Big Adventures & Little Fiascos

With Halloween fast approaching many people are getting ready for it, siking themselves out with scary movie Athlons, visiting haunted houses and corn mazes just to see if they can be scared and or to be scared out of their gourds. Why do people do this? Why do they put themselves in scary situations? Is it the adrenaline rush they get from being in these scary situations? Do they watch these scary movies to see if they can be frightened by what's happening? If people were truly put into those type of situations where the ax murderer, chain saw toting hillbilly, twisted sociopaths were real and they were the main target it would be a totally different situation. No ONE EVER wants to to through what's happening up on screen but they get a thrill from seeing it and from the fake experience comes the adrenaline rush of a scary but good time. I admit I've been there, I've run through the haunted houses and corn mazes. I've stayed up watching scary movie Athlons for Hall...

The day after my Husband and I were married, he brought me home to a small 16ft. camper on our 5 acres of land which included two chicken houses on it, basement of an unfinished house, and a compost barn where chicken litter gets scraped into. We have 200+ acres that we grow wheat, alfafalfa, and soybeans on but it was not connected to the five acres we now lived on. When we arrived that night at the camper we found that the electric and water were not working and according to Robert had been working fine the night before. Foolishly I told him that we'd be fine as we had our bed and blankets in which we could cuddle together. Needless to say we found out the next morning after Sky (my red-nosed pitt), Robert and I had been huddled together all night shaking under a pile of blankets that it had been the coldest night on record so far. We had left water in the fridge before we had gone to bed that night and it was found frozen solid the next morning! Robert gave up trying to get any ...