tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10513620363014135962024-03-21T18:46:49.158-06:00Keeping the Holmes Fires BurningHealthy lifestyle, heart healthy cooking, photography,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-42077412797387867252018-01-01T19:43:00.002-07:002018-01-07T20:54:55.257-07:00Kitchen Make over Stage OneI haven't been around for a long time but I am going to try to change that. 2018 is in the plans to be the year of simplifying. Its a very long story, and one I don't want to really go in to at the moment but just know that I am surrounded by many many things that are beyond overwhelming me. <br />
Believe it or not I was born a neat freak. At a very young age I could not go to sleep if things around me were not in the correct place and if I managed to sleep, I had nightmares. I had a cleaning method that did not work for anyone else in my house. As a child and even now, I do not have the capacity to look at a space and say this item goes there even if there are other things in that space that DONT belong there. When I was a kid, when I was sent to my room to "clean it up" the ONLY way I could ever make it work was to take everything and put it in the center of my floor and then systematically put everything back where it truly belonged. In my head it was just the easiest way to do things. After all how could you put something away in its place if something were already THERE? Then you either move that other item over or you have to take it and put it where it goes, probably having to move the thing that is in ITS place, and on and on and on...... so just get it all empty and put things back where they belong at one time and get rid of what doesn't belong. Does that make sense to anyone out there but me? <br />
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Anyway, I have been doing a lot of thinking since I saw a video that a vlogger named Clutterbug does. She mentioned that there are basically 4 different kinds of people. One of them is the person who wants their things put away, have systems to take care of those things. They can be either simple systems (one type of person) or more complex systems( another type of person) and you can want many things, or few things, you can want to see your things or have them out of sight but know they are there. I am struggling to figure out what type of person I am and I am thinking that I like a lot of things... I don't care if they are in eye site or not as long as I have a system to care for them and know where they are when I need them. <br />
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So this brings on 2018. I have got to find some systems and simplification in the worlds that I live in. I can ONLY control me and my stuff but I have to find away to do that and ignore the rest. I believe that part of my issue is that I find no margains for rest in my worlds because I spend all my time trying to find balance and organization and then fall exhausted into bed, have nightmares about chaos and wake up to struggle my way out of bed and do it again. <br />
Boy I am going to have to go back and edit this because all I am doing is whining......<br />
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So step one in this year is in connection to working on The 7 Experiment by Jen Hatmaker deeply this time, I have a friend who has volunteered to help me organize the kitchen here right off the bat. She suggested that I take before photos so that we can also do after photos and make me feel much better. So here are the photos that I took today. I had already started to pull things out of cabinets. (again at her suggestion to have an idea of what I am keeping and what needs to go to bless someone else or is just flat trash) And we had made a quick trip to the grocery store to get supplies for dinner today. I'm <br />
justifying completely and not counting this trip as it is not the meal I am cooking that we shopped for but the one Jonathan is cooking... My less than 7 starts tomorrow. Don't judge me.. Well Judge me if you want but don't expect me to care on this one.<br />
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My friend also reminded me that since this is not truly MY kitchen, I am not responsible for 60 years worth of collection. I think that my brain just is combining my real kitchen, with this one and seeing double the amount of things that will eventually have to be decided about. But take a breath... Don't judge yourself based on things you truly have no control over and just put one foot in front of the other until this is done.. it wont be completed today, or next week, or even the week after. The goal is to have things under control by the end of 2018.. and that is 364 from now. One of my daughters would tell me to eat that elephant one bite at a time... My other daughter would tell me, Just do the next thing. Both of those set of wise words involve Don't look at the whole picture at this moment. <br />
so the WHOLE PICTURE starts here: <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-87606349586747773272016-07-06T07:05:00.001-06:002016-07-06T07:05:14.309-06:00Baby Foot <br />
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Welcome to the world, baby boy Blount. <br />
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Got this far on the wall today..... 2 more walls to go... floor and ceiling. <br />
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Part of what we are decorating around. <br />
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What my shoes and legs look like now. and Journey... our center piece and focal point. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-28498992642337359572016-06-22T07:30:00.002-06:002016-06-22T07:30:51.941-06:00Remodeling is very hard workI have been planning a remodel of our office space for a long time. The idea has changed repeatedly over the several years I have wanted to do this. Because of the "final design" I am glad that I didn't do it to start with as my final has changed considerably. <br />
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We got advice from several people who do this either for a living or just have a great deal of knowledge on the subject and all assured us that this was a project that was really no big deal as projects go. I believed them. We can get in there and do this in a long weekend, they said.... hahaha and I believed them. <br />
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But, I guess considering that we really only have rudimentary knowledge of what we are doing and youtube videos we aren't doing too badly. The people who have looked at it so far have told us we are doing a great job. (The professional and knowledgeable people, not just random people.0)<br />
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Here are shots of so far......<br />
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Update at the end of today HOPEFULLY will include finished north wall.. (the blue one in this last shot) primer and maybe first coat on east wall... and all the trash in the room cleaned up so that after the north wall is done I can tear down ceiling tile and scrape up the floor to be ready to put down floor by the weekend. I'm going to be really, really proud of myself when I get this done!!! If I can keep this 50 something body moving long enough to do it. Wish me luck</div>
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Something happened this week that I was not prepared for. Well, two things happened that I wasn't prepared for. The first one was loosing another friend and mentor. The second one of them was not being prepared, or at the very least, making it appear to the outside world that I was prepared. </div>
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I have spent most of my life being prepared. </div>
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Believe it or not, my calling in life is to be a cheerleader. Yeah, I know I am so not a cheerleader. </div>
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I have done the best I can to make sure everyone around me was OK. </div>
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What are your hopes and dreams? What's on your bucket list? I will do my best to make sure you do or have all of those things that matter to you so much. Just tell me what those things are, and I am ON IT. </div>
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I have tried to support people through many toils and trials of life. I have tried to help find answers, and make viable plans and generally figure things out. </div>
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I have been prepared to help people through transitions of life, anywhere from moving to the next grade, through graduation, through people being mean, or failing to understand. </div>
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I have tried to help those around me cope with the loss of a parent, grand parent, best friend, place to live, job, no matter how close I personally was to any of those things, myself, their feelings and reactions came first. </div>
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I have tried to be that ROCK during health crises, and career changes, and business transitions no matter what was in my own head and heart. </div>
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I reassure people that life is going to go on one way or another, and that is ok. </div>
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Before you say anything, don't get me wrong, none of this applies to technology or learning new processes for myself. Yes I know I whine and cry and freak out when I don't know how to do something immediately, but I try to help YOU believe that even if I cant do it YOU CAN!!!!!</div>
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And I freak out because something has come up that I wasn't prepared for and I'm not good at not being prepared. </div>
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What I am talking about is all those relationship kind of things and self esteem and belief in the world around you kind of things. </div>
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Maybe, I'm just tired, maybe its 2 funeral in a week, maybe its life that finally caught up on me. I've never in my life said I cant deal with your stuff right now because I cant cope with it. Give me a break. So, believe me, this is really not easy in any way. </div>
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But recently, out of the blue, I had to realize that I have hit the end of an era, the turning a page. The End.</div>
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This loss, even though he was not in any way related, I didn't spend that much time with him, has switched on something that I'm not sure is good. </div>
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Today, a part of my world ended. Or at least I REALIZED that it was at an end. </div>
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I have been on people around me the last few days to decide what they want out of life. I have told them over and over that even though I make a lot of decisions and just offer them out there, this is one decision that I cannot make for anyone else. But, I also have a few decisions to make. This one particular area of my world, has come to an end. It can either start over, or just go away, but it will not be the same. For me, this business, not like the other business, its just a part of the business, it isn't a way of life, the way it was for them. I will have employees to do the job, for them, it was part of who they were. All of my mentors and those I relied on to teach me are gone. And I'm not OK with that. </div>
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Nope, today, believe it or not, I'm not OK. So before I inflict anymore of my NOT OKness on anyone else around me I am going to change my course, take a Sabbath, hide in a closet or maybe under the bed. </div>
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Normally, my Not ok times are limited to locking my self in the bathroom for 20-30 minutes to cry in the shower where no one notices or I just limit my exposure to people so I don't take up anyone else's time by being out of sorts. But today, My phone is off, Facebook is not on my computer (except for posting this) the doors are locked, the lights are already turned off in the front of my house and I am going to take the advice of an Antebellum Southern Lady, I am "taking to my bed". My dogs are all 4 on the bed snuggled up with me, I have a book in my hand and an Italian soda on the night stand. I have that pile of really soft tissues beside me that we brought home from our most recent hospital stay, sorry they may be all gone soon, and I am just going to hide for awhile. </div>
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No one needs to check on me, or sit with me or in any other way be around, I am fine. I wouldn't even know what to do with that. </div>
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Monday morning at 5 am when the alarm goes off, I will be back on deck. I will be the "ME" everyone else expects me to be, but for the rest of today, and tomorrow I am going to not be OK.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-58084504311849854992016-05-06T22:03:00.000-06:002016-05-06T22:13:14.061-06:00Wedding Vows with a Twist<br />
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The original wedding vows, as printed in The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer" title="Book of Common Prayer">Book of Common Prayer</a>, start out with:<br />
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Groom: I,____, take thee,_____, to be my wedded Wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.</blockquote>
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Bride: I,_____, take thee,_____, to be my wedded Husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>, cherish, and to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obedience_(human_behavior)" title="Obedience (human behavior)">obey</a>, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I give thee my troth.</blockquote>
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Today, I was at the funeral of my Uncle Jack. It was a military funeral to honor his time in the US Navy during the Korean Conflict. I knew most of what I would participate in at that portion of the service. I was prepared for the flag ceremony, I was prepared for the gun salute, I was expecting the beautiful and kind words. What caught me off guard and really made me think was the reading of a portion of the wedding vows. At a funeral? <br />
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But after the explanation, it made perfect sense in a way that I had never thought before. I just wanted to share this idea with you. Tell me what YOU think about this idea. <br />
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The Groom goes first. I <span style="color: #e06666;"><b><i><u>Jesus Christ, </u></i></b><span style="color: black;">take thee, </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><i><u>fill in your own name, </u></i><span style="color: black;">to be my Bride, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and cherish, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance: and thereto I give thee my troth. </span></span><br />
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Then His Bride answers:<br />
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I, <i><u><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sherry</span></b></u></i>, take the, <b><i><u><span style="color: #e06666;">Jesus Christ</span></u></i></b>, to be my wedded Husband (and Lord and Savior), to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I give thee my troth.<br />
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If you put your own name in there and think: I pledge my life to You, my Lord and Savior, for you to have and to hold when I am at my best or worst, no matter if I am rich or poor, when I am in ill health or the best, I will love You, and believe in your love for me. I will cherish our relationship until death we do part, (which is impossible as You are God, and you give Me Eternal Life with you) according to God's holy ordinance as written in His word; and thereto I give You my pledge. <br />
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Have you pronounced your Vow as part of the Bride of Christ? Would you take your vow this seriously? It IS that serious. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-19087670162597419772016-03-22T20:14:00.001-06:002016-03-22T20:14:49.825-06:00Today in History. 3/22/16For months now people have kept asking me 'how this empty nest thing is." I have had no answer to that until today. Well, I honestly still don't have an answer either but today is the day I consider that we have started that phase of life at least somewhat. <br />
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Spring break is over, and Malachi is back at school to finish his first semester, Sam left last night for his 2nd weeks run of his new career. 4-5 weeks of training and then into his own truck. Jonathan is back on the road for a few days. So, tonight, here I sit, just me and the 4 dogs. Three of them are laying under the table keeping my feed warm. <br />
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Decisions, decisions, decisions for me. Do I concentrate on reviewing the Bible Study I am teaching tomorrow night, do I go back to the office to try to finish getting things ready for our accountant to do our taxes, do I work on the tax stuff here at home, or do I go start packing up the kitchen that I need to get packed so I can start remodeling it and get a new kitchen sink in. The world is big and open and out there with all those grand choices to make. <br />
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Bible study and one cabinet packed up I think will be the idea for the evening. <br />
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This is what I miss most about my boys, or young men they really are. We talk. Deep, thought provoking, eternal thoughts are brought up and discussed every day. With both of them leaving on the same day I have kind of gone in to talking withdrawl. <br />
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Sammy boy was asked a question one time when he was just 6 years old. I asked him if he thought about things in school that maybe he wasn't supposed to be thinking about at that time. His answer to me explains so much for both of my young men as well as myself. "Yes, Mom, I guess I think about things that no one else is interested in, and sometimes, my brain thinks so much it totally isolates me.<br />
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Yeah, I know, none of these really has anything to do with a new sink. But if I am going to do that part.. I might as well do the rest finally<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-38065729986385856542016-03-12T19:25:00.000-07:002016-03-12T19:25:39.765-07:00AND ANOTHER ADVENTURE BEGINS!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At the risk of sounding extremely cliché, Today is the first day of the rest of his life!!!!!<br />
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Some of us go through our childhood knowing where we want to be and what we want to do when we grow up. Others of us have a more difficult time finding our way in life. Five weeks of training that starts today and then one of those bright red trucks will be his home away from home. <br />
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Its been a roller coaster since Thanksgiving, honestly. Coming back from a year in Odessa. Looking for options, Christmas and New Year's slowing it down and yet it has all happened so fast. <br />
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January 11 the first day of truck driving school. Every day, I watched him come home more and more excited. Each day, today I learned this and this. Day after day, Mom, today my instructor told me I did this right and well. I'm not positive now but I THINK on February 19 he had his last day of class. <br />
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I was sitting at work and the phone rang. It was for Sam. I told them he was on his way home from his class and the person on the other end said "wait, what? Back up. On his way home from school? You mean CDL school? " <br />I answered, with a "Yes"<br />
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"Well, today is his last day of class, he takes his driving test tomorrow" <br />
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That was the 22 of February. Orientation was done and some time of waiting with baited breath, daily phone calls to the office and yesterday, he got word. Your trainer has been chosen and will be ready to pick you up tomorrow. <br />
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Final preparations were made, 3 more trips to the store to gather some last minute purchases and finally at 12:30 last night I told him we HAD to get some sleep so we could get up today and get him to El Paso to be ready to meet his "new best friend".<br />
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We chatted, we looked inside the new truck, loaded his stuff in and they let me out the gate. I'm not really sure but his feet may just have been about 6 inches off the ground. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-78218790434228174072015-08-05T20:00:00.000-06:002015-08-05T20:00:09.272-06:00I thought I would have more time to update posts......Last post said we had covered New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, And Missouri. I thought I would have time to post that we then covered Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and ended in Ohio. <br />
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Does anyone out there know where Brown County, Ohio is? I do, NOW..... and I will be writing letters an sending packages to an address there for a while. Maybe a very long while, we will just have to wait and see. <br />
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Yesterday, we unloaded a Uhaul truck and trailer and caught some ZZZZZZ's. Today, slept in, unloaded a few more things out of the truck, started cleaning cabinets and decided we needed a break. We girls went out exploring. We found the local ice cream shop where I still am not sure I understand what a double scoop soda is and apparently am not smart enough to figure out. We saw an example that shows that Abby really doesn't NEED a car here no matter how rural it is. <br />
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We also found the cutest quilting shop run by a lady who assured me that she would look over Abby's sewing machine, and would teach her to sew. She chose her first sewing projects and found out that they do quilting classes at the Nazarene church on Thrusday nights as well as the classes that are at the store. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-27000890653536621802015-08-03T22:16:00.002-06:002015-08-03T22:16:44.372-06:00Today's treck. Missouri, Illinois, Indiana.<br />
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Guess what tomorrow bringsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-25187443161887416132015-08-02T19:17:00.000-06:002015-08-05T20:00:48.406-06:00A new adventure6 am New Mexico<br />
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After dinner traveling on. Where will we land???Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-42058837927344423172015-07-19T20:57:00.000-06:002015-07-19T21:03:16.200-06:00God Works in Mysterious WaysWhat a week we have had. To be honest, it has been a very hectic time since May, or maybe last May, when we expanded our new business, or since September 21, 2013 when we bought a batch of equipment and started a new business. Or maybe I has been this hectic since we moved "off the mountain" Or maybe it was when we moved "up ON the mountain" Could it have been the day we said "I Do" That we DID? Who even knows. We just know that we stay very busy. <br />
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Today, however was a bit different, and quite hopefully it is the beginning of a new normal. A normal involving "having a margin around our weeks. The idea has come from a Bible Study that I just completed with my young adults class. It is called Breathe, If you are interested in more information about it let me know. <br />
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So, for the last 5 weeks we have been studying about the importance of the Sabbath and a Sabbath rest. (the margin I spoke of) Today we talked about other ideas for how to tune out the URGENY of our culture to see and do the IMPORTANT things of God. We go into the sanctuary to begin our service. I forgot to bring my Bible today so I was in the process of trying to bring up the Bible ap on my phone to be prepared for our sermon. To be perfectly honest, at first my Facebook page came up and I looked at it. The second post was of Jonathan's cousin, Bud, paddle boating with his family, Brady and Brooklyn, where? Up in Ruidoso!!!!!!! I quickly showed him the post and we went on with our sermon, which was great by the way. <br />
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As soon as church service was over, the three of us jumped in the truck and headed up the mountain, leaving messages for those on the mountain to see just where they were. The short version of the story is that we met up for some of the best fun we have had in quite a long while. We explained to the rest how I saw their post (gasp) during church (can you believe????) and here we were. We all agreed that this was an appointment that was just supposed to happen. Lunch was at the Irish pub up there, which I can highly recommend the food. It was just the ticket to sit out side on their deck to eat. The conversation was easy and fun. Stories of childhood that I had never heard before, stories of more recent days, getting to know Brady and Brooklyn a little bit better and generally catching up on work and life. <br />
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After we all said our goodbyes for this trip, we parted ways. Them to go back to their hotel to rest after a big day and us to wander around town looking in a few shops for a couple of hours, just to be out, walking and spending some time together. <br />
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Now, that we are back in the valley, I realize that I really need to go back to carrying my camera with me all the times like I used to do. I know that I have my phone, but it just isn't the same for me. <br />
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The rest of the evening is being spent lounging peacefully while watching an old black and white movie and then off to sleep, to be ready for tomorrow. <br />
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The Margin around this weekend did not include the laundry I needed to get done, nor the dishes that are usually a priority for Sunday. I didn't get any extra cooking done to prepare for my week or any of the rest of the things I usually do on my weekends, but today was such a blessing, I wouldn't trade it. <br />
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Thank you, you guys, for allowing us to horn in on your vacation, I hope we spend many more meals together over the years. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-31542639586356187332015-05-24T00:45:00.005-06:002015-05-24T00:45:49.485-06:00Thank You For Your Service<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-15483982981497282082015-05-17T19:57:00.001-06:002015-05-24T00:46:06.886-06:00Its the Season of GraduationsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-47617490992514533432015-02-05T07:50:00.002-07:002015-02-05T07:50:50.053-07:00Back to my BibleSeveral years ago when there were some stressful things going on, someone I thought was my friend made a suggestion to me. She suggested that every day I read one chapter of the Psalms a day and one chapter of Proverbs. I did it for a long time but as time goes on I quit. This week I heard a preacher say that his morning Bible Study consists of the chapter of the Psalms and Proverbs but also a section of the Old Testament and a section of the New Testament. <br />
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I had started on the first of the month with the chapter of Proverbs and Psalms but yesterday I added in the chapters of Old Testament and New. <br />
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Lesson learned: Did you know that the Garden of Eden was only a small section of the world at large? And that Adam was created OUTSIDE of the garden and then placed there? But Eve was created INSIDE the garden. <br />
Genesis 2:4 When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens-and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up for the lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground- The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living thing. Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden, and there he put the man he had formed And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground....... <br />
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Not sure what all this means but I find it interesting that the rest of the world was a desert. Any thoughts to share?<br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-59787425776774572472015-01-01T18:02:00.001-07:002015-01-01T18:02:27.613-07:00I have decided to be a Rinoceros <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Book one of the year is down. Rhinoceros Success by Scott Alexander. Great book. Will go back through it several times I am sure. This is going to be an extreme learning year!!!!! <br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-38396756847370229162014-12-16T21:39:00.002-07:002015-05-24T00:46:06.911-06:00I think I have Senior-itisAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-78935377148519895342014-11-29T09:23:00.000-07:002015-01-01T17:26:57.398-07:00History is important, Here is the beginning of ours.........Our new business began officially on September 21, 2013 so one year later our 2nd year began. In that first year we learned a great deal. Well, honestly, we learned nearly everything we currently know, if that makes sense. The learning curve to stepping out on our own in a trucking company was very steep, even though I had done some of this before. I have had so very much to learn and really a very short time to learn it. And I have found out that I do not learn fast. When I KNOW something, I KNOW it, but getting to that point takes time. Time that we have really not had so I have had to stretch in all directions. <br />
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Jonathan is VERY SMART, a risk taker and a VERY fast learner. Sometimes, he has a hard time understanding that many of the rest of us do not learn things as fast as he does so we have frustrated him a great deal over the last year. But he has taken some amazing risks for us to get where we are today and the future is wide open. <br />
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It has been a lot of fun, a lot of frustration, a lot of many different things to figure out that we really do balance each other well and we are growing to be truly partners in this venture. <br />
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When we bought the equipment, and started the company, we also hired the woman who had owned the company we bought the equipment from. She had the knowledge that we needed to get things going and couldn't have done what we have done to this point with out her. She and her husband ran a very stable company that was pretty entrenched in the local area.<br />
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In April we decided that if we were going to make this business what we wanted it to be we were already going to have to branch out as there was simply not enough work "locally" to do what we had the vision of doing. We were not sure what we were going to do, but knew we had to do something. <br />
Then one day, a phone call came in looking for the previous company to see if they had any trucks available. So, after some brief negotiation and modifications on the trucks, across the mountain Jonathan and Jody went. <br />
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With in just a few months our Territory is now basically a square from El Paso to Albuquerque to Amarillo, to Big Spring to Odessa and back to El Paso. The possibility of growth from even here is only limited by what we choose to call out of bounds. <br />
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Because of the growth of our territory, we also needed to grow our ability to deliver product. The beginning of November, we contracted with our first owner operator and brought on his truck. <br />
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Then end of November, surprisingly, someone at the company we are working with found another tanker for sale. It was similar to what we needed, and at a price we could afford and the owner agreed to finance it for us! All of this came together just in time for us to be VERY THANKFUL. <br />
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So as of December 1, we have three complete sets of equipment on the road. Two every day and three part of the time. This will enable Jonathan to be back in the office a few days a week to continue to look for opportunities to build our little company into what our vision is becoming. <br />
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So, two days before the end of November, 2014 God only knows what is next on our horizon! I am gathering my energy to see what He has in store for us. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-89239641514392822292014-09-24T22:13:00.000-06:002014-09-24T22:13:41.878-06:00Avulsion FractureYou have an avulsion fracture. Avulsion fractures are chips of bone pulled off by muscle tendons or ligaments. Common avulsion fractures are on the hand and foot. Avulsion fractures can also involve the elbow, knee, hip and pelvis. These fractures may cause a deformity if the growth plate of the bone is involved in growing children. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-66391611165140355602014-08-31T07:57:00.000-06:002015-05-24T00:46:06.937-06:00What Retirement Means a Year LaterAs we were riding along yesterday afternoon, Jonathan looked over at me and said Hey, Retirement is great. I finally get holidays off. (Cue the knowing chuckle) <br />
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My response was, well at least now I can go WITH you sometimes. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-77660249007038112092014-08-10T12:19:00.003-06:002014-08-10T12:28:32.515-06:00LET FAIR FUN BEGIN!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994158521419271127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1051362036301413596.post-75862397273988775602014-07-22T07:58:00.002-06:002015-05-24T00:46:06.944-06:00Summer?"Summer Vacation" is almost over. Of course Summer really is barely started and isn't over until almost the end of September, but that is another pet peeve of mine altogether. <br />
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Im not sure where the time as gone but I know that it has gone furiously. Since the middle of May, our business has changed major locations twice and may now be kind of splitting "home base locations" Of course HOME BASE, is right here. This is one of the interesting parts of this business, HOME BASE is here and BASE OF OPERATIONS is where ever the work happens to be at the moment. We are working with a wonderful company that is trying very hard to keep us busy and our work load keeps increasing exponentially with all that goes with those increases. <br />
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