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FFA Week - Looking Back

It's FFA week in case any one has missed it. But if you are on Facebook you can't miss it! Everyone is posting pictures wearing the blue jacket! I am PROUD to say that I own 2 FFA jackets and wore them proudly! I loved every minute of being in FFA ! I am so grateful for the memories and the friends that I made because of  FFA. There isn't a day that doesn't go by that I don't talk to someone who was in FFA with me or not. It is nice to have such a common bond with so many people all from a little blue jacket. 

Proud member of the Pioneer FFA and Santa Clara Section!

Growing up in the City that doesn't value Agriculture wearing the blue jacket was hard at times because so many made fun of it. But I would like to think because of the little blue jacket that it made me who I am now. I wouldn't have it any other way growing up! I loved that I was in FFA and so was my Dad heck we even had the same AG teacher at one point! Yes, my ag teacher was that old. LOL 

The bond is like no other when you spend HOURS in the AG van to get to a conference or to a contest. You learn a lot about your class mates as well as your teachers. 

I am saddened that so many in the town I grew up will never get to know that bond or the dedication to something that is bigger than a football game or a play. So many young people in the city can use an organization like the FFA to find themselves and get on the right path. I BELIEVE in the blue jacket and I BELIEVE in the words of the Creed that we all must learn as Greenhands. 

You may out grown the Blue Jacket but you never outgrown the experience!! 

Happy Valentine's Day or Single Awareness Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!! I have to brag the boyfriend did AMAZING by surprising me at work with flowers and candy. He even remember my favorite flowers Tulips!! I love that boy! It's been so long since I have had a Valentine and it's nice to be spoiled and to spoil someone as well!!

Quote of the Day!

Extra Luck never hurt

Well I do believe good things are starting to come my way!! But sadly if and when they come around they ALWAYS follow with hard choices to make. I hope I have enough wisdom and support to make these decisions with the most knowledge and support a girl could as for. I still don't want to let the cat out of the bag but wish me luck or say a prayer or do BOTH!! Either way I am excited  about all the things that are starting to line up!

The BEST Poem EVER !!

So God Made a Farmer

 

And on the 8th day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker!". So, God made a farmer!

God said I need somebody to get up before dawn and milk cows and work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board. So, God made a farmer!

I need somebody with strong arms. Strong enough to rustle a calf, yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry and have to wait for lunch until his wife is done feeding and visiting with the ladies and telling them to be sure to come back real soon...and mean it. So, God made a farmer!

God said "I need somebody that can shape an ax handle, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire make a harness out of hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And...who, at planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty hour week by Tuesday noon. Then, pain'n from "tractor back", put in another seventy two hours. So, God made a farmer!

God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop on mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place. So, God made a farmer!

God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees, heave bails and yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink combed pullets...and who will stop his mower for an hour to mend the broken leg of a meadow lark. So, God made a farmer!

It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight...and not cut corners. Somebody to seed and weed, feed and breed...and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk. Somebody to replenish the self feeder and then finish a hard days work with a five mile drive to church. Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who'd laugh and then sigh...and then respond with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does". So, God made a farmer!

By Paul Harvey

New Month, New adventures(?)

Well today is the start of a new month and I already feel like its the start to a new adventure. I don't want to go into too many details but I am SUPER excited for what the path might lead too! I have the BEST supportive co-workers ever and every day is a pleasure to come to work and hang out with them. It doesn't feel like work but hanging out on most days. 

Stay tuned for more news as it comes. And if my nervous energy says anything it hopefully means GOOD things are in the future.