paradigm

A paradigm in considered a typical example of something. I am going to describe what me and my grandpa did today, with grandpas role being easily replace by dad just about any day of the year. Grandapa walkie talkied me this morning about 8:15, since he decided he wanted to move four calves to pasture with the rest of the herd. He has to walkie talkie me because we got him a cell phone and nextel is the only brand he can figure out and also hear. Since he woke me up, I told him I would be about 10 or 15 more minutes since I had "something" I was doing at that moment. I walked over to the barnlot about 20 minutes later and didn't see him. The dogs were excited to see me and I threw a stick for them for a little while. I eventually saw that he had the cattle trailer in place and the calves had just walked in when I got to the area. We drove to truck and trailer to the field, let the calves out, and then took the cattle trailer back to the barn we usually put it in. Then we returned a hay wagon to our neighbor. Our neighbor and his wife were snapping green beans on their front porch, so we stayed about half an hour socializing, and then drove to adams county to look at my tobacco. My tobacco looked good, but was not ready to top. Then we drove by my brother tobacco field and saw that it was about the same. On the way I told him that I was going to go to Kiblers to get some trim to put up in my room. I left for Kiblers, got my stuff and got back in time to eat dinner at grandma and grandpas with them. We had mashed potatoes, peas, pot roast, rhubarb jello, cake and some cookies. I drank about half a pitcher of lemonade. After dinner I helped grandpa spray roundup on some weeds on a fenceline for about an hour. I drove the gator and he sprayed where he wanted. Then I rounded up a radial saw, sawhorses, and some other things to work on the baseboard trim in my room with. We made a banister for the room, and got in plenty of arguing while doing it. We then started the trim. This was going good until I told him my plan to put trim around the doorways. Eventually he left, and I started to get plenty done, since he wasn't around to halt everything to a snails pace. At about 7:30 one of my brothers customers needed a ride home. Since he was a family friend I gave him a ride home. He lives by the moler raceway, and I told him I may go on a good drunk one night at the track and need a place to crash so it was no problem to give him a ride. On the way home I stopped at the grocery store and bought a gallon of milk, two gallons of chocolate milk, and a gallon of orange juice. When I got home, I watched big brother 11, laughed at all the houseguests, took a shower and started blogging. 

This may sound like an odd day to some people. I know I am lucky to get along so well and spend time with my grandparents and family. Some peoples jobs and lives take them away from that for whatever reason. This was a usual day for me, mainly for all the interaction I put in with my grandpa. We Haukes all get along really well and are there for each other when need be. We get along with our neighbors and can't wait to help out other people also. 

In other news, the bank is ready for me to sign a mortgage for the house, but my dad is on vacation for another week or so and can't fulfill his role as the seller. 

I also want to talk about my struggles with "a lot." My first and only college english teacher, Mrs. Callahan, lectured that using "a lot," is bad english and to never use it in our writing. I am sure this extends to blogging also. Anyways, my progress here stops everytime I need to type "a lot" and have to think of another adjective.