End of Summer

We spent Labor Day at two Labor Day cookouts. The lunch cookout was at Randy and Betty Tanner’s house (or was it at Nathan and Dawn’s). Wherever it was, it was good! The kids were in the pool when we got there and the parents had just dragged them out as we left; I don’t even think they got out to eat. The adults (I use the term loosely) played a game of full-contact “Spoons.” If you have never played spoons, it is a card game where you pass around cards one at a time looking for four of a kind. When you get four of a kind, you get to grab a spoon… and everyone else grabs a spoon too. Because there is one less spoon than players it is a mad grab and someone gets left withouy a spoon. There is this scene at the beginning of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” where there is going to be a knife fight and Butch says, “We have to get the rules straight” and the reply is “There aren’t no rules in a knife fight!” Well, he was taking about our Spoons game! We had elders diving across tables and people wrestling over spoons. It was great! I have the bruises to prove it!

Then we went to our supper cookout at Bob and Kate Looney’s house. This was more of a young adult gathering (except for the preachers)… so everyone here was much better behaved. The topic of conversation revolved around dachshunds— there were 4 of them at the party, though at times it seemed more like 40 running around! I just think those little wiener dogs are so cute, don’t you? The highlight of the party was when everyone pointed at Kate and were just sure that they saw the baby move through her shirt; Kate missed it, but everyone else saw it. I didn't— I was watching the game on ESPN on the big screen TV in High Def. There was also the pool table, a game of dominoes... at least, I was told that there was! I was watching the game on ESPN on the big screen TV in High Def!

I think it is important for a church family to really enjoy being with one another. Yesterday reminded me that we have a great group of people that do just that. The Westminster Shorter Catechism suggests that “Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.” He wants us to enjoy one another as well.

BTW, Tank Daniels made the Philadephia Eages practice squad. That means that he is on the team but will be inactive for games right now. I think that will change. The Eagles are carrying only six active linebackers on their main squad, so I think it is only a matter of time before they activate Tank. Anyway, congratulations, Tank!