Sunday, September 30, 2007

Some Miscellaneous Information!

Well, here I am. I mentioned in my last post about how my work week was going. I ended up at 57.1 hours for the week (that’s the way the company figures our time – in tenths). It was our month end – quarter end when the close the books for the month and quarter, so that’s why things were so crazy – and believe me, they were!
I, for some reason, have fallen victim to this tagging thing that’s going around the blogs. For some reason, Tim Calhoun saw fit to tag me, so here goes:
1. I don’t like heights – For some reason, being on a ladder doesn’t bother me all that much, but if I’m standing somewhere where there’s not much between me and a long drop, I don’t usually like that - there are some exceptions to that though!
2. There are times that I would much rather stay at home with my family than go away somewhere – unless I’m going with my family. One of my mottos is “Say what you want to about me, but leave my family alone.” One more thing along this line – If you tell me that I act like my father (and I have been told that many times!), I will say, “Thank you!”
3. I have had several collections during my lifetime. Someone once asked my mother, “What does Dwight collect?” She said, “It would be easier to tell you what he doesn’t collect!” I have collected stamps – still do, I have no idea how many I have; just about all types of sports cards – still have a lot of them, but have also sold a lot of them as well; NASCAR collectibles – sold most of them on Ebay and at yard sales; history books – that’s probably the one that takes up the most room; business cards – this one actually got started by accident but it’s probably the cheapest one of the bunch.
4. I have had different jobs outside of home over the course of my life and I didn’t apply for any of them. When I got my paper route in Berwick, the District Supervisor had called the house to see if anyone in our church would be interested. For my current job, the department supervisor called to see if I would be interested in a job.
5. When I was 2 years old, my arm was cracked / broken when a neighbor kid pushed a swing into me.
6. When I was a senior in high school, I spent the better part of a week at Bob Jones University. I was sick about the whole time – I think it was a problem that is commonly called homesickness! I suppose it didn’t really help matters any that I was dropped off there without knowing anybody!
7. I don’t really like to talk about myself, so I’m going to bring this to an end!
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

I'm Still Among The Living!

I intended to post more before this, but - Sunday night, I was downright sick - in fact, I was in bed before 9:00 - very unusual for someone who usually doesn't go to bed before 11:00! Thank the Lord, I'm feeling much better now!
Right now, I'm part way through a work week where I've worked almost 35 hours in three days.
Hopefully, I'll be able to get something else on here soon!
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

For My Friends!

I found this the other day and thought I would share it with you!
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Saturday, September 15, 2007

A Very Relaxing Day

Today, we took a trip to the Lake Tobias Wildlife Park at Halifax, PA. The weather was beautiful and it was a very relaxing day.
There are many more pictures that I could have posted, so this is just a sample.

These two monkeys were chasing each other around the cage - kind of reminded me of my brother and I!
This character was being quite noisy - evidently he wanted some attention for himself!
It looks like Mom is having a conversation with these critters (I think they are Alpacas).
Dad went to check out this cute little Alpaca.
Here is our safari tour guide . . .
. . . and here is our safari tour bus.
I don't know if this buffalo was planning on riding along, but our guide wouldn't let him anyway!
This elk decided to come over to pay us a visit.
This "little" fellow walked up beside the bus.
Here I am with a couple of my friends from the petting zoo part of the park. For some reason, the goat down at the bottom of the picture seemed to enjoy chewing on my jeans and shoestrings - no harm done!
Here's another one of my friends.
The next three pictures are from the reptile building. As you can see, they had more than just reptiles in there. Here is an alligator that they had.
Here is Cuddles the porcupine - not exactly something that I would want to cuddle up next to!
This 12 1/2 foot long python was the one that we got to touch - well, Dad & I did, Mom didn't want to!
This little fellow - an Artic Fox about the size of a small dog - was kind of cute.
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Thursday, September 13, 2007

New Shoes!

I have figured out that there is at least one person out there who likes to go shopping for shoes. Knowing that, I decided to show you a picture of my latest acquisition. They are Timberland Pro sneakers.
How would you like to go shopping for a brand new pair of shoes and not have to worry about the price?
Here's the story - In my job, I am required to wear safety shoes. They can be steel toe or otherwise, as long as there's something there to keep my toes from getting smashed. Every so often, the shoe truck comes around. When this happens, we can go get a new pair of safety shoes at the company's expense - up to a certain limit.
So far, so good - I like them!
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Monday, September 10, 2007

A Story For You!

Here is a story that I read recently that I liked and thought I would share with my blog friends -
Once upon a time a guy asked a girl to marry him. The girl said no. The guy lived happily ever after. The End
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Thursday, September 06, 2007

Antique Machinery Show Time Again!

The time of year has come once again for the annual Fall Antique Machinery Show just outside of Centre Hall. This has become an annual event for us - not to mention a day off work for me! We were there for about five hours today which made for a lot of walking, but it was a good, relaxing day.

Every year there is a featured make of tractor at the show. This year it was the Allis-Chalmers tractors. I don't know how many tractors there were, but they ranged from very big Allis-Chalmers tractors . . .

. . . to very little Allis Chalmers tractors!


There was even a race car with Allis Chalmers on it!



As you can see from the drivers in the following two pictures, the Antique Machinery Show is for the young . . .

. . . and old alike!

With a solar powered tractor, this guy seemed quite happy that he didn't have to worry about buying gas for it!
The old steam engines always fascinate me.
There were several steam engines there this year.
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Monday, September 03, 2007

Labor Day Weekend Trip

We headed west on a mini-vacation this Labor Day weekend. We got home around 3:30 this afternoon.
The two pictures below are the only ones that I took while we were away.
The first one is a recently remodeled house that we passed. The second picture is one of the two barns on the property. Notice the moose horns on the front of the house and the end of the barn. The other barn had a rather large set of elk antlers on the end.

In case you were wondering where we went on this vacation - we went to State College (about 30 miles away - and slightly to the west)! We ate lunch at Ce-Ce's Pizza Buffet, went to Michael's craft store, Circuit City, and the Nittany Mall.
The pictures above were taken along route 322 several miles outside of State College.
It was an enjoyable day, and for me at least, it felt like a vacation!
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