I am going to stop saying how bad I am at keeping up this blog.

I am.

No need to beat a dead horse, but ugggggggggh.

I skip a day – and then it’s five days. And suddenly it’s two weeks.

Anyway, all the work training I have been doing, I took two trips the last couple of weeks.

I went to farmer meetings in San Angelo the first week.

It was a good trip, but I sure did miss you girls. We met with cotton growers in old and dusty dinners and steakhouses. I ate so much steak I thought I might explode before it was over.

Two of my favorite places were the Lowake Steak House (in Rowena, TX) and Mereta Cafe (in Mereta, TX). We stayed at the Home 2 Suites in San Angelo and spent all of our in-between time driving around looking at cotton.

I came home that Thursday, spent Friday and the weekend at home, and then left for Corpus Christi for an entire week.

Honestly, the Corpus trip was a lot like the San Angelo trip, only with fewer grower meetings. About 50% of this trip was driving around and looking at cotton and the other 50% was going over billing and contracts back at the office.

One day we drove up to Kennedy (Kennedy, TX) to look at one of our warehouses there. I got to meet the guys working there, we all went to lunch, and we even got to watch a few trucks load some of the last bales of the season.

During the trip, I stayed at the Hyatt Place (the one we have all stayed at before). There is a Saltgrass Steakhouse in the parking lot of the hotel, and I ate dinner there nearly every night.

I flew home that Friday.

And – well – that was too long to be gone.

I love you.

-Dad