January 12, 2013

  • Day Trip

    We got up and headed for Springfield this morning.  Jax was "sleeping in".  He's been a bit under the weather with a cough, a fever (a few days ago) and he's also teething.  He still was charming and fun to be with. He walks...and his walk is almost a run. He likes playing ball and taking things apart.  Let's hope his skills eventually include putting things back together. 

    He likes the Duplo blocks.  He especially likes taking the Duplo blocks apart.  Fortunately Matt & Sara like building things out of the Duplo blocks. He also likes being silly with Dad.

    We had to keep an eye on the weather.  While we were there Dennis got a call from work, telling him he was on "stand by" for plowing or spreading salt tonight.  We headed home about 2:30.  It was raining and about 35.  We got ahead of the rain between Rolla & St. James, but it soon caught up with us. I heated up the potato soup, and we'd just finished eating when Dennis got the call to be at work at 7 PM.  

    This kind of weather makes me restless.  So far there is just a glaze of ice in the trees and on the power lines.  Losing electricity is always my biggest fear.  I have candles lit and scattered around the house.  Kind of like carrying an umbrella to chase off the rain.