This afternoon, Doug and Matt came by to see us before Doug took a plane home. Matt took this picture of Norm and Ava with his new, snazzy Nikon. He took more pictures that we like but the file size for them is a little large, over a megabyte apiece, and they would quickly eat up most of the free allowance for photos on Blogger. So this one will have to do for the blog and I'll print the others and put them on the refrigerator! Ava has been visiting us since Wednesday, and her owner, Barb, is due home sometime tomorrow. She has been sedate up until Doug and Matt arrived; then she got her ball and ran crazy eights around the living room and dining room for several minutes. Ava does like men!
Starting tomorrow, we will be doing some house sitting for our friends Mike and Sandy, while they visit their grandson Korey Jon'Mikal in Chicago. Heather reports he is gaining weight, not bad for a little guy born 4 weeks early. We know they will have a great visit and we look forward to a trip to St. Louis soon by mom Heather, dad Corey and this little guy.
Another baby in our lives, LIly, has passed the 13-pound mark just shy of her 3-month birthday. Doug and Matt were here last week for Michelle's surgery on Wednesday, which went very well. Doug took this picture while baby sitting during the week. I got to hold this lovely, non fussy girl on Friday night. Her mom is now back home, having been released from the hospital today. We pray for a quick recovery and return to full living for Michelle, and a couple of days of sleep for grandma Karen, who has been doing a whole lot of baby sitting during the last three months!
OK, that takes care of Sunday, Ava and the Babies. What is a MCS? Well, our weather forecasters call it a mesoscale convective system, but on a radar screen it looks a lot like a small inland hurricane just whirling toward you, with a lot of angry red on the front of it. They have a squall line with strong wind, followed by possible hail and drenching rain. They hold together for six hours or more, unlike the typical summer thunderstorm. (A very wicked MCS hit St. Louis in July of 2006 and left up to 2/3 of the city and county area without any power for 2 to 10 days. I don't have an entry about it because I didn't start blogging until August of that year.) Today one motored along I-70 toward St. Louis from Kansas City, and it caught up with us about 1:30 as we were driving home from church. It was a good day to be in a mini van since the water was running curb-deep in many places. After we got home, there was 1-1/2 inches of rain in our gauge.
Now it is quiet and cool. St. Louis is host to baseball's All-Star Game so we hope the MCS's and their friends stay away at least until Wednesday. Cousin Mike and Debi are enjoying the sights in Tennesee and North Carolina as they visit family friends. We are looking forward to having them here as guests this coming weekend.
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