What a wonderful world we live in, to be able to communicate with 35 people, all at once . To see their pictures and comment on them is way too cool. It’s so heart warming to see all the furry friends that I have known and given a ride to in their furever homes. I even got called the most lovable redneck they know , how cool is that. I think the best part of face book for me is my life is so busy and hectic, that some times I forget things that are very important to me, with face book I am reminded of them, in living color. The shed is one of those forgotten things, I am not sure but if you have ever put up a tin garden shed you know where I am coming from. Carol at Saints, (who I just love by the way) agreed to share a piece of her paradise with TG. A place we can store dog food and such, so when people are going north it is there pick up. They could stop there as it’s on the way out of town and load the food to take north. We lost our transportation for food last fall and now we have to haul it ourselves; which is one of the reasons the poor van has no transmission. It’s not made to haul all that weight for 14 hours over the mountains. So now we have to buy the food when we run low and this moth alone we have spent over 600 dollars on food. But back to the shed and the really wonderful things it is going to reveal. I open the big cardboard box up to find about 5000 little nuts bolts and screws, and only ten pages of the worst instructions I have ever seen and they were to put together 5 different size sheds. I have to admit that I sat down and thought to my self oh no this is going to be almost impossible. So Kelsey was here with me and she is a very skilled been following daddy around for many years. Daddy I want to do it are words I am very used to hearing; she can, drill, saw ,screw and use a measuring tape with the best of them. So when she said "Daddy I want to do it" I wasn’t surprised but I was surprised to hear Ange "to say I want to help too, I love to put things together". That’s when Kelsey said "ya daddy can we do it please" Now that is one of those moments as a "daddy" I have learn to ask myself "Is the lesson they are going to learn worth all the time it is going to take to redo the shed ???"If I want her to never to say "I can’t  I most definitely shouldn’t tell her "no she can’t because it’s going to be very hard." What I saw next was one of the most amazing thing I have seen! Those three teens worked together as a team; three strangers from total different worlds and lives created an atmosphere of compromise, support and tenacity and mutual respect that most adults would love to be a part of. After all the destructive negative behavior we have just been through in the rescue community I thought to myself how  really big of an accomplishment it was that they were able to create that atmosphere. So I had totally planned on thanking them and complimenting them on what they had done. But as usual I got distracted with the web site and talking to a person that I never get a chance to talk to about it. It wasn’t till I was driving home that I realized that I never thanked Ange and gave her a big hug and thank her and complement her on the wonderful job she did on the shed. Then I got very busy with all the rest of the things going a thousand miles an hour in my life and never wrote the blog I was going to write about it all. So when Ange sent me a friend request last night it really hit me that she hadn’t helped with the shed to hear a thank you or to hear how good she was. She really did it with no expectations. But I have to really stop and say it THANK YOU Ange and you’re a great friend.

Ok I asked Ange if I could us a pic of her in the blog and she said as long as i don’t use one of her face. So the hands holding the tin up are her.

Ok here is a little more of Ange but still no face. The one in the middle is baby redneck (daddys pride and joy) and of  course the one on the end is Jim.

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