visitors and darth vader

Over the last few weeks we have had some company at our little farm house. My friends Jack and Joy came and stayed over with their two kids; Grace and Gavin two weeks ago. That was a really nice weekend. We told war stories and they made fun of my love life. Jack, an avid PlayStation nut, and I played Starwars Battlefront2 until the wee small hours and just talked and talked about pretty much everything. It was great fun. They are, rightly, in love with the farm and want to move here asap. We'll see how that turns out. Last weekend my friend Frogs and his wife C and their son J stayed over. For those of you who don't know FRogs he is a UUMinister (Yeah yeah Lighten up on the ordination date crap I don't wanna hear it). We all talked politics and ethics and the meanings of religion and the nature of responsibility etc. Much fun. I also showed his son J how to shoot a rifle. It was a request and as C agreed I did too. Don't go getting your shorts in a bind the kid is 17 and I didn't teach him how to do a dynamic entry on a fortified location. I just showed him how to plug a can with a .22 rifle at 30 feet. Something that every farm kid in america learns by the age of 7. I really liked having company stay over. That is a new thing for me too. I used to get really stressed out if people were at the farm. I am a slob and that always made me really tense when it came to people...it's the whole judging thing. Nowadays I really don't care....well except for Kate. I will scrub the place three or four times before she comes over.

Ok I gotta go make a living now.
Later,
Sam