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Auld Lang Syne

As the year comes to a final close our tendencies are  to reflect on the previous 365 days and look to find something…some sort of meaning or message that we were supposed to somehow get but didn’t.   We’ll conclude “A” and then resolve to fix “B” with new resolutions for the year that is ahead of us.  Our first-fruits of the year will end up being  disappointment and shame, topped with the cherry called failure because we will set unrealistic goals

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Ain’t Nothin’ But a Thang

Funny the things we think about in the stand. As I was looking up at all the beautiful stars in the sky this morning, an airplane light heading north caught my attention. I thought about all the people who must have gotten up early to board that flight and I wondered if they were looking down out from their window seat while I was looking up! Life is a beautiful place if you just stop and realize it.

Every hunting season brings about new lessons and experiences.   It’s hands-on learning that can’t be taught from reading about it or being told.  I’ve gained my best knowledge from the school of hard knocks…called MISTAKES or better yet SCREW UPS.

Let’s take this past week for example.  It was an evening hunt and I was up on the ten acres at the front of the property in my stand.  The temps were dropping from the warmer ones we’d had and the wind was minimal at best.   Let me interject here by saying

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Baked Beans: One Bowl at a Time

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Happy October 1st!!!!

It’s a new month and the first day always brings about setting goals and creating new, positive habits in our lives.  It’s a little like the first day of a new year.  We’re full of enthusiasm for new resolutions that we set our minds and heart on sticking with.  Unfortunately sometimes the zeal we start with fizzles out and we end up failing which turns to feeling bad about ourselves.  Today it is my hope that I can inspire you with my own life experience that will

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Sowing Seeds Saturday :)

Today is the kick off of something I do in a Facebook group I have…a daily inspiration…Sowing Seeds Saturday!!!  When I came up with the idea of sowing seeds I had the intention of “we reap what we sow”, sooooooooo we probably ought to be sowing seeds of kindness, wouldn’t you say?

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