It's an EXPLOSION!!

We have been experiencing a bit of a phenomena this past few weeks. There has been an absolute explosion in the number of students coming to youth group every week for the past month. Since we moved youth group to our basement we went from 6-8 students regularly to now over 20! We had 24 students out last night! Now we are experiencing a real squeeze with our space. My solution? Let's build a Yurt! I started pricing out yurts and found we could build one big enough for between 14 and 15 thousand bucks. We could still have it behind the parsonage so we would still have use of the facilities there as well. How could anyone resist the idea of a "Youth Yurt?"

Grampa At The Fair

Here is a qoute from "The Fryeburg Fair The First 100 Years"
"I have a number of people who come back every year, and a few who demonstrate. I have a man who makes paddles, Jeff Peterson, who has been here every year since we started in 1990. I have a wonderful person from Bethel, whose name is Bob Keniston, who worked for Diamond National his whole working career, and is a terrific wood expert. He can talk grades and strengths and things to people, and he is mobbed all the time for information. In 1999 his space was judged the 'display with the most spectator interest'.

My Grampa has been working at the Fair for a number of years showing off his incredible talent with wood turning. We are always so excited to see him and Gramma working the crowd and selling his art. We hope to be there to see them on Columbus day at the fair.

Say Hello to Evan

This is Evan. I am going to go over to the Humane Society to introduce him to Maggie this afternoon.

A new addition?

We have decided to adopt another dog! Yesterday on my way back from Laconia I decided to stop in at the New Hampshire Humane Society to check out some dogs. Kann had been hinting around about it for a while and Maggie is pretty lonely. I went by myself the first time and found a nice little three legged german shepherd named Buck. Unfortunately with only three legs and a pretty lazy personality he wouldn't have stood a chance with Maggie around. The had a lot of nice dogs there but it was impossible to decide by myself, so I brought the family back later in the afternoon and they all fell in love with a different german shepherd named Evan. He is 10 months old and is a real love bug. He is originally from Georgia and because of HUrricane Katrina he and a bunch of other dogs were shipped north to make room for all the displaced in Mississippi and Louisiana. We still have some hoops to jump through (doggie humor intentional) but if all goes well we will be adding a new member to the herd!

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Fishless in Meredith...

I miss my fish. This one of the two biggest goldfish I have ever seen outside a sushi restaurant. It didn't have a name due to the eternal truth that once you name a fish it will most certainly die. This fish, although it did not have a name, is now dead. It was a very sad day for our familt, me especially becuase, being Daddy, I get the gruesome task of disposing of desceased animals and this baby was a triple flusher! Our fishtank is now almost empty, we have five remaining fish which are not brightly colored or entertaining in any way. I guess the solution to this problem is fairly simple, go buy more fish. So I might surprise my dear wife one of these days...

See What I Have to Put Up With?!?

This is one of my Youth Group kids, Mark. He's a funny kid and he adds a lot to the group. "Mark is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get" Love ya Mark!

This has been a pretty exciting few weeks for me. 1. We moved to the parsonage owned by the church, so now I can walk to the office! 2. I moved offices within the church building, so now I don't have to share space anymore. 3. We went to Vermont for my cousin's wedding last weekend and I'm still recovering from that one!
Even after all of the exciting new things going on I am still plagued by the worst case of "the blahs" I think I have ever seen. I need some refreshing quick!