Different look

At the beginning of raspberry harvest my forklift crew convinced me to grow a beard. I decided to make them happy and since I was so busy it was easy to let daily shaving go. After three weeks I shaved it off. Here are the pictures of before I shaved.

Good bye... on to Virginia!

A friend just sent this to me and I had to share it...

What is it that sustains me from day to day? At the end of each day is my glory found in my doctrinal stances, or is it in my relationship with the Father, and the love shared with brothers and sisters in Messiah? I choose the latter. I am not trying to imply that doctrine is not important, but it is not the greatest.

Well I'm in the last 24 hour count down before leaving for Virginia. I'm running around finishing up projects and last minute packing. I'm a little nervous and not looking forward to the airports at all but also excited for what's ahead in Virginia. I'll be flying out of Seattle tomorrow morning early and returning on the 1st of June.

For those who haven't heard, I'll be working with some good friends at Buxton Farms which is a Joel Salatin style farm now being run by our good friend Joe Murphy. I'm also going to have the privilege of meeting Joel and touring Polyface Farms. Much of what I'll be doing is odd jobs, remodeling, and building to get Buxton Farms into efficient running condition as it was quite run down. 

I'm excited to go work hard on a farm and hopefully learn lots. I'm also very excited to help out and share this time with the dear Murphy family. It'll be a pleasure! I'm looking forward to the good discussions we'll have and playing with the children in our spare time.

I'll probably not have time to post on this blog while I'm gone but will save that for when I return. I am bringing my camera and hope to document the trip well. I will be giving short updates via facebook so please look me up on there if you haven't already. Here's the link to my page: http://www.facebook.com/bigjonthejon

Goodbye my hometown friends! I'll miss you much! 

Jon

Plane Crashes into IRS Office Building in Austin, Texas

For those of you who haven't heard...

A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane Thursday morning into an office building in Austin, Texas, that houses federal tax employees, setting off a raging fire.

Officials are investigating whether the pilot, identified by authorities as Joseph Andrew Stack, a 53-year-old software engineer who lived in Texas, crashed the plane intentionally. Stack was confirmed dead.

Stack posted a suicide note to a social media Web site, ranting against the IRS, officials confirmed.

"If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?'" the note read. "The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time."

"Violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer."

"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well," the note, dated Thursday, reads.