The problem with vacations is that they all have a last day. Today is ours.
My profession is measured out in numbers, it's how we keep score in the investment business. Everything, eventually, can be reduced to a number. Not so with vacations. Although it doesn't prevent me from trying:
Loon Landing vacation by the numbers:
Only 1 day of rain.
Pam, inexplicably, only ate 1 lobster roll.
Played 2 rounds of golf.
Hosted 2 sets of guests...Russ and Vi White and Alan and Lisa Smith.
Turned the television on 3 times...two games, and the season premiere of This Is Us.
Fell in love with family of 3 loons who continually entertained us for 3 weeks.
Read 5 novels.
Posted photographs of 7 sunsets on Facebook. Could have added 13 others.
Took at last 20 killer naps.
Logged 25 miles of runs/walks on the paths and trails around the cabin, along with 12 miles of kayaking around the lake.
Caught 4 bass, 3 largemouth and 1 smallmouth.
Cooked at least 20 meals on the grill, including steak, hamburger, shrimp, chicken, smoked sausage and foiled potatoes.
On one particularly fabulous run of weather, took 10 consecutive meals outside.
Of course, numbers tell an incomplete story, turning wonderful things into flat, one dimensional digits. Sure, I can tally the number of sunsets, but to understand the beauty and magic you needed to be here. No mere number can describe what it's like to watch the leaves change in slow motion for three weeks. Photographs help, but only a little. I cannot assign a numerical value to the peace that has come over us during our time on this lake. That's the thing about this life, the thing that our parents told us when we were kids...the best things in life can't be measured by numbers. There is so much more to life than the counting of things...how much we have, what we own, the size of this, the heft of that. Too much counting produces men and women who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
So, every year we come here to banish the numbers from our mind. And each year, there is a last day.
But this day, like all others, is a day that the Lord has made. We will be glad in it.
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