Andy and I both work hard. He works 50-60 hours a week at his real job and is on call 24/7. I spend many hours each week on VCB, volunteering, school and re-purposing projects to sell. Our weekends are filled with family, shows, errands and home projects. When the rare free weekend day pops up we try to spend at least part of that day with no work plans. That's exact;y what we did last Saturday. We finished our regular chores pretty early and decided to hop in the car and go for a ride. No agenda, no errands, no places we normally go. We just drove where we felt like going. We saw beautiful fall color, farmers harvesting, old houses, cemeteries and long winding roads. If it looked interesting we spent the time checking it out. We ended up in the town of Casey about 30 miles from home at lunch time. This was a sleepy farm town that is trying to revitalize itself with tourism. Someone had the idea to make the worlds largest wind chime and put it on display. After that it was the worlds largest golf tee, knitting needles and next the worlds largest rocking chair. It is amazing how many people will get off the interstate while traveling to come and see something like that. Bravo to the brilliant minds that thought of the whole project and the city for supporting and promoting the whole idea.
It's so easy with our busy lives to just let that take over and miss the small stuff along the way. Just my way of saying take time to stop and smell the roses.
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| certified the worlds largest wind chimes, yes they work. |
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| long winding roads on a sleepy Saturday |
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| ringing the chimes |
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| they've started on the rocking chair |
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