An acquaintance of mine who is doing some work for me did me a big favor and after I heartily thanked him, he said he wanted a $10,000 tip with a laughing emoji ending his text. I laughed and wrote him back and told him nice try and questioned if he had lost his sanity. He told me that word was out in our community that I had made lots of money and started with absolutely nothing . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2022/12/10000-tip/

I went pheasant hunting in Iowa one time and we had a great time. Prior to taking to the fields and our first hunt, we decided to shoot some clay targets to warm up. One of my friends owned the farm and recounted a hilarious story about a guy that went hunting with them who was very arrogant. He could not say enough about how great a shot he was and on and on ad nauseam . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2022/12/firing-blanks-and-fighting-buckets-2/

A friend admonished me for speaking favorably of death the other day. I didn’t realize that I spoke favorably of it, I don’t think of it in that way. I’m sorry if I misled anyone . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2022/12/the-end-is-the-beginning-2/

I went outside this morning at 3:00 a.m. and billions of stars could be seen like powdered sugar sprinkling a beignet. It was a welcome relief to see after the last couple of weeks of overcast and fog. As in most cases when I look to the heavens at night, I thought of Almighty God. According to scientists they have recently discovered the oldest galaxy ever viewed through the James Webb telescope that is cruising through outer space photographing the cosmos . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2022/12/look-up-and-wonder/

I was reading about the death of a policeman, Curtis Worland, who lived in Nome Alaska who was attacked and killed by a musk ox that he was trying to shoo away from his dog kennel . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2022/12/what-a-way-to-go/

So, my wife and I celebrated our wedding anniversary yesterday. We went to church Sunday with a friend of mine and his wife and children whom we had never met. He introduced her to us as “My Wife”. After church we went out to eat together and I asked her if her name really was “My Wife” saying I had never met anyone with a name like that . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2022/12/erasing-common-sense/

We are entering the best time of the season to hunt whitetail deer. They are on the move as the does come in heat and the bucks are in hot pursuit. The weather is beginning to get right with it getting colder and the full moon waning. Even with bucks running does all over the property it is difficult to harvest those big smart bucks. God has gifted them with a keen sense of vision, big radar-like ears that can hear a twig snap several hundred yards away, and a sense of smell where it is all but impossible to keep from being discovered unless you hunt downwind from them . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2022/12/things-that-go-bump-in-the-night/

I went to town to get a haircut the other day and traffic was terrible. Christmas shoppers were flooding the roads and I wished I had just waited until after Christmas. My barber is a talkative person and though I wasn’t in much of a mood for small talk she doesn’t take a breath and asks a jillion questions . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2022/12/no-silent-night/

I heard of a man and his wife that had quite the discussion. She looked in the mirror and noticed that her hair had turned white, she was heavily wrinkled, and had gotten fat. She was quite distraught and as she looked in the mirror, her husband stumbled into the room at just the wrong moment. She was still gazing in the mirror and was in tears as she told him she looked old and fat and asked him to please tell her something, anything, that would make her feel better about herself . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2022/12/excellent-vision/

I have been making steady progress in setting my goals for next year. I believe I might finish them way ahead of schedule due omitting setting career or long-term goals. So, I have been focusing on short and medium goals for my personal life and of course the most important spiritual . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2022/12/309-times/