On Preparing to Leave for the Sunny South

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Saturday morning brought a buster of a heat wave, enough fire to issue a heat warning for St. Louis for the rest of the week through Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Collette and OLeif packed his bags for New Orleans. Ironically enough, New Orleans was anticipated to be cooler than St. Louis that week, and rainy. And for the two part-days trip there, OLeif had brought his latest adventurous read, just having arrived in the mail: Missionary Patriarch: The True Story of John G. Paton, Evangelist for Jesus Christ Among the South Sea Cannibals.

And in other news, Old Blue and Cashmere were scheduled to be married the following July (which seemed to currently be a popular month – 5 in two years). People seemed to be tying the knot faster than Collette could chalk them down. But such was life.

And so, in the dead heat of the dead day, OLeif and Collette slipped over to the church picnic with two cases of soda and a bag of ice. The church seemed to have a particularly odd habit of scheduling events on the worst possible days in the year under the most unfavorable conditions. Sometimes Collette wondered if they kept a Worst Possible Days of the Year to Schedule Your Church Activities Almanac locked up in the finance office in the basement; it happened frequently enough.