One Bale at a Time

I am 51 years old. Over the course of two days, I have stacked nearly 300 bales of hay. By hand. For those of you not familiar, these are square bales – close to 3 or 3.5 feet long maybe a foot and a half wide (Yes, I know that’s not a square, but that’s …

Five-Thing Thursday: September 23rd.

Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Check out Rina Sawayama’s cover of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” You can find it here. It’s Awesome! Thing #2: It’s raining outside my window as I’m typing this and it’s the most soothing sound. Thing …

Sign Your Name on It

Ideas can come form anywhere. The idea for this post came from a rugby podcast I was listening to, earlier in the week. Which Rugby Podcast, you ask? It was The Good, the Bad, and the Rugby podcast. You can find it here. And it went like this: One of the guests said, “When you …

Five-Thing Thursday: September 16th.

Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Back yourself. Even if it’s something you’ve never done before. Especially if it’s something you’ve never done before. Thing #2: Habits (both good and bad) didn’t get to be habits overnight. Thing #3: Premiership …

The Wheel of Time Changes

I am an Autumn person. No, I’m not one of Ray Bradbury’s Autumn People from “Something Wicked This Way Comes”=…” Though how good was Jonathon Pryce as Mr. Dark? Go ahead, watch it. I found it both frightening and challenging, I found it frightening, because it would be *so* easy to fall into the rut …

Who Will I be Today?

This week – and it’s not just me that’s been feeling this – has been a bit of a slog. I don’t remember much about the past week. It seemed like one day blended into another and all the weight of time felt like it was growing as the week progressed. The one thing I …