Adler Again - 18 Mos

Without Further Adieu...Adler!

Split Ends

This picture may look familiar because I used it once before in my Prologue post of Wood-frame Ninjas for my Saturday's Storyers. The three stars represented in front are, from left to right, Sean, myself, and Adam. We were like best friends growing up and we had many adventures together, many of which took place in the very building behind us and in the surrounding area. I could go on and on about the dry-docked sail boat explorations or the madcap moped trips, the brick ladder of dreams or the high-speed chases. What I would like to portray, though, is an image of split ends (note the 90's hairstyles), but not those kind of split ends!

The split ends of which I would like to relate have to do with that building, the Lynnfield Ward meeting house. Growing up, this is the ward I attended, and it is the new ward where I will again attend services since today the Arlington Ward split ends. For now, Lynnfield ward's boundaries have been extended to include Woburn and Winchester.

This truly is bitter-sweet because I will miss the Arlington ward and all of its members - I love that ward, but I also love the Lynnfield ward and I can't wait to go back.

In the end, I believe that things happen for a reason, and I look forward to new adventures and hopefully new friends and blessings. For those who are sadder than I, I hope that they can settle down and know that things will be fine, and soon they will be settled-down in their new home ward. Besides, this won't be the last time that the winds of wind blow.

~~ Spalato

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Wood-frame Ninjas (Prologue): Genesis

By morning they seemed like Three Musky Peers; by midday they seemed like Ninjas!

Training began promptly at 3:30PM. The sturdy rafters (evenly spaced 2 x 4s) provided the ideal dojo. Combined with the inherent danger (a 10 ft drop when the bottom floor already was completed, at least 20 to a cement basement when not), the mental proving grounds also had clearly been established. Some key areas targeted for improvement included balance, agility, strength, courage, madness, deftness, precision, coordination (both hand-eye and foot-eye), and trust. They conducted speed trials and crucible trials, and do not forget sparring trials.

Indeed, having ample access to continually constructed homes and ever abundant power tools and supplies, the Wood-frame Ninjas were able to fashion weapons of skill such as the Bo Staff and Nunchaku, and then test these weapon’s might and merit, not to mention the might and merit of the combatants.



Predestination to be revealed...

~~ Chops

Wow, this is pretty nice, I like this...

I'm really getting into this; for what have I been waiting!?! But that's the thing with me (if I may get a bit personal, I mean, this is a Web Log), sometimes I procrastinate. OK, I procrastinate a lot, and I sometimes get caught up in the small details or the insignifcant details. A few people, like my wife Jennifer (http://jennifer-chopelas.blogspot.com/), and some of my friends and family, like Adam and Janna, and Ellen (http://ellenpatton.blogspot.com/), have been encouraging me from the beginning to just write.

I enjoy writing and I enjoy sharing. This is a great formum to do both, and I can work on my Grammar along the way! So please be prepared for some experimentation in style, for some mistakes, and for some inevitable delays. You may also expect some stories, jokes, pictures, facts, ramblings, opinions, (oh wait, I already acknowledged that this is a Web Log). Anyway, I have a lot inside that I want to get out, and slowly some of it will end up on these pages.

Hope you enjoy,

Chops