Race for the Cure

Breast cancer has just got to go!  We must find a cure for the sake of all the women we love!  I'm combining 2 of my passions this weekend: walking and breast cancer research by walking in the local Komen Race for the Cure.  Please join me - walk if you can or give if you can't.

Hunting Season!

Tis the season!  No, not Christmas - HUNTING!  Just one more great thing about fall!  My husband does his grocery shopping in the woods and I love it!  He processes his own kills - can you say "fresh?"  A lot of hunters are trophy takers and Paul loves the pursuit of a big buck too, but he is such an ethical hunter that he won't shoot what we can't use.  The great thing about this love of his is that he passed it on to our son, Alan, and they regularly hunt together.  In fact, they've been hunting together since Alan was 3 and Paul has taught him a love of the outdoors and a respect of God's creation.  That truly is "Church in the Wild Wood."

We had the trip of a lifetime a couple of years ago - went to New Zealand for a week's tour, then another week at a hunting lodge where Paul and Alan brought home 7 trophies between them.  Couldn't bring the meat, but it was donated to the locals and fed the lodge guests, too.  No waste for our hunters, even overseas!

More updates to come on the hunting scene.  Our freezer awaits the game!



Paul and his chamois, Alan and his tahr



I'm in the 21st Century!

I have finally joined everyone else living and blogging in the 21st Century by creating my own.  I can't imagine that anyone will care about what I have to post, but it will give me a place to organize and collect my thoughts and memories.  I've never been much of a journalist, but lately I've thought I'd like to try.  So, I invite you to come with me on this journey and maybe learn something amusing/interesting about me, my family, and our lives.  I can't wait to see your comments, that is if anyone's following...