T’s New Work Boots

T’s big feet in his new work boots so he can help with the yard work on the property. He needs to grow into his feet…LOL🤣🤣🤣!

Yard Work Continues

We’ve been getting so much done and it’s looking so good. We have two more huge piles of brush to burn 🔥.  We did this yesterday. 

Since we stayed home from training this weekend we are taking the opportunity to get stuff in our yard taking care of. We started on Wednesday and we’ve burned two huge piles already. This has been needing to be done for so long. It will help our lawn guys greatly and our yard will look so much better and not so overgrown on us. A little more gets done each year. Gaining more of our yard back a little at a time. 

Core Sparring Training 3.17.2022

Since I haven’t been able to attend sparring training because I need to be with mom right now Scot has taken more videos so that I can see what all T is doing and learning. Here’s Thursday Nights video of training. I forgot to share it with you then. Enjoy watching it. 

We are so thankful that T can train at Master Doug’s school, Core, when he’s home during the week so that he can have bodies to move with. 

T does privates through video calls with Master Wasiu during the week in the mornings then trains on weekends with Master Wasiu and the team when we are able to drive down there. We were going every weekend but have had to pull back because of the fuel prices. We just can’t afford to put $200 in our tanks every single weekend for a round trip down to Charlotte for training. I mean we are talking $800 a month just for fuel to go down there and then there’s our food cost. We are so thankful we’ve been able to stay with a friend or there’d be a hotel expense added to the cost too. Sometimes you just have to draw a line and say that’s too much and this was it for us. That money can pay several of our bills for a month. I just couldn’t logically get past that in my mind and be ok with spending that kind of money. So T will go down once or twice a month to train with his team for now. I’m hoping and praying that either the fuel prices go back down or our business picks up so much that we can afford the extra fuel cost to take T for training with the team. 

So just so you can get T’s schedule straight in your minds here’s what it looks like: 

Breakfast

Master Wasiu privates 10-Noon M-Th via video call

Lunch

School for 2-3 hours M-F

Body Coach Workout for an hour M-Th 

Dinner

Traditional TaeKwonDo training at BBW M, T, Th @5

Core Sparring Training w/Master Doug T & Th 6:30-8

Team Training F @ 6-9

Team Training S @ 10-2

(Team Training when we actually travel down to Charlotte)

Once he gets home in the evenings he gets to play his VR game for a couple of hours. This schedule shifts somewhat on days when we have appointments to go to or other things that need doing. But that’s basically what he does during the week. He stays crazy busy and it keeps us hopping but we wouldn’t have it any other way. 

Controlled Brush Burning

So we got a ton done ✅ in the yard today. Still lots to do this weekend. Because we knew the rain was coming and the wind was calm we burned 🔥 all the brush we cut down today. It was two piles the size of what you’ll see in the video that we burned 🔥. And I’ll share a pic of what was left when it started raining more in the video I share too. Plus a pic of me soaking wet. This is country life folks. We do tons of control burning 🔥 on our property😊.   When stuff needs gotten done we get’er done ✅!!!!  Now to rest now that I’ve had my shower and am ready for bed. Scot is such a trooper. He just keeps moving forward not missing a step. He was so excited to get a tree 🌳 off his big building out back today that he cut down. T was a huge help getting the wood piled up and helping where Scot and I would let him. Didn’t want our fighter hurt. He’s my strong 💪 young man. Hoping the rain holds off this weekend and we can get a bunch more done and burn some more. 

#welovecountryliving #countrylivingstrong

Here’s some pics of some of what we cleared today. There’s was more done then I have pics of though because we cleared quite a bit out the back corner of our big building. I’ll try and get pics over the weekend to share with you all. 

Yard Work Is Never Ending!

Well, the lawn guys surprised us last week when they came to mow. We weren’t expecting them that soon or actually it may have been time for them to start but we’ve just been too busted busy to realize it. 

T won’t be traveling this weekend so our (Scot, T, and mine) project while we are home will be to pick up limbs. Hand mow our natural area out front and use the nippers to nip down the small stuff. Tidy up that natural area so our lawn guys can mow it. 

We are also going to clean up the area around our big building. Spay the area to keep stuff from growing there. Cut down some brush at the back of the building. And hopefully by Sunday we can burn 🔥 all the piles of wood and limbs. 

Here’s what the natural area and Tee Pees we’ve started look like. 

Natural Area out front:

Area out back:

This is what we’ve done so far. There’s so much more to do but hoping to put a big dent into it this weekend. I haven’t had a chance to get picks from around our big building but those will be coming as we stack, clean, and burn everything. 

T’s Fights from Training Yesterday

Update on Mom

Mom had hip replacement surgery on Tuesday. All went well. She’s a trooper. Last night she slept more than she was up even though they had her walk once last night. I left her to come home to sleep. She slept a ton last night. 

Today they took out her catheter and she walked a ton more today. PT had her do a couple of stairs to see if she could do them when she comes home with me tomorrow. Here’s a pic of her walking. 

We went some rounds with occupational therapy today about what she needed at home. They, at first, told us what we needed wasn’t covered with her insurance but God made a way and they brought the two things we needed into her room this evening and we have her hooked up and ready to receive at our house tomorrow. 

They had to put the smallest ball and socket in her hip they had. The doc told me that she will have to be extremely careful for 8 weeks because the smaller the ball and socket the easier it is for it to pop back out. After 8 weeks her bone will be fused to the ball and socket they put in and she’ll be more stable. At that point she won’t be able to pop her hip out as easily. So she’ll more than likely be here for that time to make sure she doesn’t do anything she’s not supposed to do. 

I’m sure she’s looking forward to getting to my house tomorrow. Thanks for all your prayers for my mom. They have been greatly appreciated. Pray for me as I will be having to be her shadow for these next two months taking care of her. 

Sparring Training Tonight

T with Master Joseph beside him and teammate Danny beside Master Joseph. Master Joseph used to teach T when he was a blue belt at Black Belt World. He was so little back then that Master Joseph would have to kneel down real low for T to break a board…LOL!  Check out a Then and Now pic I made of T with Master Joseph. 

Sparring Videos from Team Grant Cross Training 3/5/2022

Team Picture at the end of the Crossing Training

T had such a great time. He got to challenge himself with a larger older opponent and even though the opponent beat him twice it was a great learning experience for him. 

T ended this last day with a little sting from a kick he took from the older opponent but he’s fine. It just kept him from fighting the rest of today. No biggie though. He did a lot of coaching since he couldn’t fight. He’s feeling fine and glad to be home to get some rest. He’s proud of how he did overall this weekend and we are too.  So love the young man he’s becoming.