Not Quite A Rabbit

I will start out saying I'm at my parents up in Arkansas.

A few minutes ago I went wandering the field in search of rabbits to pop with my .22 pistol.
Well I didn't see any rabbits so i started going back to the house, and I scared a rat up.I raised up and fired right before he ran down a hole.Surprising to me I got him.Well, since I got him I decided I would skin him out.(I've skinned out a fox and a coon before this so I figured i would get some practice.Besides no use wasting a perfectly good rat pelt.) Well the skinning process was uneventful, a little tricky because the shot broke him and his back legs came off. But I think it's the best job of skinning I've done. But I did leave him his tail. Now his pelt is in my mom's freezer.(I'm sure she appreciates it)

Now does anybody know what I can make with a rat pelt? A computer mouse cover maybe.

Civic Literacy Test

Hey you should take this test. http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

When you finish please let me know your score.

The national average is 49% for the average Joe. For college educators it is55%

my score was 66.67% Becky's was 48.48% Stephen's was 81.82%

Tkank you for your time.

Tagged by the Irish

I was tagged by Mike of http://blogoftheirish.blogspot.com/
I must list six random things about myself

I understand ms dos better than my e-mail( I can re-format a computer using ms dos, but when trying to attach things to e-mail I call Becky)

My favorite book of the Bible is Genesis

The longest walk I've taken in one day was a little over twenty miles.

I would like to eventually get a woodworking shop(but tools are quite expensive)

The book I last finished was "I kissed dating goodbye" by Joshua Harris

I will eat anything(some things are more palatable than others)But I can still cook pretty good if I do say so myself.

I tag Roy of http://zbestblog.blogspot.com Mom of http://cowmomba.blogspot.com/ And Stephen ofhttp://sgj3030.blogspot.com/


The Rules:• Link to the person who tagged you.• Post the rules on your blog.• Write Six Random Things about yourself.• “Tag” six-or-so other people at the bottom of your post.• Leave comments on their blogs, letting them know they’ve been tagged.• Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve written the post

Contact

I have been contacted by the people at the Concho Pearl movie.I was called eariler and was asked if I was still intrested in working on the pearl,and I was. They said they need stage hands ang gave various positions.(I suppose I will find out what all I will be doing later)Before I was called I had given up hope that I would be contacted,despite the fact I have been kept up to date on movie progress via email.

I will keep you updated as the situation develops.

Ever feel like you need a new way to hurt yourself?

Today Stephen,Becky,Tyrel,and I were wandering around the Buffalo Gap flea market and Becky and I went 50/50 on a new toy.A unicycle!!! After we bought it we got a few comments from other people wandering the flea market.
When we got back to the truck I had to try my hand at unicycling.
Using the truck for balance I managed to stay on two or three seconds before it came out from under me. It turns out that I had people watching me, I know because they started clapping and laughing.

After getting it home I got it adjusted, and have been finding my balance and can almost ride it.

In other news, lately I have been hearing a bit on getting on with the wind farms. I had been kind of hoping to commit to one in Australia for two years but you have to be twenty one to go overseas for them.I may or may not be able to join on here in the states, I will be looking into it.

Oh yeah the old method of hurting myself was nunchucks. I can manage to not hurt myself with them so i should be able to conquer the unicycle

New Gun

This morning I was garage sailing in Ballinger and I found me a new toy.A Savage model 10 in .243 win. Well I had to talk Stephen into it's mine even if you saw it first. I need a hunting rifle.He accepted my offer,and suggested that I try to talk the price down from $275 to $200-$250. So I offered $230 the guy said the lowest he could go was $250. Sold.

When we got home the first thing i did was head off to test my new rifle I set up a target started pacing out 100 yards and found a fence at a little over 75 yards so I set up at 75 yards instead.I got down on the ground, found my target,fired and couldn't find my shot.I worked the bolt,got back on target,squeezed the trigger and another round hadn't gone into the chamber(likely because I'm not used to the rifle and hadn't pulled the bolt all the way back).It was about this time that i noticed that I was laying in the midst of fire ants, I noticed because one bit me on the leg getting my attention.So I got up, pulled my boot off pulled my pant leg up and started shaking the stupid ants off of me. After I was satisfied that I had got them off of me I decided to move to a place with less ants hanging around. I got set back up and fired off two more rounds that were equally as unsatisfactory as the first(as in not on the target at all)and decided to come in and write about it because my leg was really starting to hurt.

So later I will be going out again with Stephen as a spotter to sight my rifle in.Also I think I will avoid laying in ant beds for a while.

The library I don't have

I have a list of books I would like to get,or at least read.But they cost money, and I'm attached to my money and have other priorities.Plus my list of wanted books just keeps getting longer.I am tempted to join the conservative book club to get them, it may be worth it. Here is the list so far.

America Alone. By Mark Steyn

If Democrats Had Any Brains They'd Be Republicans. By Ann Coulter

Liberal Fascism. By Jonah Goldberg

The Case Against Barack Obama. By David Freddoso

The Audacity Of Deceit. By Brad O'leary

The Obama Nation. By Jerome Corsi

Real Change. By Newt Gingrich

The Global War On Your Guns: Inside The UN Plan To Destroy The Bill Of Rights. By Wayne LaPierre


That is the list of ones that I haven't read yet. There are ones I've read that I want to buy.

Colorado Trip

Earlier this month I was one of a select thirteen members of the house church I go to, to go backpacking in the mountains of Colorado for a week. I was representing the Jones' as a photographer,and I did my job there, but the camera memory stick messed up and my best pictures are gone.There were two I got without the memory stick in they were first day, first hour.(I will post them later)

The crowning achievement of the trip (according to me) was topping Conejos Peak.It may have only been a day hike, but it was probably the best day.12 of 13 members reached the peak(one of us stayed behind at camp for reasons of their own). Some of my best pictures were from Conejos Peak.It may turn out good for me the pictures are gone or I might be staring at them constantly.I learned this when I Googled Conejos Peak and just stared at where our camp was, and the route to Conejos Peak.

I will try to post more on this later but right now the best I have to say is "I'm ready to go back."

Fun morning!!

To set the stage, the other night mom got back from DFW. I tell her a package arrived for her,and it sounds like broken glass is in it. She opens package , and there is a broken cookie jar in it. She asks me what I think of repairing it ,I don't respond, then I go to bed.

The next morning I get up ,see the pieces on the counter top and figure it might be possible to piece together. So I get the superglue out, take the lid off, and find pieces that go together. Then I try applying glue , but the applying head is jammed.So I get a toothpick stick it down the head to clear it.When I try to pull the toothpick out it doesn't want to move.So I stick the end of the toothpick in my mouth, pull on the tube, The toothpick comes out along with a spray of superglue. I now have superglue on my teeth, a toothpick stuck to my lip,and the tube of superglue stuck to my fingers. Around this time mom tells me forget trying to rebuilding cookie jar.

Now I get the tube off my fingers and the toothpick off my lip, and set to cleaning the superglue off my teeth.I grab a tooth scraper from by the kitchen sink,and start scraping the glue off. In the process somehow I chipped my tooth.when I get done mom sees the tooth scraper I used and informs me that it was used for cleaning out the garbage disposal on the sink.(Boy I'm glad I know that now)After that morning the rest of the day went well enough.

A calling?

Thrice in the past two weeks has christian film making been set before me.The first time was a comment on one of my posts.The second time was Becky
mentioning her wanting to try for a part in The Concho Pearl, which is being made in San Angelo,TX.
Third there was a brief mentioning of christian film making in Do Hard Things.It was brief but it stuck with me.

Now I may head to the area, join a local church, and join the making of The Concho Pearl. I have to be local, and be a with a local church to join the effort in making TCP(both things I planned on doing before ever hearing of this project).
I figure if I am accepted I would get a part as an extra and/or work as a carpenter for them(or carpenter underling if they need any).

It seems God has opened a door for me to get to West Texas and start in christian film making or carpentry as the case may be.

It is strange because two weeks ago I hadn't considered film making type for something I would do .But it seems God is pointing me in that direction.So I guess I should be in the area before the 19th if I am to try for this.

Ahhh technology.

Yesterday and today I have tried commenting on the Zesch blog. Once I would finally get the comment page to pull up, I would type out my comment, hit publish comment.then the page would freeze up, And then switch to the error on page page.After trying this a couple times I gave up and checked my comments, and tried replying to one by Becky.This time on my blog it tried loading before telling me it wouldn't.I know it sounds like a bad excuse but, the computer ate my comments.

Rant on jobs

On the job hunting front, so far I have gone to Krein knives,a former log furniture place, and a-d distributing.None of whitch needed help, so next I have the Wal Mart distribution center, an American Eagle baggage flinger, and maybe a job at a feed store or something.
Whatever job I find , I want to be doing hard labor ,to keep busy from the start of the day to the end of the day.If I don't find anything that does this here in Arkansas , I will try west Texas ,and find a way down there.
In Texas I would like to get a job as a wind farm maintenance technician. It looks like a fun job.Climbing ladders, being on top of the world, getting bit by rattlesnakes that were in it when it got built.

On a side note, when working I figger that unless if I am working with Stephen,I will go by Stephen instead of Tommy.I do this because my paychecks will be to wrote out to Stephen C., and because i,ve never gone by my first name,save for when dealing with the government.

My day

Today we bug bombed the house. Mom, Dad, and the twins.took one car and went somewhere.Ben and I went job hunting/garage sailing/pawn shopping.
We went through Siloam Springs, and stopped at a pawn shop where Ben looked at violins.

Then we followed some garage sale signs and went by some sorry looking garage sales.Well we wound up in Oklahoma and stopped at a store so I could buy a lotto ticket I got a $1 dollar scratch off and doubled my money,so I quit while I was ahead.Not bad for just buying one because I can.

In Gentry, we stopped at a log furniture place to see if they needed some strong backs and weak minds.They didn't, so we moved on to Gravette where we didn't find anything , so we went to Crystal lake, where we walked around for a while.After killing some time there, we headed back to the house despite there being forty minutes left on the prescribed time for bombing.

When we got back to the house, mine and Ben's GEDs had got here.So I threw my hat up in the air to celebrate graduating(Bill's idea).

Well that's all I've done today.I don't know why anyone would want to read about it though.

Blackberries

Yesterday I went on a recon walk to check the blackberries. They are still mostly green but turning red. On a couple of roads I found a few black blackberries.So the season is starting. Also I found some wild plums out on a back road away from houses(a nice raiding spot). And it is not yet plum season,but I will keep watch. And the last thing I find worthy of comment on that walk is, I found an Alan Jackson cd on the side of the road. It was in bad shape but the first three songs on it play.

And, we are off

Some time in early May, Ben and I went to sign up to take the GED. When we got to the place, we filled out some paperwork, then they had us take some tests. After the tests they told us to come back on the 22nd for orientation. At orientation we found out we have to take the GED official pre tests, and also meet with the teacher.On the same day as orientation we took four of five pre tests. On the 27th we met with the teacher and took the final pre test, filled out some paperwork to take the GED, well we didn't get done with the paperwork that day, so we went back yesterday, finished the paperwork,and got our schedule showing what tests we are taking on what days. Today we go back to take the first two parts, then the next time we go in is on June 4th, then once more on the fifth to take the other three parts of the test. I olny wanted to take the GED, now fianally, after having gone there four times before we can do what we went there to do in the first place.

Some random things i've done

1. Slept in the trunk of a car.



2. Been put in a chest freezer and had the lid closed on me .



3. Ben and I built a seven foot tall snowman



4. I also played chess against Ben out in the snow, on a table made of snow.



5. Set out a mouse trap line for Becky.I didn't skin what i caught though.



6. Set a mouse trap with my feet.



7. Hit myself in the head with nunchucks.(Tyrel's favorite toy)



8. Shaved my head.



9. I've given a sheep a miricle body massage.



10. With Becky, Stephen,and Ben , made spider hole cannons. For this you need a spider hole, gun powder, and a lighter.



11. Also with above mentioned people, gone spider hunting.(there was nothing else to shoot that night)



12. Put a shock collar on my arm, just to test it.



Well there more fun things that I've done, but they have full stories behind them, and i don't want to type them. So this is all you get ....For now

Late night

Last night i couldn't sleep ,so I came out into the kitchen and started cleaning. At midnight I tuned into coast to coast am with George Noory,and kept cleaning . Well George was talking about a particle accelerator for the first hour, the second hour was about hydrogen fuel cells . At about 1:30 i got done cleaning , but I decided to listen to the rest of that hour. So I went to bed at 2:00 and my internal alarm clock was armed and got me up at 7:00 ,so I slept well.

I need to hunt

Since moving from Marlow I haven't really had a place to hunt. Well I'm tired of tired of waiting for us to move to a place that has land to hunt on. so I walked out into the "field" we have looking for critters to shoot. Well I saw a cottontail run out from under my foot. About half an hour after that I loaded my .22 rifle, and made another round of the field. But of course there was nothing after I had my gun.While I was making my armed survey I started thinking "maybe I should see when rabbits and such are in season,and maybe I should get a hunting licence." Well ,spring squirrel season starts may 10th, so I've got until then to get a licence. While I'm at it I think i should get my fishing licence.

Cabin Fever

Yesterday on mythbusters they had an Alaska special. One of the things that they were testing was cabin fever. Well they gave a list of symptoms, and I do believe that I have experienced cabin fever .In December it was, Ben had left to go work with Bill for a month, the weather was cold, wet and miserable.I couldn't go walking ,and I was stuck inside. I matched two symptoms at least 1. irritability 2.jittery .I don't remember excessive sleeping or angry eyes. But three things that help me fight it are walking(long distances),cooking and cleaning. I think I need a drier climate for winter.

Science experiment

Yesterday Ben was telling me about footage of an atomic bomb he had recently seen. It is on a cloudy day, and when the bomb explodes the shock wave pushes the clouds away . This got me thinking "What would happen if a hydrogen bomb was dropped on a hurricane?" Well without sufficient data, and not having the supplies to test, I just decided to post, so what you will need is

1 hydrogen bomb

1 hurricane in remote region


Please send results (video if possible) (satellite imagery welcome )

Spider bites

Spider bites aren't much fun. I know i have had two. One couldn't be hidden, And the other one I didn't want to mention. The unmentionable one was first, and I had a hard time sitting down,and standing up again ,and walking.I made sure to put pillows down where I was sitting.But on to the other. The other was on my cheek,and it made eating less than enjoyable, it never really hurt. It was a dull ache that never went away ,and the ache slowly wore down the mind. Also, looking back the bite seemed to put my mind in a fog. Well the bites haven't made me scared of spiders(I know because my sister is.) But I am cautious, like killing any I see 'I mean really smashing them to as flat as they will go.

The Speaking Speakers

Well this morning the computer woke me up. This is not somthing it is supposed to do.
I noticed a problem yesterday, but thought I was hearing voices, whitch I was. But I wasn't going crazy unless Ben was too. Both of us heard the voices , well the window was open but there was no one out there . The computer was asleep , but the speakers were on and it sounded like the sound was coming from them. So I woke the computer up ,and the voices stopped.
This happen later in the day with new voices, and it seems that when the computer is asleep , the speakers turn into a cb radio. So this morning there were a couple guys on there talking and that woke me up . So I have a cb reciver made from computer speakers ,it seems to get crystal clear recption.

I'm on

Well after jumping through hoops, getting an e-mail account ,getting a blog account ,starting a blog , and now after two hours i'm on. so yeah