What a message

One of my students took me out to eat tonight... When we left Salem it was snowing a little... By the time we got to Panera Bread in Canfield it was pouring snow!! As we got out to the car after a delicious meal this interesting little message was on the car beside mine. We both found it very funny....

The Shepherd's Passing

Please pray for the Satterfield family and the Indiana church in this time of severe loss...

Rev. Satterfield was a wise man who is being mourned by so many... I don't have time to write everything I want to... The funeral was a beautiful testament to a well lived life. A life lived to the fullest for his God, his family, and those of us privileged to call him friend...

Hillbilly Rodeo

The following pictures may seem distorted... due to the time of day that they were taken... lol

Team Farmall isn't sure if they are ready for all of this hillbilly fun....

Susie and Ashley trying to stay warm by the fire....

Emily and Kayla posing for the snap shot... they didn't like the other picture I took ;-)

Our youth focus group got together Friday night for some excellent food, fellowship, and tons of fun...

After a campfire meal, we had a devotional on fear... very timely since it was night time and we had no clue what was planned for the next few hours.

We were split into two teams and the White tails and the Farmalls.... I was on the Farmall team... We were the team that didn't have all the couples on it... The first event was to see which team could husk and shell the most corn... The Farmalls won by one corncob... lol... However, our victory was short lived when we lost the next two events. . . . . . Pumpkin relay and haybale race. The haybale race involved rolling a round bale while someone was on top of it, without letting them fall off... it was very interesting.

Next they took us on a hayride, and after driving aimlessly we stopped and had a tug of war... Which the Farmalls won (not sure how) going uphill and downhill... After that we had to have a group sing 3 verses of Old MacDonald... and the judges had to decide who was the best... Sandy, Susie and I sang for the Farmalls, and we won.. It had to have been the motions that went with our version of the song... lol

The last event was bullriding... and Mark and Zack won for the Farmalls by 75 hundredths of a second..... wow what a ride.... The Farmalls won, but we all had fun... Which was the point...

Snow... It's finally here!!!

The three of us posing with the first snow man of the year....

Me, posing in my favorite weather condition.... Snow!!!!!

It was the beautiful fluffy flakes that were falling this morning...


Can you believe... Oct. 28 and the second day that it has snowed in Salem, Ohio!!!! My students were very distracted by the georgous display of the falling white stuff... so I allowed them a few moments outside to enjoy it while it lasted... As of the writing of this post the snow had already melted... :-(

So Back to the Ghetto Runner....

Ok, so you know that the bumper was ripped off my car, with virtually no damage to the human cargo driving the car, except maybe a totally shattered self esteem... But almost two weeks later, I walked out of the church on Saturday morning, to discover that my tire was flat!!!!



Thanks to the terrific help of Angel #1 My donut was put on... the tire was checked, but there didn't seem to be a problem... I took the tire to Wal-Mart, where I had purchased the tire less than a year before.... Oh there was nothing in the tire, they checked!!! Later that night after work, I came out to a very low tire :-( Being throughly disgusted and with nothing to do, being too late to do any thing, I went home....



Sunday morning it was as flat as a pancake.... A friend of mine, Angel #2 changed it from the regular tire to the donut (narrowly avoiding several bee stings in the process)... As if my ghetto runner hadn't produced enough stares :-( Now I had a donut.....



Needless to say I found a shop that could repair my tire and within one week I had my tire repaired, my bumper fix and even an old dent on the hood hammered out, well almost...



It feels like I have a new car!!!!!

Happy Mental Day!!!

This story sounded toooo much like what will happen later in my life!! lol!!!

The love story of Ralph and Edna...

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool. Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end.

He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.

Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable.

When she went to tell Edna the news she said, 'Edna, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you're being discharged, since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person you love. I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead.'

Edna replied, 'He didn't hang himself; I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?'

Happy Mental Health Day!

My Ghetto Runner

Ok, ok, ok...

I know I haven't posted in forever. And have tons to say cause life was really busy this last month... Let me explain the above picture... I was in an accident and that was the result... I'm fine, no broken bones, or any other problem except a missing bumper, which will get tons, I mean tons of stares!!! But never fear, the car is fixed :-) Finally... And let me tell you that I was jumping for joy when I saw the great job the auto body shop did...

More info and pictures later...

Gotta go "learn some youngns"