Bun and I have been away for most of the summer and then when we were home we were computer less.

We are back and I have a very important prayer request for a seven year old boy.   His name is Luke and he is a ray of sunshine from God Himself.  He has an inoperable tumor on his brain stem.  You can access his whole story here   www.caringbridge.org     click on visit and type in   lukecharton

I ask that you take a few minutes and visit the site so you know what a treasure this little boy is and how we are asking a miracle from God to heal him.   Yes, I want a miracle.  Rather demanding of me I know, but when Jack was sick I never persistantly prayed for a miracle--which was wrong of me.  But I am asking, begging, praying, beseaching, imploring----in short I Want a miracle.     I know His Will will be done in the end and it will be for the best, part of His plan.  But still, I know God can heal him.

So please pray along with me not only for Luke but his parents and two smaller sisters also. Thank you.

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Bun and I are home from our Canada trip.  We went to Canada last Tuesday to this Monday.  We went to our friends Megen and Alan's as thier twins were being baptised and also to our friends, Paul and Nancy as thier daughter was married on Saturday.

It was a beautiful wedding with the bride looking like a celebrity.  She was so beautiful!!  What happened to the awkward teenager of a few years ago?  She really was breathtaking to see.  I pray that her marrainge is blessed.

The twins we precious.  Bun had a great time holding them and watching them sleep on her lap.  I had forgotten how small and precious babies are as I haven't held a month old baby in a long time.   Bun really was great with them.

Inbetween the wedding and the baptism we went to Toronto's Chinatown.  We ate pho and drank bubble tea.  I loved it and Bun didn't.  Bubble tea is cold and has tapioca pearls in it.  You can get a variety of flavors such as watermelon, green apple, mango etc.  You suck the tapioca pearls up through a large straw.  It was different and really neat.  I wonder if I can find a recipe to make it at home for picnics.  I will have to research the net and see.  We also bought a bonsai tree.  I have always wanted one since I was Bun's age as I was fascinated and still am with the Japanese and Chinese cultures.  So we now have one and it will have a home in the school room.  We also bought the hats that are conical shaped that you see the workers wearing in the rice fields.  I thought it would make a good garden hat.  I really wanted paper lanterns for the front veranda but I couldn't decide on what ones to get.  When confronted with alot of choices I wallow and can never make a decision.  We had alot of fun there.  Bun said she liked it better than Philadelphia's Chinatown.

Driving home we went over the Rainbow Bridge at the border in Niagara Falls.  It was just about 9:00pm and after crossing into the US we parked and walked back over the bridge to see the light show on the Falls.  I have never seen the Falls in the dark and it was beautiful.  Then as an added bonus there was fireworks over the falls!  Since I ahd missed any fireworks over the Fourth of July due to being in bed with the gout I enjoyed them immensely.  We went into the Coca-Cola shop and I tried to buy Bun an icecream soda or a shake but she said "No thanks, mom".   !!!!!!!!!!    She was getting tired at that point.  So I ordered an icecream cone and we nibbled on it on the walk back over the Falls.  At the border she very proudly handed over her passport to the agent.  When she was asked how long she had been in Canada she replied "About 50 hours."  Yes, we have to work on the concept of time.................

We stayed overnight then started driving down through New York the next morning.  We stoppped in Corning at the Corning Museum of Glass and covered EVERY INCH of the museum.  Bun loves museums so this was right up her alley.  They also have a "make your own glass" sessions where you pay to make your own piece of glass.  These range from picture frames to glass flowers to glass ornaments and several things inbetween.  If you google the Corning Museum of Glass New York you can see all of the options.  Anyway,  Bun chose to make a Christmas tree ornament.   She actually got to blow the molten galss while a worker rolled the tube.  So in reallity she didn't do a whole lot besides picking out the colors she wanted in her ornament, choosing a teardrop shape over the round ball, and blowing a little air into the glass but she loved it.   It was the most expensive ornament I have ever purchased at $22.00 but she will never have such an oportunity to do this again.

When we were leaving the museum we saw the "you design it we make it" tables.  Here you design something for the gaffers to make.  If they choose your design they make it and you can have it for free.  Bronwe  wanted to draw so we sat down.  While I drew a very simple pink flamingo she drew an "America Horse".  You had to write what inspired you in your design.  She wrote---and I'm paraprasing here--   'I like horses.  I love America and the flag.  My cousin Jim was in Iraq.  I love him too.  This summer I go to Horse Camp at Freedom Farms.'

I think she had some other line in there but I don't remember.  Anyway I had a phone call today that her design was picked and the gaffers had made her design into a glass scupture!!    I am so proud of her!!  We have the option of driving up and picking it up or having it shipped to us where we pay for the shipping costs.  I told Tina to hold it and I would phone her back in a day or two as I wanted to check with dh to see if he wanted to drive up or not.  We are very proud of our little girl who is growing up so fast!

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Today is Bun's 8th birthday--where has the time gone?    We were very quiet today as my gout is clearin up I can almost stand flat on my foot!!  However I have the side affects of the colchicine--extreme diahhrea.  Extreme.   I'll leave it at that.

Tomorow we go to Hershey Park where Bun's Godmother is going to treat her to the park.  She usually takes her to Dutch Wonderland, however this year she has Hershey Park season passes so there we will be.  As long as I can stay out of the bathroom by morning that is.

She was thrilled with the riding clothes we got her.  Riding britches, a shirt, socks to match.  Also a riding jacket and a lovely fleecey pullover with a horse on it.  Oh, I don't think that I blogged about Bun attending Horse Camp.  It is every Wednesday from 10 to 3 and she is loving it.  And it is right around the corner from our home.    That makes me happy not having to drive for an hour to get to where we are going.  The best thing about the riding clothes is I picked them up at Horseloverz.com's outlet in Hazleton.  We also got her a helmet there but we gave that to her a few weeks ago. The riding britches were originally $67.00.  Yes that's right $67.00.  I paid $17.00.  I can't imagine anyone paying $67 for a pair of chilodren's pants that they are going to grow out of.  I don't pay $67 for my clothes.

The colchicine works really well on the swelling with the gout however it wreaks havoc on your stomach.  I'm trying to decide which is worse the excrutiating pain of the gout or the painfull burning from the diahhrea.  If anyone knows any home remdies please let me know.  I have been gently patting with witch hazel but that is even unpleasant.  My dh suggested sprinkling with talcum powder but the powder I used was MEDICATED so I yowled for 20 minutes.  THEN he tells me not THAT one, but the baby powder one.

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I am up at one a.m. because I am haveing a gout attack!!   I have never experienced such pain, not even labour during childbirth was this bad (or was it?).

I was at my new doctor's earlier this week for  acheckup.  My toe was stiff and would crack when I bent it.  Mildly uncomfortable.  She checked it and said I think you have gout.   My response even though I haven't had eight years of medical school was "Oh no, it can't be gout, ny husband has gout and it is excrutiating, he can't even have the covers on his foot when he has an attack".    

I will never doubt her again.

Within hours---from around nine p.m. to midnight the pain went from being moderate to excrutiating.

EXCRUTIATING.

I'm so glad my dh recently refilled his colchicine perscription.  So far I have taken two tablets and two tylenol #3 with codeine.   Monday morning I will be phoning my dr. to apologize for being so arrogant to dismiss her diagnosis and beg for medication to help with the pain.  I am now going to get in bed and try to sleep, most likely I will stare up at the ceiling while tears run out of my eyes.

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Has anyone ever roasted a pig on a spit over a charcoal fire?   We would like to do this for the Fourth of July.  Years and years and years ago my parents did this for a large family picnic.  My nephew and I would like to try this so any advice is appreciated.

Friday night Bun and I and her 9 year old cousin 'camped out' on the island in my sisterinlaws camper.  It was very last minute planning at 8:30pm so we had the bare neccesitys.  Mainly sheets and matches for the fire, water, bacon and eggs for breakfast.  And bug spray.  Which I don't like to use but we did use it.

They had a great time catching fireflies and looking at the stars.  I would have prefered my own bed but time goes fast and I reallay want to make Bun's summer special.  And as this was at home it was free!  We have made a list of things we need to procure for our next campout which I think will be on Monday night. 

The highlight of Friday's campout was Saturday morning at 5:00 with the rooster crowing on the other side of the pond was a flock of wild turkeys strolling past the camper when I took Noah our little toy poodle outside.   Bun is going to make a list of the different wildlife we see on these camping 'trips' this summer.

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I am switching the schoolroom and Bun's room so I ahve ALL of the bedroom furniture in the living room and am busy painting the new schoolroom.  We ahve the magnamagic paint on the walls and now if the magnets stick well to it, I will go ahead with the color paint over top.  It is slow going to get this down and I am all discombobulated as I dislike having a disorderly house to this extent!

I ahve a doctor appt. today along with Bun's piano lesson and a chiropractor appt later this afternoon.  I will fit painting in there inbetween and also packing up the car for a visit to Maryland tomorrow to see Mary and Catie. 

The garage phoned this morning already.  DH's car needs new braked AND new tires.     So I guess we don't get the air condtioning in the car fixed......  Oh well, that's what windows are for to wind down!!

Bun had a great time with her two cousins yesterday.  They came to visit (a rare occoruance), and they spent time collecting freshwater clams and frogs and minnows. 

I can't wait for the school room to be done so I better get at it so it is done!

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I haven't blogged since May 6th!  I don't know what happened to May, it seems like it just began and now it is gone.  And I really accomplished very little.  Today I started to catch up on everyone's blog.  This is the last week of school coming up and then I can take the big orange bus to the garage and leave it there for the summer.     Yeah!!

Once I get my scattered thoughts collected I will do a nice long newsy blog.  Until then God Bless!

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I want to paint the ceiling on my porch--both of them.  Alot of the southern porches in the US  9and of course I am not in the south), use a color called haint blue.  It is a blueygreeny color.  My question is do you think it goes with a reddish brown house?  We have a wooden home (i don't knwo what to call it other than that it a 'sided' wtih wood.).   And it is all the smae color, the sides, the porch floors, the porch ceilings, the lattice on the small back porch.

ALL reddish brown.  I want to add some brightness to the porches.  Especially the large one out front that looks over the pond and island.  It is elevated and you can only access it from inside the house.  The house wall on the porch is not wood, it is field stone so I thought maybe I can use the haint blue on that ceiling.   I got a second hand wicker love seat and two chairs for out there too.  I love sitting out there at night and in the afternoon.   I saw in a magazine solar powered chinese lanterns, the round rice paper ones, except these are nylon not rice paper.  They were also about $20 a piece.     But I really like them.  It would add to the atmosphere---I'm really reaching here to talk myself into buying them!

So, if anyone has any suggetions for the ceiling colors, let me know.  I absolutely love the southern porches in the pastel shades with flowers on them but I have to work with this dark reddish brown.  I thought I could incorporate the haint blue into the cushions or the table cloth to tie it in.  What do you think?

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We had a delightful time on our cruise to the Bahamas out of New York.  We went on Norwegian Cruise Line's Spirit.  It was lovely and Buna dn my dh had a great time.  Bun loved the Kid's Crew, where she spent about six hours a day.    I spent about three hours a day on deck 7 lounging on a wooden lounger reminiscent of the 30's ships that crossed the Atlantic and you were assigned deck chairs.  I loved it, I would look up from my book (ok books, I had a bag of them with me), and gaze out over the water.  And the water once we got past Florida was such a royal blue!  Not the greenishgray muck we have up the east coast.

Our disappointment was Cocoa Beach.  The weather wasn't great that morning and the waves were rough and threw Bun face first into the sand so that ended our beach that day. 

Cable Beach in Nassau was wonderful!  Tranquil with little waves and soft sand and Bun flew a kite for the first time.  I had my disposable underwater camera with me that day so I am waiting for the photos.  I hope I snapped a good one to post.  She was very pround of herself.  I had bought a little swallow kite from a store that jsut opened in Hazleton before we left.  It is made out of nylon and is in the shape of a blue and white swallow.  Very sturdy and flew great.

On Grand Bahama Island, Freeport, we went on the Seaworld Explorer semi-sub to view a reef.  This was not associated with the Seaworld we are familiar with.  I think they jsut 'borrowed' the name.  It was a small, rickety boat run by two local guys and was not anything like the brochure described.   It was also very rocky and half the people we seasick up on the top deck.   However, we did see some neat fish up close.  And seeing the coral was great too.

I swam in the salt water pool most afternoons and enjoyed the hot tubs at night under the stars until it was time to get Bun from Kid's Crew.  She went from 9 to 12, 2 to 4, and 6 to 10 at night.   When we were in port, she skipped the afternoon session.

The meals were out of this world.  Even the buffets were great.  Now we are back to my cooking.

I was goign to blog but it quite quite pricey on the ship.   I was on line for a about 15 minutes and with the connection fees I was charged $21.00!!!!   That ended the interent on holiday.

I will try to get a few photos up in the next few days.  RIght now we are catching school up.

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I am packed and too excited to sleep or eat!  Tomorrow is the day!!  We leave home at 6:30 to get the bus to NYC at 7:20.  Arrive in NYC around 10:15, taxi to the pier and board at 12:00.  The ship sails at 4:00pm.  

I can't believe that I am actually going to see my dh for hours on end!  And he won't be sleeping!  What will we talk about?!  It will be so nice to reconnect.  His hectic work schedule is murder on a marraige.

Bun is excited that she will be doing things with her dad too.  They have a bunch of stuff planned.  I am hoping for good weather and will try to blog onboard the ship, however it's 75 cents a minute and I have been told that it is real slow connections so I may just take photos and blog when I get home.

God Bless everyone!

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Well, my guinea gals are all over the neighborhood.  I can't beleive that they walk thru 40 acres of woods to visit the neighbors.  And not jsut the next door ones, they were way down the road when I took the bus out this morning.  Sooner or later someone is going to complain.  I hope I can win them over on the merits of the tick menu for the hens.  When we came home from the bus this morning, the hens were back but now I see them heading off to the woods again.  They flew up into our big oak tree by the pond to sleep in last night.  They were so cute.   By the way this tree is next to their coop with the door opened invitingly and millet spread on the floor for a bedtime snack. 

I have one suitcase re-packed.  Bun will have to decide what she is taking in her suitcase for playthings and books.  She has emptied it several times and refilled it.  I can't beleive that we are leaving in two days!

I have to go over the lessons and take the language arts ones with us and some math review sheets.  I think that is enough with any local history we may pick up in the Bahamas and onboard the ship.

I dropped Max off at the kennel this mroning so I wouldn't have to do that tomorrow.  I have to clean for my priest this evening.  Finish packing, gon to the bank, buy Noah some canned food, get his bed already and block off the entry way so he isn't all over the house when Jacky comes to feed him.  A bunch of last minute timeconsuming things to do so I better get started before I work myself up into an anxiety attack!

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I went to the auction yesterday with my niece, Marion.  She bought  a beautiful quilt and I bought 8 guinea hens and a bantan chicken couple. 

The guinea hens are escape artists as four of them are wnadering the woods and my neighbors yards.  I did meet a neighbor whose yard borders my property up along the old railroad bed and she was very nice.  She loves the hens and says they can 'visit' anytime.  Also my other neighbor, Charlie said the hens are welcome as he likes to watch them in his backyard.  I'm very thankfull that they are so welcoming to the hens.   As athe four ladies that are free are making their way all over.  My chickens never went so far away out of the yard and into the woods and beyond.  I watched the four 'free ones' fly over the creek behind our pond and go up the hill so I may be meeting the neighbors from that end also.

It's funny, I lived here my whole life for the most part and I only know three neighbors.  I guess that is what happens when you are divided by acres of trees.

I didn't take any photos at the auction because every time I went to snap one an Amish person would turn around and be looking my way.  The Amish don't like having thier photo taken so out of respect I would lower my camera.  Oh wait--I did  take a few photos of some really neat lawn furniture that was there for my nephew, Marion and I are going to give him a project to make us furniture like it.

We had alt of fun.  I was acheing last night from walking so much, so I had a nice warm Lush bubble bath.

I ahve to seriously pack the suitcases this week, I want them done by Thursday so I don't ahv elast minute running around to do.

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I went to post my entry that I just wrote and it was lost!!

To sum it up-I am going to the Beaver Run Amish Parochial School Auction this Saturday.  Last year I went to the Gratz one.  They have everything from Amish quilts to horses to plants and shrubbery to clothing to furniture to tools.  And everything inbetween what I listed.  If I remember my camera I will take photos and post them.  It goes on all day and is very interesting and fun.  They even had wringer washers--I want one!  My dh thinks I have rocks in my head!  My niece,  Marion, is going with me and we will have a great time.  She is only four years younger than me.  That is what happens when you come from a large family and your oldest siblings are twenty some years older than you!

Now, let's see if this will post, I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

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I have yet another sinus infection.  That means ANOTHER antibiotic.  I took one today and already my stomach is a mess.  I dislike taking them but I am at the end of my rope with these sinuses this winter. 

If anyone has any suggetions please help.

I use the neti pot and we are a smoke free home with no new pets/bedding/furniture/etc.  My new docto feels that the two antibiotics I had in November and March never really kicked the infection out all the way and it just multiplied again.  She also thinks I may have a cold with this one as I am feverish, chilled, achey, and downright miserable.

Bun didn't even do any school today as my head was throbbing that much.  She could have read and practiced her handwriting etc, but I really coudln't move off of the bed after I got home from the doctor this morning.  She was a little trooper though, she made her own lunch of a sandwhich and made herself chocolate milk.

I just want to feel better before vacation.

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Bun and my dh made a countdown calendar that Bun marks off everyday until our cruise.  My dh is looking forward to this vacation so much I can't believe it!   I went to Kohl's yesterday where I never shop as it is out of the way and besides I( really dislike shopping--anyway I got some great deals on clothing for my dh.  They had 70, 80, and 90 percent off racks in the men's clothing.  I didn't have time to go check out the women's section.  I need a few things like a pair or two of decent shorts and some summer skirts.  Bun is all set clothing wise, now we are trying to par down on the items she wants to take along.  She has packed and emptied her suitcase about a dozen times. 

One thing that she is definately set on taking is her nature journal and a blank book to recoerd what she does everyday so she doesn't forget.   Of course I will take the digital cameras and a disposable waterproof camera for the snorkeling and beach.   I need to set up a photobucket account to get the photos online here.  I love the digital cmaera.  If you take a photo you don't like delete!  It is so much more economical that developing photos then throwing them out when they are lousey.

Today I am processing the two roosters that my friend gave us.  My nephew Jacky is going to do the 'nasty' and then I can pluck and clean and freeze.  I am giving him one for his family.  I hope to get guinea hens this spring. 

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I have good intentions to blog everyday, but somehow the time slips away................

We have a new addition to our yard, two beautiful roosters  under a year old.  They are lovely with glossy red feathers with some dark green tail feathers.   My friend gave them to me as she has too many roosters and said these being young will be good for dinner.  I had to seperate them from El Conquistador, our rooster,  who had a fit when he saw them late yesterday evening.  I think he counted the hours to sunrise so he could start to stalk them around the yard chasing them into the woods.  He finally gave them a little peace around noon allowing them to come our of the forest into the yard down by the pond.  I would love to keep one of these young roosters to replace El Conquistador, but he has survived against the odds so many times from the red fox, that I hate to end his life on the block.  Besides we named him and you can't name your food.  That is the rule I have, no naming the livestock, it is a food product not a pet.   

Gosh!  How about the price of gasoline?  I really didn't complain until it hit $3.00 a gallon and that was quite awhile ago.   Now I don't want to drive anywhere, so I group all the errands together and put it off as long as I can.

Bun has her banquet for swimming this coming Saturday.   I will enjoy the time off from practice for the summer.  There is a summer  team also but we are waiting until the fall to join the regular team again.

I started packing for the cruise at the end of April.  Bathing suits and shorts and sandles--things we aren't  using here now.  I am loking forward to it so much, I can't wait.

Bun received a beautiful blue beatta fish from the Easter Rabbit.  He is in the tank with her guppies.  I also bought alot of plants of different sizes and leaf textures.  The tank looks really great now.  I love a tropical aquarium.  My parents had them when I was little and I can remember going out to the living room at night in the dark and laying on the floor watching the fish.  It is so relaxing as they are so gracefull as they swim thru the water. 

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Do you ever feel that something is too good to be true?     John, the driver who was driving the bus in the afternoon so I could get schooling done with Bun had his hours changed at his 'real' job and asked me if I would drive in the afternoon instead of the morning.  Well that just doesn't work for me.   It would be the same as we are doing now as we don't start school until 9:00am.   I need the afternoon to keep going.

SO I called my boss, "Moonie" (really that is his nickname and what we call him), anyway, he is willing to give me two to three days off in the afternoon each week when he has one of the guys from the garage free to drive on my afternoon run.  Can you believe that I was actually argueing with him saying it would be too confusing and too much planning for him to do this everyweek?    Finally he told me to  "please be quiet and this is what we are doing"  because he "said so".       It took me two days before I realized how lucky I am to have a boss willing to do this.  I believe it is because he and his wife hoemschooled thier daughter and they know what is involved.  And also because when he was having a terrible time with a few of the drivers and was ready to quit I was the only one who gave him any postive feedback about his being a great boss.   (That and a thank you card and a bottle of champagne that I gave to his wife that weekend of his employee ordeal telling her to celebrate with him and forget work for a few days).

So, when I bake today for Easter, i am making  extra and will take it over to them.  My dh has requested that we have a 'quiet Easter' with none of my extremely disfunctional family members.  He said quiet,  I added the rest about my family, but it is what he was thinking and I have to agree with him.  However, I have a felinhg of guilt that I am not asking any of these crazyn people over for dinner.   I keep telling myself that it is not my responsibility to make everyone happy in my family, mainly my sister S who always ends up maikeing Bun cry eventually.

Family guilt why do I impose it on myself?   

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Earlier this week a lovely Canadian Goose couple landed on the pond and have been scoping it out for a nesting site.  And I beleive that a nest is being erected right under the willow tree next to the pond.   There is also a mallard duck couple but I haven't been able to find out where they are planning to build.  Although, ducks are harder to track as they seem to blend is so well and are much smaller.

Anyway, yesterday evening a flock of Canadian Geese landed apparntly to spend the night and the couple were furious!   Honking and flapping the wings and carrying on.  Then everyone starts honking.  It went on and on.  Finally they settled down (long after dark), and then started again this morning before the flock took to the wing and left.  Domestic tranquility now reigns at Rainbow's End, for the time being anyway.

I need to think up a name for the couple and make a story out of thier stay here this summer for Bun.  I can print it out and she can illustrate it when it is finished.   

Another day without driving the schoolbus!   Give a girl a sinus infection and the week off from work and she never wants to go back!

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The 'tree guy' was here yesterday afternoon to check our forest out to clean up after the freak tornado we had last year and also to harvest some standing timber.  The 'tree guy',  my cousin Ray,  was really helpfull as we walked thru the woods telling me about the 'correct' way to harvest trees without destroying the forest and opening up the canopy for the smaller trees to mature in ten to fifteen years to repeat the cycle.  It was really interesting as to why some trees wouldn't be cut even though they were larger.    Some were too close to the creek/stream--you can;t disturb the water quality (where are the environmentlaists after we have a pouring rain and the creek is full of muddy water?), also some trees are needed to shade certain areas of the creek for the viability of the trout population, some were too close to the pond wall in the rear of the pond (you don't want to damage the integrity of the support structure of the wall), some would be too 'knotty'.

It was very educational and he will start harvesting Monday.  I kept asking him if we needed any permits from the local government for this.  The only one he needs to get is a ???permit which states about soil disturbance and how it is planned to be fixed when the harvest is done.  I told him I have 'neighbors' that will be calling every state agency when he starts timbering as when I inherited the property from my parents there was a huge controversy over wether I was going to develope the land into a housing developement.  In fact one neighbor was very nasty (please pray for her, her name is Cindy).

After eight years in social work dealing with child abuse, I am quite happy to live in the middle of 42 acres without any people in sight.  The last thing I want to do is have neighbors in seeing distance.   Anyway this Cindy went around the neighborhood with a petition trying to get my land rezoned as 'agricultural'.  All this was done behind my back.  Well, it wasn't rezoned and if it was I would now be a pig farmer with about 1,000 pigs on the east end of my property way far from our house but next to --you guessed it--Cindy.   I guess that I am the one who NEEDs the prayers!!!

I say that about the pigs but I really wouldn't do it, but it does annoy me that I don't bother anyone and people have to just try to regulate what you do.   gggrrrrr.

Anyway, Ray told me he constantly gets inspected by the Department of Environmental Protect as 'neighbors' always complain about timber harvesting and he told me not to worry about it as he has the ???permit.   So I am relieved knowing that is taken care of because when the trucks start driving down the road wtih timber and the chainsaws are humming, the neighbors will be out in the woods checking it out.

I am happy that we are going to timber, but every tree that we marked for harvest yesterday was like sentenceing a friend to death.  I love my forest, but I have been researching and I have had forest rangers out over the last two years discussing timbering and I know it is necessary to do, especially with the stand of pines as they are snapping off in windstorms half way up the tree.  And the timbering will allow for forest regeneration and provide for futrue income.

I just wish it were done so I wouldn't be so stressed with the neighbor issues.

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