Monday, August 31, 2009

Venture Academy!!





Why The Venture Academy? Why now?

Whether by choice or by necessity, interest in entrepreneurial business ventures is at an all-time high.

At Franklin Springs, we hear continually from fathers wanting to work alongside their families, from parents wanting to equip their children for an uncertain economic future by teaching quality business skills from a Christian worldview, and from families who are realizing that the security of the corporate world is a myth.

When the opportunity arose to produce The Venture Academy Basic Entrepreneurship DVD Training Series, we enthusiastically joined ranks with one very special entrepreneur...

The Venture Academy

The Venture Academy DVD Training Series, featuring Wade Myers, is a phenomenal new tool for aspiring entrepreneurs, students serious about increasing their business knowledge, families eager to start their own business, or anyone desirous of strengthening an existing business venture.

This broadcast-quality series was filmed during a recent dynamic week of stimulating education for a privileged group of workshop attendees.

The Basic Entrepreneurship Series is divided into six primary areas of business fundamentals:

  • Sales and Marketing
  • Finance and Accounting
  • Operations, Technology & Service Management
  • Human Resources
  • Business Communications & Legal
  • Venture Analysis


The Quality of Instruction

The Venture Academy DVD Series features renowned Harvard MBA, serial entrepreneur, and Venture Academy founder and president Wade Myers. Wade's superior business knowledge ranks him as a highly qualified mentor and teacher. He's been a guest lecturer and instructor at Harvard Business School, as well as many of the other top business schools across the country.


Venture Academy

Wade's engaging teaching style is dynamic, thorough, and challenging, allowing both experienced business professionals as well as students to easily grasp complex concepts.

With over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience, Wade brings invaluable perspective as a Christian business man.


The Range of Instruction

Six Individual Modules

The Venture Academy contains a comprehensive approach to Business Entrepreneurship.

With over 35 hours of university level instruction spread over 38 individual sessions, as well as a focus on the highly-acclaimed Case Study Methodology practiced at Harvard and other top business schools.







Six Module Workbooks

Each workbook is designed to allow a student to follow along with the onscreen instruction. The workbooks include over 900 slides that are included in the segment presentations.

- Sales and Marketing
- Finance and Accounting
- Operations, Technology &
Service Management
- Business Communications & Legal






(Workbook Six includes a Special Analysis Tool designed to help evaluate business ventures)




38 Sessions on 16 DVDs

Each module includes DVDs with lectures that progress through each business discipline, allowing the student flexibility in the pace they choose to learn each discipline.



The 38 Sessions include over 900 powerpoint slides which help provide a more in depth and engaging on screen presentation for students

A USB Flash Drive

Each product includes a USB Flash drive filled with valuable legal documents, business templates, accounting spreadsheets, and helpful elements to start and run a successful business.
Download a FREE
"Annual Operating Budget" template from our website.
One of the more than 60+ helpful business documents included on
each USB drive with the product.


The Value of the Instruction

Starting and running a business involves costs. Business cards, website domain registrations, and office supplies are just a few of the innumerable expenses a new business owner incurs.

Among the expenditures accompanying any business endeavor, an investment in The Venture Academy Basic Entrepreneurship Training Series is a strategic and wise acquisition for any new business venture...

a "mini-MBA" Harvard-modeled experience
a small fraction of the cost of university study
teaches the language, terms, concepts, and practices of the business world
provides a Christian worldview perspective to business practices
equips students to evaluate business opportunities
includes real-world case-study methodology




VENTURE ACADEMY
Equipping Christian Entrepreneurs

Count Your Blessings Monday!!


Here is an opportunity for all of us to give thanks unto the Lord for a blessing in our lives. If you would like to take part great. If not that is OK too. If you would like to share your blessing, just leave it in the comments. If you want to use the picture above and list a blessing on your own site, then leave a URL to your site in the comments. There is no pressure here. I just know that I am incredibly blessed and I would like to share that and give thanks to Him who all blessing come from. This is a way that we can encourage one another. I know that I am often encouraged when someone shares a blessing with me. I think that many times we forget that it is a blessing to be able to breath, to get out of bed, to hold a baby... Share your blessings with us. We can share so many other things.... special gifts, recipes, let's take the time to share how God has blessed us!!

Today, I am thanking God for the rain he sent us this weekend and for his protection.

We got some really good rain this weekend and we are so grateful for it. It rained more than once and for at least one of the rains, it came down in buckets full. Our ground just soaked it all up.

We went to my Dad and Alice's for a late lunch on Saturday. Alice really out did herself. The table was beautiful and the food was really delicious. We left to come home. We were sitting at a stop sign waiting for traffic to clear on a state route with a speed limit of 55. A car was coming from our right heading south and another car was coming the other way. The girl in this car was paying more attention to Michael and what he was going to do. She turned right in front of the other car. We thought for sure our car was going to be hit by both of them, but they bounced the other way. All 3 people had to be transported. I am so grateful for God's protection.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Keep Your Face To The Son!!!

I love sunflowers. I love their reminder to me to always keep my face to the Son!! I love their colors, the shape, the fact that they give me seeds to either replant or feed to the birds or eat. I don't think you can ever have too many sunflowers. This is a lone sentinel. I have 2 posts up to have a garden gate at some point. I guess a garden fence has to be put up first. :) I planted a seed by both posts, but only one grew. I love how you can see the corner of the house and also the barn.

This is my tallest one. It was looking down at me today. :) Michael said it is at least 10 feet tall.

This one is almost spent. Pretty soon, the birds will be pulling seeds out of it. You get a lot of seeds from a head this big.

This little guy is about 2.5 feet off the ground. It is growing down among the stalks of the tallest sunflowers in my garden.

We are seeing lots of bee activity since the bees moved in. Here is a bee on this sunflower.

This is not a sunflower. Several years ago, someone dug me up a clump of their hostas and brought it to me. I was not sure where I was going to plant it, so this big clump sat out on my front porch until it died (or at least I thought it had). It sat there almost a year. Michael asked me what he should do with the big clump of dirt. The dogs had dug a hole on the side of the house to get cool in the soil. I told him to just fill in that hole and he did. Winter came and passed. The next spring, the hosta grew. This is its third year I believe and this is the first time I have seen it have flowers. :) Tough little plant!!

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Please Pray for this Family

They are the Maxey family. They had a daughter who was born on July 16, 2003 and died of horrible multi cancers on August 21, 2004. They then had a little boy on July 24, 2006. Then their third baby was born on October 3, 2008. In December, they discovered that she has a brain tumor. They have just brought her home and hospice has been called in. They did find out it was some sort of weird genetic mutation and that their son does not have it. Please pray for this family. I don't personally know them, but my heart aches for them.

http://www.maxeyweb.com/

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

This And That Down On The Farm!

Michael likes to eat oatmeal for breakfast. We buy oat groats and then roll them ourselves. We have a flaker mill that rolls softer grains like oats and crushes other harder grains like wheat. We do sell the Flaker Mills in our store by the way.... Wink!! Anyway, we noticed that the freshly rolled oats tasted wonderful, but did not always get along with our digestive systems. :) We have learned that soaking the oats over night with a wee bit of vinegar in the water, takes away those effects. The recipe is for each cup of oats (already rolled) you put in one cup of water. They call for 1 Tblsp. of vinegar. That was a bit strong for us, so I just put half in. Mix the oats, water and vinegar (can be lemon juice as well) and let sit out over night. In the morning add either another cup of water or a cup of milk and cook. I was sending the oatmeal to work with Michael in a little crock I had. I was using it for something else and wanted it back for that purpose. We were going to the thrift store last weekend and I decided I would look for one of those cheese crocks with the wire bale to keep it closed. They did not have one, but I found this bowl. I LOVE it. It is much bigger than it looks in this picture. It is a pottery bowl and I am thrilled with my find.
I went out and looked at our apple trees. There are just a few apples. I am hoping by next year we will get a good crop of apples.

I also went out to check our grapes. There are lots of them. I tasted a couple. They are really close. If you can keep them on the vine until after the first frost, they are much sweeter. Here are some pictures as I walked down the row.





The Goldenrod is starting to bloom.

Here is a picture of our garden from the driveway. You can see how tall the sunflowers are. All the tall light green stuff in the grass is Sweet Annie. The sheep ate all around it and left the Sweet Annie. It smells so good when you mow it down. It is also good to bring in and dry. It keeps moths away from my wool as well as smelling great.

One of the couples in our fellowship had a beautiful pink Rose of Sharon bush. I loved the color and asked if they were easy to progate. His answer was to go and get me some and put it in a pot. :) It is doing well.

The tomatoes are starting to really come in. God has truly blessed us with some good harvest this year. I am having to clear off some more shelf space for my canned goods. The freezers are also filling up.

Did you spend time with the Lord today? Can you tell me what He is teaching you? I love to hear from you. God bless!!!

Monday, August 24, 2009

Count Your Blessings Monday!!


Here is an opportunity for all of us to give thanks unto the Lord for a blessing in our lives. If you would like to take part great. If not that is OK too. If you would like to share your blessing, just leave it in the comments. If you want to use the picture above and list a blessing on your own site, then leave a URL to your site in the comments. There is no pressure here. I just know that I am incredibly blessed and I would like to share that and give thanks to Him who all blessing come from. This is a way that we can encourage one another. I know that I am often encouraged when someone shares a blessing with me. I think that many times we forget that it is a blessing to be able to breath, to get out of bed, to hold a baby... Share your blessings with us. We can share so many other things.... special gifts, recipes, let's take the time to share how God has blessed us!!

There is a stone quarry/gravel pit we go by fairly often. One day about 2 years ago, I saw what looked like an eagle sitting on the bank of one of the quarry lakes. It WAS an eagle. I was thrilled. I did not have my camera with me though. The next week in the paper, there was an article about this eagle. So, I tried to be faithful to have my camera with me whenever we went that way. We would see the nest off in the distance, or the eagle flying off in the distance, but nothing good enough to get a picture of. I did see the eagle a bit closer a couple of times, but those were the couple of times I did not have my camera. :( Well persistance has paid off. My blessing this week is that I saw the eagle fairly close and I had my camera.

Here is one of the hills at the gravel pit. See the tiny speck on the top left? :)


Here you can see the speck a bit better. So, I zoomed in closer...

There he is!!!!! I tried zooming in a bit closer...

Here he is in all his splendor. I call him Liberty. I think his "official" name is Fred or something like that.


I am thrilled that the Lord allowed me to get the camera shots of this magnificent bird.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Ugg Boots

uggs on sale

I have actually never had a pair on, but reading their website sure makes me want to try a pair. They are giving a pair away for free. Click on the picture above to go to their site. You will see Win Boots in the side bar. If I get 40 people to sign up I win something... hint hint hint....

Thursday, August 20, 2009

We Got a Little Rain

We got a little bit of rain last night and today. We are grateful for any rain at all. We could sure use more though. :)
Here are some pictures of the sky to the South tonight.




You can see the big headed sunflower that is hanging down on the left side. That one and the other smaller flowers right there are about my height and I am not short. Look how tall that next one is. I have no idea how tall it is, but it is REALLY TALL!!!

Here is another one of my Zinnias.

Does anyone know what these bugs are? I found out that these are called Margined Leatherwings.

Sorry, I am tired and this is going to be a short post.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

I Had A Visitor!!

If you have read my blog for any time at all, you know that I like to gather caterpillars and keep them until they turn into butterflies. I name all my caterpillars George. It is easy to remember. :) I was out in the garden the other day and I decided to cut some flowers to bring in. When I got to the Zinnias, look who was here visiting.... George!!!! I got several pictures of him.





I am not sure how this got planted, but it is literally just outside my front door. You know the old saying... "Bloom where you are planted!" You can also see that I need to sweep my porch and pull some weeds. :)

Speaking of weeds.... Several weeks ago we got rain on several days. The weeds went nuts and we have never caught up.

I liked this shot. I was standing behind the second planting of corn, looking at the house.

Here are some flower shots. There is a lot of bee activity these days.






These are our two movable chicken pens out in the field. They both have broilers in them. We still have turkeys in the brooder.

Bert and Ernie were napping. As I went to snap the picture, Ernie got up and stretched.