Memorial Day Thoughts

On this memorial day, I'm grateful for all those who have fought and are fighting for our freedoms. I personally have two good friends serving. It worries me for their safety but I am eternally grateful that they, and all the other men and women of the military, are willing to risk their lives to protect my life, my freedoms and my home. So here's a shout out to Scott Lalliss and Justin Porter!
Because of these freedoms I enjoy, I have gotten a new job! I begin work tomorrow, May 26, 2008. Over one year since I've had a steady income. It will be difficult to go back to an 8 hour, 5 days a week job, but it will be really nice to have a good income, health and dental and a 401k. The company is called Smile Reminder. You can check them out at Smile Reminder. They are a company that works with doctor and dentist offices. They have software that they can send text messages and emails for reminders for appointments and birthdays and other advertisements. I will be customer support and training and technical support. They also have good room for advancement. I'm hoping to become the photoshop guy but I'll have to see.
My parents come home in about 6 weeks, July 7th. So now I'm trying to prepare the yard for their return. My problem has been that last year we let the yard go so it's a lot of work. I'm open to all volunteers or service projects. There's lots of weeding and trimming and fixing sprinklers and many many more things. My new job is a blessing but a curse when it comes to this work. Blessing cause I can pay for repairs and fertilizer and other supplies but now I have little time to work. Oh well I guess I'll have to do what most people do all the time.
I've been recruited to the Institute fireside committee. My friend Steph is in charge and asked me to help with the technical side of firesides. I've been to the Institute about 10 times so it will be interesting to go and learn the layout of the building. The committee members all seem to be cool. We will be working closely over the next year so it should be fun.

Well that's about it...if there is still anyone reading after this long post I thank you and hope you come back.

Muzak!

Ok I know that everyone else has music on their blog these days so it's about time I add my own! These are just a few of my favs. It changes with what kind of mood I'm in so I might add more later. Enjoy these for now!

The Kitten rescue

Ok, here are the rescue pictures of those dang kitty cats! I could hear them but couldn't find them anywhere on the porch. I would walk outside and here a faint sound that I could swear was coming from the little roof overhang. And it seamed like they would meow louder when I would hit the roof. So I went to work...and got this!
















When the board came off I could see something up there...
































I got three of them but I think the mom was still moving the last one, either to or away from this spot.
















I caged them up in an old bird cage my dad had for racing pigeons. It worked well, for a few days. I would feed them with a little bottle and some formula I bought at a store. Than one morning I came out to feed and the cage was on the ground and one kitty was missing! I figured that the cage had been tipped and the kitty climbed out of the little slats at the top, so I put the cage on the ground and covered it with a board. The next day I came out and the board was off and the cage was still flat but I was missing another kitty. The next day the last kitty was gone. Lost all three to the cat. Talk about dedication to your kitties! I've gone back to chasing the cats away even using my Taiwan hand gun on them (a Taiwan gun is not a real gun but rather a spring loaded pellet gun that we use to shoot each other with on P-day, nothing that would kill a cat). So that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Horses and stuff

Ok, I know it's been quite a while since I've posted. I apologize! As for those who want to know about the kittens, they are gone. I found them in our attic and caged them and began feeding them. That lasted less then a week. The mom found them and then pulled them out one by one. Since then I haven't seen them. I want to post a picture of where I found them but it will have to wait.
The big news is my brother's neighbor is letting us use her pasture for the horses. We just had to build a fence and then keep it watered this summer. We finished the fence yesterday and let the horses go. They ran down and back a few times and one time, on the way back, my brothers horse looked back at the other two horses and forgot there was a fence and went most of the way through it before turning back. We laughed, it was funny!
Today we let them out again and when we came to get them at sunset we walked down 3/4 of the pasture and instead of running away from us they looked at us. We started smooching and my horse almost ran up to me. It was awesome. So we decided to climb up and ride back, bareback! It was much better than the last time I rode bareback. Last time Big Mac decided he had had enough of the outdoors and wanted back in his stall. So he jumped sideways and left me there. Luckily I hung on and dirt skied behind him until I regained my feet and proceeded to show him who was boss. Anyway, I'm still amazed that my horse would come to me when I smooched at him...maybe I should start smooching at women and see if they come over, that way I would know if they loved me like my horse loves me! :) Ok, maybe not.
That's about it. I'm going to try to post some pictures another day, but I'm going to Bear Lake tomorrow and we leave early so I've got to get to bed.

Thanks for reading!