Another Breakdown

So my car is broke down, just happened. I talk to the mechanic and of course I need to check fire and fuel. You know are the spark plugs firing and is fuel getting to them from the tank. I just want to take a minute and say thank God I am at least a "shade tree" mechanic and can check these things myself. I may find a simple problem that I can fix and save myself $45 an hour. Yea that's cheap too. I would like to plug my great mechanic Dick Teeter of Teeters garage in Quapaw. He is a great guy and still works for $45 an hour when others are at $60. Needless to say he is swamped over and was telling me what to do to check it myself. :) Yea God is good.

Fun in the Rain

My wife and her roomate in college used to play in the rain all the time, so when it was raining this last weekend and we had some friends over we decided to have some "good ole fune" like she used to. We enjoyed it. It's fun to be a kid again sometimes so take some time grab your wife and go do something that you used to when you were younger. Don't break anything. :)

The Weekend

I had wonderful plans of working in the yard. Yea that went over well with a weekend full of rain. But I had a great time watching movies with my wife. We also had some friends stay the night and we hung out with them for most of Monday so all in all a good weekend. I will get some pics put together soon. Now back to the real world of work, so long you crazy lazy days of the weekend.

Summer Time Blues

I don't know what it is about summer but wow. I mean it is way busy. I thought I was busy during the winter months now add to that mowing the lawn like every other day and all the summer added activities and projects. Yea life is crazy for everyone right now. But I like the sun and my wife is helping me in the yard so bring it on.

Time with Family

I have gotten to spent allot of time with my dad since he got hurt. I went with him yesterday to Tulsa, then Joplin, and finally back home. All day in a car with someone and you learn new things about their life. It took me being willing to spend all day with dad when there were others things that could have been done (those 3 to-do lists: works, yours, and your wife's), but I enjoyed the time we spent together. Mental note: Life is always going to be busy, don't forget to stop and enjoy it before its gone.

Busy, Busy, Busy

So I went with my dad all day yesterday to the doctors office. His back was injured in an accident. So we wait and wait and wait some more and 15 minutes before we are finally going to see the doctor, a nurse walks out and says the doctor has been called into emergency surgery and will be gone for the rest of the day so we had to reschedule. Another trip to Tulsa on Wednesday. Sometimes it feels like in life we run around like chickens with our heads cut off (a funny sight if you have never seen it). Life gets busy don't forget to check in with the one you are supposed to be working for. He has the plan for the week. :)

Community Outreach

So I went and mowed a yard the other day. No one lived there the owner had moved away and left it a 3 foot high mess in our community (she is in a wheel chair). I was at the city council meeting when neglected properties came up in the meeting. I mentioned this particular house because I see it often, and one of the city council members (who was being a jerk the who meeting) told me the church should take care of it since we were wanting to do community outreach. Well I went and did it. I can't say my motives were completely pure, but during the process I managed to make a good impression on the mayor of the community and also a next door neighbor. I am glad that God can take our sometimes not too pure motives and make good out of them anyway. I must admit by the time I was finished (it took two days, about four hours of time total) my motives had changed.