Les Stroud, the “Survivorman” goes on these 7-day expeditions where he survives off the land.

Tonight’s episode was quite exciting – he was dropped with only his bicycle in the remote Utah desserts. He quickly stabbed one of the tires on the bike to get started and quickly dismantled the bike to use it for survival.

What’s most interesting about this show is that he is the only star. He carries over 50lbs of camera gear with him into these situations, sets up his own camera shots and even hikes away from the camera and back towards it – just to get some good footage for the show.

I also just learned on his website that he moved his family to an “off the grid” dwelling that uses only solar power and even rain-harvesting systems. How cool is that?

I wish I had TIVO so that I could be sure to catch every episode of Survivorman.

On another note, I’m so glad to be an adult!

I realized tonight that I can eat a half-package of Milano cookies and can’t get in trouble for it. (Milano cookies were “Mom’s cookies” and thus off-limits to the Sheets kids as we grew up!)

The leaves in the Sheets yard have been obliterated.

Sure, I could’ve raked them into a huge pile and allowed the city’s sucker-machine come and suck ’em up, but I opted for “recycling”.

Yep, our yard has been officially “nutrient-ed” by recycling leaves (in small bits after being obliterated by the lawn mower) back into itself.

It was a fun job.

I also hung our bicycles from the garage ceiling, threw away some junk, and put in one of those fancy tennis balls hanging from the ceiling to know how far to pull our now lonely vehicle into the carport.

It has been a good day.

Tomorrow I will enjoy the ribbon cutting ceremony at the opening of the new Tree of Life bookstore in Winona Lake.

I should also admit that now that Ella is 6-months old, the picture-a-day idea has officially become the picture-every-once-in-a-while idea (ellasheets.com) and I hope you’ll forgive me for getting your hopes up.

The Neon is “officially” dead to the Sheets family.

We’re hoping someone else will want it for a few hundred bucks and that they, in turn, will fix it and resell it themselves.

So, wanna buy my Neon?

It needs a new starter, to get it out of the parking lot, and some other stuff I’m sure.

Pray for us as we try the one-car family situation again for a while (a long while, more than likely).