BISCUIT! and Gravey

I have been busy outside with this and that. Finished up our hours for the Aux. Pioneer month. It was the best month in years!

The Visitors

We have 'visitors" at our hall this weeek. The D.O and the C.O. are here. I have not worked with either one of them yet, but that's o.k. If they get me in thier car group great! If not, well I guess that will be fine. I don't want to "push" my self in to their car group. The C.O. asks a question after we meet and make car groups. Today I figured out the answer. Yeah me! I think it was pretty easy one though.
We got home about 4:00 and I took a little nap then went and cleaned a place for Jen. She took Nyle to the Dr. to have his ears checked. He is fine. He has allergies and the pollen is really high right now. So just a lot of sinus drainage I guess.
It was a bright sunny day. The wind was cool and the sky was blue with little white whisps of clouds. A really nice day.
I am looking forward to tomorow. We have this week heavily scheduled for field service to make our Aux, Pio. time. I am enjoying the field ministry and I am excited about our "visitors".
So I guess I will wrap this evening up for now.

Now I'm talking!

I do not have a lot of time for this evenings post, but I do have some news. I gave my interview on the assembly and that went very well. The brothers backstage all gave me thumbs up when I walked off. hat was a nice gesture. They said it sounded good, sincere, convincing.. It should, it was the truth!
We had the Special Talk this weekend. A local brother gave it. (Little Al) we will call him. He did a nice job, even though he had a terrible cold. His wife was so sick with it, she was not thee. They are a young couple. He was just appointed elder, so this was his first "Special Talk", so you know she had to be sick to miss that!.
After the meeting one of the elders called me back and told me they had decided it was time for me to get a talk outline. He gave me a list of talks and I have to pick one. That is easier said than done. I have several to pick from... decisions decisions...
At any rate I was excited to get the chance to give a Sunday talk.
In the 8 months after I lost my job I have been made Ministerial Servant, Aux pioneered twice, gave a part on the assembly, and given an opportunity to give an outline talk. Oh yeah, and had another son! So I been BZ!!!!
Got my chainsaw running, but the weed eater is almost a basket case. I am going to try and repair it again, but I do not have much faith in the prospect of me getting it going again. Drats! And I love weed eating soooo much too!!!
Owen,the littlest boy (2 months old now) is starting to cooo and baby blab to me. And it must be funny cause he smiles about it afterwards.
We took the kids to the Zoo the day before I gave my part. That was ok. Jen locked the keys in the car. It costs $40.00 to get a car unlocked down there. Oh well, it could happen to any one, and it does. I did watch a few youtube vids on how to unlock your car. I think I will first try it next time before I spend the $$$ for the locksmith. He used a pump up door spreader that looks like a small blood pressure cuff and wedged it in the door to run a thin wire to hit the unlock button.
I think I could do it now. I though about using my belt slipped over the top corner of the door and pulling on the door to spring it a little and have Jen try and hit the button NEXT time.If.
Well, this is a rambling post, but I don't have much time for clarity.
Sorry.
Till next time

Look Ma, No notes!

Today was a good day. I helped Jen clean a few houses. So she made a little money for the gas and electric bill. She and I were finished in about 3.5 hours and made somewhere around $125.00. If she had a few more places to clean, I could quit looking for a job. A friend of ours kept the kids for the few hours. She has goats and dogs. Nyle loves both. HE had to go give the dogs some treats. Julia (our friend) also fixed lunch for us. It was delicious. Smoked sausage,red beans,barley, and spices. It was really good.
Nyle enjoyed his time there. And Owen was a good baby, she said. He usually does not fuss too much, unless he is hungry, then watch out!
I gave a 10 minute talk tonight with no notes. I gave it out of the B.E, book. I just highlighted the scriptures that I wanted to bring out and had my main points, and an introduction I had come up with. Jen said it was of my best. I am getting better at not using so many notes. I used to have all my talks scripted, word for word wrote out. So I was not very fluent. Or dd not connect well as I could have with the audience.
I've still got my small engine repairs waiting on me. They sent my gas libe for the chainsaw yesterday. Maybe I will have i in a day or 2. I need to be cutting some wood.
Well, thats all for now...

Take 2

Today I had another rehearsal. This one was 1.5 hours away. My part lasted about 2 minutes. There were several there that were from 2 hours away. There was a brother there that is a dead ringer for David Letterman. I understand he gets told that....A LOT!
I mean if David got sick, this guy could fill in and no one would know.
The D.O. said our part "was beautiful". So I guess I am ready for this Saturday. I hope.
I went in early today and cleaned some offices of one of the factories we clean. The H.R. lady told me that Friday would be her last day there. She is going to go to work for the city. I congratulated her. She said that she was excited about this new job. She is going to be in a city department that oversees complaints about people not mowing their yards, or getting their sidewalks shoveled off when it snows. I brought up the fact that I was wanting to start a small lawn service. She thought about that about 2 seconds and grabbed a sticky note to write down my phone number, which she all ready has. I gave her 2 more business cards. Before all of that transpired I had just told her how much appreciated working with her and how approachable and easy she was to work with and I thanked her for that. She smiled and thanked me for the kind words. So I kind of unknowingly greased the skids when the yard mowing idea came out. So maybe I'll get in to the lawn service, and or snow removal. Jehovah well point me in the right direction on that. I don't have to worry about it too much. Just be ready where ever he says to go and do what he opens the door. Don't worry, be happy.
I was up this week on my trading. I am up over 20 bucks for the month. Woo,Hoo! The markets are really slow/sluggish right now. Almost no movement in them at all. I suppose when it breaks it will go one way or the other a long long way. That's not good for the way I trade. I am a "swing trader". Not a trend trader. So we will see soon how that works out. I don't stress over it too much. Jehovah will provide- is providing. I am just trying to give him something to work with. :)
Don't worry, be happy
Owen has had some allergy problems, but Jen took him to the doctor and the Doc said "the allergists say he is too young to have allergies." I don't think the Doc much believed that either. At any rate we got some nose spray that she suggested and he seems to be doing a lot better.
The weather was really warm today, hot really. Almost 90f, that is hot for here at this time of the year. We are running the air conditioning all ready.
I mentioned earlier that my in laws are having to move because of I-69 buying their house and tearing it down. So they are having to move. Which means they are getting rid of a lot of the stuff they have accumulated over the years. My father in law gave me an itty bity 6" fan that I keep on my computer desk. I really like this thing. It is surprising what a little fan like this can do towards cooling you off.
He also gave me a ton of electronics and radio stuff. My kinda "stuff"! Maybe someday I will get time to tinker with it. Right now I am working on small engines. I've about got my weed eater going, I think. Those things will test your patience. I hope I get my chainsaw gas line soon. I am still waiting on that. I've also got an ECHO gas powered leaf blower I picked up out of the trash dumpster that as far as I can tell, just needed a new fuel line. So maybe I can get them all running next week. This week I am too busy. Tomorrow I clean 2 houses. Big houses. And I have a 10 minutes talk tomorrow night that I kind of have an idea of what I am going to say. I need to work on that a little more.
We have a room in Evansville to go to the night before my part. So we are going down early Friday and go to the zoo and maybe to the river walk and pic nic. We are trying to make this a mini vacation sort of a deal. This Sunday we are having the Special Talk. The brother that is giving ours also has a talk Saturday at the assembly. He is 28 and just made elder and a full time pioneer. He's very busy. I am his assistant in a few things. I am his book study assistant, and territory assistant. He gave me the job to make the new maps, which Jen ended up doing. Yeah Jen! Yeah me! Woo! Hoo! Life is good!!!
Next week we will have the D.O and the C.O at our hall because we have the privilege of being the host congregation. I'd like to make a banner that says, "Welcome to Korn Field County!" And one that says, "If you are here, you are lost" placed out in the territory.
The C.O.'s wife loves Starbucks coffee. I'd like to setup a Starbuck OWENS out here somewhere's....
The D.O loves fried Bologna sandwiches, so the report goes. Me too!
So we are going to have a great month here, and very much looking forward to it.
I'll see you out in the "field".

Getting Ready

This morning I got ready to go to a rehearsal. I am to be interviewed in the next Circuit Assembly. It has to how I responded when I lost my job. Instead of taking on work that may have taken me away from the family and the meetings,we Auxiliary Pioneered with in a few weeks. I admit life seemed a lot better after I had a new focus and goal. I've had some really great calls since then.
The C.O. was there, of course, and many others that have parts,and I got to hear several parts before I had my interview. It was like a miniature Circuit Assembly. It was really nice and I enjoyed the experience very much.
The weather has been really nice today. If my chainsaw was running I would go cut some wood, but alas, that is not the case at the moment. I have some parts ordered and I hope to have them sometime next week.
The weather is very nice. It is about 68 out and the sun is shinning. However the kids have terrible allergies and the pollen count is higher than it ever has been in the history of mankind. So we are not comfortable with going to a park with the kids. They are already sick with head cold, infected ears,and chest colds. So I don't know what we shall do a fine day like today. I'd like to go fishing, but I suppose that Will be out of the question. Maybe we can have a wienie roast or something.
I'll write more latter.

Change

Well today was a bit cooler than what the weather has been like for the past few weeks. I guess that is why I was feeeling a little down today. That and my trading has dipped a bit. I am in some trades now that look like they will do ok though.
I worked on the Cub Cadet lawn mower trying to figure out why it was showing discharge all the time. I disconested the battery and it kept running so I knew it was charging. So in my endless logic I figured that I had some how got some wires reversed, so I reversed what I thought might be causing the problem. The end result is that now the mower does not run after I diconect the battery. So I blew a fuse, or worse, melted something of importance in the charging circuit. Also my Chain saw is not running any more. It started running lean while I was cutting the other day so I figured the filter in the tank needed cleaned. Now I need a new gas line after my attempt to clean it. They don't make this brand of saw anymore so I had to order the special molded gas line for it off of the internet. At about 10 bucks shipped. I am pretty sure that was not why my saw was not running right. So when I get the new line I will start trying to fx the original problem. Our car has been leaking power sterring fluid for about 6 months. I am so afraid of tying in to it to try and fix it. I am confient if I do, I will need a new front end for the car, or something more expensive, by the time I am done working on it. At the time, I am lacking suffcient self confidence to accomplish much more than flufing my pillow on the bed. I think it's a slight slump of depression. I a few days I'll be right as rain. I hope.
An intersting thing to record is Nyle has a saying now. He will sat, "What time is it?" Then he goes down stairs and looks at the bedroom clock. He comes back up here and no matter what the time really is, he says, "It's 7 oclock! That's wrestling time!" and then we werestle. Our wrestling is- he pushes on me, and I on him trying to push each other off of the bed. Seeing how I out weigh hime by about 230 pound, I win a lot of the times. But he just enjoys a little ruff housing with the ole man, and I with him.
Owen is still a rumpy baby, when he is awake, which isn't very much. He sleeps a lot. He too is suffering from alergies and gets in to a chocking gaging fit sometimes. This state is bad for alergies. I have problems here too.
Well, I guess that is all for now. Not much happy happy today. Maybe a better day tomorow.
I hope.

Spring Fever

Spring is in the air, so is pollen!
Nyle went to the doctor today. He has been a little sick for the past week. It turns out he has both ears infected. It's all due to the allergy season this part of the country is known for. I guess if I lived in Florida that would not be a problem so much. I have not been feeling so chipper myself. I have felt like I have a 1/4 of a flu bug. I suppose that is from allergies as well. I got the load of wood unloaded out of my truck. It stacked pretty good for being hickory. Hickory has a lot of crooked limbs. I need about 12-15 more loads and I will have my Wood cut for this coming winter.
Owen is doing ok. He has an eye that's always "gunky". Nyle had the same thing when he was his age. It must be a baby thing. He is gaining weight and eating well.
I finally got the breaks bled on the van today. It has had "soft" brakes for a few months. Jen gave me a hand with that. I wonder how people who live alone, bleed their brakes? Is suppose they take it to a mechanic, or give some kid 5 bucks to pump their brakes while they bleed them.
Well this is turning out to be pretty boring post I guess. I don't have much to say.
Oh ya, the weather is turning cold again for a few days. It's supposed to be down in the 30's for the next few days.
Our blackberry bushes have are doing real goods, as well as our raspberry bushes. We should have plenty of berries now. Jen makes preserves, jellies, jams and pies out of them. We bought a few blueberry bushes earlier this year, but the seem sickly. They are in pots so that we can take better care of them. If the lettuce we had planted is any indication, they would be better off thrown on a ditch bank.
Well, that's about it for now.

Spring time

Yesterday the family went out in field service for about 8 hours. We are aux. this month and are all ready a little behind. I placed 8 mags and Jen placed 14. We both feel this has been a good and productive month so far. Nyle has been tormented by allergies this spring. I've been a little bit under the weather myself. I wonder where that saying comes from, "under the weather". There has been a nice breeze blowing all nigh in to my window. I supp pose that means rain is in the forecast. But that's ok too. Rain is good. My peas in the garden will like it. I heard yesterday we are fore casted 2 more hard frosts this year. I hope they are wrong. According to the weather man, we had a big snow this time last year. I do not remember getting snow at this time, but I guess that is why they keep records. We forget otherwise. That is why I blog.
Tha's all for now.

Firewood warms twice

Well a lot has happened since my last post.
The State of Indiana has bought my inlaws house and are going to tear it down. I69 is going right through the middle of their house. So they are building a new house a but futher back on "Papa's" dads place. On the old farm. The are going to get out of the cow business I guess. I am not sure if they intend to still plant row crops or not. If so, it's just going to be a few acres. Probably less than 50. It's a shame how they lost so much. They are loosing a way of life, not just a house and a few acres. I am looking forward to what it says there in Issiah, "They will build houses and someone else will not occupy it. They well dwell in security under thier own vine". Everything in this system is sooooooo temporary. Except the heartaches and problems. They seem to last foeever. I guess I am sounding "downer" that I am. I am actually quite happy! I am still unemployed, and loving it really..
We are getting state assistance (food stamps)and we are eating better now than when I had a job! I actually qualified for them when I had my job, but did not know it. Ir's not stamps anymore, they give you a card like a debit card and swipe it when you check out. Ca-Ching, free money. You gotta like that!
Owen is a few months old now, and REALLY growing. He is big! I call him my Chunky MOnkey. Nyle is smart as a whip. Asks a lot of questions. Takes his own doors in field service. And now he is giving his own comments at the meetings. this Sunday he said, "because we love him". I think that was in connection with why we worship Jehovah, or something. Very touching. He is 3 years old. He has his own presentations and is very eager to tell people about Jehovah. Sometimes too eager. A lady told hime the other day, "you were knockiing kinda hard on that door weren't you?" She said it with a smile, and he does knock too hard sometimes. But one thing about it, people are going to know when he is there.
We auxilary pioneering this month. We have the C.O. and the D.O. this month. We have about 8 involved with the assembly that have parts. We only have like 40 publishers. There is a good spirit in Bloomfield. Ya'll come for a visit and you'll see. We had about 89 for memorial. Brother Rainer gave the best talk I ever heard. EXCELLENT! I wish I had a recording of it. But that might not be appropriate....
We went fishing a week or so ago at uncle Jimmies lake and caught about 10 good sized fish. We kept about 5 and cooked them that night. We wished we had 5 more! Although this past weekend Jr. and Brenda K. held a fish fry and I think he had 25-30 pound of catfish. It was a real nice time.
The weather has been really nice and sunny but cool enough for chainsaw work. I cut wood today and worked up a sweat. I sure will like it this winter too. It's time for mushroom hunting. Maybe I will get a chance in the next few days to look for some,,,,and maybe even find a few!
Side note: We did try making some more Maple Syrup this year, but it was not a good year. The weather was all hot, then all cold, and then all hot again. So the sap didn't run right. We ended up with about 3 pints. But it's a good tasting 3 oints all the same. I ordered some real taps this year, so maybe next year we will really make some syrup! It's a fun family thing to do and it tastes great too.
I've been trading Forex exchange win some loose some. The potential to make a lot of money in that is there, but loosing it is there too. Hopefully I am getting better at trading. I like using the EA Jim has made and then usuing 1-2-3 to assist in closing stuborn trades.
I have not turned my ham radio on in months, nor fiddled with Ubunto. I don't have enough time. I am now a ministirial servant, a husband, and a father of 2- and have a lot more to do at the hall now. I have realy been blessed since loosing my job! Giving 10 minute talks is a lot easier than I thought it would be.
Well, I guess I will close this out. I could write all night, but that would probably be booring.
To all my friends and reader(s),
Agape