What's been up for the last month or
so?
• Thanksgiving. We went on the road
and visited our friends from St. Croix, the Lopez family, in their
new home in Houston. It was a short trip, but a delightful one. The
Lopez family may be the most lovely people we know.
It was also the first vacation I have
taken in about six years – since the 2006 trip to the Oregon coast,
I think – unless you count my whole peripatetic life of late as a
vacation. And even then, I worked a little on the computer. But there
was something about locking the house, getting in the car and driving
that just felt good.
I wasn't crazy about Houston,
especially driving in Houston, but I enjoyed the trip very much.
• We had to cut that trip short
because the East Jefferson football team continued to succeed and we
had to get Max home Friday in time for the game. They won. They kept
winning until they played the championship game in the Superdome.
VERY COOL. They were playing the number two team in the state, the
defending champs, and they pulled it off. The E.J. Warriors are the
state champs! Hooray! And Max played in the Superdome!
• Christmas was nice. I've been told
that my Christmas list was too boring for words, but I really do
enjoy my new potato peeler. Really! Man, that shucks the skin off spuds like
nobody's business! We enjoyed the lights at LaFreniere Park again –
but man it was cold! With a stiff breeze that brought the temp into
the 30s. We enjoyed the lights, but we didn't linger.
• And maybe it was the cold, or the
weird hours we tend to keep, or just the luck of the draw, but we've
also spent too much of the last few weeks sick. It's always one of
us. First Max, then me, then Tori and Kate. Then Max again Christmas
day, and back through the loop. Coughing and hacking and the whole
thing.
Unpleasant, and made everything more difficult. But we're OK. We enjoyed the holidays, and we'll get by.
• That's not all that's been going on
of course, but it gives the highlights. There's been much in the way
of writing, as well, but I'll get to that. And much in the way of
reading, and some movies. I'll get to all that, too.
