Wednesday, May 10, 2006

forgot to mention

Lots of new pics online in the gallery and on dotphoto.com. see links below.

Ann and I went to Austyn's Tea Party at School last Thursday afternoon. We had a great time and saw a GREAT teacher and a super set of kiddos perform various skits and behave in a "grownup" way. Nothing at all like it would have been had I been young and there... in that class at that age. I was blown away by it all!
Photos from it and tons of short movie clips too online at http://www.paynecountyline.com/Gallery. or see the gallery link below on the left side of this page...

Finally... my blog is back online.. haha..

Seems ole Mr. Blogger ate this one for a week... it seems... haha...

We had a family day last Sunday at Heather and Paul's to celebrate a very important milestone. Young Miss Madison celebrated her 1st Birthday!! It was a wonderful afternoon. And a great party. She had a blast and enjoyed it all, from providing the "stripper" entertainment to eat her birthday cake... to opening her presents to being held and played with by Grandpa Roy and Uncle Chris and playing with Kaitlyn and Andrew too.... Was a great time. We all have made a point to be together on the first birthday of each kiddo... we might not be able to make the rest, but we wanted to be together on their first. This kind'a started with Austyn and how we all came together for his birthday.
It's a neat family thing. You would just have to be there to appreciate it, haha...
Well, God heard our prayers and has sent us rain. And we rejoice in His love. Just when it seems He might have turned a deaf ear, He blesses us, in many, many ways!
Paul was one of the chosen few to guard the President of the USA on his visit to Stillwater to speak at the OSU graduation. He has quite a story to tell, so will let him share that with you, but it is truly the "once in a lifetime" story. He had an early start and an eventful time, we can leave it at that.
Andrew if playing TBall and having fun. He as a couple of really good coaches and they are getting the best from him.
Ann and I bout have our home finished on the outside. Sure has changed the way it looks. Matthew did an awesome job for us. The kiddos went to school with Matthew, so we chose him. We just told him to do it. And he did and all is well in the world.
I am still walking about half as much as before the rain started. But am down to about 250... less in the buff, but thought that paints a pretty bad image so maybe I should not mention it... haha...
That's 50 pounds from heart attack and 100 from last Sept. 1st!!
Our heifers we kept back are calving and looking great. The mature cow pastures we have are enjoying this spring and the rain to recharge themselves and grow without momma cows eating them off ...
I moved my office for Payne County Line to Flatland Studios in Stillwater and am helping my good friend Greg Pearce. He has put together a complete package for artists at any point in their career. Flatland has a very modern up to date recording studio, a management company, a booking agency, a record label, a publishing company, and a university for the artists to attend to learn the business of music. I enjoy it and being around the artists I have known for a long time.
To date we have two artists we have signed exclusively with our record label, Tough Records.
Well, actually we are in the process of signing our second artists. He is from Midland, TX. and is a solid artists and a very nice person as well. We will see.. haha...
Payne County Line, my first love, crashed the servers that is it housed on with ipowerweb.com. They informed me that the site in 4 hours that afternoon received over 750,000 hits!! PCL has had many days of million hits... unbelievable to me. Some days it seems like maybe I should quit doing it as no one looks at it, but that is just on the surface, I guess... it seems that Nashville and both coast's have found it too...
ok.. enough of us... now how bout you???

later.. Enjoy the day - S

Let us be grateful

Today's Quote

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

-Marcel Proust