A Good Laugh (and some awesome hunting too!)!!!

There are a group of guys from my hometown that currently have some pretty awesome videos of outdoor adventures online! They also run a hunting guide service among other things! I know that I can always find comic relief in watching the videos of these guys! Their business name is Fat Boy Outdoors. They have a website: http://www.fatboyoutdoors.com/ where you can find out about their services, book hunting trips, and find an awesome clothing line filled with Fat Boy Outdoors products! Give it a look, even if you aren't a fan of hunting, these guys will make you laugh! And when you're done...go ahead...look them up on facebook and "like" their page...I know you will want to!

Times Are Changin'!!

On Monday, July 19th, I took head on one of the hardest tasks of my life so far...the defending of my thesis! I was so nervous, but at the end of all it (thanks to my awesome friends here!) I passed! I will be graduating from West Texas A&M University on August 6th at 7:00 PM. I never imagined myself making it this far!! Thank you is not enough for all of the people that have pushed me and supported me!!

I am about to start a new adventure in the fall. I will be starting my Ph.D. program back at Texas A&M in meat science/food science/sensory. I am very excited to be going back to aggieland! I look forward to what the future has in store for me!!

This weekend presented a new hard challenge for me...the giving up of my kitties to my parents. I am not allowed to have them in my new place in College Station. I am blessed however that my parents can take them instead of having to find a strange new home for them. It will be definitely be a little different going home each night without them being there...but I guess I will get used to it! Maybe I'll get a fish...

I just wanted to again say thank you to all of the people who supported me and helped on my journey here @ WTAMU! I have grown so much as a person, made many great memories, and learned lessons that have shaped me into the person I am today! I will always carry the work ethic I learned from here and the lessons learned from not only my co-workers, but my advisor and the rest of the faculty here @ WTAMU! GO BUFFS!!!

Amber Waves of Grain

Wheat harvest could be my favorite time of the year! I have always loved when the wheat turn but don't really know why! It looks like it would be so fun to just run through, but those who know wheat know that isn't a smart idea! I stopped along FM 104 south of Kirlkand in Childress county and took these pictures.




A random though on things....I have recently gotten a new camera and am really getting into taking pictures! I really enjoy it and the fun things that I get to capture on camera! I am planning on taking the close up pictures and having them printed on canvases and using them to decorate around the house!

As I look at these pictures, I can almost feel the wind in my hair as I was standing there taking the pictures. I thank God everyday for blessing us with awesome sights like these and the ability to be free to enjoy them. Don't forget to stop sometimes, take a look at the simple things in life, and enjoy them!!

Combine City

For people who travel up and down I-40 west of Amarillo, you have probably seen or heard of the Cadillac Ranch. A gentleman named Stanley Marsh, III planted several Cadillac cars nose down in the middle of an old wheat field when the road was the old Route 66. This free attraction always draws crowds, complete with spray paint cans in hand. It is a pretty awesome sight.


It is good to know, however, that there is one of these type places for the agriculture in us all! On FM (Farm-to-Market for the non-rural people) 1151 or also known as the Old Claude Highway, a farmer had constructed what he calls Combine City. I pass by this Combine City on the way home to Childress every time I leave Canyon, but have never stopped. This time I did so I could take pictures! It is on a corner lot of a field separated from the road with a bar ditch and a rusty barbed wire fence. It is pretty awesome and is what I consider, one of those hidden little treasures of the Texas backroads! So if you are ever on FM 1151, take the time to stop and enjoy this wonderful display of agricultural art!

Help!

So....making this blog look good is proving to be very difficult! Any suggestions?

New Adventures!

Well, I have decided to join the blogging world! I look at it as a way that I can keep up with my friends and family and let them know what I am up to! I usually have some sort of crazy story to tell about some adventure that I have been on recently, so this will be a good way to share it with everyone!!!