DANG

Dang......... just after I finally decide on a new car, along comes something better. If I had only waited.

TREE HUGGER

So now I am a true "tree hugger" we just bought a new car, and decided on a Honda Hybrid. So now I guess we join the ranks of the true environmentalist wakos.
Actually I just decided I would rather have a car payment again than to keep giving money to the big oil company's
So, happy day I have a new car.....

BLIND SERVICE PROJECT

So this may be one of those "you had to be there" stories but last night when I was telling the family it sure did seem funny.
We have a blind guy in our neighborhood. At least he is legally blind, so he can see shadows etc.
Well one day last week he drove his riding lawn mower down the street and around the corner to mow the lawn of a single lady that needed help. Then when he finished he is driving back home and a policeman drives by and thinks, "hey that guy looks like he's blind" so said blind man gets pulled over on his lawnmower by the local cops and questioned about the sanity of driving around blind on a lawnmower. After all you could run over an animal and not even know it.
A couple of years ago I saw this same guy riding a bike down the street with his white cane setting across the handlebars of the bike.

JOSEPH SMITH CABIN

I guess since everyone else is posting scrapbook stuff, then it is not to obnoxious of me to post some of my drawings.
This is a sketch I did of the Joseph Smith Sr. cabin in Palmyra New York. this is looking at the back side of the cabin, or the view that Joseph would have been seeing as he came out of the sacred grove after he had his first vision of the Father and Son.

LAUGHTER

"LAUGHTER IS GOD'S HAND ON A TROUBLED WORLD"

So go ahead and laugh!

LITTLE GUY WITH A BIG HEART

I can not pass up the need to blog a few words about this tough little guy.
3 weeks ago Zane (grandson) had open heart surgery. after one day in ICU and 2 days in a regular room, he came home. I am so thankful for his tough little spirit and for the faith and prayers that were offered in his behalf. He is not only better than new but doing great.
I have to recognize not only the authority of the priesthood that we have but the absolute power of faith. I believe that without the demonstration of faith from family and friends that the blessings of the priesthood cannot be fully realized.
So thanks to everyone who offered prayers of faith and hope for our little Zane.

SETTLING IN, sort of

Well after being in my new location for a couple of weeks, things are feeling like they belong to me. One upside to my new office is that I actually have enough wall space to add a picture or 2. This one is the creation of the world by Walter Rane. He is one of my favorite LDS painters. So I now have one of his works hanging in my office.
On Wednesday I went and had a "procedure" done to help my Barret's esophagus, the purpose is to burn off any bad tissue so they will be replaced by good cells. I am not so sure it helped much, right now it hurts like the very flames of hell.
If you want to take a look at what they did check out: http://www.barrettsadvice.com/?p=34
this is a somewhat graphic video of someone else (not me) having the procedure

"REASSIGNED"

After many years of working at the Printing Center, I have be "reassigned" to a new location. Still working for the Printing Division but my office is now on the 23rd floor of the COB. So that means no raise in pay, buy more gas, wear suits everyday and leave all the great employees and friends that I had at the Printing Center.
Now when I look out my windows instead of watching great people working I see people I don't know working.
It is much quieter here and I will make the best of it.
I am now managing the electronic prepress group, the Document Center and the office supply store.
Up sides? I have covered parking so I don't have to scrap snow or get into a blazing hot car.

MAKIN' MONEY ON THE DEAD

While visiting Boston on business I took some time to walk the "freedom trail" visited the Old North Church of Paul Revere fame. Also saw the SS Constitution "Old Iron Sides" one of the first fighting ships in the US Navy.
Just down from the North Church I saw this cool grave yard. If you notice the head stones are 2 deep, sometimes 3.
Apparently the sexton of the cemetery was reselling grave sites of some of the old graves and then stashing the headstones in the basement of a nearby church. While renovating the church they found the headstones and have tried to restore them to their rightful places.

PROOF

This post is to prove to someone that would not believe I liked this Christmas gift. I hung it up in our computer room (very prominent location) anyone coming in our house can see it.
Thanks a bunch for the gift and to everyone for a great Christmas