Where do the years go

I can not believe I have not had time to sit down and write anything since May. It has been a busy summer for sure. Got a lot crammed in the last four months. I guess that is why life is passing so fast now. We hardly have time to sit down and smell the roses. Or visit relatives and friends. You think you have plenty of time, and there is always tomorrow. But today I realized that tomorrow may never come. You see we just returned from my cousin Richard's funeral. He was just four years older than me. Last week he was at his business working away thinking that there was a tomorrow. Just like the rest of us. Then on Monday he went to the doctor and by Tuesday he had passed on to be with our savior. We are always being told that "Life is short" and we say yea it is, but keep on running our heads off doing what ever it is that we do. Never having time to do what is really important.

I kept telling Janene that I need to call Rick and get up with him. The last time I saw him was at Mom's funeral and we said then we would keep in better touch. Well, we all went right back to our busy lives. Now, Rick and I will never be able to sit and talk plants and drink that Bloody Mary we always talked about.

Then, in the paper we read just this week about another cousin's ex-wife that died, an old friend and customer of mine died, one of my old dealers father died, even a friend I used to hunt with died. I think Janene looks at the newspaper each morning checking the names in the "obit" to make sure neither one of us are there.... LOL When you stop and start counting the ones you have known over the past years that have passed away you start thinking again how short life is. Specially when these people are your age or younger.

It is apparent that this one big world we live on is comprised of all these little individual worlds we all live in. And only when our worlds collide do we take time to be with family and friends. And we always say " lets keep in touch" with each other better and then go about our own worlds and never keep those promises.

So what is wrong with the world we live in today? Are we stuffing too much in our lives to really get out of life what we should? Do we really know what that rose smells like? Look at me for instance. It has been since May since the last time I sat down and wrote about any thoughts. But, in that time I have rebuild the barn, added on to it, finished the house, moved in, redecorated the Foley house and SOLD it. Cut grass so many times I feel like a yard boy. Been to NY and help navigate a boat several hundred miles down to the Chesapeake Bay and up the Potomac river. Not to mention the many many times to doctors and the needles I have had stuck in me. And every one of these doctors have tried to run every test on me they could think of. Just because I am in remission from the Leukemia, they doing their damnedest to find something else wrong with me. Sorry, but looks like I may be around annoying you all a lot longer..... Hehehehe. So, if you are reading this right now take time to think about all the people you have made a promise to to keep in touch, but have not. Do something about that promise. Hey for that matter give Janene and I a call we would love to have you drop by or give us a call.

And that is the way it is from down on the Sugar farm.