Lunch with Family

We got together as a family for lunch on Saturday. It was great fun. I got to see two of my I don't know how many uncles. One was down from Kentucky and the other was up from Arkansas. We ate and laughed and laughed and ate some more. We even had our own entertainment after the food. My cousin locked his keys in his truck just so we could have some more fun. This is a special thanks to him for providing the opportunity for a photo shoot. :) How many relatives Does it take to open a door?

Building a Bridge

So we started a community outreach project last year it was to provide a walk bridge over the city drainage ditch for the children on our side of town that had to walk to school. We wanted to make it match the rustic look of our community since we are a small farming/ranching community we picked a limestone look. Well we got half finished and other things distracted us from getting done plus it is seasonal work, but when a master commission group out of Oklahoma City came for revival and said they wanted to help do something that was the opportunity for free labor to help get it done. Though we ran in to supply problems with our concrete we still managed to get quite a bit accomplished. Here are some of the pics.

Trouble in Paradise

My golf cart has started cutting out. If you hit the gas to hard it starts cutting in and out. I thought it may have been a problem where the axle meets the rim, there were some grooves that rusted up and we fixed it with J.B. weld. Hey its a farm and it worked. However Dad thinks the problem is in the capacitor. The golf cart is electric. Anyway I will get some updated pics and put them on for my golf cart modification buddies. :)

My Golf Cart is Almost Done (for now)

My Dad and I, but mostly him, have been modifying my golf cart. We cut off the back down to the frame and put on a utility bed. This way I can haul my push mower and tools around town in it. We also built a box into the bed that will be able to be locked up so my nicer tools don't walk off. We still have to put a hitch of some sort on it as I want to pull a mower trailer some times with it, but the hardest part is done and I think it turned out WAY COOL.

Snowy Day

We had a awesome snow day this last week. Talk about sunny and warm one day and literally the next you have three inches of snow on the ground. It was way cool and I loved it. I could have done without the multiple inches of rain we had before the snow though. But I took some cool pics, I even caught a bird in one hiding out from the snow.

A little Sun

So I have been out for the last two days helping people. I love getting out of the office being outside is my preference. First I got to go help the mayor as he was cleaning up some of his property, isn't spring cleaning fun, he had tried to start a recycling program in Welch but that didn't work out and he was left with a mess from last fall. Then I got to go help with some roofing, I do a lot of roofing for some reason but I enjoy it in some sick sorta way and so I helped out some friends do a little roofing job for the day which they finished up after I went home. That is also a benefit of volunteering you can leave when you want. :) So I spent two days in the sun and I am getting rid of the pasty white look of winter. Long live SPRING

Fire

So I burnt the churches field off yesterday. I love fire it is a MAN thing, all men love fire. I burnt the field off because it was no good to us with all the grown up grass on it. We needed the field cleared to do anything with it. We want to plow it and plant garden sites for others who do not have the room to rent. A help to the community and covering the cost for us, but we could not do that with the field overgrown. This reminded me of when the bible talks about our work being tried by fire (1 Cor 3:13). There are times in my life when I feel like God tried my works with fire and my life burnt down around me. However, when our foundation is Christ it will remain for us to build upon again. Since I have built back I have kept in mind that what I build must stand the fire it will be tried with and although it was hard to lose what I had I now know that God had to clear away the "wood, hay or straw" that I had allowed to grow up so I could build something worth really having.