To Uncle Tom....

Uncle Tommy has inspired a new aspect of my blog...
Please notice the updated Mountain Dew Picture and its caption

After four shots in the arm and some signing of paper work I can officially say that my papers are done!!!!

The Barn I was Raised in

Although its run down and outta commission this barnyard is a big part of who our family is today.

Psychology's definiton of stress:

I think that it is awesome that at the beginning of psychology today in order to demonstrate stress we watch the beginning of Episode 15, Season 5 of NBC's The Office.  This is the one where Dwight does a fire drill to test for the offices emergency preparedness.  If you have Netflix I definitely recommend watching the beginning part of it.

This made me laugh;)

Who said it was ok to wake up to a skiff of snow this morning? That really killed my whole spring is finally here vibe I had going.

The worst way to ruin a clean car? Run over a skunk

Review the Dew

As an avid Dew drinker I have tried all the Dews and even though some of them are cool colors and eccentric flavors I prefer the original john deere green one.  

The new Mountain Dew Kickstart has come out in two flavors which although classic and great seem a little watered down.  It might be the 92 mg of caffeine in each can that tones down the taste, but either way it was a good drink.  However, I still like mine john deere green.

2x State Champs!

Congrats to my former high school boys basketball team on their champion status
Here is a snipet from the proceeding news article a couple days after.  

"The defending state champion Red Devils moved into the 4A state championship against a Riverton team they had split with during the conference season. Riverton was ranked second most of the year, and had done what no Wyoming team had been able to do — knock the Gillette Camels out of title contention..

While this title tilt had some back-and-forth, with one tie and one lead change, the Wolverines fought back to keep the game within striking distance, though Evanston led most of the game, after trailing 9-11 in the first quarter. The Red Devils led 23-19 at the break.

Matt Johnson, Taylor Siemers, Ben Kunz, And Jemini Lecki (underneath  Matt) 

Jemini Leckie connected for 15 points through three quarters to lead all scorers, and was the major contributor in holding Riverton’s prolific Xavier Webb, the conference scoring co-leader with Evanston’s  Matt  Johnson, at 16.3 per game, through three quarters. Webb’s barrage of deep-threes late in the game had been the daggers to the Camels’ state championship aspirations. He would hit a pair against Evanston in the fourth quarter to finish with 11, but it was point guard Kade Salisbury, after just two in the first quarter, who was solid through the last three, scoring 18 to finish with 20. Seth Quayle got into foul trouble, ending with four free throws. Leckie scored 48 points in the state tournament, with 19 against the Wolverines, to Johnson’s 52, in three state games, with Kade Lym limited by ankle injury, especially in the final game.

The two-time state champions were honored with a police and fire truck escort into town, deboarded the buses to climb aboard the fire engines for a victory parade through Evanston on Sunday, with a celebration rally that included the Lady Red Devils, the cheerleaders, and the Classics."

The Wyoming Side of Me

Goats, horses, and long horns, mixed in with some siblings and dogs.  Snow nine months outta the year, and a stinky billygoat with the same name as your youngest brother.  Did I just just "Abe Lincoln," or "Hey Blinkin?" Either way, props to Linc for the broken arm.  

 

 

 

 

 

To all of you who are waiting... I made it home.

Sometimes I look at people and think, "Why are you wearing that?" But then they probably say the same thing about my camo UnderArmour.

Truck Yeah I created a new blog... so what?

"And on the 8th day..."

"And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker." So God made a farmer.

God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board." So God made a farmer.

"I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife's done feeding visiting ladies and tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon -- and mean it." So God made a farmer.

God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt. And watch it die. Then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, then, pain'n from 'tractor back,' put in another seventy-two hours." So God made a farmer.

God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place. So God made a farmer.

God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark. It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week's work with a five-mile drive to church.

"Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life 'doing what dad does.'" So God made a farmer."

-Paul Harvey