Flowers and Insects

    What was supposed to be at the top of this page ended up at he bottom sorry.

 I am not sure if any of you are familiar with the divine proportion, if not that is what those spirals in the sun flower are based on.  It is complex to explain now, but I encourage you to look it up.  

  Flowers and insects are often used to describe things of little importance or significance Even in the Bible tells us to look at the lilies of the field how they do not toil or spin and yet God cares for them, for not even Solomon in all his splendor was not adorned as one of these.  Or to look at the ant how he has no leader over him, yet he goes about his work Just to show that even the smallest things that may not seem important carry important lessons.   Here are some pictures I took this afternoon of flowers and insects that are screaming, "I am designed!!!" a lesson some people have a tough time learning.  

Acts Blog

   You have probably noticed a new link labeled Acts Blog.  At our church we are going to be learning about Acts in our Sunday school.  Anyway the different teachers are writing their thoughts down on this blog.  I highly recommend taking a little time to read some of them.  My dad is a teacher so if it says DR at the end, that is my dad writing.

 Chip

Some more Woodworks

                                 Put this one together with a friend.  We found the wood in our

                          forest.
                               Had this idea from some of the spin art they were selling at potato

                          days.  The illusion makes it look like the ball moves up or down when

                          thing is spun.
                           My sister drew this design of my other sister's name.  So I thought I

                      would carve it.
                         I did not do all the detail, but I was not sure of how well I could do

               it, so I skipped it. 

      Chip

A Potato

                      This is the way my nephew cleans balls at the golf course.  Nothing half hearted.
                          Saturday morning, day 2 of Potato Days. 
                         For those of you are not familiar with this local custom, every year Barnesville

               has a festival focused around potatoes.  On Saturday morning there was a 5k/10k   

            run/walk, here I am coming across the finish line.  I still do not know my exact time,     

             it was under 26 minutes(for the 5k)
                      Here I am before the race, blink blink good morning.  
                         Here is the junior strong man contest, basically consists of lifting a

                     fifty pound sack of potatoes onto a progressively higher platform.

                  Here my cousin is trying for six feet.

                                Seven was simple for me, but man eight and a half feet is really high, that is

                     where I got bumped off.  Oh and how you lose is if you let the sack touch the ground.

                          My bro was one of the last three, he got up to about 9 1/2 feet.
                                       The winner got it all the way up to 10 1/2 feet.
                             This is the real strong man contest where they use a 100 pound potato

                      sacks.

                             Here is sowing and stacking, the guys are timed.  Five bags as fast as 

                      they can.   And while all this was happening there were potato eating, sculpting, and

                      peeling contests going on.
                                    To close out Friday they had a demo derby.

                               An orange haired kid in bib overalls, wow.
                              Waiting for mashed potato wrestling to start.  It was not really wrestling though.

                         Other events included a car show, a really long parade, lefse cook off , golden potato scavenger

                        hunt, some great food, potato picking contest, kiddie parade, potato sack fashion show, and a miss tator

                        tot pageant.  

                          I love living in the land of ten thousand lakes.  It is not quite like the 

                   ocean, but it is still beautiful.