We left Weatherford this morning in the pouring rain. Eighty percent of the ride was rainy. With a few minor stops we spent about 4 hours on the road. There are some rolling hills for the first hour and then it flattens out. We saw various weird things moving down the road-much of it destined for the oil fields.

The coolest thing we saw was the welcome signs for Sweetwater, which are painted on windmill blades. They have embraced the big creatures and it was cool to see. The other famous thing about Sweetwater is they host the world’s largest rattlesnake roundup. This year it was held in early March. Having encountered enough snakes to last a lifetime, that’s not an event I’d make a special trip for. Since we will be in the desert for the next 20 days, I imagine we will see a few.

We rolled into Midland around 2:00 pm, got set up and I took Clint and the dogs on the tour. We ended up at an outdoor patio restaurant/bar and are now back prepping for the work week. I have been working for Midland Health since December. I was here for 2 weeks in January and 2 weeks in April. I am trying to avoid a summer trip so we are here until Friday morning. I assumed some more responsibility 2 weeks ago and need to meet with the team and some customers.

In addition to the infrastructure work-which is making forward progress, I am managing the ambulatory (outpatient) services team and I have miscellaneous applications for food services, HR, facilities, housekeeping, and marketing. They all need some love and I am bringing it. It is hot and dusty so we r chilling out a bit. The work week will not be that interesting so there may be fewer updates. Happy Mother’s Day to all who celebrate!

Soundtrack: Texas themed songs (many were country but we did get a Dead version of El Paso and listened to String Cheese Incident’s “Texas”)

-Cheryl