Easter

 

Happy Easter to everyone. He is Risen and life is so worth living. The pastor today gave us a saying to keep in mind: "Look to your hope as you plan your future and not to your hurt." And we all know that our hope is in Jesus Christ. We had a nice service this morning at 8:30 at Adventure. It was a great service and a great message. The pastor mentioned James Harrison today. He is known as the "Man with the golden arm". He is an Australian who was found to have an unusual plasma composition that has been used to make a treatment for Rhesus disease, a disease that is caused when a fetus has a different blood type than the mother. He has given blood every other week since his plasma was found to have the life saving characteristic and it is estimated that he has saved over 2.4 million lives of babies. He has donated blood over 1000 times. Amazing.

 

I had a Good Friday this week and a Great Thursday. I was invited up to Serrano County Club in Folsom on Thursday by the CEO of the insurance group that I am on the board of. I had Gary join us as well as he is a member. We met out there after noon for a quick lunch and teed off at 12:50. I was anxious to play the course again and to see Folsom Lake from the elevation of the course to see the amount of water that we have in storage now. The second golf picture is of the lake from the course. There are also some really nice pictures of the snow up in the Sierras. It is an awesome course and always

 

 

a joy when I play it. I shot an 89 with a 44+45 and struggled on the fast tricky greens, but I had a blast.

 

Friday, I got up early and washed Darla's truck as I had agreed to drive Neil, John and Steve to the course. We played at Ancil Hoffman and had a coupon for $100 for 4 players with cart. We got out there early and had an early lunch, hit balls, did some putting and then headed out on the course. I shot 90 and, although I had the lowest score, it was a struggle with the driver all day. I had a great driving day out at Serrano, but couldn't find the fairway all day at Ancil Hoffman and struggled just to make pars.

 

Friday night I hosted poker and had six players show up and we had a good time. Darla made us lasagna for dinner and I added French bread. The guys loved it as we usually have pizza or chili and it was a nice change. I won a lot early and lost late to basically break even, so overall a good time for me.

 

Saturday I was up early again and washed the 300 for our drive up to Paradise and dinner with Earl and Frances. We picked up David at a restaurant here in Roseville and made the 90 minute drive up to Paradise. We stopped at a nursery in Paradise and bought Frances a plant. The picture of David and the wisteria vine above is from the nursery. Don and Alicia were up in Paradise and had stayed the night on Friday night. They had been in Napa doing wine tasting. Their 5 year old son is quite the wine connoisseur now as they are at the wineries quite a bit. We met all of them up at the Black Bear Diner in Paradise at 2 PM for an early dinner. I had the pot roast dinner which was far too much food and had a gut ache the rest of the afternoon. David had dinner and jumped in the car with Don and Alicia for the ride home and we drove over to the folks house in Paradise for some good conversation and some strawberry short cake for dessert. I ate the dessert, although really didn't need it. We stayed until about 6 and were back home by 7:30.

 

Today, we went to church at 8:30 and I got home and did chores all day. I rewashed my car as we picked up a mass of bugs all over the front of the car and on the mirrors, etc. I mowed the lawn, trimmed the bushes, cleaned out the filter and cleaned the pool. I shocked the spa, added some acid and balanced the chemicals. I also cleaned the stamped concrete and weeded the palm garden above the pool. I came in, turned on the golf about 3 PM and fell fast asleep, waking up at 4:30 and finishing up in the back yard. I watched the Kings beat Dallas to cripple their playoff chances and then jumped on the blog. You are up to date.

 

I have one of our corporate vice presidents coming in this week. He is one of our regional trainers now working with the younger producers on marketing techniques and desk management. I have three of the younger producers making marketing calls with Michael. I pick him up at the airport tomorrow morning and he will be here until Thursday. We have golf planned with one of Gail's agents on Thursday and look forward to it. I also have a River Cats (Giants AAA team) game on Wednesday night. They are playing the Giants in an exhibition and it should be fun. Darla and I are going with Pete and Vicky.

 

Well, hopefully you had a great Easter and remembered the reason for the season. It's not bunnies and eggs. Jesus is alive and at work in our lives today! Be well. Ciao.