Life in the wild,wild boondocks

I’m out at our property at the moment enjoying the sunshine and the wind. It seems so long since we’ve had a truly warm, beautiful day! Its middle 50’s with a slight breeze. Feels more like spring then winter. It’s sure nice after feeling like we’d suddenly been transported up north what with continually getting snow here.

  So far the garage is standing, not finished but dried in.They start on the house tomorrow. I'm going to be missing out on a lot of the last parts of building what with being gone over summer break.I'm not that jealous though considering they have all kinds of fun things like hand painting all of the siding for example to look forward to. Canvassing sounds much more interesting to me.

  We’re building a cape cod style house. I finally get the window seat I've always wanted since the house will have dormers. Anddd here come the neighbors two labs. Their sometimes overly friendly. One of them just tried to eat my phone. Our dogs are going to love having them to play with.Tia and Kylee are going crazy being cooped up on the little lot we’re living on right now. 

  We’ve met some of our neighbors so far. We have an 80 something year old woman who is supposed to be some shot at shooting, her son who lives with her and has 3 or 4 kids i think. There’s the war veteran who is a little on the eccentric side(but aren't we all?) and the list goes on. Although somewhat eccentric to be sure and sometimes a little backwards they are friendly people and I think I'm going to enjoy living here for the last 2 1/2 yrs at home.

  Now I'm just rambling to keep myself entertained..I guess i should finish this up and see if i can get a turn at driving the tractor. To be continued. :)

Canvassing. =]

I figure it's about time for another post. Im so delayed usually, what's it been, almost 2 months since i last posted? yeah sad story.
I've been canvassing lately with a group from the private academy i'm attending next year. I've met a lot of great people while canvassing and i'm getting a lot closer with some of the kids i'll be going to school with next year while canvassing with them.
You definitely meet some very interesting people, but you also meet some pretty amazing people. It can get kinda boring when your out there walking with long stretches between houses and only your thoughts and God to talk to but I'm finding myself enjoying it after all.
Im going to be doing the summer canvassing program this summer with Heritage Academy in Knoxville,TN to help pay for my tuition. It's a 10 week program with only one weekend home. Im really looking forward to my summer! My first summer away from home. I'm hoping to make some lasting friendships, good contacts in canvassing and all in all a memorable summer!
I would encourage whoever has interest in getting good material into peoples homes to definitely canvass. It can be depressing when you go a while without selling, but when you do it's really rewarding knowing that hopefully they will read it and it will bring them closer to God.
I think i'm finished rambling now, but i thought it was about time i posted some of my thoughts on canvassing.