Archive for March 8th, 2010

While Saturday and Sunday were absolutely beautiful and mild, today beat both of them. It got up to 65F degrees and the sun shined brightly. The kids spent all day outside after school was done and my wife relaxed on the front porch for about an hour.

After dinner I walked to the back where our property backs up to another 200 acre farm. There are two horses that the kids have been taking apples and carrots to along with rows of hay rolls that they play on. Not having any apples or carrots, I picked some onion grass to feed the horses. I then walked out to the middle of the harvested corn field to visualize where I want to build my off-the-grid house. It was dusk and the sun was going down. The airplane contrails were beautifully changed from their normal white to a stunning orange-red. The air was still and you could hear the kids’ happy sounds and noises bounce off the distant treelines. It reminded me of back when I was a kid and we’d play in the neighborhood and hear playing sounds. Except this was out in the country and even better. A calm and serene feeling came over me and I just soaked it all in as I said a thank you prayer to God for allowing this to all be ours.

The sun released the rest of its light giving rays and we walked home on the gravel drive at last light.

On a different note, God made me laugh this morning. I was doing my morning devotions with breakfast and I turned directly to Romans 2. I mean — directly to the page. No turning, no trying to get close. Right smack to the correct page. I chuckled and recalled only one other time that has happened.

…..Dan at aslowerpace dot net

Since my transition from HoDaddy to a better domain hosting company, American Discount Web Hosting, I have been slowly transferring my old posts over. Unfortunately, because I switched from Serendipity blog software to WordPress at the same time, all the transition has been manual. I have backups of all my old posts but have had to update each post one at a time instead of uploading a bulk file. The good side is that it has allowed me to review my old writings which is a literary form of looking at old pictures. The bad side is that it will take me quite a long time to get current. I have been writing this blog for over 5 years. I started in Nov 2004 and am only up to May 2005. Granted, as I upload old posts, I am also writing new ones like this so 2010 is also current. But I still need to cover June 2005 to Dec 2009.

Bit by bit I will get there. If you are new and haven’t read our CA to KY transition story, go here, scroll to the bottom and start reading up. That will start you off and cover a lot of what got us here.

…..Dan at aslowerpace dot net