Todd Bland was my first employee.  He was still in high school at the time and Robert soon joined the team.  What a great summer!  We had so much fun.  The work was hard and the days were long.  I kept telling them that manual labor was good for them.  We stuck it out and the boys actually had competitions on who could dig the fastest.  After the summer concluded, the boys were lean and mean, beautifully muscled and tan.  What a great way to send them off to school.  I think that they finally understood the value of a good education and how to stay out of the ditches.  HA!  I hope that I instilled the value of hard work and it is evident to me that they both have had truly exceptional lives.  Hard working guys that we are all proud of.  God Bless the Bland Family!  I love you all.

Ken Hudson

When the children were little, we used to take drives to the country, where I would blab out things for them to see out the window.  Obviously they saw everything.   It wasn't necesary to narrate....it was a Mom thing.  The children tease me to this day with "Look at the cows, children."

One day I spotted a large water tower in a field.  It had a red cross painted on it. "Look at that water tower, children."  

Next thing I heard was Toddy saying,  "That's a lot of Holy Water."