Happy New Years Eve EVERYONE!!!!! Looks like another year is upon us. Exciting as that may be. I am sure it will bring amazing things to all of us!
The latest news on the farm is that it looks like it is going to be Thursday or Friday before we know anything. SOOOO STAY TUNED!
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OK. let’s all inhale. No exhale. Now inhale again. Now exhale again. Let’s repeat this for the next 20 minutes. Focus on noting but that hill. OK, well maybe focus on anything but the hill.
Case number 001 - subject appears to be driving himself insane. Unable to stop thinking about being back on his family farm. Watching the sunsets…the clouds…the rainbows, the lightning, the fireflies, the coyotes, and the deer. And what about the black panther. Did hurry up and wait ever come up in this conversation? I have already given up on the :whats if: this falls through. My confidence level is setting me up for a fall? 
Sooooo we are waiting tonight. The only new news is that I found out we might find something out on Monday. Not sure if that is a bad of good. We shall see. See story below called "Misfortune". Talk about timely!
Did I mention that my entire body feels like it could explode at any given moment? Pease don/t call Homeland Security as I am sure they will send me off to gitmo. Screwy people they are.
I am trying to figure out who is on board for this project up north. I know Doug is because he could sense the excitement behind it all. Not so sure about David yet. We have to speak.
I don’t think I have ever been or felt more right about something in my life. It is a once in a life time opportunity. Promises I made and kept a long time ago. It won’t be the easiest year of my life but it will certainly be one of the more interesting!
Stay tuned…
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Two people…two sides - one locked away from the other
Now THAT is something to celebrate. 100% sobriety. A Reason to celebrate!!!!!! WOOHOO!
The ultimate kind of freedom….
The ultimate show of freedom….
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Mother riding one of her horses on the farm
Looks like a wintery day
Mother in front of grandmothers house…these flowers were there for years and years. I can
remember them when I was growing up there.
Mother on the front steps of grandmothers house
Mother’s first few days on the farm!!!!!
Mother with her bathtub outside!
Mother and her first highchair
Mother
The old farm house in the background. I would imagine this would be my grandmothers
parents.
This looks like Dione? See the big Oak Tree to the right in the background!
Deena with her "lunch box" for school. They auctioned these boxes off and the boy who
big the highest got to eat lunch with the girl. lol I bet they would never do that today.
That would be me back in the 90s.
Suddenly before my eyes
Hues of indigo arise
With them how my spirit sighs
Paint the sky with stars
Only night will ever know
Why the heavens never show
All the dreams there are to know
Paint the sky with stars
Who has paced the midnight sky?
So a spirit has to fly
As the heavens seem so far
Now who will paint the midnight star?
Night has brought to those who sleep
Only dreams they cannot keep
I have legends in the deep
Paint the sky with stars
Who has paced the midnight sky?
So a spirit has to fly
As the heavens seem so far
Now who will paint the midnight star?
Place a name upon the night
One to set your heart alight
And to make the darkness bright
Paint the sky with stars.
- ENYA
Another snowy day on the farm - another one of mothers puppy dogs. It must have snowed
a lot back then.
Check out that old car in front of grandmothers old farm house. :) Spiffy.
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I did sleep better last night. The doctor gave me something to help me sleep! So that is the good news. I slept for once. Sleep has been difficult since last Monday. I think I am going to explode with excitement. I need to find something to occupy my time. If school was in session then I would have homework! It isn’t though.
We may go to the bookstore tonight and look at some building books. Pick out a few designs that we like. I guess I shouldn’t put the horse before the cart. But still…it is hard not to at this point!
Chilly outside today. No real weather to speak of. Yesterday was cloudy. Looks like a COLD week ahead. We may dip down into the teens. BRRRR
It won’t be long until I will be back in CANADA! I will be up there for at least a month. SURELY IT WILL SNOW THERE!!!!
So while I await news…I shall post some more photos - from our family farm!
Mother with one of her dogs…you know that every photo I have of my mother she has a dog!
I think that is a pug???? :) Daisy???
Mother and her horses
Mother in front of grandmothers house - major ice storm!
Ice storm on the farm - Judy Dodson (mother)
My mother playing in the snow on the farm (yes it used to snow around here) Note yet
another dog
Mother - trying to find her puppy no doubt
Mother feeding the chickens on the farm
Mother riding her bike. Ummm I see the training wheels!!!!
That would be ME - BEAU! The big Oak Tree to the left of my shoulder. It still stands!
Looks like hay ride on the farm.
Mother with her friend Leah. Leah was adopted by a local family. They became lifelong
friends. I believe Leah lives in the Southwest United States.
My mother…grandmother and unsure on who the other lady is? My grandmothers mother?
This is in front of my grandmothers old house on the farm.
Dione riding a horse. Scary I know!
Grandmother with some horses/ponies on the farm.
Looks like they are hauling corn in this photo…
Just so there is proof that I had a motorcycle when I was little! This is Dione on my bike!
Daddy helping her ride it. Course she could never ride it as good as her big brother!
Dione on the farm…prob 3 years old??? Don’t let her charming looks fool you. I am sure
she was up to something.
Dione stealing my easter eggs…OK well maybe she found those but I have my doubts.
Dione - hmmm too young for school? Going to church maybe? Looks like Deena there to
the right - obviously cut out of the photo for some reason. Marsha Marsha Marsah…I mean
Dione Dione Dione :) 
OK, this is my cameo appearance. I am the one with the cute butt. Deena to the right.
First day of school it appears? Maybe church? Dione looks too young for school! I am going
to guess church. You can see the big Oak Tree to the left in the back!!!! Still there.
That would be me :) Mouse? Frog? lol
Going to school. New lunch box. Planet of the Apes?????
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So I picked up this mailbox today. This will look great at the end of the lane on the farm! :) Not getting ahead of myself or anything…just sayin!
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It feels like there are a thousand volts of electricity running through me today I think the excitement has reached a point to where I can literally touch it. I honestly can’t remember the last time I felt this way. It is a different feeling than I had after everything that happened in Birmingham. That was more of a relief than pure excitement. This is an emotion that I haven’t felt in a long time. Everything just seems to be coming together for a true American fairy tale ending. Will it though? In my heart I know it will work out. It just feels right. How can all of this have happened in the last month? It has played out perfectly. Me moving out of the house…knowing that for some reason that is what the still little voice inside of me wanted. A rushed move at that! From the time we made the decision to move out to the time we were moved out was less than 10 days.
The search for three years for a hill around here. Never finding anything that felt right or worked. Dozens of houses looked at. A few had potential but then in the end I always walked away. At times wondering why. I think now I know why!
My mind is racing. It is going faster than I could ever possibly hope to keep up with. I was up and down all night. I keep thinking about being back on top of the farm - on the hill. I smile every time I think about it. Day and night! I just need to relax! It is difficult though. Waiting was never my finest attribute.
Do dreams come true? They have in the past! I think for those who have followed this incredible journey will agree with that. There are always things that simply can’t be explained. They just are. As I like to say - "it is what it is". Whether good or bad at times. Some things were not meant to be explained. This could be yet another amazing story to join all the rest of them.
Here are some old photos from the family farm.
Sunset on the old farm - looking west.
My grandmothers house on the farm.
That would be me on the farm…big baseball player
My grandpa Joe with Deena or Dione (I think Deena???) Family Farm.
After a snow on the farm…
My mother with my grandmothers house in the background…family farm
My grandmothers old house - it was torn down years ago. This is where we would
probably build a new house for my mother.
The old pony barn…this is where I will build my house. On the highest point on the farm.
Me and my sister Dione - our old house in the background.
Easter on the farm - looking to the north
My sister Dione - looks like the first day of school (our old station wagon in the background)
Me and my sisters - Easter
My mother (long time ago!!!!) up on the farm
My grandfather mowing the yard on the old farm.
Me and my sisters - Halloween
My mother on the farm as a child…lots of snow!!!
Mother as a baby
Grandmother holding Deena and me :) I am the little guy on the left - my grandmothers
old farm house in the background
Farm from above :) That is my grandmothers house on the right side of the
photo
Mother with one of her pony’s
Mother being pulled on a sled by her dad - one of our
old barns in the background.
My mother - grandmothers old house in the back
I swear that looks like a wolf that mother has beside
her.
Looking north from the farm.
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My mind is racing. I don’t think I can shut it down. :) I guess that is to be expected. My level of excitement is rising by the hour! Certainly by the day. I keep telling myself to slow down…stop thinking so much. That doesn’t seem to be working at this point. I keep thinking about being back up on that beautiful hill. Our family farm! Being there when thunderstorms roll in! Being there to watch the awesome sunsets in the west. Being there for SNOWSTORMS!!!! It is just driving me nuts at this point. I guess I will just have to be patient. If I keep telling myself that maybe my mind will listen! I have my doubts though.
Word can not come soon enough! This is like waiting for Christmas when you are a little kid. Tick Toc Tick Toc Tick Toc!!!!
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Pakistani former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated by cowards.
Ms Bhutto - the first woman PM in an Islamic state - was leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi when a gunman shot her in the neck and set off a bomb.
Godspeed…
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