Highpoints

• Weekend before last we (Sarah, Benjamin, & I) drove up to Indianapolis, IN to stay with our friend Anna and her husband. Then on Saturday we all carpooled to Dayton, OH to a surprise birthday party for Caren, Sarah's old roommate from college. It was good to see everyone - and now that we are closer we hope to do it a little more often.
• Benjamin started going to Day-care one day a week. He also came down with horrible allergies/cold around the first day. He's doing much better now but had raccoon eyes for several days and a low grade fever. We're happy with daycare - and Benjamin seems to be adjusting well. He hadn't been around any other kids close to his age in almost 3 months - and it gives me a chance to meet others in Berea - and to develop my business some.
• I spent all day in Madisonville, KY catching up with several friends and meeting a couple of potential clients. It was a very long day but great to talk with everyone.
• It rained and rained and rained here for a couple of days straight. All the radio stations were starting to make jokes about building Arks. It actually caused significant flooding in the Lexington area.
• We are still looking for a church. We re-visited a church we had attended in early August. We've been to several in the local area now .... hopefully we'll settle on one soon.
• We're still working on selling our house in SC. We had a open house this past Sunday that seemed to be well attended. ... so maybe we'll have an offer soon.
• Grill - we finally are using a little charcoal grill. It's been nice and I've had a chance to use the Weber Grill Cookbook someone gave me.
• Benjamin's latest word is "Pumk'n or Pum Pum" - he loves the little pumpkin we picked up for him the other day and calls the little decorative squash his "pum pums"

$11.7 Million One Year Old Horse

Just in case you haven't read the news lately:

At Keeneland's September yearling sale yesterday, a bay son of Kingmambo out of the Seattle Slew mare Crown of Crimson was bought for $11.7 million. The buyer for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum made the purchase. (By Bill Straus, Special to The Courier-Journal)

What sports car are you?

I was a Ford Mustang.... what are you?

http://www.tomorrowland.us/sportscar/

Labor Day Weekend

Benjamin and I spent almost a week in Mississippi around Labor Day weekend. It was one of the longest visits that we have had with my family and friends in several years. We really enjoyed ourselves. I went Dove Hunting on Saturday and Trot-Line fishing several times while home. On Saturday most of my extended family came down to the Farm where we go hunting for a big family lunch. We also celebrated my 30th and my brothers 25th birthdays. I had a great time taking pictures. My little 11 year old cousin Blayne shot his first bird on Saturday morning – ie. also bird hunted with his first shotgun – he went trot-line fishing for the first time – and he cleaned his first catfish. Benjamin had a great time with his Grandma & Grandpa Little, Uncle Cr, Cousin Blayne, and all the others on my mom’s side of the family. I also had dinner with a couple of friends from highschool that I hadn’t seen in more than 5 years. Although our time was short it was great to visit with them and hopefully we’ll get more time during the week of Christmas. The last night we were in town my brother cooked some great BBQ chicken.

Some of my favorite times were: watching Benjamin dance with Grandpa & Grandma Little, watching Uncle CR and Benjamin play together, going hunting with Cousin Blayne, seeing all the family together at the farm on Saturday, having a big fish fry on Labor Day, catching up with friends

You can also read more by clicking on the link for Sandy the under People in the column to the right.

Top 10 Things I learned from my recent trip to MS

1. If you load 20 gauge shells in a 12 gauge gun you better hope that all that happens is that your gun doesn't fire
2. Fishing with dead previously frozen minnows is not as efficient as live ones
3. You have a better chance of catching a variety of things by alternating bait on trot-line hooks
4. When totaling your catch from fishing - do you count snakes and gars?
5. Big fish are more fun to catch and clean than smaller ones
6. Fishing Worms will begin to dry-out if left in the inside a car all day
7. Both Old and Young tire easily after to going to bed late and getting up early several days in a row
8. Some people really can sleep anywhere
9. It's always nice to have a couple of paddles handy just in case the boat decides to "run out of gas"
10. You know the color of you neck - when your whole family sits around having a good time while cleaning a Budweiserer cooler full of fish

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