A Week of Times

 It was the best of days. It was the worst of days...talking about Saturday. First the best, we found some brisket in Erwin, TN on a Saturday morning in front of the Food City. Let's just say it was as good but really better than some brisket we've had in Texas. Tender, lean and full of flavor. The best of days because we have Goode Company BBQ sauce in the house. The best of Saturday also included a LSU victory over Arkansas, well barely a victory. Hey a win is a win. Mathematically, a word rarely used by me, LSU is the SEC West winner but here is where the worst came in...Alabama needed to beat Ole Miss for LSU to clinch. It goes against everything in our being to pull for Alabama, even if it means for the good of all the team. Then to make football matters worse, we had to root for University of Texas against TCU cause, you know, it would help LSU move up. Baylor, well, they got beat every which way and night games aren't good for a Baptist University. Afternoon games gives one the time to drive back home to Houston or Dallas or Austin or to every small town in between. Night games, well those are great for LSU but not so much for Baptists who plan to attend church on Sunday morning. After all the angst, Alabama won and sent the opportunity for LSU to meet Georgia. Not holding onto too much hope for a win in Atlanta but one can always hope.

Please, don't ever make us root for Alabama and University of Texas in football...really in any sport ever again. Amen.

We awoke to snow on Sunday morning. Just a light dusting but it is always such a joy to see the first dusting of the year. Then...it becomes the first big snow. The temps are a little cooler than a normal November, that is until it warms up again and according to those learned meteorologists, will happen once again in the next few weeks. 

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On our journey through the mountains yesterday we saw wonderful views of rime ice in the upper elevations. We could never find a good place to pull over and take pics. Told Roy we will just have to commit the views to memory. We will look at the mountains of the Lord in this week's lesson. Yep, he is talking about Jerusalem et all but these mountains here are mountains of the Lord to me. Their beauty enhanced by their danger. Never being a why did you climb that mountain, because it was there type person I am content to gaze and take it all in. 

Looking back at this week from the past few years, significant events have held sway. Bilateral knee replacement in 2016, the 15th to be exact. Recently, this time last year Roy decided it was time to retire and after the previous months he had, selling the house and all, the last month and a half last year had details and things to tie up before making the move here. He received some news last week that even cemented the fact, if there were any doubts and the doubts were few, that he made the right decision. 

It has been fun sharing autumn this year with Roy. His schedule never allowed an October vacation or trip this way. Think God's creation showed out this year for him, just like in 2015, my first year here. He captured beautiful pictures as we day tripped around the countryside. 

Well, it is a balmy 28 degrees. 22 went I woke up. Have a couple of things to do today and those things that are out and about, Roy wants to wait till it gets above freezing.