Hard to believe the end of the week is here. Seems like only yesterday we were all together last Saturday, having a great visit and celebrating Jake's Birthday and Father's Day. Then on Thursday, Great Grandma Moffat celebrated her 86th Birthday! Austyn called needing a baby horse to grow up and ride. I heard that Grandma Ann is taking off the next to weeks to help with Madison as Heather goes back to work on Monday. Austyn has a ball game tomorrow morning, and we all are heading to OKC to celebrate Fannie Moffat's 92nd birthday... She is the wife of Mervil Moffat, Dad's older brother who dairyed north of El Reno. And we also are re celebrating Great Grandma Moffat's Birthday, too. We tried to get Ann's brother, Mike to come along, but he is busy working the wheat ground at Helena, and won't be able to come. He has a birthday on the 28th of this month, too.
Austyn, I did call about something today, and we might need to take a short trip next Saturday morning to Circle F Stable, if this is ok with your mom and dad... I think you will like what I have arranged. It has to do with horses,learning about them, and getting to ride too.. haha..
Well, don't know much else.. Oh, yes, this is the week Kaitlyn found out she has asthma... and started medication for it. Jonathan moved to a new office at work. He can now see the door, and since he can, he is not sure what that means.. haha..
I had a neighbor stop by thinking of opening up a feed store in Stillwater last night. I had to be honest with him... and I think he is still wanting too.
And then.... I wish I had a picture of the new piece Phillip stopped by with last night, but it was a pottery piece that was really cool. kind of looked like an old piece for ancient Egypt!! Lots of design on it and very irregular. He had constructed it by hand in coils.. really cool. Will put a pic on here later. It was truly amazing! I am proud of him...
Heard Paul is heading off to a gun auction tomorrow. He has quite a collection, but I think he is always looking!! Heather is doing better, health wise too. Well, don't know much else, but wanted to share the few brain cells I have working.. haha..
Jake's at work. He is a bit tired, working three jobs. I think he needs a break, and time for Jake. Sometimes he is a bit gripy..haha...
Can't wait till tomorrow afternoon.. It will be cool being with everyone again.
We need rain badly... I mean badly!!
Love to all.... Enjoy the evening..
Friday, June 24, 2005
Ouch.. my toes are being stepped on.......
The Real Problem (from stumbling towards heaven)
We’ve been talking for the last several weeks about building relationships. What’s the real problem in our relationships? If you boil it all down, it’s this... Self-Centeredness. It’s at the root...behind every conflict...behind every argument...behind every relational strain....behind all of that is self-centeredness. James 4:1-2 (NCV) says this: “Do you know where your fights and arguments come from? They come from the selfish desires that war within you. You want things, but you do not have them...... So you argue and fight...”.
Now listen: If you want to have great relationships with your friends...with your husband or your wife...if you’re a single person and you want to get married...you want to have great relationships....it starts inside you...it doesn’t start with your spouse...it doesn’t start with your girlfriend...it doesn’t start with your child or your boss...it starts inside you. You need a major realignment of your own motivations. A major realignment of your motivations has to take place if you’re going to have good, healthy, and satisfying relationships.
Can you do good things for the wrong reason? Absolutely. Can you even do good things with a selfish motivation? Absolutely. Folks, self-centeredness stains everything we do! Even when we’re doing good stuff, we’re patting ourselves on the back...telling ourselves what a great servant we are. You can’t even be humble without getting proud about it! Every area of our lives are stained with self-centeredness. It is not my nature to think of you, and none of you were staying up late this week worrying about my problems....because you were thinking about your own needs....it’s human nature to think only of ourselves and it’s unnatural for us to think of other people. It’s my nature to be selfish and self-centered and it’s yours too, and if you don’t think it is, you’re only kidding yourself, because you think about you more than you think about anything else in the world. “How do I look? How do I talk? What’s my image? Did I do the right thing? Am I cool? Do people like me?” You think about yourself all the time.
And even with people you supposedly love, you still think about yourself first...that’s why you have arguments with them...living with people you love. The root of every problem is self-centeredness. You see, secretly, we think we’re pretty good if our outward behavior conforms to accepted standards...and we do the right thing and even put on a smiley face and appear like we’re doing it...but that’s not enough because God looks at your heart.
Jesus told the Pharisees, “You know, you guys look great on the outside, but inside you’re a mess! Outwardly, you’ve got this white-washed appearance that looks so great, but inside you’re like a tomb full of dead carcasses that are rotting...you stink!” He told the Pharisees, “You know what you guys do? You wash the bowl and the cup on the outside, but the inside’s still filthy!” What good would a dishwasher be that only washes the outside of the dish? It’d be worthless....and you may be able to clean up your behavior so you look respectable in society, but inside there’s still a core of self-centeredness that stains everything you do and everything that I do. Look at what Jesus said in Mat 15:18 (NIV): “But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.' It’s not outward behavior that makes you unclean...it’s the stuff that comes out of your heart, and the Bible says that the heart of the problem is a problem of the heart...that’s our root problem.
The problem isn’t your tongue...you may have a sarcastic tongue...sharp tongue...an angry tongue...a filthy tongue...a defensive tongue...a boasting tongue...but all that is doing is revealing what’s in your heart. A judgmental tongue is evidence of a guilty heart. An overactive tongue is evidence of an unsettled heart...a boasting tongue is evidence of an insecure heart...a bitter tongue is an evidence of a resentful heart....a biting tongue is evidence of an angry heart....what’s inside your heart is given away by what you say. Your mouth betrays what you’re really like.
But you say, “When I said that, I just said it in anger...that’s not really me...” Oh, yes it is...it is exactly you, because in your anger, the mask and the layers are pulled away and your real heart is revealed in your anger. And what’s really inside of you comes out when you get ticked. Have you ever noticed how quickly your mood can change when somebody challenges your selfishness? When somebody says, “Drop what you’re doing and take out the trash”...how quickly your mood can change...because what’s in the heart is going to come out....it’s like a toothpaste tube...when you put pressure on it, what’s inside is going to come out.The Bible is very specific about how selfishness expresses itself. In Galatians 5:19-21 (NCV) it lists 15 works of selfish ...and here’s a few of them. It says this: “The wrong things the sinful self does are clear: being sexually unfaithful (did you know that infidelity is the ultimate expression of self-centeredness? “I don’t care what happens to anybody else...I’m doing what pleases me)...hating, making trouble, being jealous, being angry, being selfish, making people angry with each other, causing divisions among people, feeling envy, being drunk...and doing other things like these.” These are all expressions of self-centeredness.
Self-centeredness is so very destructive! It destroys homes...we see that with the rising divorce rate. How many homes have been destroyed by self-centeredness? It destroys little children...it destroys marriages...it destroys friendships that have gone on for 20 or 30 years and somebody does a self-centered act and BAM! It’s over. Self-centeredness destroys churches...it destroys community...and it can even destroy nations. And folks, we are seeing the decline of a great nation right now that is consumed with self-centeredness. Today’s attitude is, “What’s in it for me? I couldn’t care less what happens to anybody else...what’s in it for me?”
OK.... Randi, this is different.. haha.. but I think this will be my last one like this.. this one hits home to close.. haha..
love you all.. enjoy the day...
We’ve been talking for the last several weeks about building relationships. What’s the real problem in our relationships? If you boil it all down, it’s this... Self-Centeredness. It’s at the root...behind every conflict...behind every argument...behind every relational strain....behind all of that is self-centeredness. James 4:1-2 (NCV) says this: “Do you know where your fights and arguments come from? They come from the selfish desires that war within you. You want things, but you do not have them...... So you argue and fight...”.
Now listen: If you want to have great relationships with your friends...with your husband or your wife...if you’re a single person and you want to get married...you want to have great relationships....it starts inside you...it doesn’t start with your spouse...it doesn’t start with your girlfriend...it doesn’t start with your child or your boss...it starts inside you. You need a major realignment of your own motivations. A major realignment of your motivations has to take place if you’re going to have good, healthy, and satisfying relationships.
Can you do good things for the wrong reason? Absolutely. Can you even do good things with a selfish motivation? Absolutely. Folks, self-centeredness stains everything we do! Even when we’re doing good stuff, we’re patting ourselves on the back...telling ourselves what a great servant we are. You can’t even be humble without getting proud about it! Every area of our lives are stained with self-centeredness. It is not my nature to think of you, and none of you were staying up late this week worrying about my problems....because you were thinking about your own needs....it’s human nature to think only of ourselves and it’s unnatural for us to think of other people. It’s my nature to be selfish and self-centered and it’s yours too, and if you don’t think it is, you’re only kidding yourself, because you think about you more than you think about anything else in the world. “How do I look? How do I talk? What’s my image? Did I do the right thing? Am I cool? Do people like me?” You think about yourself all the time.
And even with people you supposedly love, you still think about yourself first...that’s why you have arguments with them...living with people you love. The root of every problem is self-centeredness. You see, secretly, we think we’re pretty good if our outward behavior conforms to accepted standards...and we do the right thing and even put on a smiley face and appear like we’re doing it...but that’s not enough because God looks at your heart.
Jesus told the Pharisees, “You know, you guys look great on the outside, but inside you’re a mess! Outwardly, you’ve got this white-washed appearance that looks so great, but inside you’re like a tomb full of dead carcasses that are rotting...you stink!” He told the Pharisees, “You know what you guys do? You wash the bowl and the cup on the outside, but the inside’s still filthy!” What good would a dishwasher be that only washes the outside of the dish? It’d be worthless....and you may be able to clean up your behavior so you look respectable in society, but inside there’s still a core of self-centeredness that stains everything you do and everything that I do. Look at what Jesus said in Mat 15:18 (NIV): “But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.' It’s not outward behavior that makes you unclean...it’s the stuff that comes out of your heart, and the Bible says that the heart of the problem is a problem of the heart...that’s our root problem.
The problem isn’t your tongue...you may have a sarcastic tongue...sharp tongue...an angry tongue...a filthy tongue...a defensive tongue...a boasting tongue...but all that is doing is revealing what’s in your heart. A judgmental tongue is evidence of a guilty heart. An overactive tongue is evidence of an unsettled heart...a boasting tongue is evidence of an insecure heart...a bitter tongue is an evidence of a resentful heart....a biting tongue is evidence of an angry heart....what’s inside your heart is given away by what you say. Your mouth betrays what you’re really like.
But you say, “When I said that, I just said it in anger...that’s not really me...” Oh, yes it is...it is exactly you, because in your anger, the mask and the layers are pulled away and your real heart is revealed in your anger. And what’s really inside of you comes out when you get ticked. Have you ever noticed how quickly your mood can change when somebody challenges your selfishness? When somebody says, “Drop what you’re doing and take out the trash”...how quickly your mood can change...because what’s in the heart is going to come out....it’s like a toothpaste tube...when you put pressure on it, what’s inside is going to come out.The Bible is very specific about how selfishness expresses itself. In Galatians 5:19-21 (NCV) it lists 15 works of selfish ...and here’s a few of them. It says this: “The wrong things the sinful self does are clear: being sexually unfaithful (did you know that infidelity is the ultimate expression of self-centeredness? “I don’t care what happens to anybody else...I’m doing what pleases me)...hating, making trouble, being jealous, being angry, being selfish, making people angry with each other, causing divisions among people, feeling envy, being drunk...and doing other things like these.” These are all expressions of self-centeredness.
Self-centeredness is so very destructive! It destroys homes...we see that with the rising divorce rate. How many homes have been destroyed by self-centeredness? It destroys little children...it destroys marriages...it destroys friendships that have gone on for 20 or 30 years and somebody does a self-centered act and BAM! It’s over. Self-centeredness destroys churches...it destroys community...and it can even destroy nations. And folks, we are seeing the decline of a great nation right now that is consumed with self-centeredness. Today’s attitude is, “What’s in it for me? I couldn’t care less what happens to anybody else...what’s in it for me?”
OK.... Randi, this is different.. haha.. but I think this will be my last one like this.. this one hits home to close.. haha..
love you all.. enjoy the day...
Ok Randi.. here is yet another. haha...
Today's Quote
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.
-Norman Cousi
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.
-Norman Cousi
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
wow... kfor.. just used my two photos again... at 5:20pm ,,,
Oh my gosh.. I can not believe it! It's awesome to be setting in your home and see your pics come up on tv... wow.. DO I EVER HAVE THE BIG HEAD!!
These two photos were used on channel 4 this am... wow!! brag brag brag.. haha...
same ole moon but black and white.. shot 5 minutes later than the color one.. there, of course, are several, haha... later.. at least the 'skeeters' didn't eat me alive.. but did come close...
Just in... haha... Channel 4 at 10 mins of 7 this am showed both my moon photos crediting me with taking them and talked about the moon event for about a min and half! Mine were the only ones they used... guess most folks are sleeping.. haha.. but how cool for this ole man!!! Here are links to all the images from last night, the good, the bad and the ugly!
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
AWESOME!!! the moon and Randi's update!!!
Did you see the moon last night... taken at 10:00pm June 21, 2005 just west of the yard light pole in our yard looking south east toward ....yelp the moon... haha.. enjoy!!
PSSS>>>>>>> Uncle Ivan and Aunt Freda are hosting a birthday party for Great Grandma Moffat and Aunt Fannie Moffat at Hometown Buffet west of Baptist Hospital on NW Highway in OKC Saturday at 4:30pm. If you can work it into your busy schedules... we ought to try and make this event. Elinore will be 86 and Fannie will bre 92 and still drives downtown El Reno to Senior Citzens Center each day. Everyone is invited. If you are going to try, let Mom and I know and we might try to by your dinners, ok.... ? We do have things to celebrate....
6/23/2005 Elinore Mae Siegrist Moffat (Born 1919) 86th Birthday (Kaitlyn's 8th Mo.
Birthday....
6/25/2005 Fannie Carter Moffat (Born 1913)92nd Birthday
6/26/2005 Paul and Heather Blankinship's 12th Wedding Anniversary (Wed 1993)
For Randi.. you beat me.. darn it!! Now if we could get some others to update.. haha... kidding eveyone... I know how hard it is..
What a great weekend!!!
What a great weekend, at least for me, haha!
All the kiddos and grandkids got together for Jake's Birthday and to Celebrate Fathers Day, and a pre celebration of Great Grandma Moffat's Birthday on Thursday. (We need to watch the weather on Thursday, normally it storms!)
Goodness, Kaitlyn is really growing like a weed. She is almost ready to walk, and will be doing so before long. Madison Ann is also growing after a slow start, she is really doing well. And then there is Andrew, who has been 21 since he was born... his vocabulary is really growing and his imagination too. And Austyn... Wow! This young man is going to be a force to be reckoned with. He is really maturing. He called last night to mention to me that he needed a horse to ride. Not just any horse, but a baby horse that he could care for and it would grow up and he could ride it. We talked for a while, and then he suggested that we get a black horse that was older he could ride now, and a brown baby horse he could ride later, well, that's sort of the way it went... haha... so if you know of anyone with a kid's horse... that is kid proof, let us know, guess we are in the market.
Wanted to remind everyone the fair is coming up. Might be time to look around and thing of things to put in it. There is an open divison the grand kids could put things in.. and some areas for the rest of us too.
But anyway, Saturday was a great great day! I love my kiddos, and in laws, and grandkids very very much. It is always a holiday to see any of them!! I thank God every day for each of them! I know I have been richly and deeply blessed! Thanks to everyone for taking time out to make these events happen!
Have a great day!
All the kiddos and grandkids got together for Jake's Birthday and to Celebrate Fathers Day, and a pre celebration of Great Grandma Moffat's Birthday on Thursday. (We need to watch the weather on Thursday, normally it storms!)
Goodness, Kaitlyn is really growing like a weed. She is almost ready to walk, and will be doing so before long. Madison Ann is also growing after a slow start, she is really doing well. And then there is Andrew, who has been 21 since he was born... his vocabulary is really growing and his imagination too. And Austyn... Wow! This young man is going to be a force to be reckoned with. He is really maturing. He called last night to mention to me that he needed a horse to ride. Not just any horse, but a baby horse that he could care for and it would grow up and he could ride it. We talked for a while, and then he suggested that we get a black horse that was older he could ride now, and a brown baby horse he could ride later, well, that's sort of the way it went... haha... so if you know of anyone with a kid's horse... that is kid proof, let us know, guess we are in the market.
Wanted to remind everyone the fair is coming up. Might be time to look around and thing of things to put in it. There is an open divison the grand kids could put things in.. and some areas for the rest of us too.
But anyway, Saturday was a great great day! I love my kiddos, and in laws, and grandkids very very much. It is always a holiday to see any of them!! I thank God every day for each of them! I know I have been richly and deeply blessed! Thanks to everyone for taking time out to make these events happen!
Have a great day!
The pain.. the pain.....
Friday, June 17, 2005
Some more pics.. this time it's Madison and Andrew ...
Here is a link to some pics of Andrew and Madison at Grandpa's this am while Mom was having surgery.... Enjoy the day..
Heather is home and resting well. Her and Paul will have the home to themselves as the kiddos are staying with Grandma and Grandpa Blankinship tonight.. after spending the day with Grandma and Grandpa Moffat...
Heather is home and resting well. Her and Paul will have the home to themselves as the kiddos are staying with Grandma and Grandpa Blankinship tonight.. after spending the day with Grandma and Grandpa Moffat...
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Harvest of Gold....
Yellow gold to the dry land farmer.. was 3.00 in the 20's and 30's and still is 3.00 today.. and the bushels have not improved all that much either.. The lil combine cost new 175000.00. Truck new in 1974 15000.00. One can not make a living without using used equipment with wheat. No way. Do the math. This field will make about 30 bushel to the acre. It cost about 50 an acre to get it to the ready to cut stage. rent is cost is 1/3 of crop, and and fertilzer is about 20.00 an acre.. so in the long run, the man leasing is paying about 10.00 out of his pocket to do all this.. ain't it fun.. life can be so fun... haha.. While there taking pictures, the combine broke down, and they estimated the repairs at around 500.00 and it needs fuel, at 2.00 a gallon, hold 150 gallon... there is another 300.00. The truck was having trouble "pulling itself empty" so Ken raised the hood, and found the distributor had come loose, and now it's out of time and he needs a mechanic real bad, but the load has to get to town and the truck back, while combine repairs are made.. so they can fill it again.. there is rain in the forecast.. and you know what.. the above does not take into account the 10% markdown for rye in wheat.. so every 60 pounds they take to town, the elevator gets 6 pounds free... or they give the elevator .30 cents for every bushel they haul, so they will lose about a hundred dollars just taking this to town and dumping it.. geeze farming is fun.. haha.. enjoy the day. Click here to view the rest of the 123 photos, and then... here is a link to video Wheat1 video and Wheat2 video and Wheat3 video... You might want to download the videos before viewing them as they are a bit big... save to desktop so you can find them easily... then click to view. Enjoy the day...
Wall's cutting wheat on Kastle Place June 15, 2005 for Judge's who have it rented. The test weight was 62 to 60 pounds with 7 to 10% Dockage for rye grass and the moisture was 14+... really too wet, but the weeds are really coming on after all the lil' rain we had. The ground was really cracked open too. Ken said and I saw too where you could run your whole hand into the cracks.. it is really dry. We need rain badly. only about an inch out of all the chances last week. Cattle producers are running out of pasture, hay is in demand, with several thinking of starting to put out hay for their cattle now.. instead of November.. I took a bunch of photos and two or three videos of the machine running.. Enjoy the day...
Today's Quote...
Today's Quote
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
-Sir Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
-Sir Francis Bacon
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Today's Quote
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home, reads only a page.
-Saint Augus
-Saint Augus
Monday, June 13, 2005
A video of last nights sky....
Here is a video, bout a min and half, of last nights sky before it started to blow and rain... need to download it and save it to your desktop .. then view it. It is a big one.
later.. Stan .. Enjoy the day!
later.. Stan .. Enjoy the day!
Today's Quote
One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
-Margaret Mead
-Margaret Mead
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