Back Porch Sightings

It's so much fun living around here. You really never know what might happen when you walk out your back door. I haven't kept a complete list but up till this morning I've stepped to find the ones you would expect; raccoons, possums, snakes, birds and even a fox once or twice, but the ones that tend to get your attention are the ones you don't expect. I know I've talked about the Bears that tend to walk around the yard, but recently we have had a couple odd ones. A few weeks back I stepped outside to work on the porch, looked up and a 400lb pig was taking a stroll from next door to come over and play in the mud. It was the neighbors, and we had fun herding it back to the pin, and even more fun a few hours later when it escaped again! LOL

This morning I stepped outside and was greeted by a donkey. Poor Charlie (my dog) has never seen a donkey so as soon as he got a whiff of him he chased him around the yard, then about 6 min later the donkey was chasing him around the yard. It was quite funny. First thing I did was walk next door and ask if they had a donkey. I got a puzzled no, but then I noticed someone riding up the road on a 4 wheeler and me with a rope in hand (like that was going to help) I flagged him over and asked if he was looking for a lost donkey. He was and he herded him up and took him home and all is well. :)

I just love it around here. Figured I'd share the experience hehe. Hope everyone has a fantastic day and a great weekend. Enjoy, have fun!

09 Year In Review

Well, it's been a heck of a year with quite a bit of interesting things happening along the way. We started the year off on a somewhat sad note with the Bakery Closing, then we had the quite humorous post about the Attic Incident. I finished my 4th and best poker table as a gift to my buddy Chris. Then to help get our minds off things a bit we had our Trip to Vegas. We got to go see Pauly Shore at the comedy club. Lil Bo joined the boy scouts and is so far enjoying it. Amy started working at the Dollar Store, and we finally got her a car that she loves, but it is currently getting a new clutch and won't be ready till the New Year. The rebuild on the porch didn't quite get finished, and neither did Bo's Tree house, but they are started and it shouldn't take much more to finish them up. The garage is finally cleared of the bakery equipment and the pool table is being repair witch means the "game room" will be ready soon hopefully. This year seems to have been the year for people joining face book. I've re-connected with friends and family that I haven't seen or spoken to in years. It's been nice to just be able to read and see how people are doing. Over all it has been quite an interesting year. I'd probably have more to review had I been a tad more consistent with posting blogs, but maybe that will be part of the thing for 2010, post more blogs. Looking forward I think next year will be a year of change. Hope everyone has a safe and wonderful New Year, and I hope you take a moment to reflect on the past year and look forward to the new possibilities awaiting you in the coming year. Life life to it's fullest, enjoy it while you have it, (my favorite right now) I ain't getting any younger, and all those other clichés LOL.

Been awhile..

Hadn't posted a blog in awhile, so figured I'd sit down and write one up. The past few weeks have been rather interesting, but the future is lookin bright, so bright I gotta wear shades lol. Not sure if its the weather, or just cause things are falling into place, but right now life is good. Got some new projects in the works that I will post about later.. Lil bo wants a tree house (in a pine tree - that should be fun to figure out), going to try and get started on that this weekend.. And since we will be using the wood from the back porch, it will force me to rebuild a bigger and better back porch.. Plus now that the garage is cleaned up got to replace some cousions and re-felt it.. Then it will be like new and ready for some compitition ;).
Here's to the future! Cheers!

6 bucks for a pack!

Damn! Mark your calendars, today is the day I quit purchasing smokes. No more lovely ashtray breath, no more dirty looks to smile at when I light up in public, no more mid-night runs to the store for another pack, no more relaxing 15 min outdoor adventures to soak in nature while inhaling nicotine. Its an end of a smokin hot era! On the plus side I suppose this could mean a few more dollars in my pocket, maybe a few more kisses from the Mrs' s, and quite possibly a healthier life, but who knows, we shall see. I suppose cokes will be the next to go. Crap, what the heck am I going to do now! Damn you healthy people for forcing me to quit!! rofl. And so begins my journey to a smoke free life, sarcastically I say "happy happy joy joy"

6 weeks - 6 months to live

For some odd reason I found myself pondering this question the other day. If I had 6 days, 6 weeks, 6 months, 6 years to live would I do anything differently? Would the answer change depending on the time frame left? There was a time when I would respond emphatically No. But now that I'm getting older it seems if I am honest with myself the answer is a resounding Yes. So then I ask well why? What are the things I would do different? Do I answer now with a yes because I have regrets? Is there something I feel I have missed out on that I would want to experience? Truth is, I am quite happy with how my life is, I don't have very many regrets, and I honestly don't feel I have missed out on anything. So we are back to what is it I would do different? Would I treat others the same? Yes, because I think I treat others pretty good. Would I lose all sense of morality and sleep around? No, because honestly it is not morality that keeps me from doing that. Same goes for many other options. Then what is it? I think it boils down to a balance between happiness and experience. What does that mean? To me I think while it is great to get advice from other people there are some things you simply must experience to know for sure. For example: going partying or to the bar with good friends and having an enjoyable night. Depending on who or where you get the advice from could be from "drinking is a sin punishable by eternal death" or "hell yea, party every night". Truth is it really is going to be determined by the individual and will probably end up being somewhere in the middle. Party with an asshole and your likely to have a bad experience. Party with a fun crowd and its a blast. My point is, whom you have the experience with is often much more important that what you are doing. And the down right fact is, no one can really tell you how that will affect you, no one. I'm not mentioning drinking to start debating on if drinking is good or bad. Its just one example of many where experiencing it yourself determines how you personally view it or feel about it. I still have not got a definitive answer on exactly what I would do different, but the fact that I would means there is probably some consideration that should be made about it. Really didn't write this to get an answer just some food for thought :)

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Yea I know, kinda geeky but I want to make sure how a blog would turn out when I sent an image inside it.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The wife and I found some time to other day to sit down and finally watch this movie. It was not exactly what I was expecting and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I thought there were some pretty good quotes in it and instead of posting them as my status (since some are too large for my status messages) I figured I'd put the ones I liked together in a quick little blog... It's not a true spoiler alert, but for those who have not yet seen the movie some of these quotes might give away parts of the movie.. so don't read no further if you haven't seen it ;)

Captain Mike: You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You could swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

Benjamin Button: Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Benjamin Button: For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Benjamin Button: Along the way you bump into people who make a dent on your life. Some people get struck by lightning. Some are born to sit by a river. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim the English Channel. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people can dance.

Benjamin Button: Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it. A woman in Paris was on her way to go shopping, but she had forgotten her coat - went back to get it. When she had gotten her coat, the phone had rung, so she'd stopped to answer it; talked for a couple of minutes. While the woman was on the phone, Daisy was rehearsing for a performance at the Paris Opera House. And while she was rehearsing, the woman, off the phone now, had gone outside to get a taxi. Now a taxi driver had dropped off a fare earlier and had stopped to get a cup of coffee. And all the while, Daisy was rehearsing. And this cab driver, who dropped off the earlier fare; who'd stopped to get the cup of coffee, had picked up the lady who was going to shopping, and had missed getting an earlier cab. The taxi had to stop for a man crossing the street, who had left for work five minutes later than he normally did, because he forgot to set off his alarm. While that man, late for work, was crossing the street, Daisy had finished rehearsing, and was taking a shower. And while Daisy was showering, the taxi was waiting outside a boutique for the woman to pick up a package, which hadn't been wrapped yet, because the girl who was supposed to wrap it had broken up with her boyfriend the night before, and forgot. When the package was wrapped, the woman, who was back in the cab, was blocked by a delivery truck, all the while Daisy was getting dressed. The delivery truck pulled away and the taxi was able to move, while Daisy, the last to be dressed, waited for one of her friends, who had broken a shoelace. While the taxi was stopped, waiting for a traffic light, Daisy and her friend came out the back of the theater. And if only one thing had happened differently: if that shoelace hadn't broken; or that delivery truck had moved moments earlier; or that package had been wrapped and ready, because the girl hadn't broken up with her boyfriend; or that man had set his alarm and got up five minutes earlier; or that taxi driver hadn't stopped for a cup of coffee; or that woman had remembered her coat, and got into an earlier cab, Daisy and her friend would've crossed the street, and the taxi would've driven by. But life being what it is - a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control - that taxi did not go by, and that driver was momentarily distracted, and that taxi hit Daisy, and her leg was crushed.