The View from Where I Sit

I have to admit, over the past few days I've seen and experienced some interesting things. Don't know if I've noticed the "little" things more or if indeed these things would have caught my eyes/ears not matter what. For sure, some of them would have.

So I thought I'd share a few of my "extraordinary" encounters because they may bring a smile to your face...and we can all use a smile.

It's fascinating to me that:

It is 2009 and a six-lane highway like 820 in Fort Worth would have a minuscule speed limit of only 60 mph, causing traffic to bottleneck at the shear exhaustion of drivers having to put our foot on the break so much. C'mon!

It indeed can't all be blamed on the minuscule speed limit, but also on the stupid drivers who still actually slow down to rubberneck at the cop who pulled a speeding car over on the opposite side of the highway. This beyond irritates me.

The grandma driver behind me is actually honking at me because I'm not going. "Look around! No one is moving!" Of course, that would imply she could see over her steering wheel...which she's having a hard time doing.

She now spends the next five minutes waving to me in my rear view mirror trying to apologize for her ignorant honking that she's now apparently embarrassed about since she realized, in fact...no one else was moving either and it wasn't my choice to stop in the middle of the highway.

All of this traffic fiasco is completely overlooked when F16s began doing touch-and-goes right over me. Ahhhhh....roll the windows down and listen. Very cool. Doug and Ben would be jealous.

The chicken biscuit I'd been craving for the past 30 minutes was not cooked completely. Of course, this was only discovered after I took a bite. Yuckkk.....

The Starbucks next to the KFC can make it all better and tell me, my order is now "free" after hearing my chicken story and thinking I could use something good...and non-life threatening. Tip put into container... . Thank you Starbucks.

We just this past week made it out to Groggy Dawgs on Lake Granbury after passing by it so many times and discovered, we absolutely love it.

There is karaoke night at Groggy Dawgs and the only thing the Kenny Chesney "look-alike" (and I use that term loosely) has in common with the real-life country crooner is the straw cowboy hat and pooka shell necklace.

It's relaxing to talk about the future with someone you love over cold beers, at a marina bar in front of a fan the size of which could put the space shuttle into gear.

We didn't order the nachos.

I have now seen two different grown men on retro-style, red mopeds leaning into them to try and make them go faster as if they were sitting Supermen. Really? Hmmm....

The parking lots at our church (Custer Road United Methodist) are so full now you have no choice but to park down the street and take the bus. For some this would be irritating...but I think it's awesome. I think God thinks it's awesome, too.

Just the smell upon entering church makes me smile and make everything seem possible.

My father-in-law, even in his current condition fighting lung cancer, can still say something that totally cracks me up and makes Doug speechless. Not an easy thing to accomplish on that last part!

My father-in-law can bring me to tears just by putting his hand in the air when I walk in the room because he wants me to come give him a "high-five".

99.9% of all the snowcones stands in Texas are located in Hood County. At least that's what I think.

My kids are the light in every day and remind me of what is important and what life is all about...family.

The same person called three times this morning only for me to tell her time and time again she had the wrong number and she still wanted to argue about it. A person by the name of 'Andrew' does not live here and he obviously gave you the wrong number on purpose. Catch a clue and move on.

And, finally...if there is a snake within 100-yards...it will find it's way to me. Only this time...I had a lawn mower as a weapon.