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Consider this quote from Abe Lincoln

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

In honor of finding a job finally after months and months of looking let’s take this week and run through a few random thoughts…

1. Am I the only one that the time change snuck up on? The cousins were over to play with the kids and had a great time, especially at 5:30 in the morning when I was trying to sleep!
2. I think perhaps my brother is right. There is something to be said for deli style lunch meat. I remember as a kid growing up we hardly ever ate fancy packaged lunch meat. No sir, it was good old fashioned sliced off the big lunch meat log by Ed Love at Adkins Food Store that got us boys through a lot of meals. I seem to also remember there always being a challenge to see which of us boys could get the red outer cover off of the slice without breaking it, and usually meant someone was getting that ring thrown at them.
3. I think we may have found a new season here in Iowa. I’m calling it Mud. It’s everywhere isn’t it? Glorious, sticky, mucky wonderful mud! And the best part? It isn’t white!
4. I’m still on the lookout for the redwing blackbirds, which I’ve always been told were the true sign of spring and when they show up you know the winter is finally over. None so far, but I stood in awe earlier this week and watched thousands of snow geese flying over the farm…and no I made sure to keep my mouth closed when looking up!
5. Winter is hard. The older I get the harder they seem to be. Maybe I’m becoming less tolerant of the cold, but more likely I’m more afraid of falling these days.
6. With the warmer weather and the snow melting it once again makes me wonder where all the trash in the yard came from? And it’s been fun finding all the things I’d looked for all winter…like the snow shovel.
7. Corn Dog. State Fair is coming folks.
8. When did spring break become such a big deal? When I was in school spring break was a time for college kids to take a week and drive to someplace warm with a bunch of friends, spend all their money and try to figure out a way to get back home.
9. Finally this week, PBS…my friends you have to love any station that has such a variety of programming; next to retro channel 5 that is- nothing like a good episode of A Team or Wagon Train to remind you of growing up. Watching this week has been a little rough as they conduct their annual fund raising campaign, interrupting programs with their ten or fifteen minute plug for your hard earned dollars. I don’t mind that they ask, but I nodded off twice the other night trying to watch a show on glass blowing and missed most of it.

See you next week...Remember, we're all in this together.