I worked a fire today in a Mexican's backyard. It was only a small shed, but contained no less that 4 gasoline generators, 3 air compressors, 3 lawn mowers, their attendant cache of fuel and about 100 cans of various chemicals. Fun stuff ( Read more... )

It smells like fall outside. I really think that it's actually trying to be fall, but....it was 92 degrees today ( Read more... )

We're leaving at 6:00 tomorrow morning! Yippee!

I just picked up my guitar again. Hmmmm..... My mom also found me a new fiddle teacher.... I have to take some $300 AI (NOT Artificial Intellegence) classes. I'm going on 3 week-long trips, AND I have to do driver ed, AND shoot as many weddings as I can possibly fit in, as well as summer classes.....and I have until August to get back to the snaity ( Read more... )

Ah, Monday. Up at 6:00 to milk, then school. Gotta get myself in the mood for history.....have another test today. Today's interesting quote, from everyone's favorite general, U.S. Grant, when asked why he hadn't emancipated HIS slaves in 1865, "Good help is so hard to find nowadays!"

ZCF

NEVER try to go mudding in the backyard in a two-wheel-drive 1-ton Chevy 15-passenger van. It gets expensive.

I've just been reading the Qur'an, in the book of the Cow. Interesting translation:

"[2.27] Who break the covenant of Allah after its confirmation and cut asunder what Allah has ordered to be joined, and make mischief in the land; these it is that are the losers."

Just another case in which I am a proven loser!

I'm bored. I have to go work......

I'm starting to journal....it's going to be sporadic and ambiguous, so just expect it.

Saorsa Gu Brath!

ZCF