An Update of Events

It has been some time since I have posted a blog entry. The hard drive on my computer was experiencing some technical difficulties which resulted in my having to get a new hard drive, but now that things are back up and running I will give a brief rundown on some of the recent happenings in my life. One of the most significant is my resumed correspondence with my dear friend, Marianne. Roughly three years ago I encountered a difficulty in our relationship in which I felt that the best course of action would be for us to cease all forms of correspondence. At the time I thought that such an action would be permanent, but through what I am sure is one of the tender mercies of Christ we have begun an e-mail correspondence until such a time that I feel that it would be appropriate for us to see one another again. She has long been a source of joy in my life and one of my most valued friends.

As long as we are on the friends front I suppose I should say that it seems that things between Shae and I are all but repaired. At least the most recent time that we spent together was as though we had not experienced the difficulties that had been previously present in our relationship. I am doing my best to maintain a healthy level of expectations and to take joy in our friendship and not place any hopes that we could be more as this has only injured our relationship in the past.

I recently had a fun encounter with a slide in our backyard. During a conversation with Shae I was outside enjoying the air and I walked up the slide. I then commenced to walk back down it when gravity got the best of me and I fell thus causing me to fall on my hand and dislocate my left middle finger. It was quite odd to see it bent at near a 45 degree angle at the second joint on the finger. I panicked for a moment but then figured that it wouldn’t do any good and so I told Shae to hold on while I fixed my finger and I put it back where I thought it should be. That was just over a week ago now and it is still swollen where it was dislocated, but I am sure that it will heal fine.

During the Memorial Day weekend my family went with my Uncle Larry’s family down to Lake Powell. Though it was windy for the majority of the time, I still enjoyed the trip as I was able to get a fair amount of reading done. I concluded reading The Chronicles of Narnia, The Mouse and the Motorcycle and most of Teach Ye Dilligently.

That about sums up the recent happenings in life to this point.