Outside

One of my favorite pass times is to sit in the front yard in my lawn chair in the cool of the evening. I love to watch the cars go down the street, listen to the locust and the birds, the noise from Highway 59. It just one of the things I like to do.

I usually sit out on the front yard after mowing the grass to cool down. Well tonight I am on the front lawn cooling down because the A/C fan motor is froze up . The A/C is not working. Praise the Lord that a cool front has come through and the expected low tonight is 69. Hopefully tomorrow my trusted A/C man, Carey Workman, can make a trip to the Midkiff household and restore coolness.

Why do I enjoy sitting outside so much? When I was kid I spent gobs and gobs of time with my grandparents. One of the activities that both sets of grandparents enjoyed was sitting outside as the sun went down. No TV, just sitting and visiting with each other.

On run particular night the newspaper reported that the space lab Skylab could be seen in the sky as it was making orbits. Guess what? We all saw it streak across the sky that night in Palestine.

Times have changed. Now I am sitting in my lawn chair typing on my laptop, connected to the Internet by wi-fi and making an entry in my blog.

One thing that hasn't changed, SWAT, mosquitoes.

Plano East Graduation

On Monday, June 8, I attended the largest high school graduation of my life. My niece Morgan graduated with 1300 others from Plano East High School. The ceremony was held at the Dallas Convention Center at 10:00 a.m. which meant I had to leave Marshall at 5:30 a.m. Jaye, my sister, said get there early parking is crazy.

I have been to the DCC before for a BGCT annual convention. So I knew If I got there early parking in the parking garage would be no problem. It did take me an hour to get out of the parking lot when it was over. The place was gridlocked.

I left Marshall letting my GPS lead the way. The GPS was fine until I got to downtown Dallas on I-30. The voice took me up I-35 toward Denton and had me come in from the northside of downtown. Oh well, it worked.

How do I meet up with Jaye, Matt, Madison and my Mom because they have my ticket and they are driving in from Plano. Each graduate was given only six tickets for family to attend. Cell phones brought us together. I told my sister where I was and the next thing I know she is walking toward me talking on the phone with me.

The ceremony was long but worth seeing my neice graduate. It seems just like yesterday I was babysitting her as a one year old when I lived with Matt and Jaye during our transition to seminary in Fort Worth.

Morgan will be an Aggie in the fall. Nothing wrong with that but it would have been nice if she had chosen ETBU. Maybe Madison will in three years.

Morgan was chosen to give the the class closing remarks at the end of the two and half hour ceremony. She was given two minutes to give her speech. She did a great job. She reminding her class that when they were young all they wanted to do was read all the Harry Potter books, now all they want to read is Facebook.

Oh well, gotta go and check my Facebook page.