the official pray for me post

well its 10:46 and im planning on leaving at 12ish, im getting all uneasy inside right now. the antibiotics seem to have helped but not really at a level that i expected, and i keep on questioning whether or not its bacterial pneumonia. if this doesnt heal me from my pneumonia, i am up the creek with out a paddle. I'm really praying that there will be some good people there, though i think solitude would strengthen me in ways. I keep on thinking that this could be a good witness tool, you never know, maybe some of the people will have bitter resentment from the church and im going to try to go there with no judgment and show them that God doesn't condemn them, i'm not going there with any intent to preach to them, im just going with a intent to show them Christ through my actions. today I am driving to thunder bay its a little more than a 8 hour drive, just pray for my safety and that i dont get lost, then i'm going to try to find a truck stop in tbay and sleep there for night and then drive the 4 and a half hours to nakina in the morning. just pray for my safety and health and just pray that i will find ways to show everyone around me that i have something special.

I'm not sure at this point if I will have any outside contact other than mail, if i get a chance I will blog or something.

grace and peace
chad

medical update

so I went to the doctor today and guess what... I got pneumonia... so now im taking some antibiotics and should start to feel better in a couple days. im glad im still under my parents prescription drug plan because regularly the antibiotics im taking cost $80 but i only payed $23. i just hope i didnt give this to anyone else.. jeremiah was sick last week, im not sure if hes still sick.. because it is contagious. so im supposed to still be contagious for another 48 hours so im trying really hard to watch what im doing and wash my hands alot.
im going to try to sleep a bunch this afternoon then go shopping for some last minute items

chad

farming, lawncare, and unusual tans

well on sunday I got a call asking me if I wanted to help lay down some irrigation pipes so I said yes. so the past two days I was a farm hand of sorts, was at the epps strawberry farm lasalle valley berry farm. so I started at 10am it was still a bit chilly but not too bad worked for about 40 minutes took a coffee break (gotta love that) so after that we finished off with laying the irrigation pipes, that was quite the puzzle, you got to find different pieces to make them exactly the right length. so we finished that and then krista came and we started getting everything ready for planting strawberries, then we had lunch. then we planted, pretty neat process i compared it to guitar hero, basically you sit on the back of a tractor and feed a spoke of sorts that rotates and puts the plants into the ground, you have to be pretty quick to get every one(or notes as you would say in guitar hero) then someone would go behind and make sure none of the roots were showing using a shuffle stomp action( i called that one dance dance revolution) and plant strawberries where someone missed( I got to use my fancy new shovel for that, good practice for tree planting). yesterday i planted strawberries too and some raspberries at the end. it was good times.

on monday i got a call asking if i wanted to do some power raking on wednesday so i said sure. its always good making some random money. so thats what i did today for 4 hours. this lawn was huge but i worked hard and got it done and now im tired cause i got like under 5 hours of sleep yesterday because i decided i wanted coffee at 10:30 and it didnt work very well.

as a result of being outside this past 3 days I am a little tanned and a little burnt. half of my hands are tanned because of a combination of my sleeves and the position i was in the sun, and there is a small triangle on my chest that is tanned because of a unbuttoned top button. ill get some pictures later but for now i think im going to go to sleep and then get everything ready for the final awards at pioneer clubs. I said some goodbyes yesterday which was very strange and hard, its only 7 weeks but still i miss them really bad right now and i haven't even left. Ive got a busy evening and a busy tomorrow, im hoping i can relax on friday, then im leaving on saturday, first im going to a fishing derby put on by my church in the whiteshell which is on the way and then leaving in the evening, trying to get as far as vermilion bay and then leaving there on sunday for nakina. i got to pick up a few last minute items and try to go see a doctor on thursday, because ive been a roller coaster of sick for the past almost 5 weeks. i think im trying to delay going to the doctor because i have fears that it will be something outrageous.

mail is always nice so you can mail me at:

Chad Reimer
c/o Wilderness Reforestation
General Delivery
Nakina, ON
P0T 2H0

god bless

chad

ps. i had a very good bible study on monday so im going to try to develop some of that and maybe post it on friday

new template

well it seems like everyone is getting nicer looking blogs, and i never really liked any of the default ones so I found one at http://www.simplyfabulousbloggertemplates.com/ and it was hard to find one that was manly enough for me so this is the best one I could find.

I don't know what to feel right now, tree planting will be the first time I have ventured off on my own. I am excited that I am doing this, yet I am sad that I'm leaving the people I love. There are no certainties, I may go there and be really good at it and love the people, or I could suck and the people could be jerks. today was the last church service I will attend for a while I think, I dont know if there will be any other believers at camp so I might not have any sort of Christian connection. I really hope that this makes me stronger, It definitely would be a test of my dicipline. It took till today for me to realize how much I was going to miss people, I love the people around me. this seems to be me just rambling on.. but I have such mixed feelings right now. I am pumped that I am going to spend the next 3 months with little to no pavement. I wish I could take all my friends with me, that would solve all my problems.

so pray for me as I am venturing off on my own, pray that this will be a experience that will bring me closer to God.

I'll just leave with a prayer of whats on my heart.

Lord I pray that you will bring me closer to you, I pray that you will guide my steps and help me show others the love you have for them. Lord I want to pray for the camp(bcbc) I pray that would will be with the people who are deciding that they are going to be staff this year Lord i pray that you will be with the new directors as they prepare for this coming year Lord i pray that you will give them wisdom and guide them as they make decision, Lord i want to pray for all the campers that are going to come i pray that you will open there hearts and follow you. lord i want to thank you for all the wonderful friends i have, just bless them as they bless me. i also want to pray that the sickness inside of me will leave. Lord thank you for friends like micheal and ashley just bless them as they are getting married, help them to have a relationship that represents your love for us.
amen

13 days

Well this past month has seemed like a year, thats how slow its gone by. I've been in this summer mentality where all I can think about is tree planting and camp. well I still have 13ish days until I am gone and they are a fairly busy 13 days with all my weekends booked solid and a bunch of stuff I have to do during the weeks. Last week I worked at red river soils packaging bags of fertilizer(basically constantly lugging 30-40lb bags from a conveyor belt onto a pallet then squeezing the air out of the bags and making the bags as flat as possible). While that job was dusty smoky and pretty brutal it was good training for tree planting. I have been sick for the past 3 weeks, various different symptoms pretty much no day with the same ones including a lung hacking dry cough , mind numbing headaches, throwing up, stuffed up sinus, runny nose, and other various ones. so that has not been fun, I really wish I had a doctor, I had a pediatric doctor and just haven't really found a family doctor yet. this is the second time since January that I have been sick for almost a month at a time, so I'm thinking maybe I should see a doctor but probably won't.

well that was just a little rambling of what my life is like.

toodles
chad

get to know me ill get to know you

a few of my favoite things- movies that are so random that they don't really make sense, sneezing, canoing, carrying a canoe over my head, carrying a canoe through a bog, cooking on a open fire, being the only people on a lake or river, building fires/ sitting around them, summer nights, lightning and thunder and pouring rain(when im inside a shelter), harmonica guitar combo, playing night games in the bush, deep discussions about faith and no wrong answer questions, folk music, being barefoot, trees and water, animal encounters, the sound of water crashing up against the rocks, capture the flag, tug of war, jeharies(sp?) window, sand, grass, worshiping God through singing, encouraging people, teaching people about things that dont make sense to me, sitting on a dock, being with a group of believers, the grace of God that I dont understand, the seeds that have been scattered that might only start to grow years later, friends, fishing even when your not catching anything, people who know what they want and work as hard as possible to get it, sunsets, sun rises, simplicity, people who have a calling and give there best, the feeling of anticipation, duets, praying with people, growing always, slurpees, pica pop blue raspberry flavor, jalopenos, learning, walking through the woods, the stars and moon, being where you should be, chinese food, chopsticks, playing music, a soulful voice, beards, letting your guard down, taking pictures, experiencing new things, random people, love, life, honesty, lemonade, helpful people, smiles, laughs, jokes, promises that are kept, breathing, soccer, passion, faith, torpedo ball, guitars, old people, children, driving with a open window, climbing trees, the wind, fish flies, frisbies, forgivness, commitment, making people laugh, the joy that living for Christ gives us, living like theres no tomorrow, clouds, trying to change the world(usually done around a kitchen table at like 3 in the morning).
thats all I got for now
-chad
-edit- tea, coffee(black), hot chocolate, cookies, cooking, family, rocks, hills, diving boards, jumping on trampolines, warm sweaters, sleeping bags, looking like a total idiot, swingsets, that bug that makes like a buzzing noise that can be heard for what seems like kilometers(know whatim talking about?), standing in lines, meeting people randomly, playing sega genesis , tda's, the day when it rains after it has been like +50 all week with humidity, rope, a rusted through muffler that makes alot of noise, adventures with paul epp and company, sandal tans, rainbows.

second edit- gingerale, water fountains, looking at planes fly by, grandma, jello, this list can go on and on so i probably wont put any more but there are many that i am missing


I would have had more camp photos but most of the camp photos i have are on my facebook and im taking a 1 week break from facebook

inbetween here and there

well I dont know why I dont blog more often, I am unemployed right now, and have lots of free time during the day. I am a little frustrated right now, they keep delaying the starting date for the tree planting season its now almost 2 weeks later than it was supposed to be, which turns 3 unemployed weeks into 5, which is disappointing financially, guess it means ill have to be as cheap as possible in the next 4 weeks and hope I can make up for lost wages this spring. this is just a little frustrating.

I am in this inspired mood right now, mostly stirred up from music and movies and friends, music and movies being matt epp and into the wild respectively.
which means that I am more determined to do what is true and right then to have a career in something I don't enjoy. one thing I truly enjoy is the wilderness, not the nature that the surface of the whiteshell shows but the true wilderness, just raw and real.

quote of the day
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you.(Ron Franz- into the wild)