This day in History

Febuary, 21 in the year of our Lord, and the beginning of a new millenium, 2000.
After recieving several harley davidson valentines cards, and seeing more of the state of Missouri that I thought exhisted( i didn't even know the state exhisted two weeks before) we are to embark on a journey for home, the the journey here was anxious, to see old friends, the journey now home is anxious to go, anxious not to be gone, but to return with our life in a ryder truck. We have placed a oath upon a parcel of earth, for us to buy it upon the sale of our home in Colorado. The land is beautiful, the house...well the house is manageable. The excitement is almost unbearable as we see what the Lord is doing, and the road ahead is one of learning and growing.

Febuary, 21 in the year of our Lord, 2006,
Wow six years, to stop and look back, it strikes you with awe, The Lord has worked His hand and dealt graciously!
Having gone from a fat city kid (who had only ever seen a cow from the car window as we drove in the "country") to being a young man who has seen more hay than days of exhistance.
Both Dad and Momma having been raised in the city, we had no idea what we were getting into, but with out hardly a thought we dove head long into farming, but to look now I would say more so than farming animals, we were farming a family.
We were all on the same curve of learning...learning exactly how to keep 40 chickens alive long enough to kill them, or trying to keep a freezing calf alive (in the bath tub), working till the sun nearly rose again, loading hay, using every once of energy, sweating hot when it is down to 70 at night(no one told us it got hot here), but we have learned it together.

The road having been rough, we have the battle scars to show, but we have been blessed!!!

To look to the road ahead, preparing to enter a different stage of life, I look to the road behind me, thankful for the lessons we have learned!

T-a-double guh- ed

QUESTION #1:Seven things I hope to do before I die:
1. Go sky diving
2. Gain a deeper understanding of the Bible
3. Learn a musical instrument
4. Raise a godly family
5. Travel in Europe
6. Kayak the rivers of Costa Rica
7. See my great grandchildren playing

QUESTION#2:Seven things I cannot do well (yet):
1. Play a musical instrument
2. Apply make-up
3. Not annoy my momma with my grand persona and use of superfluent vocabulary in conversation
4. be bored
5. hold my tongue
6. Recall where I read a specific verse in the Bible
7. Be a "wall flower"

QUESTION#3:Seven things that would attract me to my spouse:
To attempt at listing the things asked, herein is impossible. To include would fall short, and thus exclude, to exclude would be a tragedy, that I could not bear. For I know not the words in my vocabulary that could limit any qualities to only seven, and still fully describe what was to be conveyed. So I leave up to the void to give but a glimpse of what might answer the above question.
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QUESTION#4:Seven things I say often:
1. umm...
2. Cool beans
3. That is NOT cool!!!
4. I haven't gotten there yet
5. Who's doing the driving??
6. And Such
7. What color is the smoke coming out of the oven supposed to be?!?

QUESTION#5:Seven authors, books or series I love:(This is by no means all inclusive)
1. Future Men, D. Wilson
2.Chronicles of Narnia, C.s. Lewis
3. My life for yours, D. Wilson
4. The Dragon and the raven, G.A. Henty
5. God's gift to women, Eric Ludy
6. The Mark of a man, Elizabeth Elliot
7. The Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy

QUESTION#6:Seven movies I watch over and over again: I'm not fond of re-runs but...
1. Master & Commander
2. The Last Samurai
3. Batman begins
4. I. Robot
5. Finding Nemo
6. You can't take it with you
7. Shenandoa

QUESTION#7:Seven people I want to do this: I hate to use absolutes, saying that I want this or that person to do this, to single this or that person out to be the subjects of my inquisition would be picking favourites.
( I do say though, that Q. #7 is more of a statement than a question)