go.

run from routine

Hide from safety

Dodge normality

Go where others say not to

Do what others say not to

scare yourself

  

Haspin Acres

Knocking on the door of being 50 years old and my dad is still out there with us on the weekends pushing it just as hard as any of us.  He is, and always will be, the man.

cashed and tuckered

drag races

“Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow—to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested … Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.” -Hunter S. Thompson

Backyard Photos

JEFFFFFFFFFF

Grant's Bike

Gunnar's old bike

NOW can always be better than THEN

"The years that are given to us in this life are like rocks that lay dormant, partially submerged in a creek bed, constantly withering amidst the rushing water before our eyes.  Their  aftermath is acknowledged, but their transaction is never seen, leaving only memory as a witness of what once was."

I wrote this the other day during class. My mind is constantly obsessing over how extremely brief our lives are.  I have had such a great life thus far and I've made a lot of good memories with my best friends.  I often find myself reminiscing on the good times that have passed, but then I wake up and realize that those great times are just as tangible now as they were before.  I am 20 years old for fucking sake.  The good times are just beginning.  Moral of the story is, make the best of the "here and now" and you won't have to rely so heavily on memories. 

Sun Day

When the sun is shining I can do anything.  On days like today, nothing in life is unattainable. There is a certain nostalgia that is captured inside of these types of days and the only way I can describe it is that I feel limitless. Today was supposed to be my usual Sunday filled with the overwhelming school work that comes with obtaining a mechanical engineering degree, but alas the sun has come to join the great state of Indiana and I could have no part in staying indoors today. Instead, I got some solid work done on my bike, threw the frisbee, rode dirt bikes, built jumps, and took the jeep off-roading, all with my best friends. There is nothing overtly special about today except for the self-realization I had of how really good I have it and how incredible just "normal" days of life are.  This is probably the first legitimate good day, weather wise, that we have had this year and I can already tell that this will be a summer to remember. When you truly appreciate all that you have and all the awesome people you have in your life, the good times never quit rolling.