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Your life is as good as you make it.

Our attitude is so important throughout life. What we feel, think, and do is affected by our way of looking at our surroundings. We all could use a hand up from time to time, but the important thing is for us to use our hands to pull ourselves up.

When I first saw this land it was strewn with fallen trees, gullys and swamp. No one wanted it and it was offered at a very reasonalble price.

Instead of a desolate swamp. I saw a beautiful paradise. It would just take a little work. I also saw a lot of good trees that needed to be thinned, cut into boards and made into a house and furniture.

The first thing was to buy a tractor big enough to move the dirt out of a low place into a high place. The low place would become a lake and the high place would become the spot where I would build our house.

The swamp looked a lot better after a couple of years of hard work. The lake was stocked with 100 catfish and 60 large mouth bass. Since then many different kinds of fish have developed and it has been said that birds drop fish eggs when they come to go fishing. This was at one time the heart of the swamp. Boys love to come and fish.


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