Thanksgiving Hunt

About a month ago when Genessa was in Baton Rouge, I got bored and decided to take the hunters education course online.

This last week I got my first deer the night before Thanksgiving out at our land. It was a big doe. Here is a low quality pic. It was fun.

I have surgery tomorrow at 9:00am in Springdale on my ear so be praying for us.

Thanks,
Tim

You heard me

4 months ago, I was wake boarding and loving it. Until I wiped out and hit my ear on the water and ruptured my ear drum. That by the way didn't hurt to much, except when I put alcohol in to dry out the water (never do this). I ended up blowing out about 25% of my ear drum and loosing about %40 of my hearing in that ear.

I went back to the doctor yesterday to see if my ear had healed and the good news is that some of my hearing is back. The bad news is that I still have a hole in my ear drum and I will have to have surgery to repair it. With the surgery it is possible but not guaranteed that I will regain some more of my hearing.

All that said I am having surgery sometime on the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Tim

Black Friday

If you are like Genessa and I, you don't pay full price for anything and you only buy big big bargains. Coming up is Black Friday and some of the ads are creeping up on the internet. I prefer scanned in ads and here is a site I found after a quick search.

http://bfads.net/adscans

I would still like to see Wal-Marts ad. I am in the market for a supper cheap flat panel. But I bet I will have to wait another year before they will be in the range of what I am willing to pay.

Tim

Much needed update

I will try and keep my descriptions short.

We are buying a 100 year old house just off the Bentonville square(MLS #515229). That is if we can sell our house in Springdale (MLS # 521473).

We have settled with the insurance company for the bus, it is now mine again and I need to sell it.

We still have to settle for Genessa and my medical bills, some $10,000.

I am walking more now that I am a week and a half off of the crutches. I currently have what is called pitting edema. I don’t know what that really means but it is fun to play with. My leg swells a lot when I walk especially on Sundays (my biggest walking day).

I don’t like making the bed.

I love my wife.

You can watch more shows than ever for free online. Including some discovery channel shows and starting this season "the office" and "my name is earl".

My favorite “NEW” show is "Pushing Daisy’s". Which is a sure sign that it will last only one season. It is a love story at its heart but it has some weird elements that will keep people from watching it. You can check it out at www.abc.com

I will wrap up with some pictures of my shrunken leg and other random pics

Our dog Cho Cho in a box. And our other dog Sam 's tail on my leg.
Shrunk left leg.(I don't want to hear any jokes about how they both look the same to me, you heard me)
House in bentonville
Violet, placemat.

Freedom.....

I went to the doctor today to get my full leg cast removed and to get a new below the knee cast. After the DR looked at the x-rays, he said that it is looking good and that I can go to a boot instead of the new cast.

My leg feels really weird and it is weak, but I glad that I don't have a cast anymore. I still can only put 50% of my weight on it and I am still in crutches for 4 more weeks, but it is a giant leap.

Thank you for all your prayers.

Sorry I don't have time to put the gross looking pictures of my new scrony leg on here but I will get them up.

Tim

God is good... All the time

I don't know why but I have this since today that God is good. and I always reply when I hear that (at least in my head) "All the time". We don't always know why things happen like they do, but I believe God has our best intentions in mind even in the things that seam to only be bad.

I want to tell everyone thanks that has offered my wife and I assistance after our wreck. Our fridge has been full since we got home. I have great friends and family.

The staff at our church has really stepped up to pick up the slack in my absence. We are moving into our new building and I had in my mind I was going to head up all the little construction projects, God had a different plan. Everyone has had to do there job, extra moving jobs, and picking up parts of my job. They are great, everyone at Keypoint church should know that you have a great staff, probobly the best in the world (I am sure of it).

Even my neighbors have been great friends and blessings, doing things from mowing my lawn, taking care of things on my bus, to bringing over movies. Thanks guys.

My friends have brought tons of food and offered to do basically anything. I think the only thing that i have taken advantage of (in a negative way) is asking for macaroni and Cheese. Not to mention all the people who have picked me up and taken me places. Good to know I have people looking out for me.

My family has been at my side since what seamed like only 10 minutes after that guy ran into me. It was comforting to see my dad come into the emergency room and just be there with me. Everyone has made sure I have what I need and taken me to the places I have needed to go. My grandparents on both sides have offered enormous support to Genessa and I, we could not be blessed with a better family.

And lastly to my loving wife I offer my thanks a gratitude. Only she knows how tough it is to live with me when I am functioning at %100, much less at my current level. She is the hardest working person I know, taking care of me while she had her own injuries. She is always giving of what she has and rarely thinks of her self. I love her with all I have. She makes sure I have food to eat, clothes to wear and gives me my sponge baths. She must love me as much as I love her.

We are blessed people to have such a support system from church, family, friends. I don't understand why things happen all the time but I do know that:

God is good... All the time.

Tim

Good news

Thanks goes out to my neighbor Stephen who picked up some 2000 wood screws out of the back of my bus and disconnected the emergency brake. Which was jambing the transmission into gear. Without the emergency brake, He was able to get the transmission into neutral, which enabled us to start the engine in the bus. This let us know that the motor and transmission were left unharmed.

This is good news. Thanks Stephen

Sorry no new pictures

Tim