Commando Training

Ever have those days when you feel like GI Joe and do all kinds of cool things like blow up trucks, run obstacle courses, drop out of 2nd windows.
Well Wednesday I did some thing very daring. (Or very dumb)

That dude is me. dropping out of the barn was fun. It did hurt though. It is tricky to land. You have to land on the balls of your feet, with your legs bent and your stomach sucked in. I don't know how the SAS Agents do it. I guess that I still have a way to go before I can join the army!  

One, No, Scratch That, 4 Pictures of ME! (For those who can't get enough of me!)

OK, here is my ugly mug! Enjoy. (You might have seen it at the post office)



That is me giving my oration of The Gods of the Copybook Headings at a
homeschool fine arts night. I get a little excited when I get to yell at people and do hand motions.

That's me after I made a model cross bow.

My normal face! I'm surprised that this one didn't break the camera.

My buddy Chris and I looking at Mount Washington from the porch of our
Radio Merit Badge Counclor's house.

This might be what you are doing right now!

2 Songs

OK, this is just not fair. there are lot of songs that I like.

1.  Courageous by Casting Crowns. I first heard this song when I watched the music video on the Courageous website. I really like this song.
2. When We're Together by Mark Harris. I like the music in this song a. It's a nice tune and a "happy song' as my mom would say!

Tomorrow is the last day!

Proverbs 23:12

"Apply your heart to knowledge; open your ears to the word of instruction."

3 Films

OK, here are my 3 Films.

1. Courageous. This is the best movie EVER. If you have not seen it, see it. You can't beat Courageous.
2. Facing the Giants. This is a great movie too.
3. Drive Thru History. This is that best video history series ever. I have all of the DVDs and I love em'.

OK, tomorrow, 2 songs. 

4 Books

Here are four books that I really like

1. The Bible
2. The Boy Scout Handbook
3. "Journey to Freedom" This book was really good, and I liked it a lot. 
4. The Hardy Boys. The best detective series out there.(I think)

5 Foods

I could have a lot of fun with this one!

1. Fish. I LOVE FISH! Any kind of fish, I will eat it. Fish is the best.
2. Italian food. I really like food that has lots of sauce and noodles and cheese on it.
3. Dutch Oven Pizza.  You have never had real boy scout cooking until you have had Dutch oven pizza. (Just don't try our brownies.)
4. Ice Cream. Homemade is the best!
5. KitKats. I Love KITKATS!

According to the Mayan Calender.........

The world will end in exactly 9 months. Things are gonna happen people.

8 fears, 7 wants, and 6 places I want to go

I am getting behind on this.

8 Fears.

1. I do not like heights
2. I don't  like speed boats ether, although I do like them better now. They are too tippy for me.
3. Loud noises. I don't mind shooting without ear protection, but loud booms that happen suddenly when you are not ready for them I don't like.
4. Diving into deep water head first. I like to dive, no change that, I LOVE to dive, but when the water is so deep that you can't see the bottom, I don't like that.
5. Messing up when I'm playing the piano.
6. The fear of running out of things to write!
7. I fear for my nation in the case that the president that is in office right now will get reelected.
8. I fear God.

7 Wants

1. A better relationship with God.
2. A job. My dream job is to work at our local Christian radio station.
3. To finish Algebra 2 before Dec. I am almost through Geometry.
4. To be an Eagle Scout. I am in the middle of my eagle project.
5. To finish the book I am writing. I love to write books, but have never finished one.
6. To go to college for Military Science. I am the only person I know that wants to go to school for that.
7. To have a family someday.

6 Places I want to go

1. Scotland.
2. Germany. I think it would be cool to go to Germany.
3. Gettysburg. I have been here 3 times, and would go again in a heart beat.
4. Washington DC. I have only been once, and loved it.
5. Ireland. I would really like to go to Ireland, just to say that I was there.
6. The Amazon. It would be so cool to explore the Amazon Rain Forest.

The Best Way to Learn.........

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways not to make a light bulb."
Thomas A. Edison


I am sure that you have heard the saying "Hind sight is 20/20". That is true, most of the time. You might be asking yourself "What does he mean by 'Most of the Time'".
Well, I will tell you! The best way to learn is from your mistakes, but you won't learn from your mistakes unless you are looking and willing to learn! If you aren't not looking to learn, your Hind Sight is not 20/20! For example, I was trying to put a bag of trash in our garage at night. I thought the door was open until I tried to walk in. SMACK! You guessed it! I walked into the garage door! It looked like a comedy act! At least no one was watching! But I learned two things from that: if you can't see where you are going try to feel with your hand where you are, and also, I can't walk through doors!
It would have been silly for me to get up and try to walk through the door again! But I learned from my mistake and, instead of trying to do the same thing again I opened the garage door and walked in with no problem at all! I was willing to learn from my mistake so my hind sight was 20/20.
God allows us to make mistakes (If not only to show us how messed up we are, and how perfect he is), but He gives us the ability to learn form our mistake and if we are humbled and ask Him to help us, He has told us in the Bible that he will give us strength to get through, weather or not the problem is temptation or rock climbing, God will help us if we ask Him with the right heart.
I am sure you can think of a time when you made a mistake and learned from it. But I am also sure that you can also think of a mistake that you didn't learn from and you keep making it over and over again! I know that I sure can, because I am a sinner and a sinner sins. I can try not to but I will never stop sinning, not until I get to heaven. But I can get two things: help and forgiveness, and they both come from God. He is the only one that can help you out of the "rut" of sinfulness!
But you will only learn from you mistakes if you are willing and are looking to learn.
I have learned so much from my mistakes! I have found that the best way to remember is to write them down in a book so that I can go back and look at them!
Remember that when you make a mistake, you need to pray and ask God for help, get back up and try again, praying the whole time.
So what is the importance of learning from our mistakes and trying again, look a Thomas Edison. He didn't give up after the first try. He made the most commonly used electrical device in the world.

9 Likes

Today I am doing 9 things I like. (I do have more than 9 things that I like)

1. God. God is the ruler of my life and I love Him with my whole heart.
2. My ducks. I have two ducks, Chip and Junior.  Chip is 7 and Junior is 4. They are my buddies.
3. The outdoors. I love being outside.
4. Spending time with friends.
5. Drafting. I love to draft things and come up with crazy ideas for inventions. I enjoy math too. Not all math, but most of it.
6. Shooting. Rifels, shotguns, handguns, bows, BB guns, Airsoft guns, slingshots, I love em' all.
7. Wood working. Give me a saw, hammer, nailes, etc. I love to do woodworking!
8. Playing the paino.
9. Boy Scouts. My life is Boys Scouts. It takes a lot of work, but it's worth it.

Well, there you have it. "9 Likes"
Tomorrow, "8 Fears"
  

10 Secrets

Okay, you are probably wondering why my post is titled "10 Secrets". Well, I am doing this thing called the Ten Day You Challenge. Everyday for the next ten days, I am going to post something about myself. Today is "10 Secrets," tomorrow is "9 Likes," then "8 Fears," and you just keep going down the line. I got this idea from another blog that I follow.

All right, here I go. I don't have a lot of secrets, so this could be hard!

1. I am a NUT! For my blogging friends that have never met me, I am a little weird.
2. I can't spell to save my life. I don't know why, but I have never been able to spell very well.
3. My feet are very sensitive. If you tickle them, I will scream. Really, I will.
4. I memorize every phone number of every person that I ever call. I have an incredible memory. I can memorize things very fast!  (Except spelling words.)
5. I have to know how things work. I will rip things apart just to find out how they work. I like to guess about how things work. The cool thing is that a lot of the time, I am right.
6. I do not like to read. I don't know why, but I just don't like to read.
7. I want to play the Banjo.
8. I can't read music very well.
9. I can't touch my toes.
10. I eat a lot. I have no clue where it all goes, but I eat a lot!

Wow! I had 10 secrets!

MacGyverisms 2

I had so much fun with the last post I did, I thought I would do another one.

1. You are trapped in and aisle in a Ware house between an iron door and four armed guards. There are tall piles of crates stacked up on each side of the aisle. You only have about a minute to come up with a way to block the guards so you can pick the lock on the door and get out.
You have:

• Duck tape
• A Swiss Army knife
• Matches
• 50' of Para-cord

2. You have just stolen military secrets from a high security mansion in East Germany. You got in just fine, but sneaking out the back door of the kitchen, you run into a motion censored machine gun. In order to get away, you have to jump a hedge, but if you do, the machine gun will see you and shoot you! You need to come up with some way to distract the motion censor so you can get away.
You have:

• Duck tape
• A Swiss army knife
• 50' of Para-cord
• Matches
• An old blender from the kitchen. (It still works)
• A dolly for caring food
• An old bust of someone 
• Some rubber bands
• Two 24v batteries
• Copper wire

Can you make it out alive?
Let me know!