Thursday, July 31, 2008

Amazing Grace: Just the Black Notes

We got this in an email. I thought I'd put it on here for ya'll.

Wintley Phipps



Here's another one from You Tube.

It Is Well With My Soul

Team Hoyt

A son asked his father, 'Dad, will you take part in a marathon with me?' The father who, despite having a heart condition, says 'Yes'. They went on to complete the marathon together. Father and son went on to join other marathons, the father always saying 'Yes' to his son's request of going through the race together. One day, the son asked his father, 'Dad, let's join the Ironman together.'

To which, his father said 'Yes' .



For those who don't know, Ironman is the toughest triathlon ever. The race encompasses three endurance events of a 2.4 mile (3.86 kilometer) ocean swim, followed by a 112 mile (180.2 kilometer) bike ride, and ending with a 26.2 mile (42.195 kilometer) marathon along the coast of the Big Island

Father and son went on to complete the race together.



Sunday, July 27, 2008

Sunday's Scripture

Psalm 77

Friday, July 25, 2008





Thursday, July 24, 2008

Noa

The following two videos are by a young man from Sweden. He plays acoustic, electric, bass guitar and some drums. He mixes everything himself in his home studio. I think he is about 14 or 15 in these videos. He should have a bright future. His channel on You Tube is tommylaban.

Tears In Heaven cover (Eric Clapton)



Time After Time cover (Cindy Lauper)

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Day Trip

My brother Harvey was home on vacation last week. He called my brother Bruce wondering if we would want to do something. We decided to go up to Garrison Dam. We originally wanted to rent a boat or pontoon and spend the day on the lake. We called Captain Kit's Marina and were told there was nothing available Thursday or Friday. We planned to go on Thursday July 17. We drove across the dam, Harvey had never seen the dam or lake before, and then we toured the fish hatchery. After that it was time for dinner. We went to Pick City and Riverdale looking for somewhere to eat. Then we went to Captain Kit's thinking we could eat at their cafe/bar. Not open. Sign on the door daughter getting married. Lo and behold we look out in the marina and there sit two pontoons and a 16 ft. boat. I don't know why he didn't just tell us his daughter was getting married and he wasn't going to be around. Instead he tells us they aren't available. Anyway, we ended up back in Riverdale and ate at the Burger Stop.

After dinner we drove back to Washburn and toured the Lewis and Clarck Interpretive Center and Fort Mandan. From there we headed back to Bismarck and went to Action Motor Sports to check out the Victory Motorcycles. Then we went to Roughrider Harley Davidson.

We ate supper at Texas Roadhouse where I had a large glass of ice water dumped in my lap by our waitress. She apologized many times. No harm done, we have all spilled something at the table. Anyway the food was good and we had a good time. Harvey, Bruce and myself had ribeye and Casey had chicken strips.

I'll try to get some pictures posted in the next day or two.

Betty went to 4 days-10 hour shifts this week. She has Wednesdays off. American Express offered this to whoever wanted it so they can save gas money. One less day driving to Linton.

I'm still trying to get some more haying done. Mostly prairie hay wherever there aren't any hay needles. Mostly low spots, I guess. It won't be long and second cutting of alfalfa will be ready to cut. It's probably about time to start thinking about getting the combine checked out and ready to go. Later

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Sunday's Scripture

Micah 4,5,6 and 7.

John 14:27

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Little Masked Bandit II

I no sooner got done posting on the blog this morning and Betty informed me that there was indeed another raccoon in one of the trees south of our house. Probably not even 20 feet from the house. He must have stayed in the tree all night long. This one was about the same size as the other one. The dog was no where around so he must have been so scared that he just stayed in the tree.

They sure are cute little buggers. They reminded me of the pet raccoon we had when we were kids. Our cousin Dean Meier found him on the Compaan farm. We named him Coonie. We fed him with a baby bottle until he got older. I think Mom and Dad even have slides of that. I remember in the winter he would go in the haystairs and sleep. I don't remember for how long but every once in a while he would come down and drink milk out of the cat dish. We had to go up the haystairs and throw down square bales of alfalfa because Dad kept the milk cows inside when it was cold. I was afraid to go up there because I always heard it's not a good thing to wake up a hibernating animal. I don't know if raccoons hibernate but I guess that's what I thought he was doing. Never did see him up there though.
Here are some pictures for Alex.When he was home he said these were his favorite flowers because they look so tropical. They weren't yet blooming. So I thought I'd post some now that they are.





Here is a picture of the storm Casey took the other night.He sent one in to the TV station and it was on the weather.I'm not sure if this is the exact one that was on the weather because he took a bunch of really good pictures while the storm was moving in.

Little Masked Bandit

We were scared awake this morning by some very frantic barking. This was about 3:00 AM. The dog was going absolutely nuts. She was about 10 or 20 feet from our bedroom window. We sleep with our windows open so it was quite loud. By the time we got up to see what all the rukus was about the dog had what ever it was up against the house. We have a bench on the south side of the house and the dog had it trapped under it. We couldn't see what it was since it was so close to the house. Man, did it sound mean. It was growling and making noises that I can't even describe. There was a lot of speculation as to what it was. Betty thought it might be a Bobcat or a Badger. I know Badgers are extremely vicious and I didn't think they would let a dog get them cornered under a bench. Well after much discussion, and much concern for my safety from Betty, I decided to step out the door with a flashlight to see what kind of mean animal decided to visit us. I have to admit I was a little leary. Well, I steppped out onto the steps and looked down to see a young raccoon! Not even as big as a house cat. How could that little raccoon make all that noise. We think the dog must have gotten it separated from it's mommy. Betty did say she thought she heard something scamper up a tree just before we got up. We finally got back to bed about 4:00 AM. Needless to say we were both wide awake. I don't know what time I finally went to sleep. What an exciting morning. Have a great day everybody.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Parade Pictures



4th of July






Wow, its been a long time since I've been on here.
It was a busy 4th of July weekend.Kids all came home on Thursday night and set up tents.They camped out all weekend.
It's hard to remember what all we even did all weekend. We had bomfires every evening.On Friday evening Milo and Joanne my mom and Grandma Slagh were here for supper. We grilled Rib Eye Steak and had an assortment of different salads. Nicole and Alex brought a Birthday cake for me,so we ate some of that for desert. Then we all waited for it to get dark to do fireworks.Brandon and Alex did a good job of picking out a nice assortment of big fireworks.
On Saturday we went to the parade in Hague. Milo and Duane both had tractors in it.My digital pictures didn't turn out that great but I'll post better ones when I get the others developed.We went straight home after the parade and Alex and Nicole ran to Ampride to get dinner for us. Then we all took a nap.Everyone was so tired from the late night bonfires.
Saturday night Bruce, Nancy and their family,and Milo and Joann came for supper. We had hamburgers,hotdogs, brats and an assortment of salads. We visited until dark and then we did fireworks. It was another really nice show.
Sunday we went to Church in the morning and watched a movie in the afternoon.
It was areally busy fun weekend.
I just love doing bonfires we all just sit around visit, roast marshmellows and have a good time.Although mom and pop tend to wear out and go to bed before everyone else.Although I do recall the one night Brandon and Julie went to town,when they got home,Casey was still up and Duane had just got home from baling.Around 2:00AM they made a supper of left over steaks, and hamburgers and just sat around ate supper again and visited. Here are some pictures from the weekend.