While on the drive home I saw some interesting things. I took a lot of pictures of barns and farmland, but this was one of the most unusual finds.
This is Arlas' grandparents. Hazel and Blanche Gilliland. I called them Aunt and Uncle. Aunt Blanche and Uncle Hazel.
This is us - Arlas and I. It must be at the beginning of the party because both of us have pretty straight looking hair and we haven't gotten dirty yet. The corsage that I have on is plastic. I still have it. When my Mother saw this picture the other day she said that she had always liked that dress that I wore that day.
Arlas S. Hazen
Arlas Shawn Hazen, 41 of Maywood, NE died on May 31, 2008 at the Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte. Arlas was born on August 6, 1966 at Red Willow County St. Catherine’s Hospital in McCook, NE. He was the youngest of four children born to Alfred Dale and Donna Darlene (Gilliland) Hazen of Curtis; NE. Arlas started kindergarten in Moorefield in 1972 while his mother traveled there to teach school in the upper grades. In second grade he attended Maywood Public School and remained there until he was a fifth grader. The family moved to Colorado Springs, CO area to manage motels. He attended school in Colorado until the family transferred to Guernsey, WY to manage the Railroad Complex there. Arlas asked to go to the Christian School in Wheatland, WY some twenty miles away. He attended there until returning to Maywood for his junior and senior years graduating in 1985. Following graduation he enlisted in the National Guard.
Arlas married Marla Miller in February of 1986 to this union were born four children. On February 14, 1995 he married Kathleen Schutz at the Maywood Christian Church in Maywood. To this union were two additional children.
Arlas was a member of Awanas when he was younger and the American Vets Post 30. Arlas loved farming, mechanical work, and was a professional truck driver. He enjoyed spending time with his family, the guitar, mud racing, dirt bikes, truck pulling and his dogs.
Arlas is survived by his wife Kathleen (Schutz) Hazen of Edison, NE, son: Craig Hazen and girl friend Andi Laverack of Maywood, NE, daughters: Aislinn and husband Randy Nelson of Curtis, NE, Rachel Hazen of Scottsbluff, NE, Cassandra Hazen of Scottsbluff, NE, Sarah and husband Trevor Anderson of North Platte, NE. parents Dale and Donna Hazen of Curtis, NE, brothers: Allen Hazen of Curtis, NE and Dennis and wife Deb Hazen of Curtis, NE, sister Joyce Fischer of Lenora, KS. Also surviving are seven grandchildren Jeffrey and Bailley Nelson, Zakk and Paige Hollers, David, Nicholas, and Abigail Anderson.
Arlas was preceded in death by his grandparents: Hazel and Blanche Gilliland and Neil and Frances Hazen, son Kirk Daniel Smith, and great nephew Jordan Ryan.
Memorial services will be held Thursday June 5, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. at the Maywood Christian Church in Maywood, NE with Pastor Dale Heimer, officiating. Burial of cremains will follow in the Maywood Cemetery.
Visitation will be held Tuesday, June 3, 2008 from 2 to 8 p.m. at the Blase-Wetzel-Strauser Memorial Chapel in Curtis.
Memorials are suggested to the Arlas Hazen Memorial Fund in care of Blase-Wetzel-Strauser Memorial Chapel in Curtis.
Online condolences may be given to the family at www.blasestrauser.com
Most people feel powerless to help others, when in fact every single human being has a power within them that, when directed properly, will help beyond anything else. You can direct this power by focusing on people in difficult situations being in joy, by imagining them in joy right now. Hold to the outcome of joy for them. By doing this, you will cause the unfathomable Creative Power to move through you to bring them joy.
The Secret daily calendar inspiration
I love love love this chandelier that is painted on the wall. I wanted to do this when we staged the Jupiter Court Flip house for sale. Although, I wasn't going to paint it on the wall, I was going to have it painted on a canvas and have it hung above the bed. I don't believe we will be staging the house at this point, as it quite possibly may be sold before we get to that point - so no chandelier over the bed.
I've been thinking about mailboxes lately. We've got to purchase one for the Jupiter Ct. house.
I thought I'd look through my photos and see if I had any pictures of a mailbox. I found several.
I didn't realize that I was drawn to mailboxes so much. I always knew that I liked them, but not to this extent!
The condo where I live, we have a little kiosk of sorts that houses about a hundred small postal boxes. Everyone has a key to get into their box. There just isn't any fun in that. Remembering the key, fiddling with the lock, opening it up, fighting with the mail to get it out of the small little box.
Maybe I have gathered all these mailbox photos after we moved here, to the land of the unfriendly mailboxes. I have met a lot of neighbors at the mailbox though, so I like that part.
Jupiter Court needs just a single mailbox, out by the roadside. The mailman walks through the neighborhood so we could have a box at the door, but I think the trend is to get them all by the road.
My friend Bob is always on the lookout for a manatee mailbox when she comes to Florida. I included this shot just for you Bob!
I've mentioned before about how much I like the idea of writing things down in order to make them come to fruition. In Japan, they've been doing that for a very long time, in a different sort of way.
Don't tell me you are not already in your kitchen drawer digging out your box.
I know you are.
Right on the end it says, "Press here to lock end."
Are you kidding me?
All these years of fighting the AF roll and I could have just pressed and locked?
How long has this little locking tab been there?
I have some Aldi brand Aluminum Foil and Saran Wrap.
That means it is generic.
Guess what?
Press and lock tabs there too.
If you already knew this... simply close this window and step. away.
Don't make me feel dumber than I already feel.
If I have just shared with you the secret to a happier relationship with your food coverings:
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Here is how this got started. I had some left over Christmas cards & envelopes. The envelopes were real nice heavy paper with red foil on the inside and they were large. I think they were 4"x6.5" - half of a sheet of paper. I tossed the cards (I was in the tossing mood) and took the envelopes, a bunch of different colored pens and sharpies and a book of stamps and addressed the envelopes in all types of different colors and handwriting styles - this way, when they arrived in my mailbox, they all looked different.
I really like this effect. I used it with the Burger King photo aq few weeks back and it looks splendid here as well. I really like numbers for some reason. 
What it doesn't say is "the top of one mans head." Because that's what Dan used to hold the stairs up while he was holding onto a piece of drywall as a measure of how far down from the rafters to screw it in & his other hand was trying to hold the front of the stairs up. Kenny was sitting in the attic on this 90° day, trying to get the screws into the stairs as quickly as possible.This is a quote from the daily Secret calendar page, May 15th.Some of the great thinkers of the past referred to the law of attraction as the law of love. And if you think about it, you will understand why. If you think unkind thoughts about someone else, you will experience those unkind thoughts manifested. You cannot harm another with your thoughts, you only harm You. If you think thoughts of love, guess who receives the benefits - you! So if your predominant state is love, the law of attraction or the law of love responds with the mightiest force because you are on the highest frequency possible. The greater the love you feel and emit, the greater the power you are harnessing.
