What I have learned so far.

It is interesting I never thought that I would like to write. I do have fun with these blog posts. I don't know how many more ideas I can come up with but the ideas that I have come up with I had no problem coming up with 300 words. It is getting easier to keep typing without pausing to think of something to say. Now don't get me wrong I still have times when I have big pauses but those are getting fewer and fewer. I don't really mind the reading either. I never really read before so my wife is shocked that I am not complaining about it. I have used the resource tab the other day to get a writing prompt. There are so many prompts there. It is still kind of hard to organize my thoughts and type them out in the right order. I am quite pleased of the progress that I am making. I know that I am still a newbie at writing. I have liked what I have wrote but I don't really know if anybody else does. I know that these blogs are more for fluency to get our number of words up but it would be nice to get some input. I notice that I am getting quicker at typing. I don't seem to make as many mistakes as I used to. I still make quite a few mistakes but it seems that I catch them when I do them. This class has made me look into myself more. Unfortunately, I have worked very hard today so getting on the computer and typing today seems to be a big chore. Most days I really don't mind these posts but today my brain is a little foggy. I try to get to these lessons earlier but taking 14 credit hours this semester I don't really have time for a lot. My wife tells me just 14 more weeks and I will be on summer break. I feel bad for my wife and children because with all the class work that I have to do this semester and working on the weekends I just can't give them the attention that they need. I tell them that I am sorry and they smile at me and say it is ok dad it will not be forever. I am looking forward to spring break just so I can have a break. My wife tells me that this will all be worth it but at times when I am so tired and still have a lot of work to do I just can't see it. I know for a fact that it will be worth it though. I just look into my kids eyes and see the smile on their faces and know I am doing this for them.

No Pain and Indestructable

I found a writing prompt that said if you got one whole day where you were both unable to feel pain and totally indestructible what would you do with that 24 hour period. This is quite an interesting topic. There is a lot of things that as a kid I have thought of but as an adult it just would not work. The kid in me says to rob a bank. The adult in me says are you stupid. there would be people hurt or maybe killed. Those people are fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, or some body's child. The adrenalin junkie in me would love to jump out of an airplane without a parachute and watch the ground come. That would be truly scary. I would also like to go to the Middle East where we are fighting. I would love to fight those psychos and not feel any shots or bombs. I would really be able to help. I would like to find some adult bully and start a fight with them. It would be so funny to watch them hit me over and over and I get back up every time and ask for more. I would love to see the fear in their eyes when I start to fight back when they get tired. I would like to fight a tiger. I would love to fight a lion. I would love to fight a bear. I would love to swim with great white sharks while I am holding a bloody fish. I would like to pester a cobra. I would ask someone to hit me with their car at 60 mile per hour. I would like to be sent up in an airplane by myself an let the plane crash with me in it. I basically would like to do everything that people fear. If you got to do that how empowering that would be. The thing that sucks is, what if you did not know it was for just a day. I would pretty much die the next day. You know now that I think about it that would be a lousy thing to get. I really don't think that someone should have that kind of power. People in general I think are good. I think that their are some people that would use the power for doing bad. It would be too much of a temptation for people especially these days. There are way to many people out of work. It is bad but even good people get desperate. I hope that nobody ever gets that kind of power.

Life of my pencil

I lie here on the desk and think to myself why don't I get used more. I am a very handy thing to have around. I can create works of art, novels, doodles, or whatever anybody can think of. It is a big shame that I don't get used more. The computer gets all the glory now. The only time it seems that I am needed now is when he has to do his math homework. He has been using me for his anatomy and chemistry also, but soon as he is done I get put back on the desk. I remember the glory days before computers. He used to use me all the time. He used to love to doodle, which is my favorite too. I think that when you doodle your imagination gets flowing and that is when creativity starts. He is at the computer at the moment looking out the window at his dogs. He watches them a lot. It is kind of cold here where I am at on the desk. I am looking at him just wishing that he will pick me up and doodle again, I truly miss it so. The printer is right next to me. He has been using it a lot lately. It is so noisy. I hate that damn thing. I like it when one of his children get to use me. They still doodle, especially the young one. The problem is that when the young one really starts getting creative he tells him not to forget to put me back where I belong. The little one usually does not doodle for much longer because he does not want to forget to put me back. If he only knew how lonely I am anymore. I think tonight they are going to play cards and the dice games that they like so I know I will get used for a while to keep score. The other day I got nocked off the desk and fell to the floor. The little one forgot to put me back up and their puppy started to chew on me. I did not hurt because he is a very small pup yet and he does not have very big teeth yet. He found me in time so I did not get chewed in half. I might have some dents and scratches, but all in all, I am fine. So here I am just lying here like I was at the beginning of this pitiful little story. I will wish and hope that I get used more but I won't hold my breath. I will just be patient and wait for that damn computer to shoot craps. It seams that a lonely old pencil can outlast a computer these days. I don't become obsolete just after a few years. I will be here when the computer goes, and when it does I would love to say to him how do you like me now.

What a shame

As the sun rose I thought to myself what a good life that I have. I feel strong, healthy, and free. I feel the sun on my face and there is no better feeling than that. It is starting to get somewhat cold in the evenings but warms up nicely during the day. I love to watch the squirrels gather nuts and run around chasing each other. I love to see the birds singing their songs and flying through the sky. There are so many animals around here the woods are rather noisy at times. This is my home, and even though sometimes it seems that there is so much noise that I can't think I still would not trade it for the world.
It is funny for the last couple of weeks the same whitetail buck has been rubbing on the same sapling. Lately though the deer seemed to be spooked a little. When they hear something that does not sound normal they jerk there heads up and put their noses in the air. I am really not sure why they do that, it makes them look funny. Here lately I have been seeing figures in the woods that I cannot explain. They are not an animal that I have seen before. I can hear something in the distance, it is very noisy. There are two of those animals coming over here. Why are they putting things around those trees. They are very colorful. They are coming over to me. I say hello but it seems to be on deaf ears, how rude. They are talking to each other but I cannot understand what they are saying. It is not a language that I have heard before. They are both holding something in their hands. They are shiny with a long piece sticking out of it. They are very close to me. They are circling me and I am not sure why. They both pick up those things in their hands and touch me with it. I tell them to stop and I don't know why they can't here me. They both draw back those things and hit me with them. It hurts and I tell them to stop. I have never felt this feeling before. They are putting me in so much pain, but I cannot stop them. I am so scared. I call to all my friends but nobody comes. They have taken so much of me from my base. I am starting to feel very weak. I really don't know how much longer I will last. I start to scream to all my bird friends that I am sorry that I cannot be here for them anymore. The pain is so intense that I don't think I can take it anymore. Then I feel the breeze in my branches the sun in my face for one last time. I get to smile one last time before I can fell myself fall and everything fades to black.

I believe in hunting

I do believe in hunting and I know a lot of people think it is barbaric. It is how one time of year that I can get free meat, but it is not really free. Hunting takes time and effort. It does take me away from family time, but I think it is worth it. It also gives me some sort of sick rush I guess, but before anybody starts to get offended let me take you to what I get out of hunting. Hunting for me, is first and foremost to get meat for my family. It makes me think, as a man how I can provide for my family. We process all our own game. It is a special feeling knowing that I got what we are eating on my own. Now let me tell you the process. First I wake up very early to get some sort of breakfast and get dressed.  Then I go out on the front porch and spray on some sort of scent blocker in the hopes that if the wind does not work my way the animal would not smell me, and it has worked pretty good so far. I then have a walk to my stand. I am fortunate to live on the same land that I hunt so I don't have to walk more than a third of a mile. Unfortunately, I always begin all my hunts in the dark. I take a little flashlight with me so I can see my way. I have hunted the same spot for years so I know my way, but I take the flashlight just in case there is some sort of hole or something else in the ground that might make me trip. Then I get to my stand. I have a ladder stand, for people that don't know what that is, it is basically a ladder with a platform for your feet and a seat for the hunter to sit on that is bolted to the top of the ladder. I climb the ladder and take a seat. I usually have a wait for the sun to rise. When the sun rises it is a beautiful sight. The birds come alive with all their various songs. The squirrels start to run back and forth on the ground and on the branches. It never fails that one squirrel wants to run across right where I am sitting. The squirrel usually gets to within feet from where I am at before it stops and starts to chitter at me. It really sounds mad. It then gets bored of looking at me and runs off. I then get to enjoy a break in all the songs and sounds of the woods and it becomes silent. It is not an eerie silence but of a silence of peace. I look around at all the sights the woods have to offer and I think what a wonderful place and what a wonderful life that I truly have. I usually have time to think about my life, my family, pretty much all the peaceful things in my life. Then it happens, the unusual sounds of the leaves and I think to myself, this can't be a squirrel. I sit at the ready waiting for what made that sound. I hope it is not a squirrel, sometimes it is but sometimes it is not. This is the time that it is not a squirrel. I see the deer and I get into a totally different mindset. It is not of calm, but not chaotic either, just an intense focus on what I came here to do. I usually have enough time to stand up because I am elevated enough that I can move slow without the deer seeing me. I get my bow ready. I do not like to shoot more than forty yards. I practice out to sixty yards, and I am confident with shooting at sixty yards but, I am shooting at a nonmoving target when I practice and the deer move around a lot. When I know that the deer will come into range I will place my hand held string release on the bowstring. My heart now will go into overtime, my breathing will quicken some, and I will get a flood of excitement. I now think to my self that I am going to kill this animal. I don't know where the felling comes from but it is very primal. The feeling is very animalistic. You don't really think of the animal just what you came here to do. I don't know that all hunters feel like this but this is the feeling that I get with bowhunting. When the deer gets close enough for a shoot you wait for the right moment. You draw the bow and settle the string against the tip of your nose and the lobe of your ear. You only look at a little spot on the deer where you want the arrow to hit. You let the deer get broadside and place your bowsight on that little spot. You take a deep breath and try to calm your whole body. Only when I am satisfied with everything will I let the arrow fly. I watch the arrow fly until I see it hit it's mark. I then go to the animal. I don't think of the downed deer as a prize. I think to myself that I am sorry that this animal had to die so my family has meat, but I am also greatful for the meat. I am not ashamed at what I have just done. Hunting to me is a tradition and it is a tradition that I will pass down to my kids.

I Believe Freewrite

I am writing about I believe to make wooden bowls. It is really no that hard but they turn out really pretty. First you have to mount a chunk of wood of the faceplate. Then you mount the faceplate tjo the wood lathe. After that you start the lathe and uae a bowl gouge. you srti it up and prees the bowl gouge into the wood. it really goes smoother if you don't jpress that hard. you do the joutside first and get the basis shap that you want the you take it off the faceplate anf mount the wood in the bowl chuck. then you have to goufe out the inside of the bowl. Y ou have to leave it bout on inch thtick. Then you let it dry for 4 to 6 months. After that you remount it it the bowl chuc and get it to the final shapw. aftert that you use a scaper and geet all the tool marks out of the bowl if you can. Then to have to sand the bowl. when you are done sanding you have to seanson the bowls with beeswax and mineraloil . I usually give the bowls awa to people that I know. They all seem to like the bowls I create. I did sell some some bowls this Christmas and made about 300 daollars. It does get me very comferable. It is hard to write for ten minutes but I am trying. It seems athat my thought are atraying form he subject. It is cold outside today. My dogs don't seem to mind the cold but I sure do. our houae ia old so it id kin of hard to heat. my electric bill is always high ing the winter. I did buy a infrared funrnace thought it seems to help. QWe alsio use two other litte heaters. This deer season wst nor the best .

My word count is 298

This I Believe

1. I believe that I am a good father.
2. I believe that I love to hunt.
3. I belive  that I am a good husband.
4. I believe that I am a good friend.
5. I believe that I love to make wooden bowls.
6. I believe that I have a pretty good life.
7. I believe that it is cold outside.
8. I believe that is hard to do I believe for ten minutes.
9. I believe that I love my 3 dogs.
10. I believe that this is overwhelming.
11. I believe the thermometer outside reads 22 degrees.
12. I believe that I am starting to ramble on.
13.I believe that my workspace is messy.
14. I believe I like to drink mountain dew.
15 I believe that I need to start workling out again.
16. I believe that I am starting to feel my agwe more these days.
17. I believe that I am going to watch the super bowl today.
18. I believe that the Denver broncos will win the superbowl.
19. I believe that ther are five people in my house at the m,oment.
20. I believe than I really can't think of anything else right now.
21 I believ that I am feeling rather frazzled right now.
22. I believe that my wife is a good teacher.\
23. I believe that this assignment is driving me nuts.