Grateful for Today

I am always grateful for today.

Today I was thinking

how grateful I am to be born at this time in earth's history.

Today we can do things our ancestors never even dreamed possible.

We have time-saving devices that make life easier...

Yet we still never have enough time.

What is the best time of my life?

Today.

Today is all we have.

The memories of the past are great...

but each new day gives us a fresh page

on which to write a new memory.

Today I did something I will always remember.

For almost 10 years I have been annoyed

by a rut across the road to our home.

We share a common driveway with seven neighbors.

In one place water flows across the road

wearing an ever deepening rut with each rainfall.

I have gone with my tractor several times and filled it in

which only lasts for a little while.

A culvert was never installed where it should have been

when the subdivision was originally done.

Neighbors cannot agree on improving or maintaining the road.

So, I decided to just do it myself today.

I went and puchased a galvanized steel culvert on Friday morning.

After lunch, with the help of Richard Lucas,

one of the neighbors, we got it installed.

With my tractor, a pick and shovel we dug the trench

thru a very tough, rocky road bed.

Richard offered some sandy gravel from his stock pile

to dress the top after the pipe was backfilled.

It not only looks fantastic,

but it put an end to the recurring rut.

I will never forget today.

"You must live in the present,

 launch yourself on every wave,

find your eternity in each moment.

Fools stand on their island opportunities

 and look toward another land.

There is no other land,

there is no other life but this."

-Henry David Thoreau

What is the best time of your life?