So no building a home at the farm? What changed?

Well, not quite yet.

It is a long daily drive from the grandkids, and that is a big deal at the moment.

But the bigger issue is the road into the place.
It was impassable during a lot of the winter

and

my neighbor, who is my friend, will not fix it or allow me to fix it.

This is one of those Kentucky deals where I have prescriptive easement to a land locked property. I could go to court and all that and have a regular easement given to me, but I would still have to ask permission to improve the road. There's that but I also have this belief that he has the right to keep that road anyway he wants to. It's his land after all. I respect that and he and I have come to respect each other and our "oddities," so I'll leave that resting dog lie.

I see all that changing in due course. Unfortunately he has bone cancer and I wish he didn't. I like the man and I think he is a good person, albeit a bit eccentric, but frankly that is part of his charm. Perhaps in time we could purchase that property and if that happened, I would build there and you'd have a 3/4 mile drive back into the woods just to get to my home, which I would very much like.

I like his family and so forth and well at the end of the day, that lane is not getting any better than 4WD/mud tire capable, so Kat in her AWD Caddy would be left out in the cold if we built there now. So for now, I'll keep the property up and ready. I'll make small, incremental, and smart changes that do not kill the bank account, nor take up huge chunks of our time.

We are in a place in our life where we are enjoying the family, each other and travelling. Frankly, this year, I would not have had all that much time remaining to do much down there anyway.

So for now, it is what it is. It is in God's hands and I am not worrying about it

But I DID JUST BUY A NEW TRACTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YIPPEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My newest granddaughter showed up yesterday. Wrenleigh. She's going to be a handful when she gets older with that red hair.

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Great testimony 

& congratulations to the young ranger to be!

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He made it through Cole Range, the super tough part of RASP. Now it's just four weeks of intensive weapons training and this young man gets assigned to one of our three Ranger Battalions!

I couldn't be more proud.

But there is a back story: I have been praying every day for God to give him another basement below the one he naturally has for when it gets really bad. I prayed for strength, for endurance, and all those sort of things. I did not know this until tonight but his mother has been praying for God to show up in Chris's life in a way that he would absolutely know it was God!

And he did!

Oddly enough Kat and I were sitting in the theater watching the latest Christian movie when Chris called. So we hustled out into the hallway and spoke to him for 30 min. He was telling us all about his experiences in a non-specific manner because he was not allowed to discuss details. He said, "Dad, you know, speaking of the spiritual nature of things, one night I was all junked up on the land nav course. I had to do waypoints 5km apart in a given time and the time was running out." He then said, "So I prayed and asked God to please get him through this land nav course." He continued that he looked at the map and looked around, but it was nighttime in Georgia (Flat). He said he thought he was near this hillside, so he took a heading and took off at a run. He said, "Dad just like that I ran up a hill and right to that waypoint! He said he ran to the next two and got both first time. He then ran to the finish and made it in time having found 100% of his waypoints!
He told me, "Dad, that had to be God." And right there is a pretty good witness about how a mother prayed a prayer, for God to show up, and he heard it. Chris cannot deny that he prayed because he was lost and out of ideas, and God intervened!

Chris graduated from Phase 1 and now is in Phase 2. He had about four hours of sleep from Sunday until Thursday night!!!

RLTW (Rangers lead the way) but God almighty reigns over everything!