Lets Jump Together

Time is the coin of your life.  It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.  Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg

How easy it is to let others decide things for us sometimes.
And sometimes that is just what is [...]

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
-by W.T. Purkiser

And thanking the loved ones that make up our blessings is one good way of using them.
Hope all my readers have a blessed and safe Thanksgiving with the ones they love the most!

Out of the corner of my eye I caught a sudden movement in the trees alongside the road.
He then swooped down above the car and flew with us down the road a bit.
Perching for a quick rest on a high branch, he gave us one last look and took off into the woods - [...]

Another post on hunting - but it is too funny to not tell it.
Turkey hunting in our state was brought back a couple of years ago and it came with some pretty strict rules.
We happen to live in the small section of the state that allows it, so my son shelled out big bucks for [...]

Hunting season has begun in our neck of the woods.
Time to dress in orange anytime we go near the woods.
Out dirt road cuts in between two patches of pretty good sized woods, so we have taken to wearing our orange even when we walk down it.
Except for the bird shot used for turkey and ducks, [...]

O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
To-morrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
To-morrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow,
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way [...]

Summer was really short this year, and it is really hard to believe that the first day of fall will be here in 12 days.
The days have gotten noticeably shorter and the evening temperatures have begun to creep down.
No more leaving the windows open at night - frost has been predicted in the towns fifty [...]