Just a couple of pictures tonight in spite of the fact that we had Don, Alicia, Luke, David and Daniel over for swimming today. We had a good time, we just never got the camera out. It was sort of an odd day today with some monsoonal clouds that passed over the area early and kept the temperatures down. In fact it was only 90 degrees at 3 PM, but the clouds cleared off and the blue skies returned and it was 100 degrees by 5 PM. Luke had a great time jumping and splashing in the pool and then had a real blast when Daniel and David got here and played with him. We had a barbecue lunch and spent the rest of the afternoon in the pool.
It looks like Daniel and Becky finally got their wedding invitations done and mailed this weekend. The hold up was that Becky's Mom had some students that do calligraphy and she wanted them to address the invitations. I'm sure it will look nice, but the envelopes will likely get thrown in the trash. We've had a lot of family call and ask when they would get the wedding invite and we told them to be patient, that Becky's family had a plan.
The top picture is of Sam on a hike with Jen and McKenny today. They took their dog, whose name was Gunner last week , but is now Maceo, which stands for "gift of God" in Spanish. The bottom picture is of Darla at conference with the ladies of Silpada last week.
It was a HOT weekend and the forecast is for 100 degree temperatures all week. We have had three straight days of 100 degrees. I played golf yesterday with Ron from one of my largest retailers. He called me last week and invited me to a Mini Invitational at his Country Club here in Roseville. We had an off week for the Roseville Golf Club and the Club Championship starts next Saturday. I was free and I really like the Sierra View course. The format was a flighted 9-9-9 event, whereby there are 8 players in each flight and we played as two man teams. We played 9 holes of best ball against each of the other three teams and it was a total points event. There were two points available per hole with an additional 2 points to the winning team. We lost the first match 8-12 and won the next two matches 12-8. Our total was 32 points and both Ron and I thought we had won when we walked off the course. Unfortunately one of the other teams had a two win, one loss performance and they had 33 points. The saddest part of this is that Ron played my ball on one of the holes that we lost in the final match and we couldn't find my ball (it was already up on the green). We looked for fifteen minutes and I finally conceded my score and then Ron realized he played the wrong ball. Those two points cost us the match. The winners of each flight won $75, but more important got into the horse race where the winners won $450, the second place team $225 and the third place team $150. Oh, well, it was fun. I shot 44-40-42 for the three rounds.
I have been out of my office for a week and a half and they will finally start the demolition on Monday. The delay was for some minor finishes that we wanted changed. The builder wouldn't start the work until the change order was signed and that occurred on Friday. The time line shows that we will move into the new space on September 9th. I'm ready. We are having a good month so far this month with four business days left, but I can definitely use some new blood. Harvey will be in the office a week from Wednesday to interview a couple of final candidates I have for the pool Assistant position. I want to hire one more for that unit and bring in a Business Support Specialist for our Personal Lines unit. I'm not really enjoying the new office, which is much smaller and kind of a fish bowl. I'm used to a little more privacy and it is easier for the employees to just stop in and chat now. They used to have to make a point to come back and see me. I do have an open door policy, but I like to have a point for the employees to come in and see me, not just to shoot the breeze.
Darla and I heard last week that our pastor is stepping down at church. We read his letter to the church and he says that he is out of gas, that the church has stopped growing. We have heard rumblings that the debt load of the church is really high and that some projections for growth of income and members had really slowed. This has been going on for most of the year. Rick has been Senior Pastor of our church for 20 years and is ready to pass the baton. Strangely, the plan is to join with a church in Amarillo Texas that has 8 campuses and become a 9 church body and the senior pastor, Tommy Politz, will take over as the Senior Pastor of our church. There will be a vote next weekend during the three services. Tommy preached today and I really liked him. I still think the combination is a little odd, but Tommy obviously knows how to grow a church as his main church in Amarillo has doubled the membership from 3000 to 6000 in two years. The only problem is he is in the Bible belt in Texas and Nor Cal is one of the most un-churched areas in the country. I hope it all works out. Tommy has agreed to take on the challenge and move to Northern California, but asked Rick to stay on staff and to be his personal pastor. More to come on all of this.
I hope you are all well and living life to its fullest. Be well and stay in the footsteps of our Saviour. Ciao.
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