A river floods through it….

So I am back from Missouri. From the looks of my blog, you would have thought I was never coming back, but alas, my husband and children really missed me. I know! I was surprised too, but really…they ran out of food and toilet paper, so I had to come back home.

While I was in O’Fallon, I saw the river and heard the news go on and on about the flooding of the Mississippi. For a while there, I wondered just how the surrounding area would be affected by the rising water and selfishly hoped it didn’t put a damper on our adventures. It seems that just before I left, it crested and hadn’t risen any higher, but still caused great damage, both near and far. Poor Iowa. No more carn for them for a while.

Speaking of carn. Yes, I know I spelled that wrong. That’s how my Dad pronounces corn in his native St. Louie accent. Carn (corn), sharts (shorts), farty (not the flatulence, but the age or number, Forty), harses (you know, those four legged animals that run races? yeah, those), and last but not least, warsh (or in our area, wash. as in, we are washing our sharts.) Needless to say, I picked up on a few of those words, and enjoyed thoroughly using them in everyday conversations. I mean this sincerely when I say, I am not making fun of anyone who talks like this as I enjoy the way it sounds. Feels like home and family, even though I grew up in California with a somewhat valley girl accent. When I hear those words I fondly remember my Missouri family and how much I miss being around them. *sigh* I so want to move there, but I know my whole network of support is here in Texas. They are just as much family to me as my own is….what a dilemma!

While I was there, my Dad and I made a stop in a cool little town in St. Charles, MO called New Town at St. Charles. I had never seen anything like it. Check it out. It’s way cool. Here is a little taste of what I saw.

I will put some pictures up on Flickr soon. This place makes me want to jump into a Norman Rockwell painting and live there.

Like everything else I do in life, I put off what needs to be done. for far more important things, like Facebook or scrabble. Things I put off doing?? Mostly sleep.

I need to be up early to take Jon to a doctors appointment. He is feeling ill in the lower regions of his body, mostly the backside, if you get my drift and so the Doc thinks there’s an infection. Time for a MRI. At 7am. Oy. It comes early and I have trouble falling asleep. Darn Internet. So, I’ll be picking up where I left off tomorrow.

Stay tuned….