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What if I fall? The other day I was building a pole barn with a buddy of mine. In case you don’t know, a pole barn is a roof on stilts. It may or may not have a loft, but it defiantly won’t have sides. You use them to park an RV or store tractors and other farm equipment. The one we were working on was pretty big. It measured 36 by 40 feet. It was about 22 feet to the ground from the...
Yohanan’s Might: We learned late last Thursday evening that something terrible had happened in our community. A family in our congregation had lost a child. Their 18-month-old son, Obadiah Dillard, had died due to an accidental drowning. Obadiah was the fifth of six children born in the Dillard house. As I lay down Thursday night, I wondered what could be done to help. It dawned on...
Take Time to Be a Dad: Recently I was riding with an experienced 81-year-old investor. He grew up a poor sharecropper in Mississippi. What he’d learned from his meager beginnings was how to work. I mean, really work. He would pick 300 lbs. of cotton a day. He kidded that he was the slowest out of his 12 brothers and sisters. You know, I always admire guys like him. Nothing was ever...
Right now it’s 5:38 a.m. My back, hands and neck hurt, and I’m not the alert morning person I normally am. Straight up: I didn’t get enough sleep. I worked on three different rentals yesterday. It was a full day. Rental No.1: We had a busted pipe. When I got the call, it was 30 minutes till Home Depot closed. That meant if we didn’t get all the right materials on the way, the pipe...
A friend recently told me about a company with a cool concept. They catch phrase is, “turn worthless dollars into gold”. “Worthless dollars” makes reference to the U.S. dollar no longer being backed by gold. The company allows its customers to buy gold one gram at a time for $60. This makes the concept of owning gold attainable for the masses. As I am writing this, gold is running just...