At the Lake

I had a leadership group in and a meeting at the State Park in Cordele this week so I came up Saturday night and hosted farmers from Texas, Alabama, and Florida at the lake for a cookout Sunday and then we had the classes and the meeting. I finished Wednesday afternoon with perhaps the best round off Golf I have ever had. I shot 102, only lost one ball, had a birdie, three pars, five bogies in the process. Bart taught me to just play my slice and it is working.

I wish Bart and I had more time to play golf together. He has a natural talent and if he played more often he would be an awesome golfer. He is already more than 20 strokes better than me and our last outing he broke 80.

I decided after the chaos of the past couple of months I needed a break so I took yesterday and today off and did some things I needed to here at the lake.

I haven't worked that hard and really not that steady but have finished my tasks. Installed a new drain in the shower, cleaned out and sealed a crack where some roof debris from the new roof had sifted through and have done a better cleaning than I have in a while. I also am taking home mostly clean clothes.

I was sitting outside just a few minutes ago and it was entertaining to listen to the owls talking to each other. I was watching the squirrels today and they are so cute here. I hate them at home because city squirrels are so destructive but these just scavenge and sit there and mind their own business. Everything is so much more laid back at the lake.

I can't wait for Summer to get here so I can bring Conner and Cole and have some guy time with my grandsons.

Snapshots of My Life as of Recent

Has my life ever been hard lately.

January 9th I received a call from the Georgia Department of Agriculture warning me that the Minnesota Department of Health would be holding a press conference an hour later tying peanut butter produced in a factory in Georgia to a nationwide outbreak.

Since then this has been a never ending story. It has pretty much been 24/7 on call and 15 to 19 hour days.

I finally got to take a bit of time off this weekend and though I have been working in the yard and at the lake house it has been good therapy to work my body more and my mind less.

I got a bonus in all of this. While at the lake I heard a noise and looked over to the bottom limb on a tree. What I saw was most exciting for a guy who loves the quiet splendor of nature. A pair of hawks was mating there just about a hundred feet away. If I had only had a camera but it is a memory which I will have for a lifetime. Hawks are not terribly social animals and for me to see this was a once in a lifetime experience for most of us.

In the evening, I was outside as the wind calmed and I could hear the owls talking to one another around the lake. It is amazing how in the hustle and bustle of all that was going on God still reminded me of his greatness.