My sleep habits are re-emerging. Dang the luck. It seems I am awake every morning at least by three. Yuk. By mid afternoon, I am a spent puppy.

This morning I have been doing some research on the North American Prospect Expo next month. They advertise, "Billions of dollars looking for a deal!" I am kind of watching this because if the black shale is as hot as they say it is, this could be the first domino played or tripped. After that, it could get interesting. At this expo, oil and gas prospect leases are grouped and traded.

I have also been doing some research on the black shale formation. They say they have known for years that it held vast oil reserves, but due to the fragile soil structure technology had not been available to extract it. Even now, they are saying that only 12% of what is underground is recoverable.

The plan is for multiple wells drilled from a common site. As soon as the drill stem goes into the ground they will begin turning it to achieve full horizontal status by a depth of seven thousand feet. After reaching full horizontal, the wells should have a 1000' pay length. They may drill 180 degrees around for the second well or they may choose to space as many as five holes around the 360 degree pad center.

I don't know why, but this entire project is very intriguing.

I did the early church service and went and picked up breakfast burritos before returning home. There was a guest preacher as Phil was in Thailand.

Shortly after mid afternoon, I began getting out pots and pans to cook beef tips on rice with egg rolls. Carol had done the prep Saturday night before we decided to just snack for supper.

Her prep work simplified Sunday lunch or supper. It had probably been five or six months since we had fixed this. This is and always has been a favorite of mine, although it is always a challenge to not get it too spicey. It was pretty good if I say so myself.

A large portion of my afternoon was spent corresponding with my incarcerated friend. He continues to be remanded to the Grady County Jail in Chickasha, Oklahoma. The Federal Detention Center in Oklahoma City must still be at capacity.

On Friday my friend tried to call me. However, we had exhausted the funds on the pre-paid phone account. We had discussed it a week ago and decided not to add additional funds until we saw if he was moved this past week. When I got the call, I immediately made plans and added more funds to the account. Then he didn't call back Saturday or Sunday.

I think I have an idea how frustrated he must be with the Federal system. He still is awaiting intake and assignment and no one can tell him when his release date is.
We are hoping this works out for the good. Down side is that from past record of the Fed's, they refused to give him credit for time served in their custody for five or six months. Now he has been in their system again since September 2, 2011 and has not gone through intake and assignment. It took three months just for him to show up in the Fed's system.

Has anyone had carpel tunnel? My left wrist has really been bothering me and for the life of me I can't remember injuring it. On the keyboard is when it is at its worst! Ouch!

I began looking at flights to Seattle during my awake time tonight. We are barely in the window for booking flights there for Shelby and Larissa's wedding. I am trying to decide on dates out and back and I guess I need to visit with Memama and Pat to get a number. I guess I also need to talk with Rian because at one point I think Shelby and Larissa had talked with him about performing the ceremony. Last I heard he was checking on credentials for the state of Washington. If I remember correctly we would fly Lubbock to Albuquerque to Seattle and then either drive three hours to Lake Chelan or take Alaska Air for an hour flight followed by an hour drive.

I think you can throw a rock and hit Canada from where we are going.

The last time I did this flight from Lubbock to Seattle, Fred and I were going to Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada to meet with the crooks about their lies and deception.

It is a hard trip out, but for me, coming back is a real train wreck. One return flight shows leaving at 6:45 in the morning and arriving in Lubbock at 6:00 in the evening. Of course after the flight we would have a two hour trip to Roscoe and I would have another hour to Abilene.

My preliminary searches have been for flights out on the fourteenth and back on the seventeenth.

We are going to have to plan our farming in advance. We will plant prior to June 16th. Of course the insurance planting deadline is the 20th.

I feel much better about getting the crop in when we want it in since Memama acquired her own planter last year. We may plant very early (May) if moisture permits, or we may dry plant if we don't have moisture and hope it gets rained up.

I have one friend who begins in early May and barely covers the seed, planning on a planting shower to get it up. Also planting early is a lot more leisurely. I have always thought we should only plant in a day what we can harvest in a day. Worst part about planting early is that it could mean needing to defoliate instead of waiting for frost to kill the crop for harvest.

Of course I immediately think of Adolph Sasin and his almanac. He believed in planting by the signs. He might plant one day and not plant for the next several days until the signs were right. Gon Gon used to plant hay and grazing crops by the signs after consulting with Adolph.

Very jealous. A friend is in Dallas for initial consultation for lasik eye surgery.

One of these days!

Well, it is getting close enough to morning to begin my day.

Have one!

FATHER, thank you for all YOUR blessings!