This has been an awesome weekend. It started out going to Civitan's Infromal. This was one of the most fun dances I have ever been to. There was a band instead of a DJ so it wasnt just rap music. It was a lot of fun to dance to. They played music like Sweet Caroline, My Girl, Don't stop believing. I had a great time and I think my date did too. It was also great because we got pinned and I am now a Civitan active.

Then yesterday, I took my friend Will to my grandparents farm to go hunting. We left around lunch time and drove an hour and half to their house which is outside of Laurel. I let will hunt out of the shooting house which over looked a green field. I walked across the road and sat on a fence line looking over a bottom that had a lot of greenery in the pasture. I saw about ten deer over the course of the afternoon. A few of the doe were big enough to take but I decided to let them walk and just give Will a chance to kill something.

About dark I heard several shots. As I was walking back to the house Will called me and said he had killed a deer. I got in the mule and drove over to where he was. He had actually shot two deer with out knowing it. They were both four points and one of them was a really good size. We cleaned them last night and then today cooked some steaks. It was some good eatin!

Prioirities

Priorities are a hard thing to put in order. It seems like the things that you least want to do are always the things that need to be at the top of your priority list. School has never really been a priority for me. In all honesty pretty much my only motivation for doing school work is that I was expected to. So anytime I had any other option than doing school I would put off school work till the last minute.

This problem of priorities has gotten even worse as I have come to college. There is always something fun to do. I know that is hard to believe at a place like MC where it seems like so often there just isn't anything to do. But there is always something more appealing than homework. But I come to that point every week where I have to force myself to sit down and do the assignment just because I have to.

The same problem arises when I am trying to do a devotion. I know I should do it but there are so many times when I just don't want to. But in this case I feel bad for forcing myself to do it because I feel like I should be wanting to be in God's word. At these times I have to remember that my relationship with God is not based on how I feel. Sometimes I just have to sit down and do the devotion trusting God that he will teach me no matter how I feel if I will just make the effort to seek him.

So this has been an interesting past 24 hours. Last night after the halloween party my friend asked me to help him change a flat tire on his car. Easy, right? Just get the spare, jack up the car, unscrew the lug nuts, switch tires and put the lug nuts back on and your done. NOT! After we spent 5 minutes figuring out how to get the spare tire off we got all the lug nuts off the wheel and then the wheel wouldn't come off. We tried everything. Pulling, kicking hitting, spinning. It would budge. So finally at about 2:30 in the morning we gave up.

So I set my alarm for 8:30 so I could wake up and go to the farm and plant food plots for deer season. Well at 11:45 I woke up and realized my alarm had not gone off. So I left at noon and drove an hour and half to the farm and started working. And as always something on the farm wouldn't work right. The disc was digging in deep enough so I was basically just scrapping up grass. Finally I went over the plots enough times to at least get seed in. 

Then I went to clean out our shooting house where an owl had made a nest earlier in the year. As I opened the trap door I heard a hissing noise. The only thing that I could think of was somehow a snake had gotten up in the house. So I scaled the outside of the frame and looked in through the window. In the corner were three baby owls. "GREAT!" I thought. Now on top of everything else animals are living in my deer stand. After beating on the walls and floor for a few minutes trying to scare them out, I realized it was useless because the owls probably couldn't fly yet.

In the end everything turned out ok. I got the plots seeded. My friend told me he got his tire fixed. So, everything said and done it was a good weekend. I still don't know what I am gonna do about those owls. But oh well. They better enjoy my hospitality while they can but they better be out by opening day of deer season. haha