Don't do it!

Ever here the saying "Just Do It". I used to have this slogan on my tee-shirts and never really thought about how many ways this could be determined. Sad to say the world we live in wants us to beleive that we need to, just do what feels good. Just do whatever you want, then if there is something left over give to someone else. I woke up this morning have done just that last night. I love Gaylene and my family and I because of my self pity and every challenge that occured this last week, took it out on my family. Here's a video I found that spoke to me.

Christmas is Real

Our family is in Camp Arnes for Christmas. I'm at home working each morning which sucks, but that's the life I've chosen. Mom is very thank-ful for each day we have with her over Christmas. We left last night and the party will go on till Thursday noonish. I've been struggling of late with words and thoughts to express(which explains the Charlie thing) but I've decided that during Christmas with all the crap I hear on talk radio most of the time, it's time to respond, and for us to stop being weenies about our faith and step up with our purpose in life. It's the 23rd and all I've heard is debates about the corporate world taking Christmas out of the holidays. "Happy Holidays" greeting cards are everywhere, and most of us don't even realize what's happening. "Merry Ho Ho" Wow! That really warms the heart! Let's not forget the gay/lesbian debate and the definition of marriage. SantaClaus and weight watchers. That's right let's take Christ out of Christmas and call it XMas. What does that mean? Kind of like My Xwife and I?
Have some guts Dale, and put the "Christ" back into Christmas. Stand up for what's right. Support fellow Christians and stop winning about poor me. The world really needs God's love, and it's up to us to give them that.
May God's love shine in your home this season and Bless you in the new year!

Charlie bit my finger-short

Charlie bit my finger

Paying the Price

It's been a while since I last stat here and just communicated our life. At 43 and not admitting that middle age is coming on ,I've been dealing with stress associated with that very thing,..age. What brings on stress? and how do we deal with it. Often in early mornings I find myself worrying or stressing out on nothing. I'll explain. The last few weeks have been really busy with barn cleaning and moving birds from grower barns to breeder barns. With the approaching laying season and preparing the barn for the start of the season is often stressful. Who will work and will I get everything done on time. We have been blessed with workers eager to work and Darren's barn cleaning has gone very well. We now are ready for egg production. Labour force is in place and healthy birds in the barns. Christmas is coming and I love my family dearly. Gaylene's mother is doing well and my family is healthy. I love living in the life of a daughter dating, a son in drivers ed and a son who loves to play hockey. Coaching hockey is getting better and better and even starting to connect with some kids on the team. So why is my heart rate elevated so much in the early hours of each day stressed out about......what?
Today I went to Winnipeg and had the chance to take Aaryn and her friends Erin and Caitlyn shopping. No I did not shop with them, but left them in the mall as I went about my business. But what a blessing and encouragement to listen in to their conversations about their lives. I'm often amazed at how these girls get along and how free Aaryn is with her faith. I pray for her and her friends daily. I enjoy listening to Grad planning and University plans. What kind of a dress will she buy? Then I go on to Adison. Who is he and why is he here. What does God have in store for him? Adison has a real heart for people, and he really enjoys his younger brother. Sometimes it bothers me that he does'nt play hockey and I need to remind myself that a person is not who he is because of hockey. He is who he is because of how God made him. What can I say about Jayms. How much can he still show me in his determination and desire to be the best he can be in everything he does. He loves his friends, and his hockey friends. I feel for him about his size. Reminds me of when I was in school, but he has so much more going for him. He is very outgoing and nothing like me, in that way. So why the stress? Is it because of the fear of something that might happen? Maybe. It is my prayer and this is the reason I'm getting this down, that I take the time to feel the needs of others who have way more challenges right now, then what I may have now. I feel for my friends who go through difficult times. I don't have to go back very long for this. For friends with personal issues and struggles they go through. We need to accept peoples' short comings. So often I see only the outside appearance of people.
Wow, I started with nothing on my mind and now I'm blabbing on. I'm I the only one who can't write fast enough for my thoughts and end up being a bit quirky (is that a word). Paying the Price. What does that mean? In hockey I tell my players that winning never comes unless they pay the price. What about life? Do I pay the price? Do I care enough for my peers? Is God trying to show me by the stress I live with, that I need to take more time for others?

BREAKING NEWS!

Toronto Maple Leafs Win Stanley Cup!!!
Canada was stunned Monday when it was announced that The Stanley Cup will be awarded to the Toronto Maple Leafs, possibly as early as December 6th.
The cup will be stripped from from 2008 playoff champions the Detroit Red Wings and be awarded to the Leafs, who didn't even make the playoffs.
How is this possible, Canadians ask?
Well, the Leafs have formed a coalition with eastern conference semi-finalists the Montreal Canadiens, and conference quarter-finalists the Ottawa Senators, now out-ranking the Red Wings on the basis of a complex rating system incorporating regular season points, play-off results and bonus points for extended periods of utter futility.
According to new Leaf GM Brian Burke "the Red Wings have lost the confidence of the league and should hand the cup over immediately to our coalition".
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is cutting short a European trip to try to resolve the unprecedented hockey crisis that could force a second playoff series, or see an opposition team coalition take the cup.

What's that!

Just noticed, but what's with my wonderful survey. Wow two votes. 100% participation with my readers.

No title today

Really not sure what to write about today, cause my mind is blank. (this is the part where you say "we know"). It's been a while so I'll just see if something pops to my mind. Yup something did, we got back from hockey practice just now and it's cold inside. So it's off to the hot tub after I'm done with you all. The last week had been busy working at Bedrock farm cleaning and getting ready for replacement birds. This great weather has made cleaning a lot faster and easier. Since last thursday and friday when we shipped, one barn is ready and the other in washing state. Not bad for a turnaround.
Gaylene is in Steinbach tonight at my Aunt Linda's viewing, she is not able to get to the funeral tommorow, so she wanted to go tonight. Yes another preview of our mortality. When will we catch on that we are all heading in that direction, and truly live like we know. Yes I have a thought in my mind. I wonder if this makes sense or not, but why do we live the way we see others live, like in a way we don't want them to live? Huh. I'm just thinking here, so bear with me. Unless you think I'm perfect, in which case I'd be the only one, and I'm Not, we all screw up. We don't like screw ups, so why do we act like screw-ups. Lost you? Me too. I had a person come to me and claim that church was not for him cause there were too many hypocrites and personal agendas happening. So I informed him. I told him we are all sinners at heart and the only way to have a perfect church was to kick everyone out. Maybe that would make everyone happy, to empty the church and bring it out to the streets! I'm not sure what he thought but it did make me think. The greatest satisfaction I have in going to church is knowing that I don't go to church to find perfect people. I'm not sure about you, but I want to live for the Lord and not screw that up because of some people we don't feel lovey dovey for. People that might even be hypocritical, need to be there.
Well where did that come from eh! Oh yeh my Aunt. Memories are truly a gift from God. I have lots of them, since she was our neighbor. Too the Dueck family, be proud and hold on to those memories you have. Someday we will all share in them.
Blayze is here waiting to get picked up from hockey practice and I hear him shouting "come on shoot you nincompoop". Kids always have all the answers.
Aaryn got her bedroom back after I finally finished her lamenate floor. Wow what a pain in the ankle. Never do that again. Dennis painted and so after Aaryn's back in it's back to the bathroom for some tiling. I'm not sure if I'll ever finish with the renovating. It sure would be nice to actually live in a finished home. HOT TUB GONE NOW. SORRY FOR THE BORING BLOG BUT YOUR READING IT! See yah.

blah blah blah

Aaryn played her last day of volleyball today. This did not sink in until early this morning when I realized that not only was this her last tournament of the year but that it was over as graduation is this spring. So I made the trek to Gimli to watch one of her games. Where has all the time gone? It seems so recent when I took her to school in kindergarten. There sure is a lot of reminders about our aging. Like watching the midgets play tonight, having coached some of them since squirts. Adison and Jayms are right behind Aaryn and before I know it Gaylene and I will be home alone. So I quickly remind myself not to live in the past but continue to look to the future for there are so many great promises ahead.
Tomorrow morning is turkey loading time at Darren's. I've got three weeks of barn cleaning and then it's back into my barn for the start of another year of egg picking. We have our labour force in place so it's been a little easier sleeping at night. Speaking of barn cleaning, I'm actually looking forward getting out and more into the physical part of work. I've been doing a lot of bookkeeping and getting my office back into somewhat of shape. Hope the weather stays decent.
Hockey is well on it's way into the season. I'm looking forward to the challenge this year to make our team more competitive. We have a large team with a lot of players that need a lot of work. Do I have what it takes to push the kids forward? I really struggle with kids that seem not to care about their improvement. Why should they play? Fair play or equal play? Do I push my way into the fair play and away from equal play? Some kids don't have the stamina to play at a high level like others. What about special teams and disciplinary issues. Dressing room behavior? You guessed it. Parents won't be happy when their kid starts sitting. Hey it does not matter what skill you have but you had better do your best!
Got to go to bed, have a great day or night or whatever you do.

Don't be fooled

These last two weeks have been not so normal for us, but all worked it self out. Gaylene's mom stayed for 6 days and then we took her home. She is doing great! Thanks for all the praying that's been going on out there. Since I've turned 40+ something like that, I've really been doing a lot of thinking of how short life is and the reality of aging is indeed real. My brother-in-law Larry suddenly had some intestine malfunction which sent him packing into the hospital. Just short of surgery his insides almost as suddenly straighten itself out. Really PAINful stuff. Doctor's have no answers to why his intestines got twisted. I don't really like hospitals so much, but I guess when we need them it's good to know that we have really good people of nurses and such working them. We are all aging, just in case you did'nt know. With age comes our end time. But reality has it that age has nothing to do with when we will leave this planet. All in God's time and nothing to do with when I think it should be. We need to live for God today!
Hey I've got high speed! Now I've gotten it twice in the last year. Our workers from Newfoundland came in yesterday and since Bayshore rented the apartment for them we installed my xplornet so they could have internet. So with Lakenet up and running it has given me a new meaning of highspeed. Xplornet is so slow. Yes we hired a couple from way out on the east coast. Both plan to work and they are so excited to be here. Before I look like the cartoon farmer here, I'm off to bed! Goodnight!

humour some

It's been awhile since I've been here and it's time to go to be so here's my joke of the day!

Fred comes in late afternoon after golfing with his good friend Dennis. He informs his wife about the terrrible time golfing. His wife asks why and he says Dennis dropped dead after 10 holes. Fred's wife say's "That's terrible". Fred replies, well not as terrible as what happened after he dropped dead. All nine holes remaining I took a shot and dragged Dennis, took a shot and dragged Dennis, took a shot and dragged Dennis.

Winter is coming

As if we really want this to happen? Looks like it might rain or snow or something like that. But what a great last couple of weeks. I spent most of today in my office, and after hiring a couple from Newfoundland did a lot of prep work for this to happen. They are leaving this Wednesday and should be here late next week. So I can finally forget the employee search thing. Nov. 20 is the date Darren ships out his flock and then the busyness starts. We are still expecting the Grad class to help load this flock to help with their fundraising.
Jayms has played his first two hockey games this weekend. I'm very optomisitic about our season this year. Adison is not playing hockey this year so we'll make him take up Knitting or something instead. This should work eh! Gaylene is still Gaylene. Always busy with something or someone. blah,blah,blah I'm not too good at this diary stuff so I'll wait until I have something reckless to say. God bless!
Actually I have something important to say. Gaylene's Mom is here with us and her open heart surgery on monday was a great success. Praise God for he is good! Mom will be staying with us until she feels good enough to go home. It's so very important for family to keep praying and searching out other Christians to pray together with. Thank-you to all that have prayed for our Mom. Saturday as Roger and I drove to Ashern I once again could'nt help but be amazed at how God answers prayers through people whose lives have been so tragically altered. How this family can get through this is only by way of prayer. We need to support the Friesen family as they also go through the health concerns of their mother.

Hockey Madness

Get ready for some serious hockey this season! Hope no one was caught with their pants down. We had our first practice yesterday. Looked like a team to me. I was a bit over ambitious with the Game announcement that Mr. President shot down with good reason.



Have a good one

alternative available

It appears that there is a alternative to Tim Hortans when it comes to coffee. I ended up going to Niverville today for some barn parts. Lines of cars and people waiting for their precious cup of coffee. Why do we humans mass together in such large numbers? I decided I could wait as time was a bit on the short side. As I got to the end of the French street heading out to #59 hwy(Lashamodeer) or whatever, I spotted the alternative. Why do we feel the urge to do what every body else is doing? The right way is not the most popular way. I can only imagine how many times God thinks to himself, Why are my people doing what they are doing? I stopped for coffee.
When I got to Niverville I shopped in a Man's store. No woman in sight! Barn stuff. As my cart is getting full I realized something. Everything in my cart was a part that had it's own purpose.
Things that work in conjunction with other parts connected to it. Parts that did not somehow drop from the sky blow up and become unique parts.
Jayms came with me today. We were shopping for skates for his upcoming hockey season. Fastest pair of skates I've ever bought! Almost late for my dentist appointment. Dr. Friesen gave me a quick lesson on dentistry. I'm happy he was the dentist not my imagination which always gets carried away about how things might turn out. Tools of the trade that can cause so much pain if not used correctly. All is well I have my two new fillings. Jayms has his skakes and we headed home. Tonight the youth are off to the city car hunting or something like that. Gaylene was choicen to be a driver. That makes Jayms and I home alone. Live on the farm has slowed a bit now. We are still looking for workers come mid November. so if you know any one please let us know. We are also looking for a house to rent.
I'll conclude here by my thought of the day. We did not come to be by a accident. We were chosen and created by a God. Like parts that have a specific purpose we too have a purpose in life. And like parts that need other parts to be of use, we too need each other. Ever notice how many things come with manuals? Why do we think we know how to live without our manual. The Bible. We don't need to aimlessly wander the earth like millions following each other to"Tims". There is a alternative to this madness. Robins Donuts!

Saturday sleep not in

Wow how time flies! Sitting this morning having my coffee at 7:45. Why? Adison and Aaryn are off to Tuelon for volleyball. Gaylene's with them. I get to stay home and do some prep work for the turkey injecting day on monday. In the afternoon I get to start our hockey winter with taking Jayms to a camp in Arborg. I sure hope his skates will work one more time as we have not been able to get new skates yet. I'd like to hear some feedback on the way our hockey year will go, or is going to go this year. Are we really heading into a era of "I can do whatever I want".

What's the point of authority? I really feel for people who have been given resposibility and then get ignored. This is a real problem in today's society. As long as we as parents don't teach our children what's right and repect authority this is the kind of child we will raise. What happenes when they grow up? Scary eh!

We have so much to be thankful for! Gaylene and I have been blessed with so much. When I see the negative in the world today, I think it's important to pull out all the good that still happens. We as a nation just viewed Thanksgiving weekend. Does this just spell holiday or do we really take the time to be thankful.

Gaylene and I stayed overnight at the victoria with our kids Sunday night to Monday. We held Thanksgiving at Rick and Paula's in Steinbach on Sunday. It's always good to still be able to get the family together even for a short time. Rick is still painting far as I can tell. We don't see much of each other so the short time on Sunday was a great time. (even if I still always loose in table hockey). On Gaylene's side David and Lenora were out again. They flew in from Fresno,CA to be with Mom when she was having open heart surgery. This did not happen so we just had a good visit. I'm not sure if they will do that again. Get's expensive trying to guess when medical stuff will happen. Mom is on the list and could be taken in at any time. Yes pray for this serious operation.

Very interesting

Intelligent people 'less likely to believe in God'
People with higher IQs are less likely to believe in God, according to a new study.

Found this after I logged off a little while ago. Find it amazing how intelligent people can so miss out on what we all find so amazing. Life and Creation. According to this little study, these people viewed themselves as atheist. Believing in nothing. How can one believe in nothing? If there is nothing more than nothing after this nothing life is over, why do we think there are intelligent people and stupid people? We should all be nothing. Whose standards are we following. How sad to think that when this life is over there will be nothing. I know a lot of you believe there is a god and we all go to heaven if we are good people. Wake up call! Any one of you check how many of God's laws you have broken? Who will pay for this? Where will be the justice? If a killer before the Judge says he's really sorry and asks to be released, is he? Believing in God and thinking 'my good will outweigh the bad' simply will not cut it. We will still be found guilty. A criminal must pay his debt to his crime. Breaking God's law is punishable by death. We must pay the price. I believe that we are all intelligent creations of God, made in his image. We have a purpose in live and God's given us free will to make intelligent choices. But we MUST accept God's free gift and let him take the punishment for breaking God's Laws. Only then can we be saved and fulfill our purpose in life. Let's use our Intelligence!

Coolsat still works

Any one know if Serna trained to be a kicker or is he in the wrong sport? Sorry I won't go there. Had a good relaxing Saturday which always includes several barn checks and chores. I have a bit of a false sense of what a day off is but for me I guess it's normal. Aaryn is working today as she agreed to work the odd day here and there. Jayms and Adison had Trent and Lucas over for the weekend as Dennis and Linda are in Grand Forks watching Travis play hockey. Also apparentely it's their anniversary.

Hockey, What should we do?? Combined with FB. Two communities making one team is extremely hard if all we want from our kids is participation. Both communities agreeing to merge into one team is the only way this will work. As long as we feel that we are two communities with one team there will always be problems. Kind of like Marriage, two people living together and living for themselves will lead to difficulties. But when two people decide to live for each other, this marriage will work. I'm not sure if we want marriage for our communities.

Oops, Coolsat still works using bin file 174

Something more than nothing

It's been a while since I posted last. Last night we had Rodger & Anita, Beth and Nathan, and Brain,Colten and Nathan D. over to watch Bomber game. Great Game, with the exception to our kicker, "Serta miss". Almost costed us the game. Today Aaryn and Adison are out filming the job project. Great job Randy! It will be awesome seeing what a group of people can accomplish for God, after this production is done. I'm working in Aaryn's room today, and probably some bale hauling later. Jayms and Nathan are playing down stairs. Gaylene is on the phone like always. On her day off it's time to catch up on all the people she needs to catch up with. Something more than nothing, I've got to run.

Make wise live choices

Today you and I may have had to decide? Is this going to be my last day? It's a really good feeling knowing where I am at.

Mom's heart

Got back from the city today from picking up Gaylene who was with her Mom. Mom had surgery yesterday. They are checking the condition of her heart in preparation for a more serious open heart surgery. Gaylene and her siter in law stayed with Mom at the victoria Inn as she had to be watched for 48 hrs. She seems to be in good shape as she met up with us a Boston Pizza. It was actually a good drive in today as the weather was great and after having our turkeys back in the barn and on schedule again I feel a little more relaxed. Ken and Bevin are still combining and were hoping to finish before Monday's rain. Looks like that won't happen as they have not yet moved to the last field. It's amazing how much it has dried up in the last few weeks, but there are still some pretty wet areas. I watched as Bevin combined through a few wet spots with the back tires of the combine dragging. I feel for farmers who have it a lot worse. Hockey is fast approaching and I have to start thinking about the committment to coaching. It looks like FisherBranch will once again join us, but this time the team will not be as big.(14-15)
I really enjoy working with the kids, but find it very hard to work along side with someone. I feel the need to be completely in charge, or else I back off too much. I think when I lost some of this control towards the end of last season, I backed off too much and lost focus. With the coaches that I might be working with this year, I feel I should be comfortable. I know one thing for sure, and that is our children need to be informed that they are at the rink to learn hockey and we expect them to listen and do what they are told, skill or no skill. I want to be able to teach a simple offensive and a simple defencive system that any player can do well with regardless of their skill level. I've been reading back a bit on my blogging and want to get into some more of what our family is into. I also feel the need to vent and put my thoughts into words when I feel the need. I hope I don't offend anyone here, as I do have concern for many people I rub shoulders with. God is alive and is working in many lives. I love our church were I see many people with their own set of problems, be able to get together and enjoy each others' company. I love watching young kids grow up and take leadership. Guys like Nathan, Jeremy, Kurt and the other Jeremy (Dyck). Neat to see them on stage for praise and worship. Great place to be on Sunday morning when you've had a long hard week. Of course i think it's great to see Aaryn take leadership in youth. Aaryn's going to be 18 this next spring. She wants to be a teacher and plans are underway to go to U of W next fall. And this Nathan guy that she hangs around with, it's been neat getting to know him a bit more. Jayms loves to have his friends over. Him and Nathan Friesen see each other often. He often talks about Klye and Blayze his other good friends. Loves to have them over, or over there. Adison is maturing so quickly it's hard to see him as he was a year ago. He's not sure about hockey this year, being in Midget this year it's going to be a step for him. I think if the right people coach I'm sure he will play.
Have a great night!

Confused

Alright, now some of you will not agree with what I'm saying but that's fine someone will. I came back from our very first Grad meeting. Yes our daughter is graduating next year. Seems like a few years ago when I graduated. Sometimes I wonder if I really did when you look at the responsibilities of Grads today. Anyways, we are in our first grad meeting and a representative from Safe Grad is there giving us the details of how this all works. I looked at the clock on the wall and wondered how long this would take. He began by stating that he assumed this would be a wet Grad party, however he supported a Dry Grad as a alternative. So I started thinking, how much time is he going to allow to discuss a Dry grad? He went over all the responsibilities of parents and security issues that would arise at this Safe Grad. I'm not going to bore you with the details of this, however we consumed 40 minutes discussing the potential of the negative and issues, arising in a Wet Grad Party. Many questions and concerns were addressed, who could be served and how much. After checking with the clock on the wall, I realized this was going to be along meeting since we were going to check out the details of a Dry Grad ????. Well this gentleman completed his thing, and we said our thanks and he left. Some discussion followed and Gaylene asked the Grads to consider having a Dry Grad. Not to many responses besides a few chuckles. Not being satisfied with the alternative being at least addressed, I stated that since we had used up 40 minutes discussing how to run a "Safe" Wet grad, that we at least come up with a few reasons why we wanted one. I can respect a decision made if both options are looked at, and we have come up with a few pros and cons. No responses were made by the Grads, but I took note of the two from adults. Here this. The first response was that "my friends might not come if there is no alcohol". Give me a break! If my friends felt like that I'd tell them to stay home. The other response was that it tastes good. Let's talk about that. We are using up 40 minutes of time going through the responsibilities of how to keep our kids "Safe" from a tragic accident if they over drank. Is the taste really worth the safety of your children. Have you noticed lately all the positive and great success stories in the news about people consuming alcohol? Your right! there are none! We have minors at this Grad party, are we not having a party together and if we are then why would we want to exclude the minors from drinking. It's the parents responsibility to keep their children safe. Go drinking on your own time with your kids if taste is so important. Bottom line is this. If we can not at least come up with one reason why we want alcohol so bad, why then do we participate in all the "crap" associated with drinking. Our Grads need are support for the future not 40 minutes of how to stay "Safe" at a Drinking Party. Keep it at home. In conclusion, this is not a "Religious" issue. Although it might be for the supporters of a Wet Grad, who feel we need to drink religiously.

Weekend at Eddy's

O-kay so that was not that good of a movie, but It caught your attention did'nt it? Here is a email I received as most of you probally also got.

Shout out to all pyromanics, I am solliciting your help. If you are interested in seeing a spectacular fireworks show at BCBC this weekend please reply to me by wednesday night with a dollar amount that you would feel comfortable donating. If I have missed anyone please feel free to contact them and have them reply to me by the time frame given.

Hey not mentioning any names as we don't want to get into targeting sarcasm. (lesson we learned), the fireworks were good. Well really good I guess. Thanks .............. for putting that up. Spectacular? well that's a stretch. Really Really good compared to last time???

Great weekend to all who were involved! Should have been there!

Happy Birthday

In case someone forgot to-day is by birthday!!! This would make a really good gift.

Figured out how to improve My Golf Game!!

sports update-Bombers loose!

Today was a great day as we had Eileen and Waldon over for lunch along with Pat and Jonathon, and my mother. We watched the Bomber game that did not finish very well. Man this is getting kind of hard remain positive. Good thing Bombers are in the East along with some other not so good teams. In evening we went to listen to Rick and Bebe Svenddal minister to us. Great challenge for us. I will write about some of this on a later date as it's getting late and I'm kind of blank. We sat in our hot tub for about a hour watching the stars on a cool clear night, Adison,Jayms, Aaryn and Nathan. This will be a really good investment as I can see some really good conversations and family time. The Title of this posting is sports update. Go to tsn.com. Too lazy to change title. Your probally wondering what the picture is all about. I find it easier to relay my thoughts using images so you can feel what I feel when I think about how fast time is passing us by! Praise God that no matter how old we feel or are, and how little we sometimes feel we've done, God can replace all that down time in our lives with some amazing plan for our future.

Are you Serious?

THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE:

1) You believe in Santa Claus.

2) You don't believe in Santa Claus.

3) You are Santa Claus.

4) You look like Santa Claus.

Yes a lot of people defind there life this way. Are we not glad there is more to life than just merely existance! Have a Great Day!

Back to School

Found this cool picture! Enjoy!

Gaylene is off to school today and the kids go tommorow. Summer has gone by kind of fast but now that school has started normal schedules can prevail over normal teens' and childrens' schedules that force us old people to pin up our eyelids for most of the summer.

Since it's a little to wet to be out on the fields, barn cleaning along with growing two young flocks and one flock still in production keeps us all busy. This evening Gaylene and I are going to the city to look at a hot tub rental unit we are looking to purchase. This hopefully will fit into our sunroom so we can enjoy a little more time in the great outdoors. We promised Aaryn we'd rent a tub for her baptism week, but decided that since we were already looking at buying we'd save the rental. I'm so proud of my daughter who has shown a lot of growth this summer. Actually all our kids are probally the best kids anyone could have. There might be a few arguments over that. God has blessed us lots. Adison is showing responsibilty and has respect and a soft heart for his friends. It's so important to have God in the center of our lives. Some people say the God is their 'co-pilot', but I would suggest that these people change seats. It's so easy to say the God walks with me, but should we not walk with God? We've been teaching our kids that it is easier to walk along with someone than to have someone walk with them. Jayms is our youngest but man does he try to compete for the oldest. He learned alot about life this summer. His really good friend lost his sister and when that happened there was a time that even in his young age he began to understand the importance of keeping himself with God.

To our church family and our pastor couple, we are praying for you!

Way of the Master Reading

I've been praying that god creates this kind of confidence, in the fact that he is indeed is alive in my life. Read this on Way of the Master website. To-day is Sunday and I'm working along with Aaryn. We had a great day and a half at the Radisson inn. Gaylene's sister and her husband will be leaving back for Fresno, Ca. We had a great visit with them all week.

Anybody really happy about school starting???? Pray for all of us!


If you know the Lord, nothing will shake your faith. It is true that the man with an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an argument. Take for example a little boy who is looking at a heater. His father warns him that it's hot. The child says, "O.K. I believe it's hot." At that point, he has an intellectual belief that the heater is hot. When his Dad leaves the room, he says, "I wonder if it really is hot?" He then reaches out his little hand and grabs the heater bar with his fingers. The second his flesh burns he stops believing the heater is hot. He now knows it's hot! He has moved out of the realm of "faith" into the realm of "experience."

In comes a heater expert and says, "Son, I have a B.A. in the study of heat. The heater is definitely not hot. I can prove it to you." The child would probably say, "Mr Expert, I don't care how many B.A.'s you have. I know that heater is hot -- I touched it! I'm not in the realm of belief, I'm in the realm of experience. Goodbye."

If you have touched the heater bar of God's love and forgiveness, if the Holy Spirit has "born witness" that you are a child of God (Romans 8:16), if you have received the Gospel with "power, the Holy Ghost and much assurance" (1 Thessalonians 1:5), you will never be shaken by a skeptic.

When cults tell you that you must acknowledge God's name to be saved, that you must worship on a certain day that you must be baptized by an elder of their church, don't panic. Merely go back to the Instruction Manual. The Bible has all the answers, and searching them out, will make you grow.

If you feel intimidated by atheists -- if you think they are "intellectuals," read the book, God Doesn't Believe in Atheists. It will show you that they are the opposite. It will also instruct you on how you can prove God's existence, and also prove that the "atheist" doesn't exist.

Finally, the way to prevent sporting injury and pain, is to keep yourself fit. Exercise. The Apostle Paul kept fit through exercise. He said, "Herein do I exercise myself, to always have a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men" (Acts 24:16). Do the same. Listen to the voice of conscience. It's your friend, not your enemy. Remember the words of Solomon:

"Fear God and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil" (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14).

Keep the Day of Judgment before your eyes. On that Day, you will be glad for the cultivations of a tender conscience.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope the principles expounded have been helpful, and that any knowledge you have gained from it, will some day save you some pain.

I'm back

I'd appologize, but this is my blog so I can do what I want. So if you enjoy this blog so much as to be back, I thank-you and I will fill you in a bit what happened in the last few weeks. but not now as I'm having breakfast. In short we went camping at clear Lake, rented a pondtoon boat, ski boat and supported the local merchants. Jayms has been in Winkler for Hockey/Bible camp as the two need to be together. Gaylene's family is out for the week, cause Aaryn is being baptised this weekend. I do indeed have the greatest daughter and I'm so proud of her. Stay posted as I have some interesting thoughts in mind!

leaking roof

The Grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of God stands forever. Isaiah 40:8 Nearly all of our time, at least for myself is spent repairing, upgrading, or maintaining personal property. Either the dishwasher leaks, or a door falls off, but there always seems to be something wrong or broken to be busy with. When does it ever happen that the broken window healed itself or the dirty dishes in the sink washed themselves? We always seem to spend time looking after ourselves, cutting hair, painting faces or seeing a doctor about the growth on our foot. Rarely do we actually improve our own image as the weeks go by. Is it not comforting to know that God never changes, but as time goes on our place in heaven is actually improving each day he spends preparing it? He said "I go and prepare a place for you". Do we need to pray more? Absolutely! Does god hear and answer our prayers? He always does. Maybe he already has answered a major crisis in your life.....you just don't know it......God controls even Time.

Yes we are going on holidays tommorow morning to clear lake for five days. Aaryn was able to get off work, and so we all will be able to spend quality family time. Today we are preparing (interesting enough the truck needs repair). Jayms is still at Kyle's place having a great time at Kyle's Birthday overnighter.

Gaylene and myself spent a overnighter in Winnipeg tuesday to Wednesday at the Radisson hotel, to mark our 22 anniversary. We had dinner together at Boston Pizza in the late evening and spent the rest of the night enjoying the pool, hot tub, and tarrice overlooking the city from the 13th floor.

Everyone's Forgot?

Let's be serious now. Anyone actually think that Ryan Dimwiddie will win us games? Last week was a case some good fortune and a team's defense not being that good. Let's not forgot so soon last years grey cup game.
This guy does not have a arm that can throw with any velocity. He needs receivers to help him look good. I say bring back Glenn!

Most of you contractors and other types of Employment people that are out there sitting back and enjoying this Saturday, I'm telling you it's not fair, as I have to work this weekend again. I'm sure you probably don't care, but since your bored enough to be reading this, I must be right. I also need to fix the leaky toilet in the house. We have been renovating our bathroom for a while now and when your toilet leaks the second time around since first starting the project, it must mean it's dragged on a bit too long. It's forcing me to start the floor tiling since the toilet will be off. Adison will hopefully help in the barn a bit. Jayms has Nathan Friesen over today. I'm amazed how tough these young kids are mentally dealing with such a great loss as Nathan has experienced. Gaylene has been reading up on this so she can help when reality of the situation hits him. She will have her hands full come this fall going back to school. Aaryn's at work later today (3:00-11:00). I'm so proud of her and all our children, but they are growing up to fast.

My favorite day!

Oh yeh, bring it on. Our accountant is in my office today. I will be spending 4-5 hrs doing final year end filing for bayshore farms Inc. Almost like a Dentist visit. Always think it will hurt, usually not, sometimes does, and always fearful. Gaylene is out in town, and Adison is helping out in the barn today. Our Anniversary was this last weekend we'd all like to have over again, so maybe we'll do something tonight.

Short and to the point.

God Knows this heart of mine, he feels this pain inside

Tait, a musical band plays this song, that says that he understands how we feel. We ask ourselves why? If he knows how we feel, why the pain. I wish he could just make this go away. We are his creation, created in his own image. I can't begin to understand the pain Roger,Anita,Beth,Tyrone,and Nathan are feeling. I can only image using my family as an example. This is enough.

Received a normal phone call from Aaryn stating she was on her way home from work,(Hecla) this same night. A little later another call around 11:30. She had to stop and replace a fuse in the fuse box so her wipers could work.(Our wipers stay on 24/7 with the fuse in). She stated it was scary in the dark and wanted me to stay on the line. I did, but the phone lost signal. I realize now how ironic, and also symbolic this was. In an instant we loose contact. Aaryn was o-kay, she got home.

And he said "Come to me all ye that are weary, and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Mathew 11:28,29

Tribute

As a couple of day have gone by I've had some time to think about the sudden passing of a young person with so much of life and potential awaiting her. I still need more time to fully realize what has happened. My heart goes out to Rodger and Anita and their family. Our prayers and thoughts are constantly with them.

.........Need more time God.....

To be right with God you can't be on wrong side of road or you will get hurt

I found this image as I was going through our 3500 pictures on the hard drive. We need to organize these files a bit but it's becoming a bigger job as we keep adding files. Good thing we have backed up files on external hard drive. Does any one know how to restore these files to their respectful albums should my computer crash?? They are all saved by date but not by how they are organized in my software program. If I get more than Gaylene reading these posts maybe someone else might have a answer. Do we all struggle with this or am I the only one. Might be better to have hard copies in shoe boxes??

So often I think I am on the right road, but if I'm collecting junk along the way and move to the side of the road I could get hurt. I've been using http://www.wayofthemaster.com/ and http://www.wayoftheradio.com/ for a lot of help keeping focused on staying on God's side of the road.

Raining because it needs to

Gaylene surprised me by coming home tonight. After the rain started the temptations to be negative started settling in. Baseball was cancelled tonight only because Travis called it off due to the fact we did not want to play in the rain. He was asked if it concerned us to forfeit the game. Ha! Like my life revolves around having to go down on record as to having lost to some other team I don't even know who they are. We have missed three weeks of baseball due to the weather, so another won't matter. Jayms and Adison both want me to take them golfing. Now there is a activity that has some meaning and purpose. They love to hack around the yard and now think they are good enough to beat me. Ask Dennis if they seem a little over confident since I hold a solid grip on the old score board beating up on him over in Hecla! O-kay that was our second game all summer, and the first one was practice. Not counting the one over at Larson's put on by Camp Arnes. Way to go! Great fundraising! Worthwhile camp!

It's coffee time and off to the sun room to sit with my .177 caliber pellet gun keeping out the cats that we all love to hate. Our kids love them so

Looking Good

This morning I woke up by the sound of vehicles at 5;30AM. Our AI crew shows up and as most other times that's the alarm for my day to start, at least in my mind as I can't sleep any more. Gaylene did'nt come home last nite so it's quiet this morning. Just Aaryn and myself. After I get in from the barn we'll have coffee. Aaryn works later in the day at the resort in Hecla. It's been awsome to see our kids grow up and take on mature responsibilities. It must take a lot of adapting to go from school to a full time job for the first time. Adison is also starting to realize the benefits of working. He has been very helpful on the farm with days needing extra help, like loading turkeys, picking on weekends and cutting grass. By the way Adison and Jayms are in portage visiting with their cousins. All will be home Thursday. Today I'm reminded by the thought of Life without God. What would I do with no future but growing old and dying. How emty is that? Kind of like no family to look forward to seeing in a few days?

Here we go

Hi to all who may be bored enough to read our story. I'm not sure what will become of this so we will start slowly for know as we don't want to scare any one away so soon. We want to portray to you a image that we are a family that has struggles and victories and hopefully encourage others in their daily walk of life. Life is not a game. We are here for a purpose and only one purpose. God rules in this world and we are either in his plan or not.

Three more days of classes for Gaylene at the U of M and I'll be closer to being in trouble with a councellor who uses me as practice. Three weeks has gone very quickly and we can know soon start planning some family get a way. We are camping this weekend in Gimli! Wow so Far!

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