On my X-mas list...a keg fridge...

Tonight a friend cooked me supper and a great supper it was. As many know I don’t eat much meat, but they cooked me a great steak with all the trimmings. After supper we went for a drive to see if any hot air balloons were up yet. You see, here in town they have the annual hot air balloon races and it starts tomorrow. It’s actually something that I love to see and hopefully one day I will get to ride in a hot air balloon.

Anyway, there were no hot air balloons. We ended up driving around town and they called a friend of theirs who has an amazing place to entertain guests. Let me say this house had a pool, hot tub, fire pit, and my favorite item the keg fridge. Yes, a keg fridge. A stainless-steel, kitchen-sized refrigerator converted with a beer tap up front for that great tasting cold beer at anytime of my liking. Seriously, how amazing is that? Needless to say, I met my new best friends.

Talk about being a party host, even when this was not a party but just the four of us, my beer glass never reached bottom—well till it was time to go. The funny thing is I am not originally from this town and my friend is, so the chances that we know any of the same people--and I don’t know anyone--are slim to none. We pull up and they introduce me to the lady of the house and than the man of the house came out—I recognize him. He sold me my fridge and stove less than a month ago and he is the father of a friend of mines oldest son. What a small world it is. This definitely made conversations pretty darn easy and funny.

You know when life gets you down, and it has me this last week, you just have got to get out there and drink some good ole cold beer. Okay, actually, surround yourself around good company and forget whatever had got you down, obviously it wasn’t worth it.

I am not sure I tell my good friends enough—male or female—exactly how much they do mean to me but seriously without them…I’d be lost.

Thanks to all my friends for keeping me liquored up and right on track in life.