Odds and Ends

I'm from Saskatchewan so you knew it only a matter of time before I talked about the weather. I know it weird but I actually love it when it rains. I find it exciting and invigorating. Evan the foreman hates rain is really depressed by it. I pray for rain, he prays for sun so I think our prayers are canceling each other out and were getting a mix of sun and rain. But sun is aweful, I'm not one of those guys who dreams about going to the Carribean for a two week holiday and calling it 'school' I'm not just not a fan of being hot all the time. And I'm fairly certain that all of the bugs that were in Egypt ended up in Prince George. It is seriously of biblical proportions. And my bug dope that is 28.5 % Deet is just not cutting it, so I'm upgrading to Watkins which has 30% and serves as a treeplanters false functional savior. But really what I hate is the bugs touching my face. I've taken to wearing one bandana on my head to keep my hair back and on my face so the bugs won't touch me. Evan calls me 'the Terrorist' because I look so ridiculous. My epic treeplanter beard is coming in nicely. I definetly tell myself to 'earn your beard' when I feel like going slow. But as usually my mustache doesn't grow at all. So with my over grown hair and boyish beard its almost as though I'm impersonating a Hutterite Rockstar.

I also fall down alot. which is weird because I've always had awesome balance. But put treeplanting bags on me and I drop like a sack of bricks, at least once a day. Yesterday i fell twice in ten steps. awesome.

James 1:2-4 "Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."

This is a really kicker verse for me. I concluded some time this week that God was angry at me for making me go treeplanting. Then I recieved a spiritual spanking of sorts and am working through some junk in my life that just needs to go. Painful but worth it. Just like being a Christian is harder but better, so much better.

~CHAD