Dear Dairy,
How’s you are? I am fine, thank you.
Yesterday in sunday school we had a good time. Carson had an interactive lesson. Ephesians talks about Jesus being a sweetsmelling savour to God. She blindfolded one of the guys and let him smell different items and guess what they were. The first thing was coffee and he got that right off the bat. Then he sniffed an onion and thought it was somekind of candy. A few items later she pulled out a zip lock bag with a pair of dirty socks inside. The young man took a big sniff and says “Can I smell that one again?” Oh Dairy, we laughed and had a ball with that one.

Dairy, the preacher laid it on us hard yesterday. He preached on giving your tithe. We has had some finance problems lately and, boy, did he lay it on us. He not only talked of the importance of giving, but giving for the right reason and also being encouraging instead of complaining.

There was also a hollowween party at church last night, which we skipped. We do not celebrate or participate in hollowween activities even if they do call it an “alternative lifestyle” uh I mean and “alternative” to the world view of hollowween. HMMM!!!! For years we had nothing at church as far as hollowwween and the past few we have had these “alternative” activities. I wonder if’n our monetary troubles are a direct correlation with these activities. I think I’ll ax the preacher what he thinks of that. If nothing else I’ll have a good time ragging him.

I reckon that is all Dairy, for today.

JAMES 1:8 A DOUBLE MINDED MAN IS UNSTABLE IN ALL HIS WAYS.

I AM VONSTEGALL AND WILL NOT CELEBRATE hollowween!!!!

Dear Dairy,
I am on cloud nine this morning. Why? I’ll tell ya Dairy, I’ve worked 12 hours the last two days and I only have to work 8 tonight. Ain’t that something, I use to work 70-80 hours a week on a regular basis and now I hate to even think of working more than 40. I reckon I’m turning into a big old wuss.

Well it’s back to the drawing board for president Bush. Harriet Miers just withdrew from the supreme court nomination. I nominate Ken Starr. Yea I know there are idiots who will say he had an agenda to get clinton, but guess what Dairy? He was only doing what his boss janet reno told him to do. I also think Ann Coulter or Judge Andrew Napoleotano(that ain’t even close) would do great. If nothing else Ann would be entertaining. I started her book How to Talk to a Liberal if you must), it just wasn’t as interesting as listening to her talk in person. It was mostly editorials that she has written in the past. At least the first few chapters was. I have trouble reading anything other than fiction and comentaries on The Bible, I guess I just isn’t inntaileghent enough to calmprehend those type of things.

We are thinking about going to Morrow Mountain tomorrow. I know I need to go out and push the pressure washing thing but after getting plenty of overtime this week I think I’ll opt out for some fun. Cooking out on the grill and watching the deer and hiking through the woods sounds a whole lot better than getting turned down for work. Yeah! Yeah! That’s what I’ll do, I’ll take the family to Morrow Mountain.

Well Dairy, the best supervisor in the tire room is working his last day tonight. I sure will hate to see him go, he is my immediate supervisor and he is good to work for. He is leaving to be the manager of a saw mill. I asked him what the name of the mill was. I told him I may be looking him up in April and applying for a job. He said he has already told the owner of the mill that he has a whole list of potential workers, when the plant shuts down. Like one dude who came back from the lay-off said “It was like swimming back to a sinking ship.”

Let me tell ya Dairy, I am proud of my boy. The last 5 or six weeks he has done extremely well in sunday school, so we let him go in with the youth on sunday night and the teachers told Lynn that he did really well for them. I think that he is starting to mature some. We had tried to let him go in with them on sunday night about a year ago but he did not do to well. He is also starting to get along with some of the other kids his age, he has never fit in well with other kids due to his neurological problems. Now we are gonna let him go in with them on Wednesday night. We have intended to let him for the past 6 weeks but it did not pan out for various reasons. Anyway I am proud of my boy, he is behaving really well and showing good self-control. Either he is maturing or all my good fatherly advice is starting to pay off.

Well that’ll do it fer now Dairy old pal.

PROVERBS 5:1,2 MY SON, ATTEND UNTO MY WISDOM, AND BOW THINE EAR TO MY UNDERSTANDING: THAT THOU MAYEST REGARD DESCRETION AND THAT THY LIPS MAY KEEP KNOWLEDGE.

I AM VONSTEGALL AND I WISH MY PROFITS WOULD INCREASE BY 75% A QUARTER LIKE EXXONS JUST DID!!!!

Dear Dairy,
Yesterday Dad had his surgery. The doctor said it was an impressive break. They put 8 screws and a plate in his shoulder. The doctor said the surgery went good and that he will hurt for a while but he should make a good recovery. He starts rehab monday and will come home from the hospital tomorrow.

We had Bingo night. We had barbeque and hotdogs for supper then played bingo. This was our first bingo night since grandma died so we had a small tribute for her. With every prize that was won the winner got a little Babe Ruth candy bar, that was grandma’s favorite candy.

We had 7 rounds. Here’s the breakdown for prizes per round. First round: 4 grab bags- a singing monkey, a book/calculator, a radio/dvd, lantern/oil.
Second round: 2 prizes- wall hanings, one had a Bible verse and the other had something about house rules. Round three: 4 prizes-5 christmas cds for each prize. Round four: Mystery round: 2 prizes- an afghan for each prize. Round five: 2 prizes- prayer jars. They were pretty much a vase with some note cards that you could write your prayer concerns on and put them in the jar to remind you to pray for that need. Sixth round: 2 prizes- a photo album and a disposable camera each. Round seven: 2 prizes- flowers, mums one was yellow the other was purple. My sister-in-law Cindy won the grand prize- a clock. All the kids got prizes: the girls got hats and the guys got a hairy ball.

For me and Lynn and Jamie and Kimber this is as big as christmas for us. We have a good time planning and shopping for it and the fellowship is great. It is a lot of work for about 3 hours of fun, but it is worth it.

That is the run down of Bingo Night Dairy. See ya later.

HOSEA 2:14 SO I AM GOING TO ATTRACT HER; I WILL LEAD HER INTO THE DESERT AND SPEAK TENDERLY TO HER.

I AM VONSTEGALL AND BINGO AIN’T MY NAME O!!

Dear Dairy,
Man what a busy day yesterday. We spent all day finalizing our Bingo purchases. We are gonna have Bingo night tomorrow night. I think we is ready. We have all the prizes ready, and all the food is ready to cook. We are gonna have barbeque and hotdogs. Lynn and Kimber are gonna fix the deserts today and tomorrow should be pretty simple. We have about 25+ people coming if’n everyone shows up.

I don’t think I have told ya about dad’s accident Dairy. A few weeks ago an elderly lady ran a stoplight and hit dad’s van. At first the doctors said his shoulder bone was cracked. Then they said it is broken. He is having surgery today. They are gonna put a steel plate in where the bone is broken to replace the broken bones. I took last night off so we could finish Bingo shopping yesterday and I can go to the hospital today. Mom hasn’t asked anyone to go but I think she is glad someone will be there. Lynn hasn’t decided if’n she is going or not but I hope she does. Her mom is gonna keep the kids if she goes. This has been really hard on dad. He hasn’t been able to work in 3 weeks and he is a workaholic. To make it worse his machine shop is in his back yard so he is constantly out there with his employee. He is probably driving the dude crazy being out there and not being able to work.

On November the 12 there is gonna be some disaster relief training in charlotte. They usually have 4-6 sessions a year in different parts of the state. We are gonna go on the 12 and hope more from the church will go. I hope we can go back to gulfport sometime in December or January. Me and Lynn are still on an emotional and spiritual high. We truly hope this is a way that The Lord will use us in the future. It truly is rewarding to be able to help someone who really needs it and to be able to share the gospel with someone is an awesome privilege. After talking to them dudes who was picking up the fridge I have been more aware of situations where I can witness. I think I have realized that to witness you don’t have to just shove the gospel down someones throat, you just have to bring it up and give them a chance to ask questions if they are interested. I hope this is an area that I will grow and mature in. I hope God will give the discernment to know when to push a little more and when to lay back and give someone an opportunity to ask more if they are interested.

Well Dairy, it is breakfast time so I’ll let ya go. Thanks for listening.

MATTHEW 28:19 GO YE THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY GHOST:

I AM VONSTEGALL, PLEASE PRAY FOR MY DAD’S SURGERY!

Dear Dairy,
I wisht that I could have told ya earlier about our trip to Gulfport, but I am just now getting time when I actually feel rested.

THE FACTS:WHO-Me, Lynn, the preacher, and Robert.
WHEN-Oct 12-14, 2005
WHERE-Gulfport, Mississippi
WHY-Disaster relief for Hurricane Katrina
SPONSORS-North Carolina Baptist Men(hereafter refered to as NCBM)
HEADQUARTERS-Passroad Baptist Church(herafter refered to as PBC)

WEDNESDAY, OCT 12, 2005:
5:15AM- Left church. Ate chinese buffet for lunch in route.
6:30PM- Arrived at PBC, registered and ate dinner.(NCBM feeding teams are preparing 5000+ meals aday, working 16 hour shifts, being distributed by red cross in gulfport area. Red cross gets all the credit, how ironic.
7:45PM- Arrived at PBC sanctuary for daily devotion.
8:05PM- Realized that Mississippi time is one hour behind North Carolina time.
8:00PM- Had devotions.
9:30PM- Went to bed.
THURSDAY, 10/13/O5: Quite possibly the most rewarding day of my life!!
5:30AM- Got up and dressed and went to get Lynn, the women had different sleeping quarters.
6:30AM- Had breakfast and got work assignments.
7:30AM- Arrived at first house on list and could not work due to not having insurance approval. Gave several Bibles to replace ones lost or packed up due to storm.
8:15AM Arrived at Mrs Lacy’s house. FACTS: 1. 82 year old widow. 2. House had recieved extensive water damage. 3. Daughter(Patty) and son-in-law(Harold) lived next door, thier house was undamaged. 4. Harold who had recently had a stroke was trying to gut house by himself. 5. We took all the inside walls down to the studs and took out all insulation. We also took all of ceilotex tiles of off ceiling(prying and scraping off). We took all insulation out of attic. We moved all furniture out. We also used Harolds truck to carry everything down to the road and piled it up for county to carry off. This was a very itchy job, dealing with the insulation.

This doesn’t sound very rewarding but when you factor in the time we spent listening to these peoples stories and interacting with them for 10 hours it was a pretty awesome experience. We laughed with them and shared in their sorrow at the same time. I also got to know the preacher and Bobert better. Yea I said Bobert. This dude is called Robert, Bob, and Bobby by different people at church. I kept asking him what he wanted me to call him. All he would say is I’ll answer to any of them. So I combined them and called him Bobert all weekend.
There was one thing we didn’t do that I really would like to go back and do. That is take a windmill apart. Mrs. Lacy has a great big steel windmill laying in her yard and I so want to get it out for her. But right now we are just trying to get the houses liveable again, so the windmill will have to wait.
This was the most touching experience I have ever had. We worked hard and these people told us “thank you” about 587 times. That is probably a low estimate. They didn’t just say thank you because it was appropriate, you could hear it in thier voices, see it in their eyes, and feel it when they shook your hand or squeezed your arm. I have never worked so hard and felt so good in all my life. Before we left we had prayer with them. They are christians so we left some Bibles to give to some family members that had lost theirs.
6:30PM- Got back to church just in time to eat and take showers.
8:00PM- Devotions.
9:30PM- Bedtime.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER THE FOURTEENTH TWO THOUSAND FIVE
5:30AM- Got up, dressed, met Lynn.
6:30AM- Ate breakfast, got work assignments. They partnered us up with Hal who was there by himself. We became instant buddies.
7:37AM- Arrived at first house. The dude told us his work had been done. We asked him is he was saved, he said yes. This dude lives about 4 blocks from the ocean. His house had been flooded and a row of trailers across the street looked like a giant set of hands had grabbed them and twisted them. Hotels within 4 blocks of his house was completely destroyed. This guy stayed during the hurricane. He says “It didn’t get as bad as I thought it would, the wind only got up to about a hundred and a quarter.” He thought it was gonna be worst and he still stayed, amazing.
8:00- Arrived at the next house. Homeowners not present. Work to be done: 1. Clean yard, debris everywhere. 2. Gut inside of house.

We had to clean the front yard just so we could get to the house. Then we took the sheetrock out four feet up. There was another layer of half inch planks behind this that needed to be took out. We lucked up there was no insulation to mess with. What we accomplished. 1. Cleaned up front yard. 2. Us guys gutted about 5 rooms of house. 3. Lynn cleaned the side yard, she had a huge pile of stuff.
HIGHLIGHTS: 1. Making friends with Hal. 2. Paul says become all things to all people that you may lead them to Christ. That ain’t exact but close. So we helped two dudes steal a refrigerator so we could witness to them. Naw the fridge was at the road to be carried off. But I had a good time ragging the preacher about helping them steal it. 3. I had to take Lynn to use the bathroom. We left the house and went about 150 yards. The road was block and I had to back the van with a trailer on it about 120 yards. I ain’t too good at backing, it took me about 30 minutes and the preacher and Bobert laughed at me the whole time. 4. Without out the homeowners there it wasn’t as personal as the day before, but when you are picking through the debris and find a photograph of someone sittin on the front porch having a good time, then you realize that front porch probably isn’t there anymore, their lives have changed for ever. Or you find a personal item like and an art award or childs toy, it really hits you what these people are experiencing.
5:30PM- We toured the beach front area of Gulfport and Biloxi. There was complete hotels destroyed. We saw the Ramada that we stayed at for 3 nights. It was a two story hotel reduced to a 4 foot pile of rubble. The buildings that had steel support columns, that was all that was left of them. We saw trucks piled on top of each other and cars on front porches. It was just miles of miles upon devastation. It was real humbling to see it and to realize it could happen to anyone. Maybe not a hurricane but maybe a tornado or some other disaster.
6:30PM- Dinner and shower.
8:00PM- Devotions.
9:30PM- Decide to head for home. I think Hal would have came with us if’n we had of asked him.
10:00PM- Headed home.
HIGHTLIGHTS; 1. I took first leg and drove until about 5:00AM. The preacher drove the rest of the way. 2. Stopped at McDonald’s. They repeated the order back wrong, then gave us the wrong order, the preacher was real upset, I was laughing and haveing a good time. 2. Went to next McDonald’s, they got it right. We had opportunity to witness while tripping. I told the girl at window to check the preachers money it may be counterfiet. He told her not to listen to me I had been up since 5:30. She says it’s only 6:00. He says 5:30 yesterday morning. She got excited and hollers “ya’ll been partying”. I think if’n we would have asked her she would have came through the drive thru window and jumped in the van. The preacher told her we had been on a mission trip serving The Lord in Mississippi. 3. We tripped all the way back.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER THE 15, 2005
9:30AM- Arrived back at the church.

Now Dairy I know this doesn’t sound like a big deal but we made a difference in Mrs. Lacy’s life. We had good fellowship. I have had such a positive experience and hope to be able to go back again soon. Thanks for listening to me Dairy, I’ll see ya later. Oh Yeah I almost forgot to tell what all the NCBM are doing in Gulfport. WE are providing hot meals, all the red cross meals you hear about are being fixed by NCBM. They are fixin 5000+ meals aday and working 16 hour days. The NCBM are providing showers for people without water. We are also planning on repairing 500 houses over the next two years. There is also laundry service available and child care for people to go fill out their fema and insurance claims. We are called the North Carolina Baptist Men but there are lots of women involved(beside every good man is a good woman). Since the hurricane has hit there has already been over 10,000 volunteers in Gulfport and surrounding areas and over a hundred people have been saved and an untold amount of Bibles have been given out.

PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW!!!!

I AM VONSTEGALL AND I WANT TO DO THIS MORE OFTEN!!!!

Hay Dairy,
How are you this morning?
I feel pretty good today. Two of the three relief guys are on vacation this week so I am getting to do that job. Well I did it last night and will do it tonight, then I’m through for the week. Even though I is taking off to go work, it is still good to be off from the plant.

I am starting to get excited. Not only are we going on a trip but we are going without the kids and we will be doing something that will be helping someone else. I can’ts wait untill tomorrow morning at 7 am. We won’t leave for mississippi until wednesday at 5 am. Oh dude that is early. We won’t to get through charlotte before morning rush hour and through atlanta after morning rush hour. I have never drove through atlanta when the traffic was not hectic. If your in that very inside lane, you better know what exit you need or you will never get through 12 lanes of bumper to bumper 90mph traffic in time to make the exit if you ain’t ready for it. I like driving through atlanta.

A few weeks ago I talked about a business meeting where the subject of fundraisers came up. The finance committee decided they were against it and wanted to refer it to the deacons. The deacons also are against it. This does not mean we will vote to ban them but we will vote on it. Usually if the deacons make a recommendation the church will follow it. I don’t know that I have ever seen a situation that a church wide vote went against what the deacons recommended. Hey why vote them into a position if’n ya don’t trust their judgement. I’ll keep ya updated on this issue Dairy old pal.

Oh well I ain’t got nothing else to say, so I’ll just say nothing and go get a bowl of ice cream. See ya Dairy.

1 JOHN 4:15 WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD DWELLETH IN HIM, AND HE IN GOD.

I IS VONSTEGALLL AND I TRUST THEIR JUDGEMENT!!!

Dear Dairy,
The derndest thing just happened, I was typing away at my entry and the dern computer erased it all and gave me a blank entry page. So here I goes again.

Dear Dairy,
I went into work yesterday and there was a posting up that said our QV or QC, it said one of our quality status things had been revoked. It was from ford who is about half of our business. Apparently we sent about four tires over a three week period that was not up to par. If’n I understand correctly we can still supply tires for our existing tread codes but can no longer develope new tread codes for them. So here we have more bad news as to the future of the charlotte facility. I just don’t see us being there much longer. Maybe in April they will offer a buy out like they did at the last contract. If they does I may just take them up on it this go around.

Yesterday we went shopping. We have pretty much finished up all our bingo stuff except for the dinner part. We also got everything we think we will need for our gulf coast clean up trip.

Today I gotted up early and have been busy. I made my sunday scho(this is where it blanked out on me)ol notes. We is still in ephesians and is talking about how God did away with social barriers and made His salvation available to all people everywhere. It does no good to study God’s word if’n ya ain’t gonna apply it to your life. One of the last sentences in the teachers guide book made me rethink something I had intended to say to the sunday school class. The sentence says “We must magnify those beliefs which unite us and refuse to become imbroiled in issues which are divisive.” While I still feel the same way I don’t reckon I should say anything to the sunday school class, unless I am specifically asked about the subject at hand.

I reckon I may as well tell you about the subject at hand Dairy, after all if I can’t confide in a close personal friend like you, who can I confide in. Our preacher is gonna have a halloween party again this year. No wait I mean he is having a “fall festivel” which happens to be on Oct. 31, and they are just gonna happen to be playing games and giving out candy. Hey sounds like a halloween party to me, after all you can put a monkey in a suit and give him a briefcase and call him a “business man” but in reality he still ain’t nuthing but a monkey. I know Dairy your saying big deal a halloween party. For me and Lynn we have had the conviction that our family should not participate in halloween. We feel it is wrong. I understand the preacher is wanting to give a christian alternative to kids but I feel that no matter what you call it and no matter how many times you call it an alternative to holloween(yeh hollow, there’s nothing to it) the kids and the community will say that church is condoning holloween so it must be okay. 1 Thesselonians 5:22 says Abstain from all appearance of evil. The preacher has stated(I heard’em do it) that he thinks holloween is evil, so should we not as a church abstain from the appearance of embracing this day. I think so. I have discussed this with him and I will probably do it again so he knows how I feel. Unless I am specifically asked by my sunday school class I do not intend to say anything, which doesn’t mean I won’t it just means I don’t intend to right now.

Oh Dairy I was telling ya I have been busy, I also took off the trash and made this entry. Thank God for the rain, it gives me an excuse not to cut the grass today. Catch ya later Dairy dude.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:22 ABSTAIN FROM ALL APPEARANCE OF EVIL.

I AM VONSTEGALL AND I CAN DISAGREE WITH THE PREACHER AND STILL CALL HIM FRIEND!!!!

Hey Dairy,
How are you today? I’m fine thank you.

We had us a meeting this morning at work. It was for the purpose of telling us how we in the tire room can help get our process cost down. It was basically the same stuff we hear about once a year. They also told us that the process cost per tire plant wide was 9.53 for last last month. When they started this thing about get the process cost down or we shut it down the cost was 9.79, that was almost a year ago. So far we have got it down by about .16. Welfare here I come. I have been trying to prepare for the closing of the plant by starting my own business, I had better get it in high gear before long. Actually I am kind of excited at the thought of it shutting down, is that weird? I don’t think I am content there anymore, so maybe it is time to move on, but I just doesn’t have have the initiative to do it.

Yesterday I took Lynn to the doctor to see could he do something about her colitis flare ups. He gived her some predezone, it is suppose to get her over this soon. It is a steriod so if the flare up clears up pretty quick we can head over to the bobcats or panthers places and see do any of them want some.
It looks like Lynn is gonna be the only woman going unless someone else signs up in the next few days. She don’t like that but I think she is gonna go anyway. The doctor said that the predezone will give her the energy of 5 people, she ort to get alot done in two days.

I isn’t sure sure about president Bush’s nominee to the supreme court. I’m sure she is well qualified and a staunch conservative but she is just not known and the fact that she was his lawyer will only put the liberals against her more. But if’n the liberals is against her then that is enough reason to think she will do a great job. Well I hope she gets confirmed and I hope she will be as good as the president says she will. So far he has made good decisions and been a great leader so she should pan out.

Well Dairy dude I is getting sleepy so I will go now now. Sees ya in the morning, uh I mean in the evening.

1 JOHN 4:14 AND WE HAVE SEEN AND DO TESTIFY THAT THE FATHER SENT THE SON TO BE THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD.

I AM VONSTEGALL AND I AM AM GETTING UNCONTENT AT THE PLANT!!

Hay Dairy,
How’s you are? I can’t believe it, three weeks in a row me and Lynn get to go out by ourselves. It was good even if it was just going to wal-mart and then we went back to Midway Barbeque. I love dem ribs.

I tell ya Dairy, the kids have really surprised me, they are really looking forward to me and Lynn going to the gulf coast. Me being gone wouldn’t really be a big deal but they have never been away from Lynn for more than a night. But they are pushing her to go, and they are looking forward to some individual attention from grandparents. Kimmie will stay with Lynn’s parents and Jamie with mine.

Last week in sunday school something I said was challenged by one of our yutes uh I mean youth. I don’t remember the exact statement but it was to the effect that there are degrees of rewards in heaven and that if a person is doing what God wants them to do and doing things because they love The Lord they will be rulers over many in heaven. One of them said they had never heard that and the heads started nodding in agreement, so I said I’ll look for it in the Bible, if it is in there, and show them this week why I think that. Here’s what I came up with. Matthew 25:14-21 is the scripture I will use. Verse 14 says “For the kingdom of heaven is as… I get that it means the kingdom of heaven will be like the following parable. I isn’t gonna type all the verses Dairy, you can read them if’n you want to. Verse 21 says …thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Here are my points: Point 1. We will not be idle in heaven. We will be fellowshipping and praising and serving our God. Serving means working or at least doing something. Point 2. There will not be chaos and confusion there. It will be ordered and organized. To me that means that some will have authority or be in charge of others, just like in everything else in life. Ex: work; plant manager-department managers-floor supervisors-and peons, uh I mean me. Even the angels have a pecking order, in Jude it mentions the archangel, which is the head of Gods angels, that means there are angels under him. Point 3. Ruling over many things mean ruling over someone carrying out these things.

I told them I would find the scripture that made me think this and show it to them and then they could decide what they thought. I was proud of the girls who said they never heard that and I was also proud of the doubtful looks on their faces. I may have the title of assistant-teacher in that class but that doesn’t mean that everything I say and think is absolutely right. I have always tried to encourage these kids to study the Bible and decide what they thought it meant without believing everything a teacher or preacher said was true because the Bible tells us there will be false teachers and that they would be in the church. I can show you the scripture that says that Dairy, if you have never heard it before or don’t believe me.

I reckon that is enough fur now Dairy old pal. See ya later dude.

PROVERBS 26:9 AS A THORN GOETH UP INTO THE HAND OF A DRUNKARD, SO IS A PARABLE IN THE MOUTH OF FOOLS.

I AM VONSTEGALL YOU DECIDE IS I A FOOL OR NOT!!!

Dear Dairy,
It was a dull boring week. I jest worked and hung out with Lynn and the kids. I did go in early one day. I actually felt like I only worked four days this week. I said something about it being wednesday and Lynn says this is thursday. Then I realized I had already worked four days when I was thinking I had worked three. That was nice feeling to go from 2 days left to 1 day left.

I washed some sidewalks yesterday. They turned out real good. I was working pro-bono, some money for washing would sure be nice. I think I will keep doing the freebies as long as I can. It never hurts to have too much experience. I think I am getting more quicker and efficient each time I do something. On the plus side I have a maybe and some of my cards that I have had put on bulletin boards are disapearing, so maybe I’ll get that call one day. I’m pretty blessed that I am in a position that it ain’t really a big deal if the business takes off quick or slow.

Oh Dairy, we almost took off for the mountains today but those dreaded gas prices held us back. I sure do miss the old schedule where we had days off in the middle of the week and could have the trails to our selves. Everyone goes places on the weekends. We may still go to Morrow Mountain later today for a picnic and some deer watching. Morrow MOuntain ain’t actually in the mountains it is what is called a low grade mountain range, not to high but higher than the flatlands. It has been one of our favorite places.

Lynn is having trouble with her colitis right now. She is gonna go to the doctor on tuesday and hope he can help stop these flare-ups. If they are not under control by next week she may not go to the gulf coast with us, and do hope she gets to go. I don’t think we is getting many people to sign up. First there were about 10 and then some dropped out due to unexpected health reasons. Maybe others are going and just isn’t signed up yet. I hope so. The couple of trips I have been on have been really fun and really rewarding and I hope some others will experience these same things.

I reckon that is that, I’ll see ya later Dairy old pal.

1 JOHN 4:13 HEREBY KNOW WE THAT WE DWELL IN HIM, AND HE IN US, BECAUSE HE HATH GIVEN US OF HIS SPIRIT.

I AM VONSTEGALL AND I WORKED 4 DAYS WHILE ACTUALLY WORKING 5!!!!