Feel the fears, acknowledge the worries, understand the concerns, then move on away from them. Set yourself free to achieve.

Flag Counter started April 3, 2008

I decided I wanted to try fly fishing, and Richard and I have been pricing new fly rods/reels. Bass Pro is really proud of theirs, and most of them are the really long kinds that I didn’t want anyway. So, we thought about ebay! I found and bought this really cool 6.5 ft, 2 piece, square, vintage (meaning old!), fishing rod and Pflueger reel and got it bought and shipped for just over $20! Something about a square fishing rod really struck me as cool. I haven’t fished with it, yet, but I’ll let you know how it does when I do!

Justin came down for a short visit today. Calie is out of the Navy and has moved back to Springfield for good! Justin will be moving down toward the end of July after he finishes his work in Chicago. I babysat the kids today and then got this shot after Jessica got home from work. I am excited about having all my kids back in Missouri again!

Justin came down for a short visit today. Calie is out of the Navy and has moved back to Springfield for good! Justin will be moving down toward the end of July after he finishes his work in Chicago. I babysat the kids today and then got this shot after Jessica got home from work. I am excited about having all my kids back in Missouri again!

Schools are finally starting to teach practical math that these kids can use in real-world situations! It’s about time!

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1. Ramon has an AK-47 with a 30-round clip. He usually misses 6 of every 10 shots and he uses 13 rounds per drive-by shootin. How many drive-by shootins can Ramon hit before he reloads?
2. Leroy has 2 ounces of cocaine. If he sells an 8 ball to Antonio for $320 and 2 grams to Juan for $85 per gram, what be the street value of the rest of his sh!t?
3. Dwayne pimps 3 ho’s. If the price is $85 per trick, how many tricks per day must each ho turn to support Dwayne’s $800 per day Crack habit?
4. Raul wants to cut the pound of cocaine he bought for $40,000 to make 20% profit. How many ounce bags will he need to make to gets the 20% upside?
5. Desmond get $2000 for a stolen BMW, $1500 for stealing a Corvette, and $1000 for a 4 x 4. If he steals 1 BMW, 2 Corvettes and 3 4×4′s, how many more Corvettes must he steal to have 9000 bills?
6. Pedro got 6 years for murder. He also got $10,000 for the hit. If his common-law wife spends $100 of his hit money per month, how much money will be left when he gets out?
7. If an average can of spray paint covers 22 square feet and the average letter is 3 square feet, how many letters can be sprayed with 3- 8 oz. can of spray paint with 20% paint left over?
8. Tyrone knocked up 4 girls in the gang. There be 20 girls in his gang. What be the percentage of bitches Tyrone knocked up?
9. LaShaunda is a lookout for the gang. LaShaunda also has a Boa Constrictor that eats 5 rats per week and the cost be $5 per rat. If LaShaunda makes $700 a week as a lookout, how many weeks can she feed her snake with one week income?
10. Marvin steals Juan’s skateboard. As Marvin skates away at 15 mph, Juan loads his 357 Magnum piece. If it takes Juan 20 seconds to load his piece, how much away will Marvin be when he gets whacked?

. . . when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school. His name was Kyle.

It looked like he was carrying all of his books. I thought to myself, “Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday? He must really be a nerd.”

I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football game with my friends tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged my shoulders and went on.

As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward him. They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms and tripping him so he landed in the dirt. His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the grass about ten feet from him. He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes.

My heart went out to him. So, I jogged over to him as he crawled around looking for his glasses, and I saw a tear in his eye. As I handed him his glasses, I said, “Those guys are jerks. They really should get lives.”

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I took Garland and Delilah to the Dickerson Park Zoo today.

The kids (and I!) had great fun, and we got to see the 5 day old giraffe baby!

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Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Noah’s Ark.

1. Don’t miss the boat.
2. Remember that we are all in the same boat.
3. Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark.
4. Stay fit. When you’re 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.
5. Don’t listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
6. Build your future on high ground.
7. For safety  sake, travel in pairs.
8. Speed isn’t always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
9. When you’re stressed, float a while.
10. Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
11. No matter the storm, when you are with God, there’s always a rainbow waiting.

Richard, Garland and I took a wonderful canoe trip on the Current River in south central Missouri from Sunday to Tuesday. Richard and Garland have floated this river many times, but I’ve never been there. It was neat to see the spots they have often talked about. We camped on the river the two nights and had good luck with the rain. It did rain some, but not in any way to really mess up our trip!

A “group shot” and one of the many fabulous scenes we enjoyed on the trip.

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Richard, Garland, and I were privileged to attend a Bud Williams Marketing School taught by Ann Barnhardt Friday and today.

Ann asked Richard to give a little talk about Stockmanship after lunch both days.
He made some good contacts for future schools and places to work cattle.