Wednesday June 19th 2013

Back to work today, I will mow the mobile home park.  That is a pretty good job, no picnic tables to move.  It is very nice this morning but I’m sure it is going to get very warm.

I was right, I dumped the trash and am already sweating.  Maybe after mowing I will spray a bottle of Round Up, then again maybe I won’t. 

Mowing went fine, didn’t have any problems.  I stop around 1PM for a drink and a little something to eat.  The mower is usually almost out of gas so I need to stop.

When I got done mowing it was almost 4PM so I think I will go home and forget the Round Up.  I will try to spray some tomorrow.

We have church tonight, and the lesson book is on the Seed Principle and it is very good.  It is getting into marriage relationships and tonight the class was hilarious, well, I thought it was.  Thought Linda and I were the only ones that had little problems. Miss Jean led the class tonight, Coyita was on vacations and next Wednesday I will try to lead the class because Coyita has to go to Jeff City for work.  It will be nice to have this class over even though it is good but doing two lessons a week is almost to much with doing a lesson everyday for Sunday School and trying to memorize some scripture.  I am definitely not good at memorizing!

Guess that is about all for today, I will be caught up with the blog though at least for today, tomorrow is a different story…..Night Y’all

Tuesday June 18th 2013

Well, I am going into work today, this morning is is really nice out, the sun is shining and it is cool.  I opened the house for awhile to let in some of the cool morning air.  Very nice, won’t stay that way long, it will get warm and humid.

At work I took the trailer over to Russell Street and picked up the rest of the branches I had cut.  I had a pretty good load, wasn’t sure I would get them all on one load but they packed down nicely.

I sprayed a couple bottles of Round Up after the branches and then went home early.  I was getting pretty hot so figured it was time to go home.

Today I cancelled the order for the tile saw.  Not sure when, or if, I would get it.  I will check and see if I can order another one.  I almost did  but thought I would check some more before ordering.

Linda fixed a pot of beans (without meat) which turned out very good.  Back on the diet again.  I am doing pretty good, sticking around 195, even after the outing at China Buffet!

Not much else happening today.  Took a picture of my “hotspot” and this is where I have to put it to get it to work!!!

It is kind of funny, I took this picture awhile ago and the field back there is now about five feet tall!  Can’t believe how fast the corn grows here.  My Dad always said if it is knee high by the Fourth of July it is really doing good. Well, this is the middle of June and some fields you would get lost in and I think some are probably starting to tassel.  Probably by the first of August they will be picking the corn.  I was looking at the neighbors sweet corn and it has tassels and looks like it is starting to get ears. 

Well, we aren’t going to do anything tonight so guess I will just sign off for now, Night Y’all…

Monday June 17th 2013

I think I am getting worse!  Today is Thursday and I am just getting to the Blog again.  It isn’t that I’m to busy I just think I will do it later which usually comes a couple days later.

I know I didn’t work on Monday so now I just have to think of what we did.

I know that I ordered a tile saw from Amazon and it hasn’t come yet and it has been over a week.  I decided to check online and there was a place to contact them so I did and asked what the holdup was on the order.  They wrote back later and said that they didn’t have any in stock and weren’t sure when they would get any.  Would have been nice to know but I guess they figured it wasn’t important enough to send an email.

Now I remember, Linda took me to the China Buffet for lunch today because yesterday it was packed.  We had an excellent lunch.  It probably wasn’t real good for our diet though.

Our Lilly's are starting to bloom…

Can’t remember the name, Linda does but they are pretty.

It is cloudy today and looks like rain.  This evening we found out that a lot of places around here got a lot of rain.  Some places over six inches of rain. I think we may have gotten about an inch, not sure though.

We didn’t do a lot today pretty much just stuck around home.  Guess I will sign off and say Night Y’all…..

Sunday June 16th 2013

This is Father’s Day and not sure how many will be in church and not sure if we will have enough for a class.  Linda and I went in early and I was still wondering if there would be enough for a class but the drifted in and we ended up with six in our class.

I had a brain storm!  Not sure it was a good one so I asked the class if they were up to a challenge???  The challenge was to go to the young class, teens, as challenge them to the eight memory versus.  We have about eight weeks left to memorize the eight versus.  Easy huh?  I have been working on these versus for three weeks now and had about three memorized but we are changing to the NIV version and I was memorizing the NLT version, (I think that is easier).  They class wanted to use the NIV version so here I going starting all over again and it seems like the NLT is a lot easier, at least for me.  Oh, when our class left the other class I made a little statement  “we are going to stomp you”!  Almost everyone in  my class told me we were going to lose.  No confidence at all.  The teacher of the teens told me he was having a really hard time getting them interested in the class so I thought this may be a little incentive for them to start participating in classes.

Our class went extremely well, we are very slow, but that is OK because I would rather be slow and learn than to rush through it and not get the meaning.  Our class title is “Survival Kit” and the teens class is the same. Even with the small class we had people were participating and helping out. I had given an assignment for this week and I don’t think anyone did it but me.  I figure as the “teacher” I better do the thing I asked them to do.  Well, if we had had more time we would have done it right then in class but the time got away from us  so they still have the assignment for next week. It was a very simple assignment and it was to write some of there feelings about John 14:1-3.  We have certain questions to answer like how does in influence what I believe, how I feel or the way I behave.  Is there an example to follow or avoid? Is there a command to obey? Is there a promise to claim? Now to explain the questions, we answer the questions as part of scripture study in our “quiet time”.

Mark had the service for Father’s Day and he did an excellent job.  Very interesting service he put together.  I think everyone enjoyed it.

Linda and I were going to go to the Chinese place to eat until we say the parking lot and we decided to wait until tomorrow.  We went to Subway instead.  The breakfast sandwich really hit the spot.

We took it easy this afternoon.  Kim, Dee and Bren all called to wish me a happy Father’s Day.  That was really special.  Got to hear about all the happenings in their part of the country. 

Tonight I went to church at Morehouse 1st Baptist Church.  I enjoy going there, the preacher’s name is Randy and he puts out some pretty good sermons.

Tonight we aren’t going to do much.  Watched some of the Emmy Awards.  Not my kind of TV but it was OK.

I think I may have taken a nap before going to bed but I think I will sleep OK.  Night Y’all…

PS  The spelling and stuff may  be all messed up so I’m blaming it on the computer.  I haven’t been rereading so there may be a few mistakes….

Saturday June 15th 2013

Looks like a nice day outside, lots of little gnats, figured they would be gone by now!  It is almost impossible to walk around outside because these little gnats just pester you  to no end!  They will fly up your nose, in you ears, in your mouth, in your eyes etc.  Not fun to have around.

Well, I go in to work in the office today, not my favorite job but it could be worse.  I get to do so homework and play around on the computer during the slow times.

It wasn’t a real busy day but the time went fast so I was happy about that.

Not a lot going on tonight.  A little TV etc and to bed.  Night Y’all…

Mon-Fri 10-14 2013

OK, I have done it again, I haven’t written a blog in a week now and I know I can’t remember what we did during that time.  Should have written the blog so I could read it and see if we had a good time or not!

I remember that I didn’t work Monday.  I have been trying to get into a schedule of doing my Bible reading and Sunday School lesson first thing in the morning.  I am heading the Sunday School Class and this lesson is HARD!  It is for beginners and I am having a really hard time doing each lesson.

Tuesday I went to work and Grant and I went to Russell Street to pick up the rest of the garbage and also a bunch of branches I had cut earlier or maybe last week.

After we got them Grant was ready to stop and take a shower, he has to work in the office this afternoon.  We would have gotten all the branches but we had to do some dumpster diving this morning and that took about an hour.  I had put a sledge hammer in a trash basket and it got thrown in the dumpster.  We did find it, it was clear at the bottom of the dumpster.

In the afternoon I sprayed Roundup.  I didn’t work to long, it is very hot today and my shoulders and back is hurting.

Didn’t do much at home, took a shower and sat around the rest of the afternoon. Well, the evening also….

Wednesday, I sprayed a bottle of Roundup before starting to mow the Mobile Home Park.  Even though the temperature was close to 100 degrees it was bad at all because the wind was blowing and I wasn’t doing any really hard work, just sitting on the lawn mower.

Thursday I took the day off, it is beautiful out!  The temperature is going to be back in the 80s and that is nice.

I think we went to town today, not sure what for but I think we did.  I think I let Linda off at McDonald’s to get her tablet loaded again and I walked over to Wal Mart and got a new batter in the watch I got from Cheryl.  I like the watch, it has a twist band and fits snug.  Works good unless the battery goes dead, then it is only right twice a day!

Friday, lets see, that was yesterday, I guess I went to work again.  I went over to Russell Street and mowed over there.  I also sprayed a  bottle of Roundup and it was time to get back to the campground, Mark needs the truck this afternoon. so in the afternoon I sprayed a bottle of Roundup and used the weed eater and got some weeds cut down and shoveled the mud out of the driveway.  Went home around 4:30PM.

Not a lot going on tonight, just sitting around  so I guess I will say Nigh Y’all for the whole week!!!

Sunday June 9th 2013

Well I am a little apprehensive about Sunday School today.  Last week wasn’t the greatest but we didn’t have our books so it was kind of hit and miss last week.

I was pleasantly surprised this week.  We had a nice class, about six in the class but they participated.  We had our books this week and they seemed to want to participate, had to ask some questions but they did an excellent job of participating.  Our curriculum is set for five weeks with five different parts in each lesson.  It is supposed to last about eleven weeks, give or take, that would be a quarter!  Well, our leader is kind of slow so we may not finish the book by the end of the quarter but that is OK, as long as we get what we are supposed to learn.  I am excited, the lessons are for beginners and I tell you, it isn’t easy!  We have verses we are supposed to memorize and that is not an easy task.  Sonny told me he was having a lot of trouble memorizing the versus to, glad it isn’t just me.

Linda made a big pot of chili on the NuWave cooktop.  It sure does work good and the pots that came with it are really heavy and work very well.  We don’t get near the heat from this as we do the stove top.  I am glad we ordered them, I think they will come in handy.

Church tonight was down again.  Pastor has good sermons on Sunday Night, wish people would come to the services!

Got a picture of a flower, well, a couple of pictures….

Not sure if I planted these or not, don’t remember planting them, but they are pretty and I think this is the first year I have seen this kind.

Here is some of our Holly Hock…

I think these are really pretty, I need to plant a lot more of them.  The dark spots in the two corners are the lens cover, it didn’t open all the way.  The camera takes a lot of abuse and sometimes it gets bent just enough to keep the lens cover from opening all the way.  I have to check and make sure it does open or I get a picture with dark places in it.

Time to say Night Y’all….