This will be my first post on this website so I hope everyone enjoys. I have blogged for about 2 years now (on another “spot” and I totally love it.
This weekend Mr. R and I went to our lake house retreat and in reality sometimes it isn’t a retreat as we stay pretty busy on the weekends. In this little gated community there are about 109 cabins and there is always a wine bottle being uncorked somewhere on the weekends. I, myself, polished off a whole bottle of red wine on Friday night alone. We hosted one of many gatherings that occur on the weekends. We fed two couples and a single and had a most wonderful time. I was a little apprehensive because one of the couples we had never had to our cabin and our relationship with them had not been off to a very good start anyway. They are very nice people and I think genuine. They are absolutely adorable as a couple and when they bought into the community were nicknamed “Ken and Barbie” because they were just so darn cute. They were almost like the football captain and the cheerleader as in high school and that is where I think my problems with them started. It was all me I am sure of it because I had the impression they didn’t like me because that was how I was in high school, in particular him and so I didn’t like them. I reverted to high school and the idiot kid I was in my thinking, jealous I think. Friday night was a blast and it truly helped me to get past my infantile thinking that popped up. Saturday night we were invited to their house for a fish fry and again it was wonderful. It is amazing how our lives are really an extension of our high school days and how we perceive people comes from how our status was in high school. I know it is for me and I see it in other people too. This couple is truly warm and gracious and my inability to get over my preconceived ideas of them are now gone, at least I hope.
The weekend was also spent watching the water rise. The rains may have stopped but the river has not. We have a community building and for the third time in two years it is again filled with water. There is also a dam that was completely covered in water. Of course I got the pictures backwards. The first is after the water had risen and the second is before.
