The Volunteers

 Tom and I try our best to stay busy since we have retired. So when a volunteering opportunity came our way recently, we signed up. For the second year in a row, the College Gridiron Showcase has been held here in Ft. Worth. This is where recently graduated football players from across the nation get their chance to be interviewed and scrimmage in front of the National Football League scouts (professional football). Over 200 players were to arrive in Ft. Worth, many by plane. Our airport, which  we share with Dallas is over twenty miles to the east so we were delighted when we finally got train service connecting the two.

Tom and I,  unlike most folks have already ridden it several times,

so meeting  the players at the airport and directing the to the train seemed the perfect job for us. It was a fun day...although standing on my feet for five hours straight and all of the walking here and there  I have to admit was a bit tiring. It really didn't seem that long though because we were so delighted to meet so many friendly and polite young men.