People living near highway complaining

Problem (not really):

One story of hundreds like this…: http://www.newsnet5.com/news/18361506/detail.html

Solution:

If you don’t like road noise don’t buy a house next to a busy road.  It’s really that easy.  Yeah….really it is!!!!

It’s now -1° Fahrenheit outside

It is now  -1° Fahrenheit outside.

I have now gone out and put a heating pad outside inside the Dell computer box and plugged it in.  We’ve had the cat go into it a few times but then it goes back out.  I’ve checked to make sure that it wasn’t too hot and it’s not.  The cat keeps going back under my porch.  My back porch is about 15 feet wide by 6 feet deep and it sits about 2 feet off the ground.  It has lattice work all around the outside  of it and there are leaves underneath my porch about 4 inches deep.  I hope that the cat is actually somewhat warm under there.  I fear that the poor cat is going to die out in this cold.

I really hope it’s ok.

I just don’t know what else I can do.

Very cold out today, and other cat stuff

Wow, today it’s very cold outside.  I guess it may not be cold to some people but it’s cold for me.  It has been colder but yes….it’s cold today.  It’s 9° Fahrenheit today with 20 MPH winds.  It’s chilling to the bone.

Now I understand that this is all relative but I think you get what I’m saying.  I used to work outside all day doing construction when it was this same temperature.  I however had Carhartt’s on with layers of clothes.

There is another cat now that seems to be coming onto our back porch.  I noticed this a couple mornings ago when I would go to work I would see it come out from underneath our back porch and run behind my garage.  I have since built a little shelter made from a thick Dell computer box and put bath towels inside it.  I taped the entire box shut and cut a hole large enough to let the cat in.  I am hoping the cat will use it as shelter if it needs to.  So far it seems too afraid to go into it unless I put “cat treats” or other food in it.  We have fed the cat hard food and soft food on the back porch along with water.  It looks like a very healthy cat but today I saw it shivering on my back porch and that concerns me.  So I built yet another makeshift shelter out by my garage and used bales of straw an old wheelbarrow and 2 large flower planters to at least keep the wind away should it choose to use it.  I also put cardboard on the ground inside it.

I just don’t want the poor girl freezing to death outside in this harsh cold.

What is crazy is last night I was trying to lure the “outside” cat closer to the porch and talk to it and I had my back porch door open a little bit as I was talking to it.  And go figure, right then one of my cats “Kali”, got out and was on the back porch.  Holy crap this scared the daylights out of me.  My wife was able to get a long string and lure our cat back inside.  I thought I was going to lose one of my cats and my heart was pumping like mad.  Whew, glad Kali is OK.

Bored with knives

Well, I have finally become bored with knives.  I wasn’t at all sure my attention span would last the 3 and ½ years that it did when I first began this journey.  I have bought and sold a lot of knives, and even traded many.

I’m bored with everything to do about knives really.  I will still carry one every day, but it will most likely be a smaller model that will do just fine in getting the job done.
It was a neat hobby (if you can call it that) while it lasted.  It seemed more to me like an addiction than anything. Don’t get me wrong, I think knives are useful tools, but to the extent I was into them I think it was a bit extreme.  I will always appreciate the fine craftsmanship in what it takes to create and put together a good knife.

It took me a while, but I finally realized that there is no “One” knife for you.  There is not “The knife”.  It is simply and endless search for something better which will never exist.  Once I realized this I decided to stop with the knife thing.

I have sold off some of my knives and traded others.  I will keep about 12 knives total.  Even that’s a lot of knives to have in my opinion.  I will eventually give some away to friends and family and probably keep just a few.

I will end up picking up something else to do and using my time differently from here on out.

I wish you all who may read this, and are into knives, a great journey.  I hope you find “The knife”.  I know you will not, because it doesn’t exist.  You simply have to grab a knife, put it in your pocket and use it….and keep using it.  Enjoy the knife, enjoy using the knife, and do other things while carrying a knife.  Don’t make the journey “trying to find the ultimate knife”.  Instead make the journey, the knife you have in your pocket and all the times you use it.

Life is the journey.  We all seem to want to hurry to get to a destination of some sort.  Enjoy the journey, because when it’s over, you will wish you had treated your journey as your life.  Hurrying towards a destination ruins everything in between.

Keep your chin up.  Let God guide you, and love with all of your heart.

-David

Rethinking things…

Well recently I have had a couple “wake up calls” to my lifestyle.  I find that I have been spending too much time doing “earthly” things and skimping on time with my family and time with Jesus.  I need to change this and I will.

I’ve been swearing too much and lusting after women too much.  That has to stop.  So, from here on out I’m going to try with all my heart to stop swearing and stop looking at women as a sex object.

I was baptized at age 17 on Easter morning.  I gave my life to Jesus Christ on that day.  I however have fallen out of my relationship with Him.  I am now turning my life back around with help from Jesus Christ.  I will get back on track.

I will be spending my time from here on out with God, reading His word, with my family and just being the best Christian man that I can.

Sounds and smells of the home…

As I sit here on a large chair in the living room this morning I realize that I love the sounds around me.  I’m very thankful for them.

I am sitting on a chair with my feet up on an ottoman and reading some knife stuff on the web with my laptop.  There is snow on the ground outside and it’s about 18° Fahrenheit outside. The TV is off (like it should be) and I can hear things.

My wife in the kitchen poring a second cup of coffee.  Her spoon clanging against the cup as she stirs it.  My daughter singing in the play room as she plays.  One of my cats playing with an enclosed ball type of thingy where the ball spins around in a circle.  The smell of pancakes is in the air along with coffee.  I can hear the mantle clock in the living room with me ticking back and forth.  I can hear the warm soothing air blowing out of the heating vents.

I”m thankful for all these things.  It’s very nice to not have the “Boob Toob” on and actually just listen to things now and then.  I’m tired of the bullshit that’s on TV and all of the media anyway.  I’m thankful that I live in a house with a furnace and can enjoy listening to all these things.