Sometimes Life Gets in the Way

This morning was perfect for reflecting.  I watched as daylight crept across the cloudy sky in the east. The quiet of a Sunday morning provided me time to meditate, pray and thank God for the blessings in my life. It was a great morning to reflect on the season and just enjoy the silence in His presence.

The quiet of Sunday morning provided me time...

to thank God for the blessings in my life.

I have not been sitting around doing nothing this week, but I simply have not had the time to sit down at the computer and write.  I have been very busy at my office and honestly, life has gotten in the way off the time I take to sit and write.  Early in the week we were very busy working for the executive team at our office.  Literally every minute of the day was consumed in non-routine and routine work.  I love weeks like that because the hours fly by and because we were doing a good deal of non-routine work it was a very interesting week.  It was great and it reminds me what a great team of folks I work with on a daily basis.

If you add on top of that Logan was playing soccer every night the first part of the week and that I was getting ready for a "procedure" at the end of the week, I just have not had the time to sit in front of my computer and tap out a few words for this blog. Just to respond to any curiosity that might arise, my procedure was a routine colonoscopy. While I was at home for the prep time, Logan was home sick.  He was diagnosed with H1N1 type A (swine) flu.  He is on the mend.  He has no fever and seems to be feeling much, much better.  I would have to say even though he still has a lingering cough, he is "healing up and hairing over." 

This is our perfect ass, Radar our family donkey and pasture policeman.

Back to my little procedure. The prep or colonoscopy training as I referred to it was not fun, but the procedure itself really is a piece of cake. (I journaled my experience on twitter and may share the complete version in this blog a little later.)  They knocked me out  with the wonders of modern medicine and I "sort of woke up" for Dre' to drive me home.  She said the nurse told her I could do only three things because I was going to be stoned all afternoon. I could eat and drink when I wanted to, sleep when  I wanted to and do one more thing I may mention in a later blog. Heck if I could have added watch football to that it would have been every southern man's dream afternoon.  I slept and talked pretty much out of my head all afternoon, or at least that is what Dre' said.  The colonoscopy results were excellent.  They said something about a perfect butt...or maybe Dre' said I am a perfect ass...it really doesn't matter because I don't have to have that done again for another ten years.  

Yesterday, I got a call that Hannah, my oldest granddaughter broke her arm in a soccer match.  It is a break of the ulna if I am not mistaken.. The doctor will set the bone on Monday or Tuesday and it will be put a cast  it at that time..  The good news is her team won the championship and they are the Southaven, Mississippi champs. Also, she will be good to go by the time the spring season kicks off.

Back to the blog.  It is Sunday afternoon and Logan is catching up on missed school work and studying for his exams.  Dre' is working on her master teacher of economics work for school and Holden is messing around with a computer...I think he is  teaching himself to type better.  I have a chicken cooking on the range and will be making chicken and dumplings later in the day.  I am also going to rack my mead.  That is, I will be transferring it from one container to another and removing the sediment while I do it.  The mead will sit for a couple or three weeks and then I will do this all over again. Actually, by this time it is good enough to drink and is really mead that just needs a little time to clean itself and age to add to the flavoring process.  

Allow me to back track a little in time.  Yesterday, Dre' and I hung around the house until lunchtime when we fed the boys and the ventured out without the boys to take care of some shopping for Christmas.  We traveled south to Magee and then north to Jackson and Flowood to pick up some things we have been looking for.  We went to Zips in Magee for a Zip Burger and onion rings for a late lunch while we were down that way.  We had a lot of fun working on our lists together and spending a little holiday time together. 

I know I always talk about the weather but when you spend as much time outdoors as I do, it is pretty important to you.  The weather early in the week was really cool.  We had the coldest readings of the season Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights.  Our temperature lowered to 26 degrees F. here on our home digital thermometer.  This cold snap provided me a good test for my repair work on our fireplace insert.  I have to claim a success.  I had repaired a cracked glass in the door and replaced the gaskets around the door to make it airtight again.  By doing that we are able to control the airflow into the unit thus controlling the combustion and the temperature in the house.  I have to say again my work was a complete success. We are going to burn a lot less wood this year with it repaired.  Today, it is raining buckets and the temperature is in the upper 60s. The rain is supposed to leave us this afternoon and the temp are to remain warm for this time of year, at least in the first part of the week.  

I needed to cut more firewood this afternoon but that will have to wait until next weekend. The rain and my laziness will keep me out of the woods today.  It really is a pretty good day to sit around the house and enjoy the company of my family.  I don't want every day to be rainy but the occasional stormy day provides time to sit and meditate, pray and think about all of the things that are really important

Until next time...John.