And then as we topped the pond dam on bottom double pond... a rabbit jumped up and off went Lucy again... the other animals don't seem to arouse any instincts in the other dogs... just Lucy, haha... but as you can see, the pond was like glass and the sun was just thinking of coming up... and everything in nature was awaiting it... 

Another beautiful morning for walking.... but it sure was hot!! My friends were out and about... Lucy jumped up a doe and chased it all over the 160 acres we live on before she finally quit! It was so cool to hear her baying at it... all the while running... course she never caught it. The at the angle my bird friends were there singing their hearts out... 

Phil, Andrew and Jake check out Jake's new Birthday toy he got for himself. It's a Play Station 2, I think? haha... old men don't know simple things... haha.. Have a great day! 

My 24 year old baby boy on his birthday.... he has made his Mom and I so very proud!! I wonder which sounds worse... haha... he is 24 or I will be 60 next birthday? haha.. it all does!! 

A future soccer star showing us his "stuff". Austyn is very adapt at Soccer and will be a great player! 

This "beach bum" is hard at play! On dry land, well, sort of... haha.  

Yes.. Jonathan has his hands full, in lots of ways! 

This young lady, if you can catch her "still" is really going to become a star in her own right! She is another princess with amazing beauty.  

If for one second you ever wonder who will be Miss Oklahoma in years to come, just stop and take a long long look at Kaitlyn Brooke Moffat! She is living doll!!  

Jake's birthday celebration 2006

What a great day yesterday turned out to be... the day after a nice 1.5 inch of badly needed rain that fell on a very thristy land. The guys did not get done with harvest, but are very close and will this coming week. And ole Jake pulled in to our surprise a bit early on Friday night... which is ok with us anytime the kiddos make it home... That was awesome, then on Saturday, Phil and Austyn stopped by, and then Jonathan and Randi and Kaitlyn came up and later on Paul, Heather, Andrew and Madison made it over and we had one awesome birthday feast for Jake's 24th Birthday! Jamie, Terri, Faith and Grace along with Andrew also joined us for dinner Sat. Night to help celebrate Jake's Bday. Jamey is Jake's Welding Instructor and one of the nicest men we know... (His family is awesome as well!). Andrew is a graduate of Jamey's and is a fellow welder as well. Now, Faith and Grace are a set of beautiful young ladies... Twins, who immediately caught the eyes of the two oldest grandsons!! haha... oh my goodness... to be young again... well, nope don't think so, I kind'a like where I am, haha...  

I am jealous... everyone gets to eat breakfast before I do.... hum...
Stan Moffat

Can you see who I "ran into" walking yesterday morning? He was at the double gates on Brush Creek waiting on me and the dogs to come through and this morning I started at 5:30am so it was still very dark!!! Makes me think I might need to walk a bit later in the day... haha.. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you... Stinky LePew, cousin of Pepe LePew!
Stan Moffat

Sunset the night before we received a beneficial rain... it was truly beautiful...
Stan Moffat

Cutting wheat 2006 west of our home... with a rain coming.. see the diesel smoking... the wind was blowing about 40 miles an hour... but the neatest part of this story, if you look through the pics, you will see a man who is 2 years older than Great Grandma Moffat operating it! Yes, Lester is not quite 90... and he puts in as long a day as many young men, and the machine never stops except to fuel!!! From doing this for several years, that is a feat not many can say they have done!! Enjoy the day...
Stan Moffat

Sunrise on Moffat Pond this am.. beautiful, truly beautful... 

Some of our wheat ready to be cut in the field west of our home on the west side looking east. Enjoy the day! 

Welcome - Stan and Ann's Ramblings

If you like to watch babies... here is a live streaming video of baby eagles in a nest in Idaho i think.. anyway it is kind of addictive... hahah enjoy the day!

Video of Austyn hitting ball right handed..

Austyn getting a good hit right handed... enjoy the day!

Ann and I went to another of Austyn's Wee Tee Ball games sponsored by the YMCA. He is really into playing this year and he can not believe the season is about over. It was interesting and it was HOT!! Getting too old to set in the sun for an hour.. haha.. but he did really good. I think there is a video of him hitting a "home" run that I will put online later today if I get time. Needless to say, Grandma Ann and I were very very proud of him and his team. And of his dad too, as Phil helped coach this year, too. Paul did too for Andrew and he served as head coach, and discovered a whole nother world in doing so... haha... more on that later. Andrew's season is over for this year too. I know he is glad and so is his dad. It was starting to get really hot at those games, but then they are played were there are concession stands for folks who are thirsty, etc.. but the players find there way to them as well.. enjoy the day! 

It was a beautiful morning for a walk, except it was still hot and dry, and a lot less humidity. My feet were only wet about half way this time in my almost 6 1/2 mile walk. It takes two hours with a camera.. sometimes alot longer.. haha.. and about 95 mins if I do not take the camera!! Now that there are 4 dogs going with me, I see less wildlife. I am tempted to leave them at the house tied up, so I can see all the animals and the birds that fly from them... and not me! Looks like the wheat might start being cut this am. and the pond, that was full from the only rain we received this past year is slowly but steadily going down. Neat things going on at work. we are about to get our first CD out with the Nick Gibson Band. It is a country cd. This young man will be a force to be seen... He is really solid and good and his audiences are growing as they perform. I get to talk and meet with lots of famous folks .. that is always a treat. I learn how the fast world lives.. haha.. rock and roll baby, rock and roll!!! Enjoy the day.... 

The clouds this am at sunrise were... unforgetable.... and unbeliveable too.... no matter how it's spelled.. they were AWESOME... and cool too... but still really dry!! Baby turtles, big water turtles and Sugar's turtles... sort of changed up the photos today... along with some other shots of the day... enjoy! 

the moon crashing this am.... I KNOW... but it is kind'a cool... haha.... notice all is in sync... except the moon....???? enjoy the day... towards end of pics today, there is a water turtle, I think, that was"laying" her eggs.... I think... I am not a turtle expert... haha.. 

Have you ever looked at natures handicraft? Amazing things are waiting on you to discover... I know I wake up in a new world every day... haha, but then my family knows that only too well... haha... love to all, enjoy the day, and live like it's your last one, cuz you never know when it just might be...  

another of God's amazing creations, and this one only last a day... more color in the pastures and fields than I ever dreamed possible, and every day that I walk through them, I see NEW things... or old ones in new ways...  

Sometimes the simplest things are the most important part... imagine a sunrise with NO color... or ... the 30 minutes before sunrise are truly the most important of the day, and seems to set the stage for how the whole day plays out... enjoy this special day! 

I still believe, in spite of

I still believe, in spite of everything,
that people are truly good at heart... Anne Frank

The heart, like the grape, is ...

The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

-Roger Houseden (submitted by jrnorwood)

Sunrise on the ole Moffat homestead this am... Hot and dry, and not even a promise of rain in the forecast!! May God have mercy on us.... and send along some rain...  

Inspiration exists, but

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

-Pablo Picasso (submitted by serena xxi)

Interesting walk this am...

I am not sure what I saw swimming in our south pond this am, but it was not a dog, a cat, nor an animal I am used to seeing.... I took some video and pics but was a long ways from the ?. It had a wide fore head and it's eyes and ears were above the water. When it stopped swimming, it's body sort of floated to the surface too and was about three feet long..... hummmmmmmmm...... I don't know.. am loading the video and pics now onto computer from camera ... am really anxious to see something... if I can... have a great day.. will post something if I learn more...

S

A happy person is not

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

-Hugh Downs

Success is not

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

trying something new... from my cell phone comes this photo of this am's awesome walk!

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Uncle Ivan sent this along...

Subject: May 1 Boycott stats

On May 1st, as a result of the Mexican boycott, national retailers reported 4.2% lower sales for the day, with a 67.8% reduction in shoplifting.

Buenos dias.

When you put your hand to the plow

Today's Quote

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

-Alice Paul

The Flags blowing in the South wind this am after showers moved through... and still no rain! 

There were many others wanting some of the rain that was close by too. As you can see from some of the pics from today, the grass is drying up and even the weeds and trees are dropping some extra leaves due to drought. I guess this pic depicts life on the prarie this time of year.. some will make it, some will not. Wheat that was planted on time is now ready to cut. That wheat that did not come up till the last and only shower we had is still green, and most of the rye did not sprout till that shower so it is green too.. but all in all, everything could use a drink... and there was the promise of rain on the horizon, and yet as you can see, this is looking east.. so it also shows an opportunity missed! Enjoy the day...
Stan Moffat

Awaiting the promise of rain.... it was so close I could smell it in the area, and about every two minutes a drop would hit me....
Stan Moffat

You cannot shake hands ...

Today's Quote

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

-Indira Gandhi

5 Winning Smart Answers For 2005

5 Winning Smart Answers For 2005

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Smart Answer #5:

A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets.

As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed at her.

Without missing a beat....she said, "Sir, I need to See your ticket not your stub."



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Smart Answer #4:

A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but she couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy,

"Do these turkeys get any bigger?"

The stock boy replied, "No ma'am, they're dead."



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Smart Answer #3:

The cop got out of his car and the kid who was stopped for speeding rolled down his window. "I've been waiting for you all day," the cop said.



The kid replied, "Yeah, well I got here as fast as I could."
When the cop finally stopped laughing, he sent the kid on his way without a ticket.



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Smart Answer #2:

A truck driver was driving along on the freeway. A sign comes up that reads, "Low Bridge Ahead." Before he knows it, the bridge is right ahead of him and he gets stuck under the bridge. Cars are backed up for miles.

Finally, a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, "Got stuck, huh?"

The truck driver says, "No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of gas."



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#1 SMART ANSWER OF THE YEAR 2005.......................



A college teacher reminds her class of tomorrow's final exam.

"Now class, I won't tolerate any excuses for you not being here tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury or illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that's it, no other excuses whatsoever!"

A smart ass guy in the back of the room raised his hand and asked, "What would you say if! tomorrow I said I was suffering from complete and utter sexual exhaustion?"

The entire class is reduced to laughter and snickering. When silence was restored, the teacher smiled knowingly at the student, shaking her head and sweetly said "Well, I guess you'd have to write the exam with your other hand."

More people would learn from

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

-Harold J. Smith

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not

Today's Quote

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

-Epicurus

Another amazing sunrise... more online... of course... haha.. enjoy the day!
Stan Moffat

Something special this week....

I just remembered something special will take place this week.

On Thursday, June 1st, 2006, Uncle Ivan and Aunt Freda Moffat will be married 61 short years! FANTASTIC! It seems that the bar just gets higher and higher with time...

Happy Early Anniversary to you two, and many many more!!

S

If the only prayer you ever say ...

Today's Quote

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

-Meister Eckhart

A lone outlook on this mornings walk. Some great and colorful shots in yesterdays photos and some great sunrise photos from this morning in the albums. On thing to remember when looking at todays photos.. there is always, ALWAYS, cause and effect, in nature. As the sun came up in the east, I tried to show you the effect on the western skies this am, including the showers 'not touching' the earth. Have a great day... we had a super nice time with family yesterday. Jake came home from Woodward and points west, and Phil and Tammy and Austyn and Heather, Madison, and Andrew came over for a last minute holiday lunch! We had a good time and it was fun to watch the boys in the pool... I had some great videos but did exactly what I did for Andrew's last Birthday. I used Ofoto to download from camera and then deleted photos not remembering that ofoto does not download from it the video... sigh. some day I will grow up.. haha.. enjoy this day we have. It will soon be gone never to be lived again...
Stan Moffat

Beginning today, treat everyone

Today's Quote

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

-Og Mandino