Time just flies by

June 1st, boy did that sneak right up on me. We only have a few days until the graduation and I've gotten the opportunity to spend a day a week with both of the grandgirls. I have been feeling a little overwhelmed with everything that needs to get done until last night. We made up our minds that the basement wouldn't be finished and we had too many other things that need to get done and it wouldn't be the end of the world if a few things just didn't get completed.

Now that doesn't seem to hard for most people, but for two first born goal setting people like us it was a painful pill to swallow. But there are too many other things not getting taken care of because of the pressure to get one thing done.

Yesterday we had a horrible accident at the end of the property. Our daughter Dana had just came in the door to tell me about a turtle that she had just moved out of the road at the end of our lane she was kind of laughing about the experience. She said, "Then to top it off I had to stop at the end of the driveway until a doe traveled across the drive." A few minutes later my brother in law knocked at the door and looked a little shaken and asked if we knew about the accident. A woman had been hit by a car where the turtle had just been moved. It didn't seem real. Dana said that when she drove away she saw that the turtle was headed back to the road but there was so much traffic that she decided she needed to head up to the house. The only thing we can figure is that someone else thought the same thing that she did. 15 minutes later we heard the roar of a life flight helicopter and I went outside to see if there was anything I could do. I let them know it was ok to land in the field but they were trying to land in the road. The police had it blocked off. The bees were flying like crazy and I thought I might have to get some smoke out if they decided to land so there wouldn't be any problems. The wind was whipping around as the helicopter landed withing 20 feet of the hives. The whole incident was so sureal. I feel horrible that this happened to anyone, but it also makes you feel grateful that it wasn't our daughter that was hurt. There is no win win here. As the helicopter pulled away we said a prayer for the passenger.

I couldn't help but think as I watched the helicopter pull away that life is too short to waste worrying about what things need to get done.