Congratulations to Kirby Freeman!

Kirb will be named the starting quarterback of the University of Miami Hurricanes later today!

Git 'er done Kirb!

How do I know you ask? ESP? Naw, ESPN! (That's one better!). Nope, I have my sources though.

Hide and watch!

By the way, lotto numbers are available for sale!

I get to start my day late today. Chris is needing some small engine parts and the vendor doesn't open until eight. Of course my eyes didn't care, they sprung open as per usual!

We had a misleading Monday at the parts store. DJ and Sylvia had worked Saturday and neither of them knew how to run end of day, so everything rolled over into one huge mega day! Looked good on paper though!

I am anticipating sales this month to be down. Of course a lot of my barometer depends on how much paper volume I handle, not the size of the number on that paper!

The biopsy results for Hag came back yesterday. They weren't good, but could have been worse. Actually they were probably about what all of us expected. He has an appointment next week in Lubbock to discuss options. Of course with Pepa's positive treatment results we can hope for more good results! One of Hag's primary concerns is his planned elk hunt later this year!

I guess I had been retired for a number of years, at least from public address announcing. For some reason all that has changed recently. I was going to do one show for some friends in late September, then I got a call asking if I would do a show this weekend. Not near the money I use to make, but it will be interesting to see if the fire still burns within! I always enjoyed doing it!

K.O. called me Sunday and asked if he could use BlackSheep. On the return trip from Fairfield they were running in a convoy when one of the others had a flat. K.O. and R.H. the driver of K's second hauler stopped to render aid. When the tire change was completed R.H. found that the Peterbilt he was driving had died. Efforts to restart it were only briefly successful. K.O. suspects computer problems. They ended up leaving the hauler on the side of the road while they came home and retrieved the "toter" and another truck. When I talked with K.O. last evening R.H. was cruising along in Blacksheep pulling the trailer with K.O. following with the disabled truck on the "toter" hook! K.O. asked if Blacksheep could spend the remainder of the week at a friends dairy in Dublin. I have no problem with that. It might be a good experience.

We'll retrieve Blacksheep this coming weekend. Actually it will save three hundred miles of fuel and travel.

Maybe this is an idea for a book or something, "Blacksheep goes to cow camp!"

I guess my mindset is getting where it needs to be. I woke up this morning and had been dreaming of a problem at the seasonal jobsite. I am hopeful this year will be a little more flexible.

Dove season is just days away. That is one of those pleasant memories for me. My grand-dad use to take Stevie and I hunting. Hindsight reflects that his heart wasn't in the hunt, but in giving us the experience. I can still see him sitting in the shade on a five gallon bucket smoking his pipe and when birds would fly in to the pasture stock tank he would shoot just enough to circle the birds back to Stevie and I!

Singleton's Hardware was the hunter's stop in Roscoe. I guess you could buy anything from a gun to a toaster there. Maybe even a toaster that would shoot!

Man, some of these memories seem like a lifetime ago!

Have a day!

FATHER, thank YOU for pleasant memories. I continue to ask that you heal our hearts. I pray for physical healing for Hag. Bless this day!