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Well it has been a while since I put the last blog post out. Not much has happened since last thursday. I mowed my yard for the first time, sent Walter to the vet to get neutered, and cleaned up the floors in my house some more, the bean market is down and we are getting ready to work the fields.

I did knowingly skip church on easter sunday. I don't usually like competing with large crowds and the C&E crowd was going to be in full effect on easter sunday. I will double up on my donation next time I go to church. I need to try and go to the saturday service this week also. My AZP group is having their initiaion banquet this weekend and I think I will go up on saturday to drink and socialize some. I have gotten back to drinking more than usual lately. I haven't been downing 12+ beers like I would do in the good ole days, but do need to cut back here again soon. After this weekend I will finish all the beer I have in the house and cut back again. Really as long as I get on the treadmill at least every other day, I'm not worried about how much I drink. When I was drinking heavily, I rarely excercised and put on 50 pounds the year I was 23. Now that I burn up some calories and drink sparingly, I doubt I put on any weight and ballon up.

It also looks like I will be heading into greenhouse management soon. If I don't get a teaching job, I will committ to our greenhouse business at 25% this year and increasing more year by year. I really don't mind this but the idea of managing a business scares me a bit. I think we bring in about 30 grand a year from the greenhouse and that isn't bad for the time we put into it really. We start getting supplies in at the end of february, have our opening day the third weekend in april and close shop by the first part of june. I don't know how much work grandma does in terms of ordering supplies, but that is going to be the diffucult part for me. Luckily for me she keeps very good and detailed records that should be easy to decipher.

I also have some terrible thoughst about a recent news event. I don't really feel sorry for a young man who needs to go to spring break, drinks themselves dumb and then has an accident and dies. When I was 17, I didn't need to do those things to feel good. I spent time with my family worked because that is what we did. What kind of adults were that 17 year old listening to that going on a made up holiday and drinking in excess is the example to follow? The only good thing is that this situation can be an example for other young kids who think they need to do similar things. Maybe I am in the minority here, but I don't want any kids I have influence over thinking those are cool things to do.

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