Why do people say,

"Happy New YearS"...

are they celebrating more than one year?

I am currently sitting at my computer...where else do you blog (I guess from your iphone, but mine is out in my car)...and I am watching my neighbor's tree come down. For $3,000 my neighbor is getting her elm tree chopped down. I offered to do it for $1,000, but she didn't believe I could really do it with just my splitting wedge and bow saw. Old ladies these days. But anywho, THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! I am now thinking of starting a tree removal savings plan for the two new oak trees I planted out in the front last year. I figure that my neighbor's tree is about 30 years old. So if I have about 30 years, I figure that inflation will raise the cost to about $20,000 per tree by 2038. Thus, I will need to save at least $40,000. I figure if I save about $1,000 dollars a year and invest it in a small 4-5% savings account, I should make it. Starting this month I will be putting away $84 dollars each month for the next 360 months. To make this happen, my family will not be eating one day each week. I think if we rotate the day each week, it won't become so monotonous. We will also be turning of our electricity on the days we do not eat. I figure that if you are not eating, you really don't need anything else to work. But you know, I was just thinking, we are actually talking about planting another tree in our back yard this spring, so my figures aren't really accurate. We might need to move to two days of fast each week. I'll keep you all posted...of course not on the two days that we are fasting, because we won't have electricity on those days.

How about some pics?

A lot of you probably already got this pic with our Christmas card...if you didn't get our Christmas card, you might re-evaluate our friendship

One of our sons is adopted from China.