Brent's Swim Coach and Wife Visit the Farm

Brent came over to the farm Friday evening and stayed the weekend. We didn't have much planned for Saturday. We ate lunch at Hamilton's in Burkesville and came home and fed the dogs our leftovers. Then we took them for a walk past the pond and around the hill to the back of the hay shed. We moved a couple of the 4-wheelers and Linda brought the Mule out. We rode it over to the fire pit and Brent started a fire to burn the limbs that had fell. We also cleaned out the cardboard boxes that were in the smokehouse. The fire burnt slow enough that I wasn't worried much, but a few times Brent had to beat out the burning embers floating around the yard. It was still burning at dark when we went into the house.
Sunday morning we walked the dogs around again, and watched the Colt's game on the big screen TV and played a few games of pool while watching. Later, near evening, Brent's college swim coach, Bill Powell and wife, Joey, came over to visit. Bill had coached at WKU when Brent was on the swim team and had gave Brent summer jobs teaching swimming lessons in the off seasons. Coach Powell still uses Brent to score the swim meets on the computer for some of the outside meets or high school events. They have had a good relationship with Brent since he first met them his freshman year. Brent took them for a short tour around the farm and then brought them in for some BBQ sandwiches and pie. After we finished those, we gave them a quick tour of the house and we talked while pictures flashed on the big screen of things around the farm and people that had been here. We could tell they were friends with Brent as they knew a lot of things about him and he knew some of their stories too. It was good to hear Joey and Coach Powell say nice things about Brent and we thanked them for helping Brent out during his college days. They left about 7:30 and followed Brent to the parkway for their trip back to Bowling Green.