(Please see Day 1 if this is your first blog visit)
In my new challenge quest, I discovered that The Frick Art and Historical Center had a specal croquet event today –how perfect!
So off I went to an evening of croquet on the Frick lawn.
Reflection
When I think of croquet the scene from Alice and Wonderland pops into my head but there was no screaming Queen of Hearts in my group and everyone kept their head. To avoid being totally inept before I went, I viewed a “how too” U-tube video. However it did not help because I still came in second to the last.
I often thought of croquet as a cross between golf and
putt-putt. Croquet was harder that it looked but luckly for me, my group was not
taking the game to seriously. They even let me make up a new rule- “if your ball
hits the wicket you get another try.” I am sure that this rule would have prompted
the US Croquet Association to yell- off with her head.
It was a perfect cool evening and the sky was a brilliant blue. With the Frick mansion in the background, I felt like a “somebody” holding a glass of champagne and playing croquet. The event put perfect strangers together just to have fun and when you think about it, everyone is a somebody. It was everyone’s inviting and lighthearted attitude that made it a perfect evening.
It was a perfect cool evening and the sky was a brilliant blue. With the Frick mansion in the background, I felt like a “somebody” holding a glass of champagne and playing croquet. The event put perfect strangers together just to have fun and when you think about it, everyone is a somebody. It was everyone’s inviting and lighthearted attitude that made it a perfect evening.
Oh
and I even got to play with a debonair “Ashton
Kutcher.” (wink)
Spiritual Reflection
…for I have learned
how to get along happily whether I have much or little. I know how to live on
almost nothings or with everything. (Philippians 4:11-12).
It’s the attitude about the circumstance that makes the
difference. A content attitude is routed in the relationship with the Lord.
Other Sources
Frick History Center http://www.thefrickpittsburgh.org/index.php
How to play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLq6p6NKApk
Pittsburgh Croquet http://pittsburgh.sportsvite.com/cities/pittsburgh-pa/Croquet
US Croquet Directory http://www.croquetamerica.com/usca/directory/clubs/
