Dairy,
We was gonna watch the mad dash again. We started heading out about 5 til and here he comes walking. Someone did see him run until he got to the front of our building though. I guess we had a positive impact on his well being, he could have fell and got hurt running down that hill. Well we got a good laugh out of it.

Dairy, I feel guilty. Hamburger signed up to work over tonight and changed his mind. He has done that before and I have stayed over for him. I run my machine and the dude on my machine will run Hamburger’s job, he’s crossed trained. Well Burger kept saying he wished he could go home and he was hinting hoping I’d volunteer to swap. I’ve already pulled a butt-load of overtime this week and have signed up for a butt-load more next week. If he would have straight out asked I’d have said yes but he didn’t so I didn’t either. Well dude I’ll talk to ya later.

JOHN 20:5 THEN JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM, “CHILDREN, HAVE YE ANY MEAT”? THEY ANSWERED HIM, NO.

I IS VONSTEGALL AND I’M NOT SO SURE ABOUT FRED THOMPSON NO MORE!!!!!!!!!

Dairy,
I must say I don’t got much to talk about except work. So I’ll talk about work. We have several different shifts where I work. There is this dude who comes in at 6 p.m. on the swing shift. Well from the parking lot to his building he has to come down a steep hill that passes my building and then up another hill to his building. Every day this cat comes through the gate at 5:58 at a dead sprint. I’ve seen him several times and have heard others talk about him, he was mentioned in our meeting friday night and we all laughed about it. WEll today several of the guys who haven’t seen him as well as a group of us who have lined up outside our building at 5:55 to watch him come in. It was liking watching from a marathon finish line for the front runners to come into view. Sure enough at 5:58 here he comes through the gate at a sprint, we started cheering and hollering, he gave a big smile and wave and kept on getting it, it don’t sound funny with me telling ya about Dairy, but it was really funny. I’m trying to get one dude who will take a dare to stand out there and wait on him tomorrow with a cup of water and try to hand it to him like they do the marathon runners. I’m sorry to bore with work stuff all the time Dairy but that’s pretty much all I’m doing right now. See ya dude.

2 THESSALONIANS 3:10 FOR EVEN WHEN WE WERE WITH YOU WE COMMANDED YOU, THAT IF ANY WOULD NOT WORK, NEITHER SHOULD HE EAT.

I ARE VONSTEGALL AND I DON’T WANT TO JUST EAT, I WANT TO EAT ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!!!!

Dairy,
Dude, I had a pretty good day today. I got to start with an hour long meeting. It was on ergonomics. So’s we can be aware of how our movements and other crap will affect our bodies. Heck it was an hour of air conditioner, it didn’t really matter to me what she was gonna talk about. The machine ran smooth, all I had to do was keep it loaded and unloaded. I wish everyday was like today.

Dairy, I wish I had another week of vacation. There is been some bad flooding in Ohio. I work with a dude who’s church is also involved in disaster relief and they are going to Ohio in a couple of weeks to do mud-out.

Well Dairy, that’s all I have for today, I’ll talk to ya later.

2 TIMOTHY 3:12 YEA, AND ALL THAT WILL LIVE GODLY IN CHRIST JESUS SHALL SUFFER PERSECUTION.

I IS VONSTEGALL AND I NEED MORE VACATION TIME!!!!!!!!

Dairy,
Let me tell ya about my day. I was going down the road and whomp, whomp, whomp, I get a flat tire. No big deal. I start to change it, my spare is flat. No big deal. I don’t have my cell phone. No big deal. I start walking and man stops and asks if I need help. I ask to use his phone, call Lynn and she’s gonna come get me. I start to change the tire and the dad blame cheap lug wrench that comes with the car from the manufacturer bends on the third lug nut. No big deal. Lynn gets there and I take both tires and we head to the garage to get them plugged(about $7).

DAiry, we get there and one rim is bent too bad to use. No big deal. The other tire has a hole in the sidewall, not fixable. No big deal. We end up buying a used tire and spend $40 in the stead of $7. No big deal.

DAiry, I get to work and start my machine up and wee doggy the main air hose busts. No big deal. I fix that and go back to running the machine. A bar gets out of whack and I get to checking and my pump is clogged up. I spend an hour and half fixing it and getting filthy. No big deal. Then I fire the machine up and it sounds like a dad burn choo-choo train whistle, I have a hole in another hose. No big deal.

Dairy, all these things really weren’t a big deal in and of themselves but when you add them all up one right after the other it was such an aggravatting day dude. It wiped me out physically and emotionally. I was just waiting to have my appendix burst or a lung collapse or something of the such. Dude I’m still jittery from all that crap and then add 12 hours of work on top of all the frustration. I am so blessed to have a half gallon of ice cream in the freezer, if’n it arsn’t molded or mildewed or something of the such. I’ll find out in just a few minutes. So Dairy, my day was like a cob, rough!!!!!!

Dairy, I know I sount like I was complaining about the music yesterday but I arsn’t the only one who felt like that, I know of several who agreed. That eases my conscience.

Well Dairy, I’m hankering some ice cream and sleep so I had better go now see ya later dude.

ROMANS 5:3 AND NOT ONLY SO BUT WE GLORY IN TRIBULATIONS ALSO; KNOWING THAT TRIBULATION WORKETH PATIENCE;

I IS VONSTEGALL AND I HAD A GLORIOUS DAY, NOW I ORT TO BE PATIENT FOR A LONG TIME TO COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dairy,
We had a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnngggggggggggggg
service today. It was homecoming and kickoff for revival. WE got out of sunday school 15 minutes earlier than usual. We had this dude sing and play several string instruments, it was too long and too loud. It was an incredibly long service. He played and sang for 45 minutes. Sometimes I think we can do too much at church. By the time he was finished you was just ready to get the service over with. The preacher had a wonderful sermon and I’d of rather had 45 more minutes of preaching than all that singing. I did enjoy the two girls from church who sang, they sounded so good. This singer kept having trouble with a cord or something and he said satan was trying to disrupt the service, I’d like to think it was the Holy Spirit. It was good music though it was loud but the songs had good messages. The dude sang again after we ate and I think one or two songs would have been sufficient for the service especially since he was singing later also. I’m not complaining, ok maybe a little, but I hate to see the Spirit quenched with good intentions. That’s my opinion and I admit it may be wrong.

Dairy, it was my last day teaching the youth and I wanted to go around and say something personal to each of them but I didn’t know if I could do it with out(looking both ways to make sure no one is litening) crying(there I said it). And by the way that there breakfast I told ya was this morning is next week. I found out when we went this morning and no one was there. Lynn kept saying you sure you didn’t misunderstand, well I guess I did. Dairy, I felt so stupid this morning. It’ll give us all something to laugh about, I told them they needed to pick at me about, cause I’d sure enough pick at them if it happened to them. Well now we have something to look forward to next week.

Dairy, we sometimes make decisions on the circumstances as they are at the time the decision is made. And we have to live with the consequences and that’s all I have to say about that.

Dairy, we may just do it at least temporarily. Well there is the possibility we may do it. I talked to someone about it anyway. I know these last two paragraphs don’t make sense to you Dairy, but I had intended on making a private entry and elaborating, but well to tell ya the truth I’m just to lazy.

Dairy dude, we gots a good preacher for our revival and I wish I didn’t have to miss the rest of the services, I wonder if I could call and get the preacher to reschedule the services in the morning time? Probably not.

Dairy, we gave the kids a proposition for CHRISTmas this year. We usally give 3 gifts each year. Something they need, something practical they could use, and something they want. We couldn’t think of anything practical they could us, and there is really nothing they need that they don’t get(unless we just wait until CHRISTmas. So we gave them the choice of getting gifts or going on a trip. Crap we use to both. Anyway they seemed to like the idea. We will probably go to Florida or Georgia. We get the week of CHRISTmas off with the option of volunteering. We figure with the weekend and the holiday we can still go for about 3 days and still get close to 40 hours.

Dairy, I’m also gonna try to squeeze in a trip to the location of next years main mission trip. I started to call the youth trip but it will be church wide, it’s just that the youth are the only one’s you can really count on arsn’t that sad. I’m hoping to have most of the preliminary plans made by the first of the year and then start recruiting people. We are gonna help with a food ministry in the mountains and also hold a Bible school. That’s the plan anyway, we’ll see.

ZEPHANIAH 3:1 WOE TO HER THAT IS FILTHY AND POLLUTED, TO THE OPPRESSING CITY!

I IS VONSTEGALL AND I IS GOING THROUGH WITH IT, REGARDLESS.

Dairy,
It’s been a busy week. We arsn’t suppose to work over 60 hours per pay period in my department(we knead hour wrest), but I hit’em for 60.5+. I figured weeks like this don’t come along often, at least not on my job, there is only one machine, so I took advantage of it. To be honest I wouldn’t want to do it more than once a month. I’m not sure it’s worth the wear on the body. I put more wear on my body at the tire plant than I should have and I’m not going to do it again, well no more than they’ll let me. There are a couple of guys who get close to 60 most weeks because there are 5 or 6 of their machines. I checked with them to see what would be said for going over and was told only one supervisor might say something, but that’s all they he do, say something.

Dairy, I still arsn’t heard nothing official about going to 3rd shift, so I reckon I’ll be on 2nd for at least another week.

Dairy, a whole bunch of guys got hit with some bad news today. They found out that they had too much vacation time given to them by mistake. Most lost a couple of days. They put it our checks every week how much we have so I reckon some guys didn’t keep up with it on their own. One dude has already took all of his so he will lose days next year. I don’t reckon I feel to sorry for them, they should have known how many days they get and how many they have taken. Most people keep up with stuff like that to keep from getting shorted, so I feel sure that at least some of them knew they too much time given to them and the was gonna keep it quite.

Dairy, I thunk of another advantage on going to 3rd. I’ll get to eat more of Lynn’s good cooking while it’s still hot and fresh instead of heated up in the microwave. I tell ya Dairy, Lynn’s gonna twist this next statement but I’ll say it anyway. She has gotten to be a very good cook. Now ya see she’ll take it as she use to didn’t be a good cook, which isn’t true. She’s just getting better and better all the time. Of course, she does have a culinary goof once in awhile, like she might take the skin off the chicken before cooking it, or maybe cutting off a great big juicy piece of fat off some ribs. To be honest I think her cooking is getting to grandma-like, yes sir after a comment like that she ort to cook me up a big old mess of collards and some spare ribs(WITH A GREAT BIG PIECE OF FAT ON’EM) and maybe one of them delicious sweet potatoe pies that she makes so good.

Well Dairy, it’s 4:30 in the a.m. so I had better go to bed, see ya later dude.

ECCLESIASTES 5:7 FOR IN THE MULTITUDE OF DREAMS AND MANY WORDS THERE ARE ALSO DIVERS VANITIES; BUT FEAR THOU GOD.

I IS VONSTEGALL AND FOR SOMEONE WHO JEST EIGHT I’M HUNGRY AGAIN!!!!!!!!!1

Dairy,
Here it are, you know the poem I was telling ya about. My dear friend Rayne sent it to me. The first time I heard it I heard it from a comedian who was reading it the voice of Jimmy Stewart.

DRINKIN’ FROM MY SAUCER

I’ve never made a fortune
And it’s prob’ly too late now;
But I don’t worry ’bout that much,
I’m happy anyhow!

And as I go along life’s way
Reapin’ better than I sowed.
I’m drinkin’ from my saucer,
‘Cause my cup has overflowed!

Haven’t got a lot of riches,
And sometimes the going’s tough;
But I’ve got loving ones around me,
And that makes me rich enough!

I thank God for His blessings
And the mercies He’s bestowed.
I’m drinkin’ from my saucer,
‘Cause my cup has overflowed!

I ‘member times when things went wrong,
My faith wore somewhat thin;
But all at once the dark clouds broke
And light peeped through again.

So, Lord, help me not to gripe
About tough rows I’ve hoed.
I’m drinkin’ from my saucer,
‘Cause my cup has overflowed!

If God gives me strength and courage
When the way grows steep and rough,
I’ll not ask for other blessings;
I’m already blessed enough!

May I never be too busy
To help others bear their loads.
I’ll keep drinkin’ from my saucer,
‘Cause my cup has overflowed!

Author: © Jimmy Dean

PSALM 118:1 O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD; FOR HE IS GOOD; BECAUSE HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOR EVER.

I IS VONSTEGALL AND MY CUP RAN OVER TODAY, FIRST IT RAINED(IT’S BAD HOT AND DRY HERE) THEN I HEARD FROM RAYNE(ALWAYS A BLESSING)!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dairy,
I herd through the gravevine that I’ll probably be going to third shift next weak or the weak after. It arsn’t official or anything just what I herd. EYE wonder why they wood tale sumwon else befour tailing me? EYE’m always the last won to here.

Dairy, EYE allmost did something terrible last nite. I allmost spilled a hole bowl of ice cream. It was sew Dairy, but I managed to save it befour it went over the edge of the cabinet.

Durn it Dairy, I don’t really fill like EYE’m living; I’m just existing. Work, eat, sleep, and an occasional shower(we is in the midst of a drought, don’t ya no) then eat and it starts all over again. I’m hoping that when I go to tird shift I’ll be able to get into some kind of pattern of doing something. When ya get off at 11 p.m. their just arsn’t nothing two dew. If I do go to bed soon after I just lay their and can’t sleep. Then I won’t two sleep late the next day. Maybe getting home at 7:30 a.m. EYE’ll be able to get into the habit of doing something productive. I no won thing I knead two dew is take Jamie on some more driving lessons. He’s old enough for drivers ed but we don’t think he is mature enough(but then again I know a whole butt-load of 15 year olds who take it but probably shouldn’t), plus it’s gonna cost over $300 for hymn to take it, sew that automatically cuts it out. Heck Kimber wheel be old enough next year sew both of them wheel have to weight awhile.

DAiry, I don’t know wear I’ll go for sunday school after next weak. I may go into the senior women’s class. Nah, I reckon I’ll go into the younger men’s class, I think it starts at age 50 or sew, maybe a little older. There are only two men’s classes. That’ll be something to go into ss with my dad. But then again Lynn goes into class with both of hour moms. I’ll just have to sea.

Dairy, I’ve been working over this weak and I just don’t know that I’ll like the dude’s on 3rd shift as much as I do the won’s own 2nd. But my off time wheel be better. I reckon I’ll find out soon.

Well Dairy, it’s after 4 a.m. sew I’d better get a bowl of ice cream(hope we steal some) and go to bed. I’m shore am sorry I arsn’t got nothing worth anything to say but that life. I don’t why I’m complaining cause I’m drinking from the saucer, my cup is running over don’t ya know. There is a poem about that, I’ll have to find it and share it with you Dairy, I think yule enjoy it.

PSALM 23:5 THOU PREPAREST A TABLE BEFORE ME IN THE PRESENCE OF MINE ENEMIES; THOU ANOINTEST MY HEAD WITH OIL; MY CUP RUNNETH OVER.

I BE VONSTEGALL AND I LOVE DRINKING FROM THE SAUCER!!!!!!!!

Dairy,
Today was a good day. I enjoyed sunday school, the kids thought it wood be my last time teaching but I asked Carson if’n I could teach next week also(that’s the last week of the ss year) and she said yes. She also wants to have breakfast for me and the ones who are moving up next week before sunday school. Dairy, I have been so blessed to have been a part of this class. I’m really gonna miss it. We have some really special young people in our church. The preacher was doing the announcements and said that 2 of the youth wanted to say something. They told that it was the last time I was gonna teach them and then they said some nice things about me. It was totally unexpected. It was really touching and meant a lot to me. Dairy, I love them kids. I’m gonna miss it.

Dairy, when church let out me and Lynn was leaving and the preacher says “Hey Lynn, do you want me to help you get his head through the door.” We have testimony/praise time most every sunday night. Usually someone one brags on the preacher; what a great preacher he is and how blessed we are to have him at our church and stuff like that. I always pick at him about having a big head and how everyone brown-noses him. I told him I didn’t know what to say or how to act and he says “Now ya know how I feel when it happens to me.” I do but I’ll still give him a hard time about it.

Dairy, I heard an awesome quote this week. It goes something like this. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

HABAKKUK 2:10 THOU HAST CONSULTED SHAME TO THY HOUSE BY CUTTING OFF MANY PEOPLE, AND HAST SINNED AGAINST THY SOUL.

I ART VONSTEGALL AND I WAS HUMBLED THIS MORNING!!!!!!!!!

Dairy,
I’m so fourtwoitus(figyour that won out), I made it through these last too hot weaks without going to the hospital. Weave had 4 that I have herd of that has been two the hospital for heat dehydration. We had won go today. Last weak a dude spent from monday to friday in the hospital. Dude it’s been hot!!!!!!

Dairy, we could have spent most of this weak in the mountains if’n weed of maid different decisions. My in-laws has a time share in the mountains and we was invited to go four as long as we wanted two this weak. But ya sea Dairy, EYE has a brother-in-law who was going also and hymn and his feemail partner was also going. They wood bee sleeping in the same bed just like they was married. We decided that we did knot won’t hour youngun’s beeing exposed two that. Sew EYE used my vacation time fore hour church mission trip instead. Dairy EYE have know regrets over the decision we made. EYE no that my kids no right from wrong but we felt like weed be putting hour blessing own that type of behavoir. Sew to reenforce our stand own this subject we decided knot two go and we got alw kinds of blessings four it. Dairy dude I love the mountains.

I gots a good idea four a poem today sew I”m gonna have to work own that later but I had better jot it down befour EYE fourget. Sew I’ll let you go dude. Sea ya later.

2 TIMOTHY 1:13 HOLD FAST THE FORM OF SOUND WORDS, WHICH THOU HAST HEARD OF ME, IN FAITH AND LOVE WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS.

I AM VONSTEGALL AND THESE IS SOUND WORDS OR ARE THEY?!!!!!!!!!!!