Ice to Visit
Friday, January 12, 2007
Another gray January day.
The weekend was looking rather predictable: OLeif would go with the youth group to the City Museum that night. They would attend Frances’ second basketball game on Saturday morning and settle more paperwork and calls regarding the loan and the house. After church on Sunday they would prepare for the evening where Jashub would be coming over to talk about Australia.
But all of this depended on rainfall and/or snowfall.
During the day, Claudette Colberry and Gholden Chaumiere came in to fold bulletins. Gholden had her little puppy (a Scotty sort of looking pup) with her, as she was off to visit a friend afterwards. The puppy promised to behave itself and sat back with Gholden in the conference room with only a few tiny woofs.
Towards the middle of the afternoon in rained a bit, and Jimmy was making phone calls, trying to decide whether or not to cancel the trip to the City Museum. St. Louis was certainly jittery when it came to weather forecasts.
Come two-thirty in the afternoon, Mom and Grandma (who had been out to Steak ‘n Shake for lunch), dropped off a strawberry banana malt for Collette. Meanwhile, Carrie was making alternative plans for the evening (work having been canceled due to inclement weather), Joe was recovering from a bad headache, Rose was at madrigal and English dance rehearsal for the madrigal dinner, and Frances was at Great Skate…
Grandma was also wearing her new gold khartoush from Egypt. She had sent the needed expenses with Carrie and Rose when they had left so that they could have it custom-made for her. It came back brightly gold, and in necklace form.
Meanwhile, although Collette had made it through the night without waking up to a sore throat, she could still not tell what it was going to do.
And Carrie started considering Turkey, Greece, and Crete is an alternative to Morocco for the fall…
After four, the rain began to fall more and an ice storm warning was posted for the metro area. It was a blue world by five o’clock.
And instead of going to the City Museum that night, the youth called it off for another more promising evening. Climbing through metal springs and slides and towers in freezing rain, was not an ideal way to spend three hours on a Friday night.
But OLeif took Magnus out for coffee later in the evening.
It came in the afternoon: good news of two boys being returned to their parents after kidnapping, one after four days, the other after four years… both taken by the same criminal. So much time had passed for that kid, disappeared in a sense; Collette had to wonder how his life would be permanently changed.
“The Lord’s been good to me,
And so I thank the Lorrddd!
For giving me the things I need,
The sun the bees and the apple trees,
Yes He’s been good to me.”
– Joe’s away message (from Johnny Appleseed, “Melody Time”)