Enjoying the Fruits Left by Jim and Tammy Bakker

Victoria and I flew to Charlotte where we arrived on time and picked up an Enterprize rental car and drove to visit our daughter and her family in Ft. Mill, SC. Less than a mile south of Charlotte, Ft. Mill, South Carolina offers the advantages of the big city without big city taxes and big city congestion. Jim and Tammy Bakker who began the PTL (Praise the Lord) Television Network awoke the sleepy little town by developing Heritage USA in Fort Mill, South Carolina in the early 1980s. The Bakker's were brought to their knees and carted off to prison when their conspicuous consumption caught the attention of the Charlotte Observer. The debt they left behind allowed young couples like Greg and Wende to purchase beautiful homesites with Country Club amenities at a reasonable cost.

After Victoria and I unpacked, Wende and I played tennis on Tammy and Jim Bakker's tennis courts. I mention that I beat Wende 6-1, 6-1, only because that this will probably be the last time I will ever beat her in tennis. She is a tremendous athlete who excels in every sport and I was able to beat her because I have been taking lessons three days a week for the past four months from the best teaching tennis pro I have every encountered, Todd Taylor of Pebble Creek Country Club in College Station, Texas. Wende hasn't played tennis at all for almost a year. Nonetheless, I will savor the victory because time's swift clock hastens my physical decay with each passing day.

New Ventures

Headed for Charlotte to see Wende, Greg, Lori, Lindsey. Maybe Wende and I can get in a set of tennis and then some parlor games and perhaps review the business plan for Walker Communications--how to get encouragement to the most numbers. On Sunday to Greg's church. Then tennis again? And then on to Blacksburg.