Falling In Love Again At Hogg Mine

I think I’m the happiest at this moment, right now…

Riding home with my hand out the window as the wind moves my hand up and down. I move closer to the window and let the air catch my sun beaten face. It feels so great. I’m immediately transported to my childhood when we would hang our head out the window to get some cooling air in the hot Texas sun. 

I’m exhausted, my body aches from the activities of the day, I’m pretty sure I have a sunburn and my arms itch as my order for sleeves didn’t come in time to wear today. But I am smiling at the abundance of love I felt and the exhilarating day I had. 

Today T and I went to Hogg Mine in LaGrange, Georgia and we… I mined for rose quartz, beryl and tourmaline. I was more into the quartz, I want to put them around our pond so I looked for large ones and T kindly lifted them and put them in the buckets we had. He gathered a few rocks and pulled the cart in and out of the mining areas and said no to the boulders I wanted to roll up the hill, ever mimicking The Boulder from Avatar. It made me smile even more.

But it’s just so much more than that. We sat in nature and we were just with each other. We chatted about things other than work and the house projects. We reveled in each others presence. 

As I sit here reflecting on all the beautiful stones we got, I am not just smiling because….ROCKS… but also because I am happy with the time my husband and I had together, in our sweat and the dusty red clay of Georgia. I fell in love with him all over again.

~Candice Carver