1000 marbles

I heard a good sermon today at church. The moral was that you only have a so many weekends remaining in your life and spending those working to make money may not be as satisfying as spending that time with your loved ones. I kind of have to agree with this reasoning. I would like the oppurtunity to work more given the chance and be more financially stable than I am now. With farming there are risks that are necessary. Back on subject, making the time to listen and be with others is important. Consistently saying that someone else is not worth your time is not the way I want to go through life. As much time as I spend alone or have spent alone, making time for other people is worthwhile. The thousand marbles relates to how much time you have left. I am thinking about buying a jar and a marble for every saturday I might have in my life expectancy. As I get to watch the jar get less and less full, I should be more urgent in getting to do things with others. Then if I get lucky enough to see it empty, thats another week of life God has given me.

The before part of the story was where Jesus was visiting a house with Mary and Martha. One of them was busting her hump to make this spectacular meal in an effort to please Jesus. She was disappointed when she saw that her sister was lazing around at Jesus's feet, taking the time to get to know Jesus. I like to think of myself more as the sister taking the time to learn and get to know someone. What matters in life is how you treat the people you know and meet, not what you can do for them.

I also took the time to watch knocked up again today. The first time through, I didn't much think it was all that funny and didn't like it. The second time around, I am picking up on more of the themes and enjoying it more. The part that I am really thinking the most about is the marriage ideals being tossed around with place. The women think they have all the burden, the guys want to continue being guys, and neither group can get that out of each other. Hopefully one day I can get to the point where I can get in a good relationship and marriage where any problems and issues that come up can be resolved.
In some ways the movie isn't much of a comedy, but more of a study on relationships and how they can work or won't work.

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Mojo Tom Petty Concert review

As with other concerts I have attened since starting this blog, I am going to do my conert review blog post.

Last night I went and seen Tom Petty and the drive by truckers play thier music. I didn't really get into the drive by truckers that much. If I knew any of their songs to anticipate, I might have enjoyed them some more. As it was however, I didn't really know any of their songs and didn't much enjoy them. You can throw all the tough and bad ass things you know into a song, but I'm not young enough for that to impress me. It seemed like I should have thought they were good because they sang about drining too much and getting into fights. All in all, not the type of music I enjoyed.

The main event however was a different story. Admittedly I don't know Tom Petty's whole library and wasn't entirely sure what he was going to play. After freefalling, the mary jane song, the song about solving mysteries, and one other one song, I don't know what music is his. The first half of the show, he played his hits and the riverbend audience was loving it. The second half of the show they played some good music, but it was from their newer mojo album and I really couldn't get into it. For the encore they did play some more of their classic hits. I remember wondering what they could play as an encore that they haven't played yet, but then they played that mystery song and refugee. So overall it was a good show. My brother ended up going and buying lawn seats. The crowd back in the lawn area was as crowded as I had ever seen it. I don't know of any better concerts that I could go to. Newer bands would just have a bunch of young hippies running around. Country bands would have too many rednecks going around drinking and spitting. I'm glad I picked out this concert to go to.

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he innovated something

I was actually surprised a bit the other day. My grandpa put some of his noggin to use and innovated something that helped us clean out our grain bins faster. Apparently when he says he is making a "patent" it means he has an idea for our work details. He aslo took a slam at me, saying if I feel energetic in the morning, I should take a wagon to the elevator and sell the beans. I told him I would eat a big breakfast and see how I felt.

We got another good dose of rain today. It would seem this year we won't be in any type of drought. This should be good news, it might help my crops have a better yield. The downside is the market is a bit lower that what I had hoped for. I am thinking about selling all my corn right away this fall and keeping my beans on DP. Hopefully the bean market will reach a high when I want to sell. Even more hopefully I can plan well enough to not spend double digits on taxes this year.

I am going to have to get into my savings account to keep me going until we start harvesting this year. With the bills I have this month, my account will be under a grand. That would be fine, but my mortgage needs payed, so I better put some money in and be safe. I don't know if I will be able to afford to do any remodeling of the house now, I might have to wait until this fall to consider it.

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july is afoot.

I don't know what it is, but fireworks aren't that exciting to me. Maybe in my view of the world and what can be considered exctining or exhilirating, they pale in comparison. Watching them in the sky isn't that much fun for me.

I did take this weekend off and laid off the booze. I kept having to explain that hangovers last to long nowadays and got away without drinking anything. The way my stomach feels still, I think a single beer would be enough to make me feel worse. The only problem is that I have about a dozen budweisers taking up space in the refrigerator now.

I also found a really cool song that I have been listening to some lately. "lion of a man" by mumford and sons is really great. It seems to be about a man asking for forgiveness, and the lyrics and music being really great. The mandolin playing really does it for me, I should be getting more time on my banjo playing, but I don't. 

A family emergency happened today. My great uncle in law was having chest pains and some calls were made and he ended up going to the hospital in an ambulance. As of now, all the test have came back that things are okay, but he is going to stay overnight for observations. Grandpa and me were the first on the scene, and my great aunt was very upset. Understandibly so, she thought he was having a heart attack. I was able to get to her and talk to her some and then go into the house and talk to him some more. By the time we got to the house, the no slowdown town ambulance sirens were wailing and they got there a moment after I did. Our family family doctor arrived by the time they had him in the ambulance and things look okay as of now.

I have to wonder what my role will be here in the future after todays events. If I am staying close to home and am going to be a person answering the phone for those types of calls, what I am going to see as my years advance? Who else am I going to be the first upon the scene for? How will I need to react in similar situation? What calls am I going to have to make to my family members? Having me and other family nearby helps in such situations, but as of now, I am not a trained emergency response person. I had thought before that I might be obligated to be a bit of a caretaker for my grandparents if they get to the point where they can't drive. As well as they have taken care of all of us growing up, how could I turn them down if they need a ride somewhere or help with something? Most of my other siblings have found other vocations, but I have decided to remain close to home for now. Maybe my vocation will be unofficial caretaker.

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