missing....
Snow... believe it or not-but I won't in Feb! It was raining this morning.
Nice neighbors... mom parked on 2 feet of the neighbor's yard and my yard... we got a note to move it or be towed.
L. Superior... nuf said.
Woods... it's ALL hills here.
Parking... you see the pics... I already dented/scratched my truck dragging it across the bricks lining my driveway.
Fireplace... i bought a GAS fireplace insert with FAKE logs... you don't even use a MATCH to light it! But, don't worry, I can't get it to work anyway.
Room... our house is much smaller.
Friends... we have none. Oh, we have acquaintances... but no friends.
Church... but we didn't go to church for the last year there either... but here we try, and have not found a great place yet... still looking.
Fellowship... goes with the "friends" category... we have NO Christian friends to talk about the Lord with. Oh, yea, EVERYONE here is a "Christian"... being Bible-belt and all, but I can't really tell whether or not they actually KNOW CHRIST! (Just a soap box... I am quite sure there are many solid Christians here... just haven't had the chance to talk to any in-depth.)
Coffee... with friends... with Joe. With Otto.
Music... with friends... playing/recording with Joe and his crew. That was a great time.
Hunting... with Larry and the gang; processing 6 deer in one night... mucho funo. (Spanglish)
Trapping... with Larry and all the 'coon and beaver we got. That was an awesome year for me.
Clean air... all i smell is exhaust when I run.
Country... being able to drive in the middle of nowhere and just walk/look/smell.
The old life. The country life. The small-town life.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
fattest of the fat
SO... big news in DEATH VALLEY...
the local paper published an article... Huntington, WV (which is right next door, like Ironwood and Hurley), and Ashland, KY are the FATTEST cities in America! Actually the five counties in this area of WV and KY are the fattest. So, putting it all together, I live in the FATTEST city of the FATTEST nation on Earth!... I moved to the fattest city in the WORLD!
And, really... not being mean... but I see more large individuals here than I ever have. Me and Shannon have mentioned that to each other many times since we got here. Now it is just confirmed on a survey level.
wow... I think I better go for a walk, or do a sit up.
the local paper published an article... Huntington, WV (which is right next door, like Ironwood and Hurley), and Ashland, KY are the FATTEST cities in America! Actually the five counties in this area of WV and KY are the fattest. So, putting it all together, I live in the FATTEST city of the FATTEST nation on Earth!... I moved to the fattest city in the WORLD!
And, really... not being mean... but I see more large individuals here than I ever have. Me and Shannon have mentioned that to each other many times since we got here. Now it is just confirmed on a survey level.
wow... I think I better go for a walk, or do a sit up.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Opening Day
Yea... you guys know what it is... Opening Day!
But, alas, I am not in Michigan, so it doesn't really matter... LOL
Around here, they don't understand missing school for Deer Day. How could they?
Instead, it was 55 here yesterday and last night, so I slept with the window open so I could hear the rain tap on my sill... nice...
And me and my mom have been clearing out all the overgrown shrubbery from around my house, and all the ivy... actually I did all that a couple weeks ago... it was crazy out of control. So, I got the chainsaw and went at it... I also used it to trim the hedges. It was pretty dangerous, but, hey, I don't have any hedge trimmers.
So, now me and mom carried bucket after bucket up my hill/front lawn to where the hedges where and filled it in with the best compost you have ever seen, from my sisters place. (She just makes the best compost...) Now we are gonna plant flowers in the back, and along the side we are gonna put asparagus and rhubarb, and then dig up some of my side lawn for a garden next year. Like she said, we are "displaced farmers". My shoes are covered with compost.
The YMCA had a Princess Dance tonight that ended with a special Daddy-Dance... it was precious. Pics later.
Shannon's dad is going down hill; I wouldn't expect him to last a lot longer... pray for her/him/us.
Kids are great, excellent, wonderful... Shannon and I have looked at pics of the Northland and wonder why we came here. I just read starlajane's blog and wondered why I am not hiking the North Country Trail myself... then I remember that I didn't hike it when I lived there... so why would this year be any different! LOL! Anyway, missing the Northland... I got on youtube, of all places, to find video of Lake Superior. I definitely miss BIG WATER. Or any water other than tap water, for that matter.
Hope all is well out there...
btw, they call this place Death Valley for all the allergies, sickness and cancer that everyone gets here... why did you guys make us move here? Just wondering...
But, alas, I am not in Michigan, so it doesn't really matter... LOL
Around here, they don't understand missing school for Deer Day. How could they?
Instead, it was 55 here yesterday and last night, so I slept with the window open so I could hear the rain tap on my sill... nice...
And me and my mom have been clearing out all the overgrown shrubbery from around my house, and all the ivy... actually I did all that a couple weeks ago... it was crazy out of control. So, I got the chainsaw and went at it... I also used it to trim the hedges. It was pretty dangerous, but, hey, I don't have any hedge trimmers.
So, now me and mom carried bucket after bucket up my hill/front lawn to where the hedges where and filled it in with the best compost you have ever seen, from my sisters place. (She just makes the best compost...) Now we are gonna plant flowers in the back, and along the side we are gonna put asparagus and rhubarb, and then dig up some of my side lawn for a garden next year. Like she said, we are "displaced farmers". My shoes are covered with compost.
The YMCA had a Princess Dance tonight that ended with a special Daddy-Dance... it was precious. Pics later.
Shannon's dad is going down hill; I wouldn't expect him to last a lot longer... pray for her/him/us.
Kids are great, excellent, wonderful... Shannon and I have looked at pics of the Northland and wonder why we came here. I just read starlajane's blog and wondered why I am not hiking the North Country Trail myself... then I remember that I didn't hike it when I lived there... so why would this year be any different! LOL! Anyway, missing the Northland... I got on youtube, of all places, to find video of Lake Superior. I definitely miss BIG WATER. Or any water other than tap water, for that matter.
Hope all is well out there...
btw, they call this place Death Valley for all the allergies, sickness and cancer that everyone gets here... why did you guys make us move here? Just wondering...
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