Life

Not that life is ever really "normal"; it is nice to have some routine and pleasantness to your day. Finally, after a string of 'unfortunate events', I think we are finally leveling off to normal days. The last few weeks we have been dealing with colds, sewer backups, broken cell phones, and breaking down vehicles.

It is nice to be finally getting back into our crazy day-to-day activities. Back to camping, scouts, and taxing the kids around. Ah, the simple pleasures.

Time to take a breath, look around, and refocus on the important things in life... Family and friends. In times like these, it is sometimes easy to forget how lucky we really are.

There is really nothing that gives you an appreciation for life, than to almost loose yours.

My car had a soft tire that I needed to fill up. My normal routine when adding air to a tire, is plugging in my air compressor so it starts filling the tank, then proceed to check and fill the tire. When the tire is full, I usually walk back to the compressor unplug it and hang up the hose. On this day, I happen to check all the tires. As I was walking back towards the air compressor, I thought “geez, that thing is still running…Normally it would have shut off by now.”

Listening to my spidey sense, I decided to wait until the compressor shut off before walking up to it. And it’s a good thing I did, because it never shut off… It exploded.

To me, the air compressor made a popping sound…In actuality, my wife and kids heard a loud explosion from inside the house. (This also knocked a large picture off the wall.)

We had two Bufflehead ducks in our back pond last weekend. They're not from around our parts, so we're guessing that they were just passing through. I took a few pictures, but they were not close enough to get good shots. Here's where I wish I had that 600 mm lens.

I spent last weekend in full scout uniform, singing songs, and playing games. The weird thing was: I was not with my son or any other kids. I was attending Wood Badge. What is Wood Badge? Unless you are an avid adult Scouter, you probably do not know what Wood Badge is.