Lets Jump Together

The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough..

- by Randy Pausch

This quote is part of the the Last Lecture by [...]

A young boy said to his mother, ‘How old were you when I was born?’ His mother replied, ‘23.’ ‘Wow, that’s a lot of time we missed spending together.’

-author unknown

I thought this was a sweet one for Mother’s Day.

Our children are in our hearts forever.

Happy Mother’s Day blessings!

Live now.
Life has an expiration date.

- author unknown

I don’t know who wrote this quote. I researched it online and still couldn’t come up with an author.
It came as part of an email I received a couple of weeks ago.
It was short and to the point, and I thought it deserved to be shared.
If anyone knows [...]

Happiness is not something ready made.  It comes from your own actions.
-by the Dalai Lama

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
-by Helen Keller

My boys spend a lot of time working on projects - whether it be cars, house repairs, or building things from scratch.
They are very resourceful and use what tools and materials they have available - and that helps us save our pennies.
Over the years my husband has amassed quite a collection of tools.
In addition to [...]

We have all heard about cow manure and how much methane gas it produces.
Until now there has been no way to capture this gas and use it - it was wasted into the atmosphere - contributing to the greenhouse effect on the planet.
Listening to NPR, as I enjoy doing, they were talking with a dairy [...]