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For Everything There is a Season

For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.  (Ecclesiatstes 3:1-8)

Hal

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I was just sitting here minding my own business…

A few evenings ago a Snohomish County Sheriff knocked on our door and asked me if I owned a 1993 Mazda Navajo.  It had been involved in a hit and run.  Whaaaaat?  That’s our farm truck and last time I checked it was parked out by the barn with a trailer full of junk attached to it!     The story goes like this:  our old truck wasn’t the target, this 1965 Buick Wildcat convertible was. As soon as the Buick was stolen, the daughter of the owner put out the word on Facebook.  About 24 hours later the car was spotted at a vacant house right down the hill from our place in Granite Falls.  When the sheriff stopped to investigate, the car thief took off running.

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