Once again i find myself apologizing for a long break in my blogging. All has been well since my last transmission. Easter was a tiring but a good getaway to NC. Everyone in NC was doing good and it was great to catch up with everyone again. Solomon is the starting center for the Davie County diaper football league. He has went from a preemie to a beefy stud in just 4 short months. On Easter Sunday afternoon, we had some fun family Gene adventures as 7 people piled into his truck and roamed his land along with the surrounding farms. Once back in sparta all has been well. Tara continues to go to school and become Ben Lomands most outstanding employee. I have submitted all of my Loan Repayment papers and will be awaiting an answer over the next few months to whether i will be winning the 50K dollar jackpot. Not many things are certain in this world but no one else is being considered for the position and the Spencer clinic is rated as one of the higher rural health needs in this area. The NHSC gives favor to clinics with the highest rating of needs so if i don't receive the money no one will. This past weekend we got to spend some time with out good friend Bignate before he ships off to serve our country in Afghanistan. In a way i'm fighting my own little war here in Gillen once again. My little squirrel friend has started to respect me a little more and is an infrequent guest at the bird feeders. However the dark warrior tree rat clans have started taking my feeder to the bank. The black birds have raided us and are laughing all the way to the top of the trees. Last year i can't recall one black bird getting on our feeders but now they are like a bad motorcycle gang appearing every time you turn around. While in NC Gene gave me a flash back to the past when me and ryan were little boys. Gene had bought a Pellet gun from walmart for general plinking and when he walked out my eyes lit up and I said I had one just like that when i was younger. In fact, we had two... one for me and one for ryan. As i shot it it brought me back to so many good days shooting fence post and aluminum cans. When i returned back to sparta i went to walmart and found that the ole Pumpmaster 760 was only 30 bucks. So obviously i couldn't turn it down. the design is still the same....the empowering feeling of pumping it like 50 times when the book only recommends 10 times is still the same. Granted my eye sight must be worse or i haven't sighted him in yet cause i have yet to hit one of our Tree Rat friends. They just laugh all the way back to the top of the trees but they won't be laughing when i hang one of them over the tree branches for all his brothers and loved ones to see. Last night I once again found myself crunching numbers and dreaming about the future. If you ever want to have fun or get your self depressed ( you can choose) go to Dave Ramsey's website and play with his investment calculator. It was actually pretty amazing to see how much you could make long term with only starting out with a little bit of money. If you play with it you will see this but i will describe it anyways. It gives you the ability to change your initial investment, your monthly investment and how long you want to invest for. Then you can choose to see what your investment gains would be roughly in so many years. Most of the bars are blue but there is one special "yellow" bar that tells you when you would eclipse the One Million Dollar mark. I decided to go unrealistic and see how quick i could get to my One million dollar yellow bar. Granted this is a little far fetched but i gave us a marked initial balance because we said Tara would work like two years and then all that money would go towards this fund. Then it turns a little crazy hahaha. If i put most of my salary in this fund for 10 year growing with interest every year I would reach my million dollar mark in like 11 or 12 years. So I would be sub 40 years old have have a million dollars in the bank. Nice to think about but sure its unrealistic for the most part but its definitely possible to still have a lot of money down the road if you start early and do things right. Well I'll leave you with that little toy to have fun with. Click on investment calculator on the right.
www.daveramsey.com/etc/investmentcenter/
Greetings to you and yours! I guess i will start off with a big ole "Happy Birthday" to me. As most of you know yesterday was my birthday and the ole "2-6" is now behind me. It was a good day really. I was scheduled to work for Dr. Webb on Monday but the beautiful weather slowed the world down and I was able to leave early around 2pm. I spent most of the rest of the day frolicking outside and soaking up the sun. Me and my lovely bride were then off to supper for my birthday meal. This past weekend we spent a few days in Nashville and had a few really nice meals so we decided to go simple and hit the El Tap. Tara treated me with a great relaxing back massage as we chuckled to Jay Leno. Today was a great day as well. I was off and enjoyed sleeping late till about 10am. The rest of my day was spent making the final preparations for Heady National Golf Club grand opening. All of the grounds were mowed and trimmed today. The course has been taking shape for the last few days but has officially hit its peak playing conditions. Some will say its just a flag,an open field, and a little boys dreams but I want to urge you that its so much more than that. I have just spoke with the marketing department and the Brochures are ready to be sent out. Please feel free to check it out at the link below. The quality has been lowered for internet viewing purposes. Feel free to drive by and tour the grounds. If you would like a higher quality brochure just let me know. We are currently experiencing some tecnhical difficulties with the link going to our brochure. It should be two pages but only the first page is showing up so we will continue to get these things worked out. thanks.
