march madness

in the past few days i've seen a number of deer around my place. no dogs to chase them away. i've been fairly unmotivated to write much of anything these days. just been busy with pleasant distractions. we all need these in life... and at times i feel long overdue. it's been warm as of late. todays a bit cooler and they say the cold is not gone. the folks return from a paradise today, and i remembered yesterday to water their plants. most appear to still be living. work has been insane. once an individual has had the opportunity to 'work behind the scenes' one discovers why they call it march madness. perhaps march sadness or march i want to squeeze your head til' it pops off-ness... is more fitting. i've been thinking quite a bit about many things. stuff i want. stuff i need. stuff i can do without. in the end however, it's just stuff. in the past few weeks i've entertained the idea of purchasing goats. i found four of them for sale. i can afford them. i've seen pics. they are nothing short of awesome. i emailed the man who owns them with a list of my questions. things i need to know to become a goat farmer. what they eat? what kind of shelter do they need? will i need to cut their hair? do they need to see the vet? how long do they live? and so on. the gentleman assured me goats are a wonderful pet to have... and maintenance is minimal. 'you just need to have them vaccinated once a year, but you can give that shot to them yourself'. hold the train. shot? i may need to give these goats shots? four of them? what if they make goat children and i have more shots to give? i can just see myself laying in the grass unconscious at the very sight of the goat needle. no thanks. but i may have to rethink taking 4 goats in the honda with me to a vet. perhaps fish are best for me. silence is golden like an egg and easter is right around the corner – a month of meaning and not of madness.

just shy of a month

it seems like it's been forever since i've released my thoughts in this capacity. alot has happened in the past few weeks. most i've forgotten to be quite honest. mom and dad are in paradise and leave for their cruise this sunday. i'm so excited to hear how it goes. cupids day came and went with a smile and a starlight. work is busy, and they've let people go. the economy is continuing to tank and it looks grimmer by the minute. i'm looking forward to summer adventures with lovely and have thought about dabbling in the art of farming chickens. i visited a junkyard. grilled out. swung in the rain and went to a yard sale. i still have the beard and may shave it off any day now. i'm suppose to be training for the marathon. umm... this past weekend i took the jeep for a ride. it was a beautiful day and speeding along the country roads help the cobwebs disappear. i came across a yard sale where i bought 'the book of virtues: a treasury of great moral stories'. a thick book. more pages than i've read in my lifetime. all for a dollar fifty. seemed like a good deal. i thumbed through the pages before i bought it... and decided i wanted it after reading a note that had been written from a father to a son on the first page. i could tell the book contained many treasures. those of the literary nature as well as discovering a financial treasure. i discovered a crisp two dollar bill sandwiched between the pages once i had brought it home. moments later the lovely discovered another. i bought the book for a dollar and two quarters... and it now has paid me four dollars. it is a magical money book. i've flipped through every page since hoping to find more bills. no luck. but i will continue to search for treasure in that book. a book of virtues and moral stories... and i know that i will come away from it richer and better off than when i found it.