Early Summer

I haven't posted in a month.... Amazing. I love to blog, and I have so much going on in my mind.... but I have very little free time, and to tell you the truth, if I have any at all..... I am learning to drum. I got a very nice Remo Djembe a month or so ago, and I am starting to get comfortable with it. I love the way it makes me feel when I am drumming, I love the sense of calm especially. I go outside in the backyards or even the woods and dig my toes in the ground and start in with the patterns I have been learning. One day Nancy came over and we drummed together, she showed me some of the stuff Diana taught her and I tried to show her what I "knew" but I got more out of the deal than her. Drumming is really a meditative thing and makes me feel very comfortable. I don't thnk I will ever stop.

We are working on the house and are getting very close to finsihing the boys room, it looks really nice and I never will have to see the terrible blue that was in there again. We are going room to room fixing everything and making it just how we want it. Now we are making real visible progress and that makes me happy. I did the last coat of paint in the boys room tonight and it will probably be move in ready by Sunday. I can't wait to see the boys faces!

Jimmie and Jade had their baby last week, and everything is perfect.....

The kids and I have been swimming alot at the state park, I started taking my drum and practicing out there for about an hour while we are there. I can see the pool, but they can't hear me so I can play as loud as I want. I taught Kenyon how to dive and Thad is working on it. Dillon is a fish so I can't teach him much.


Things I'm thinking about:

I want to go camping. I want to go to the river. I want to stand in the river and watch the fish swim by and I want to catch them on a fly rod. I want to throw beautiful casts into the air and catch pretty fish and let them go. Then, I want to catch another one in much the same way. I would prefer to be standing in a river with large rocks with no alge so I don't slip and the water flow needs to be just right. Not to fast and not too slow and oh so crisp and cool. I will never come home.

People are using too much stuff. People are building on too much land and destroying the Earth. I'm not kidding. I'm serious about it and it bothers me. No one is entitled to anything. No one has the right to destroy land, or natural resources... If you are going to consume, you should recycle as much as possible. It isn't hard...but it isn't easy either. But it isn't anyone's God given right to use up stuff and then just let it pile up in landfills.... they are real places you know... just because you don't see them everyday doesn't mean they "ain't there".... They are rancid, terrible, horrible, wasteful places...... and the Earth is covered with them.

To help alleviate this problem people should try not to use so much stuff....please be mindful of the products they buy and careful about how the way they live might affect the environment, there are so many ways to do it, I'm just asking that whoever happens to read this tries a little harder to be better to our planet. I sure am.