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I'm back! Came down with stomach flu the day after Christmas, which made packing for our trip to Memphis to see Andy's family a little difficult. But the bug cleared up by Tuesday, and we were able to leave on time.
The drive through southern Missouri and Arkansas was interesting, because Blytheville, Arkansas had more snow than we did (we, of course, had nary a flake.) In the bootheel of Missouri, there were drifts in the parking lots several feet high. The kids asked if there was any chance of us moving down there, since obviously mountains of snow are much cooler than NO SNOW AT ALL. In Memphis, they'd had two inches of ice before Christmas, and my inlaws' driveway was still half-covered with a solid (and very slippery) sheet of the stuff. The first night we were there Andy helped his dad chip the ice from the sidewalk, and by this morning, when we left, it was 70 degrees.
I have heard a rumor we are supposed to get a "wintry mix" on Wednesday, but probably that's just another prediction meant to tease the kids into a frenzy.
Of course, Wednesday is the day when all our normal activities resume and I have to get in the car again. Driving in the sleet is not my idea of fun.
The holidays have been good, though -- for us, anyway, although I have had to ban all tsunami coverage because I've spent a couple of sleepless nights already, trying to comprehend the enormity of it. Haven't done any writing, but I am reading a very thought-provoking book right now: Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. Interesting thesis that the ills of modern Western culture can be traced to the development and quest for "labor-saving devices", i.e. machines, and the fragmentation of society and knowledge into specializations. (Maybe more on this later, when I am not about to fall asleep.) Bought a real fossil horse tooth and a piece of saltasaurus egg at The Pink Palace Museum in Memphis, where we spent an afternoon studying mosasaur and mastodon skeletons.
Tomorrow we try to ease back into our routine, and I get all the scheduling stuff out and try to be creative about helping G. learn to spell.
The drive through southern Missouri and Arkansas was interesting, because Blytheville, Arkansas had more snow than we did (we, of course, had nary a flake.) In the bootheel of Missouri, there were drifts in the parking lots several feet high. The kids asked if there was any chance of us moving down there, since obviously mountains of snow are much cooler than NO SNOW AT ALL. In Memphis, they'd had two inches of ice before Christmas, and my inlaws' driveway was still half-covered with a solid (and very slippery) sheet of the stuff. The first night we were there Andy helped his dad chip the ice from the sidewalk, and by this morning, when we left, it was 70 degrees.
I have heard a rumor we are supposed to get a "wintry mix" on Wednesday, but probably that's just another prediction meant to tease the kids into a frenzy.
Of course, Wednesday is the day when all our normal activities resume and I have to get in the car again. Driving in the sleet is not my idea of fun.
The holidays have been good, though -- for us, anyway, although I have had to ban all tsunami coverage because I've spent a couple of sleepless nights already, trying to comprehend the enormity of it. Haven't done any writing, but I am reading a very thought-provoking book right now: Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. Interesting thesis that the ills of modern Western culture can be traced to the development and quest for "labor-saving devices", i.e. machines, and the fragmentation of society and knowledge into specializations. (Maybe more on this later, when I am not about to fall asleep.) Bought a real fossil horse tooth and a piece of saltasaurus egg at The Pink Palace Museum in Memphis, where we spent an afternoon studying mosasaur and mastodon skeletons.
Tomorrow we try to ease back into our routine, and I get all the scheduling stuff out and try to be creative about helping G. learn to spell.
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