I know, I know… it's been a really long time since I've updated my blog… But I have legitimate reasons! First off, Dad took the entire month of September off from work and we've been very busy working on a new barn for our goats. It has 4 stalls, a hayloft, and the middle is big enough to drive a 9 foot vehicle through it! … I'll post a few pictures of it in a second.

Second, Megan came back to visit with us again and is spending the month. This day last week, Megan and I officially started courting each other. Courting, unlike dating, is a pure relationship in preparation for marriage. There is no touching, or kissing. The Bible also warns us against fornication, in numerous places:

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;  (Ephesians 5:3)

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
(Ephesians 5:7)

Thirdly, Megan and I both registered Facebook accounts. Strange, yes. It's starting to grow on me, now that I'm learning my way around, and have installed a Firefox addon to block all the Facebook ads… (Now, we just need to come up with some way to hide billboard ads from windshields!) It's definitely a big place with lots and lots of people. You can find me here… feel free to add me as a friend =)

We are going to have the roof of the barn repaired, and reshingled because it has some leaky spots from the skylights that were incorrectly installed when the built the barn.

So we called the Barlow's because we knew that they had built the very nice house down the road from us, and several other ones in our county. They are some very nice people.

Yesterday, they came out and put up their sign at the bottom of our driveway, and stuck a "Lumber" sign over in the barnyard so the man delivering the lumber would know where to unload it. ( Gabriel would not go near it, because it was white, like his white bad flags )

The man delivering the Lumber has already arrived today and both him and myself unloaded the shingles, black paper and slid the plywood off the back. (I took the pictures before he arrived).

So now we are just waiting for them to come back and begin working on the roof whenever we get some dry weather and the rain holds off. There's a big storm stretching from way down south coming our way right now, so we have all of the supplied covered up with plastic.

At the request of Amanda and Rachel, I took some pictures of my books and sketchwork yesterday, to post. I actually have more books than what is showed in the pictures (all of the Hardy Boys, and many shelves of old books in the barn, that came from Nana's library and Pap's house) but these are my favorites that I keep in my room. I've left the pictures somewhat big, so you can read the titles appropriately.

The last picture shows the only 3 technical books that I own. I just happened to find them at the Goodwill, and couldn't turn down the offer of $3 a book (I think it was). I'd still like to find a book on Object Oriented Programming for Php, and maybe a beginners guide to C++ and Python. Maybe another time, though.

And now to the sketches. Nothing extraordinary about them, at least I think. This first one is a sketch that I drew of our subdivision, including everyone's houses, buildings, driveways, and creeks. I actually erased some of it and redrew it to correct proportion. Our house is at the end of the cul-de-sac, to the right.

And then, this second one, is a sketch I drew of a U.S. Marine (supposedly at bootcamp), back when I was all interested in the Marine Corps. Now that I look at him, I see that he has an odd shaped head, and a rather fat neck. Maybe he is just starting a bootcamp then

The rest of my sketches were not worth posting, so instead, I just picked out those two. Maybe I should try sketching something again, but I need to have an object and really visualize it.

Lacy insisted that I needed a new theme for my blog, so she's been busy over the last two days at finding an appropriate theme to match my specifications, and then totally remoddling it today, based off a few color schemes.

I think it looks great! The greens and browns really match my characteristics, along with the semi-foggy header image that I think I took (did I? I can't remember). Of course, I was there helping her along with a few custom CSS settings and such to get it the way I wanted it.

The entire thing looks great, and I forced her to be creative with it, since I'm by no means a good designer! Thanks, Lacy. You did a great job

Levi