4 MyConnection | Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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Life is full of crazy, humbling moments humbling moments, like the time I was at a restaurant and left the bathroom dressed in my Sunday best dragging toilet paper on my other killer heels. T ha n k God some precious God-fearing man came to tell me. Again, I had to laugh and remember that even when dragging toilet paper on a killer pair of heels, they are still a killer pair of heels! Just the other night I had the honor to meet the Mayor of Newnan and his wife and the City Manager and his wife as well. Yes, pictures and smiles and all. Best part was I had a gigantic peppercorn lodged between my teeth. O k , G o d r e a l l y h a ve n’ t I lea r ned enoug h “ hu m i lity” or “humblences” as my friend Betsy calls it. The best is Winters never even noticed the pepper. I guess he was so enthralled with what the LBD was wearing he never even saw my smile with the pepper. You gotta love it! Humility is a great life lesson for all of us — and remembering to laugh at ourselves is, too. So remember to take a moment to laugh at yourself and whether we are all put together or not God loves our imperfections and I can just hear the Lord saying, “hey, Corby, you are human and whether you have a price tag on your shoe, or you are escorting toilet paper from the bathroom on you heels, or you have a gigantic pepper between your teeth, I love you just the same and you are beautiful to me no matter what.” Dea r f r iends , my l i fe i s wacky. I have pictures to prove it. I know that and I do not claim to be any different. I have my own thorns in the flesh that I struggle with, embarrassing moments to live with and a wonderful family and friends to share it with. We certainty have perfect moments, but our lives are anything other than perfect. So to all the other LBD’s out there, I pray you will remember that no matter how crazy your life may appear in pictures or in real life, God uses all of our stories, the good, the bad, the ugly and yes, even the wacky, to give glory and honor to him — whether you are all put together or not.
CORBY WINTERS
(Our normal columnist was off in the woods with the SONs of Thunder at Boy Scout camp this week, so the Little Black Dress is substituting.)
Sometimes it is easy to look at others’ lives and think they seem so perfect and have it all together. Well, that may be true until they look at mine. Winters sometimes finds it just a tad hard being married to a former pageant queen. Most of the time we are just regular gals, but we do have a few pesky quirks. We love to dress up any chance we can and almost never leave the house without makeup. Thank God Winters loves that. But I also have the sense to not take heels camping, thank you very much! But The LBD is also very particular when it comes to photos. It’s driven Winters crazy for years. Photos last a lifetime — good or bad. Every woman knows that. So there is an “unwritten photo code” with my friends: take it, check it, then delete and take again if it is not acceptable for all other eyes to see. But now we have “ tags.” Those goofy pictures posted on Facebook. The ones you haven’t proofed and you look anything but great. For the LBD, that is usually when camping with Winters and The SONs, then the comments start rolling in like, “You look great” or “You look so happy.” Camping and “you look great” usually don’t go hand in hand. And good hair day is non-existent. I promise you have never seen a women run so fast in all your life to hit the delete button! My dear buddies and I took a zillion pictures while I was serving as chaplain at the Miss Oklahoma pageant a couple of weeks ago. These are the dear friends who know the “photo code.” But sometimes, even with all the best proof ing, things get by. Life can be full of humbling moments. For me it was while wearing a purple dress sitting back with my heels kicked up on the white leather chair at the pageant. I love this picture for many reasons, but most of all because smack dab on the bottom of my fabulous heels, I mean really, fabulous heels, clear as day you can see I never removed the price tag. I have had a million laughs about this so I decided to share the picture of the price tag with the world. Laughing is good for the soul. Yes, life is full of crazy and
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Off the beaten path ALEX mcrae
I try not to travel in the sum mer. At least not for pleasure. And certainly not to “popula r” tourist destinations. But sometimes the travel bug strikes at the height of the sunny season and faraway places whisper my name. Or scream. It’s happening now. So I’m pondering new and exciting potential travel destinations. Florida is always fun, but if you’re looking to avoid the mobs, then from May through Labor Day, it’s best to shun spots overrun with hordes of gaudily-dressed, sunscreensoaked tourists snapping pictures of sandy beaches and sunburned tots. And it’s actually easy to find a tourist-free Florida hideaway. Just read the Florida police reports. T hat ’s how Little Econ State Forest i n Sem i nole County hit my travel radar screen. Little Econ is halfway between Disney World and Daytona and so far from the nearest Interstate that no one goes there by accident.
Which makes it an ideal spot to escape the crowds and enjoy relaxing activities like gathering “magic” mushrooms and poaching protected critters. That’s exactly what five dudes were doing when they were busted at Little Econ by Florida Fish and Wildlife officials who caught them roa m i ng t he pi nes bea ring backpacks bulging with marijuana, hallucinogenic mushrooms and a two-foot alligator. The dudes were locked up and the gator was set free and the bust made all the local papers. That means the mushroom-eating, gatorthieving crowd won’t be visiting for a while, making Little Econ State Forest the perfect getaway. It’s a definite maybe. Of course, once you leave the beach breezes behind, summertime Florida is basically a tropical crock pot featuring blistering heat, brutal humidity and mosquitoes the size of hummingbirds. Which makes tourist-free northern destinations a n attractive option. The perfect place might be Preston, Minnesota. Preston is home to about 1,300 folks and sits on the Root River in southeastern Minnesota. It’s close to Austin, Mn., home of Hormel Foods, the makers of Spam.
Better yet, Preston is relatively free of gophers. Mostly because there is a bounty on the notso-cute critters that drove Bill Murray crazy in “Caddyshack.” I didn’t glean this nugget from the Min nesota Tourism Commission, but from a police report announcing that a local mother and son had been busted for stealing frozen gopher feet. When’s the last time that happened in your home town? Thought so. The theft was reported by a trapper who told cops several bags of gopher feet had been stolen from his freezer. Off icers checked a ll t he nea rby tow ns t hat offered bou nt ie s for gopher s a nd quickly discovered that Tina Marie Garrison and her son, Junior Lee Dillon, had cashed in almost five grand worth of frozen feet. Since frozen gopher feet — or thieves —aren’t an ideal tourist attraction, Preston might be the perfect getaway. Especially when the Spam Museum and Visitor Center is open. Of course, nothing beats vis-
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