Beech Tree News Network

IN THE FOG
 
Well, here we are . . . already in the month of August. Where or where does the time go? I know one thing, to many beautiful opportunities like this, are often over looked. I so enjoy getting up in the morning and finding the fog lifting off the fields. It's a great way to sit and enjoy the welcoming of another day and a great time to be still and give thanks to God for all his beauty.

I am a bad mom.  No really, I am.  I am a mom who starts counting down the days that school starts BACK, on the day they get OUT of school for summer break!  My 3 older sons are involved in baseball and soccer and my 7 year old needs to be on the 2012 Olympic track team (Michael Phelps ain’t got nothing on my kid when it comes to speed!)  Most of the summer is spent driving back and forth between ball parks and deciding which parent is going to which game and who is taking Speedy Gonzalez with them.  So you can see why I love August!  I swear I am just like the mom in the Staple’s commercia

Summer Olympics: The Other White Meat: Everyone always talks about how much they love the winter Olympics.  Well, I’m more partial to the summer games.  With the Winter Olympics, it’s like “we’re stuck inside with nothing else to do, might as well watch”.  With the summer games, it’s a choice.  You can either go outdoors and do something, or watch the games.  Personally, I prefer the Summer Olympics because, among other things, basketball is my favorite sport. I’m all about watching some USA basketball!

Have you ever had to ask your child or grandchild how to do something online or on your cell phone? I have, and they usually know how to get it done!
Communication has certainly changed in my lifetime. I can remember when my family’s telephone was on a party line and then when we got a private line. Cell phones came along much later in my life. Now, like many of you, if I leave my cell phone behind, I feel lost. We’ve had email for several years, but more recently, social networks have added a near instantaneous dimension to our communication.

They hung all five of 'em. I jumped up and clapped and hollered "good!" They hung them from a big tree limb . . . Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, in an episode from the TV movie, LONESOME DOVE. There were five of them. They had stolen a bunch of horses off of Duvall and Jones---not only that, they had spotted a couple of farmers plowing in a field. The head low-lifer, who could have eaten off the same plate with a snake, stopped and shot the farmers dead---simply, he hated "sodbusters." He then hung the bodies up on a limb and set them on fire.

My friend, Greg, is always moving stuff from point A to point B, usually on a trailer he pulls behind his pickup.  He rarely secures anything before he takes off on these trips.  His mantra is “It’ll ride.”  Sometimes, the stuff he’s hauling doesn’t get the memo and fails to ride the entire trip, choosing instead to become airborne and land on the road side or in someone’s yard.  I, personally, have witnessed him losing a mattress, a bar stool, and a load of some sort of metal pieces; but the thing is, there are hundreds of things he’s hauled that haven’t come off that trailer.  More times

Oh the beauty of the country. There's no better way to waste away a Sunday afternoon than to go "barn hopping" on the back roads. With this year being one of the worst droughts in many many years, my heart goes out to the farmers. They work numerous hours to bring us food and so many times, their hard work and hours of dedication often go unnoticed and unappreciated. This week, I dedicate my picture to those hard working souls and say THANK YOU!
 

Helping the less fortunate always gives a warm and fuzzy feeling.  I wasn’t sure what that felt like until about three years ago. That’s when I began helping bring supplies to SAM 100.7’s Stuff the Bus. I’ll chronicle a bit of this year’s STB in a bit, but right now let’s explore exactly what is that good feeling we get when we assist others.

The end of summer through early fall is a great time for a short road trip, and Kentucky provides a great deal of entertainment. From the Appalachian Mountains to the western Kentucky lakes, our state is full of attractions. So much to see and do!

I just saw another birthday. Permit me to share thoughts on the way to 79 . . . not room for all of them, but some. Some mine; some others.

--Why is the Bible copyrighted? Why would anybody worry about somebody stealing words from the Bible?

--Old adage: "Come ye apart, or you will come apart."

--A.W. Tozer: "A man need not be Godly to learn theology. Indeed I wonder if there is anything taught in any seminary on earth that could not be learned by the rankest criminal." Eric Hoffer said essentially the same thing: "Education does not gentle the heart."