Last Day of Turkey

My good friend Greg Hatchers owner of Hatcher's Game preserve (http://www.hatchergamepreserve.com/) asked to come over for the last day of Turkey season so Kenton could shoot a bird. We were in the blind by 5:30 A.M. and had gotten to bed the night before around 2 A.M. We had 5 gobblers come within 50 yards but they hung up and would not come any closer

Two very tired hunters with only 3 hours of sleep under their hat.

Our decoys.

Greg Hatcher - our guide and caller.

Chris Hatcher - Our videographer.

Penguins are the Champs!

The Penguins have done it again. It is great to have Pittsburgh such a great part of our lives. This brings back many memories of when they were winning back when I was in high school. Their logo is not as nice as it was back in the day. One year two championship teams. Now all we have to do is get the Pirates act together. They are only 4 games from first place.

My Un-Official Resignation from Keepville

My wife has written it after finding a 3' milk snake under our bed. It took almost 30 minutes to coax her back into the house. She is highly seriously thinking of packing on the Sabbath day. I asked her where she wanted to move and she replied "ANYWHERE!".

It Must Be the City

Yep it must be Cleveland! What else can you say other than it must be jinxing their own teams. Browns are going nowhere and apperantly niether are the Cavaliers. I am sorry for all you Cleveland fans. I guess it is hard to find a city like Pittsburgh.....with 3 teams winning a record 6 Super Bowls, 5 World Series, and 2 Stanley Cups! Pittsburgh Pirates played in the 1st ever World Series and the Steelers is one of the original NFL teams.

Go Pittsburgh!!!

IWU Graduation

Heading for Indiana...cap, cappuccino... Capishe?

Indiana Wesleyan University main campus - Marion Indiana

Charles Holden and I

Charles Holden and R B Kuhn

RB was a great help to me many times.

President Dr. Gary W. Streit was the commencement speaker

Dave Keep

Julia's uncle - Dr. Cliff Churchill who was a huge help throughout my program.

The kind of hats we all should have worn!

Girls Sleeping

In church....and notice Mr. Vincent drinking.

....and on the road.

Elevator Project at the Center

Top floor by the elevator gears.

Kenton doing all the hard work preparing the cables and ropes.

Last inspection 1969.

The Blog Is Up and Running

After a short hiatus I have decided to get caught up with my life. Thanks for all the prayers for our family during the month of April. Much has happened and I am just now feeling some what caught up with life. Thanks for all the emails, phone calls, and encouragement with getting me back blogging.

Our life was interrupted with the tragic results of a misguided person bad attempt at making a statement to the public. There are ways to do it and certainly his choice was not at all the way to go about it. As a result there was a lot of grief and sadness that will carry on in the lives of many for quite some time. To our sister Shandra and her precious little girls - We love you and our prayers our with you everyday! I will post some pictures to share with you on http://stephenmayhle.blogspot.com/ at some point. Until then I will attempt at catching you all up on things around Keepville and my life happenings.