When I was an Air Force major working at International Officer School, I took the men out to play soccer one afternoon around 3p (duty day went until 4:30). On the way out the door, our boss’s boss, Colonel Bailey, was coming in the door. The conversation went something like this:
- Ewell! Where are you going?
- Sir, I’m taking the students out to play soccer.
- Why?
- For fun, sir!
- OK.
Sometimes it’s OK to do something just for fun, and June and I did – Sunday, September 5, we drove over to tiny Hugo, Colorado, near Limon to see Big Boy #4014, one of the world’s largest working steam engines. It’s 132 feet long and weighs 1.2 million pounds. (A more modern diesel locomotive that I looked up for comparison is 76 feet long and weighs just over 400,000 pounds.) June and Babo the dog were impressed!
It was fun to see, and when I posted the story on FaceBook, I got over 50 “likes” and 18 comments. So we not only had a fun adventure, we blessed some other people as well.
A merry heart does good, like medicine,… (Proverbs 17.22, NKJV)
1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters.
3 He restores my soul… (Psalm 23.1 – 3, NKJV)