shakes on the wall and all that good stuff.

this is about half way down the trail and we have a lot of heavy stuff

the gazebo glider

here you can kind of see the hill although it doesnt really show it here. the truck is parked somewhere at the top on the right side.

there was even a golf course in the valley below

here is a song that i thought i would throw in as well. its prolly my favorite casting crowns song but pretty much all of their songs are good. so enjoy

we had a lot of fun last evening with the youth. we had a "redneck" supper where we dressed up redneck and stuff like that. (no offense to you rednecks out there. im most of the way to being one myself. half my outfit i wore to work) ill try not to embarass sonya too much with pictures of her family but i do have to put a couple in.

these two characters were prolly the best dressed. ill keep them anonymous but one of them happens to be my broth.. um sister.

look at all the cute little rednecks

duanes shirt. very appropriate

we had a relay where we all had to walk on these 2 two by fours as a team. my team had it going to begin with but we totally lost then

 what a look

our redneck youth sponsors

the whole crew

we had a daffy supper where you get really weird things to eat with so that was interesting

if you look real close on the right side you can see some lightning bolts coming in. i set my camera on continuous shot and got a few pics. out of 270 some, i kept five

even though it was pitch black out this lightning bolt (the white on the right) lit up the yard like daylight

messing around afterwards watching old home videos.

and finally we built a gazebo for a guy this past week who restores old cars and i got a couple pics of the ones he had in his garage