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Friday, June 20, 2008

A wave in the plot line grows into a tsunami and the best I could do is doggy paddle. Moral of the story? Stay out of the water.

I'm sitting here waiting for the tractor battery to charge. A small oops on my part, I left the key in the acc position. It doesn't even HAVE accessories anymore!

I haven't done a picture post in a week or two so I figured I would drop a few jpegs.

Just a day old

That little girl has no idea how big the world really is. She and mom have been hiding in the marshy area for awhile.

Because this farm needs MORE kittens.

Another work in progress.

You'll notice one of the "spinning jennys", or wire unrollers, sitting on the wall of my pick truck bed. Dave Hallett and I came up with that idea. Well, I came up with it and he built it with some improvements. Ingenuity is the name of the game. It'll be sanded down and enameled when I have some down time...

This is Mattie. She's been my constant companion during the last fence installation. She's a fantastic dog and I was sorry to leave her behind.

The difference between a Fuji (left) apple and a regular (right) apple, of some sort. I didn't even pay attention to what it was.

Not really that guy's best day ever, know what I mean? *

I don't play with long pieces of wire in a thunderstorm. After all the work Ben Franklin did with his kite string, I see no reason to try and improve on it.

And so we come to the close of another photopost in the life of me.

* The guy having the bad day was all a misunderstanding. Turns out he was holding an actual baby pineapple... What are the odds, right?

9:03 AM - 4 eprops - 2 comments - email it

Monday, June 16, 2008

life lessons

"A psychologically mature person looks for the positive in every situation, for no experience is entirely negative."

I learn about my life with every breath I take. I watch the witness I am to others and I see the tremendous failure that it sometimes is. I have a purpose and I sometimes bungle that purpose beyond belief. I'm fairly flawed. But in this flaw there is hope, there is a positive. No, I don't see it yet. I learn the lessons I need and I apply them to the future. Perhaps that is the lesson. Acknowledge what I did, attempt to repair it and then move on to do it right the next time. I change my actions to apply the lessons I have learned.

What lessons are you applying?

You choose what you allow. It's a typical choose your ending novel. And the end is always changing.

God runs my life and sometimes I try to run it for Him. I flop with astounding regularity when I do it on my own.

Here's to life lessons and applications that I can't yet recognize.

9:40 PM - 4 eprops - 3 comments - email it

Sunday, June 01, 2008

A roller coaster of fun and excitement.

As a small note, I'm doing ok. The past week didn't go even close to what I wanted. Sometimes you can't control what other people do. My actions are a result not only of my own choices, bu tthe choices of others as well. It's just how life is. And the beat goes on.

So, Steve and I went to Virginia to attend a training seminar. The company offering the seminar has a contract with FEMA for disaster related building inspections. I'm not going to explain all of it because I don't want everyone signing up and stealing my job.

It was just a short course for what is needed and I have a few more hours of online work and then I'll be on a list of available inspectors. Next disaster comes up and we'll see if this was all worth it. It only bothers me a bit that I'm basically hoping for something bad to happen so I can have a job. It was all a spur of the moment opportunity but it seems to be a realistic option to supplement my income and at the same time do something interesting. There were other reasons but choices being what they are...

So, here's Steve on our way to the seminar.

Here's a view from the hotel room.

Here's a picture of the front of the class.

Here's one of the back of the classroom.

Here's a great one of Steve doing his impersonation of audience participation with our trainer.

That pretty much sums up the whole trip. Thanks for checking up on me and I appreciate your time. It's comforting to know that I have a few observers.

For those who noticed, yes, Steve and I did go to the seminar. This was a detour. I really did need it though. I had planned on going down for this coming weekend but the plans of mice and men...

2:59 PM - 2 eprops - 1 comment - email it

Thursday, May 29, 2008

I was in Virginia yesterday for a training seminar.

I'm now in Maryland for the real purpose of the trip. boating on my river, in my home state, with my cousins.

I'll explain it later.

I've got a decision to make. all those opportunities I had are still there but I think i've been able weed out the less desirable and focused on the more, shall we say, enticing options. I know, innuendo galore.

oh, and before I forget:

"I can't imagine mastering the skills involved here without a clear understanding of who's going to be impressed."(Calvin and Hobbes)

that phrase drives men everywhere. It is the fuel for our fire.

10:06 AM - 2 eprops - 1 comment - email it

Sunday, May 25, 2008

	I fixed that last post.
	12:33 AM - 2 eprops - 1 comment - email it

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