The Millennium3 Farm - An American Gothic

05/01/2006

Before you read this one do me a little favor?  Some changes were made to the website’s look.  In the upper left hand corner should be a photograph of our American Gothic.  If the tree drawing still shows up on your screen as you bring up this site, please update it?  You can do this by pressing the Ctrl key and the refesh icon on your tool bar (to the right of the back button/foward button - arrows, one green, the other gray) at the same time.  Your refresh button may be shown as two little green arrows wrapped around one another.  See ya!

In the little stories and vignettes I have posted here, I have attempted to allow you to get to know me and my innermost thoughts.  I have waxed philosophically, BS’d a good deal, and perhaps stretched the truth a time or two.  This is what being a blogger is all about, I suppose?  It is my website and my stories.  When my daughter and son-in-law gave this to me on my birthday I was truly excited at the possibility of having this toy/tool to play with.  It intimidated me for a brief moment; however, I soon realized it is a means to open up my heart to the world.  It allows me the opportunity to look nostalgically at my childhood and formative years.  I can revisit all the stupid shit I did as a teen, and I get to fess up to crap I pulled as an adult.  My opinions and thoughts mean little to the world and may not make a difference in the long scheme of things, but maybe I can evoke a memory for you or bring you a smile, or present an opportunity for a few of you to pick apart what I have said and call me an asshole.  Everyone in the world should be required to have one of these just so they can sit down, write crap and get to ruminate over and analyze what they have written.  If nothing else, they, as I, would get to expose their human foibles to the world and be penitent and contrite (some of us need to be more penitent than others).  Wow!  This is great.

The photograph below illustrates how I have assimilated to country life.  This was taken just off our porch and under a maple tree.  Nancy and I have talked about our American Gothic, our new home and its architecture, and the setting - three and a half acres of cleared land (lawn) surrounded by another 112 acres of rolling pastures and woods.  It is our little slice of heaven.

Attitude plays a large part of being happy and contented.  The house we live in could use a lot of work.  We have done a considerable amount already and have a huge investment in what we have done so far.  Jokingly, and I emphasize the “jokingly,” I tell people all the problems and issues with the house will be solved by the fire.  All in all, it is a beautiful place both inside and out.  The work will get done in time. 

In the interim, I just get to be happy.  What more could I ask for?