1/2 Fri. & Sat. April 7 & 8
From a now dark and a little coolish MO,
The past day and a half has been full. Jim left here about 12:30 on Friday to head over to the track and I left about 12:45. The field events were scheduled to begin at 2:00, but Jim "begged" that the pole vault begin as early as feasible because the wind was to shift to coming from the north - and at a good speed. We have two landing areas for the pole vault, but the main one has a runway heading north. The concrete pad for the southern pad isn't big enough and the holes also were never drilled to attach the vertical standards. One girl was a little distressed about starting early, but all in all it went fine - and she did well. About 20 minutes after the finish of the boys' pole vault, the wind all of a sudden began blowing from the north and it felt like it could snow. The day had been quite comfortable until then with a breeze from the northeast, but nothing dangerous. There was one male vaulter from Mexico, MO that didn't even vault for the first time until the bar had reached 12 feet - am thinking maybe only one other vaulter was still in the competition at that point. He would not have been able to vault safely had he been vaulting into the wind.
We met Vickie and David Garrett afterwards at Washington Street for a late lunch and supper. We don't see them very often and it was good to hear David tell some good fishing stories from his experiences working with what I think is the Conservation department.
We were both ready for bed last night, but I'm afraid the girls have developed a bad habit that when we have been away for a considerable length of time (we're thinking they must sleep more than usual) that more than one time is needed to take them outside during the night - 12:30 and 4:30 last night. They then did settle down and even Jim didn't awake until almost 7:30.
We had decided we would get cleaned up and then head to St. Joseph (with the girls) to have breakfast at Perkins. It is so good to get a well prepared breakfast and of course their muffins are divine! We made stops at Lowe's, Border's, and UPCO (a pet supply store) and then came home - arriving about 1:00. We were soon in bed for a nap and mine turned out to be 3 hours in length.
We spent some time outside late this afternoon. We have accumulated the usual amount of downed tree limbs so I spent time cutting the smaller branches into 7 or 8 inch lengths so that they can be burned in our little cast iron kettle in the backyard. Jim breaks up the remaining larger pieces - we should have had a hotdog cookout for supper. We have two or three more burns to do, but eventually we get through through the winter accumulation.
We have three main projects on our list of things to do on Sunday - enjoy the girls, enjoy the newspapers, and I've already forgotten the third item - I do have a list of errands for Monday. I would like to get started going through the accumulated notes that I've gathered since I last updated the Jobson genealogy file.
Be safe.
B.
The past day and a half has been full. Jim left here about 12:30 on Friday to head over to the track and I left about 12:45. The field events were scheduled to begin at 2:00, but Jim "begged" that the pole vault begin as early as feasible because the wind was to shift to coming from the north - and at a good speed. We have two landing areas for the pole vault, but the main one has a runway heading north. The concrete pad for the southern pad isn't big enough and the holes also were never drilled to attach the vertical standards. One girl was a little distressed about starting early, but all in all it went fine - and she did well. About 20 minutes after the finish of the boys' pole vault, the wind all of a sudden began blowing from the north and it felt like it could snow. The day had been quite comfortable until then with a breeze from the northeast, but nothing dangerous. There was one male vaulter from Mexico, MO that didn't even vault for the first time until the bar had reached 12 feet - am thinking maybe only one other vaulter was still in the competition at that point. He would not have been able to vault safely had he been vaulting into the wind.
We met Vickie and David Garrett afterwards at Washington Street for a late lunch and supper. We don't see them very often and it was good to hear David tell some good fishing stories from his experiences working with what I think is the Conservation department.
We were both ready for bed last night, but I'm afraid the girls have developed a bad habit that when we have been away for a considerable length of time (we're thinking they must sleep more than usual) that more than one time is needed to take them outside during the night - 12:30 and 4:30 last night. They then did settle down and even Jim didn't awake until almost 7:30.
We had decided we would get cleaned up and then head to St. Joseph (with the girls) to have breakfast at Perkins. It is so good to get a well prepared breakfast and of course their muffins are divine! We made stops at Lowe's, Border's, and UPCO (a pet supply store) and then came home - arriving about 1:00. We were soon in bed for a nap and mine turned out to be 3 hours in length.
We spent some time outside late this afternoon. We have accumulated the usual amount of downed tree limbs so I spent time cutting the smaller branches into 7 or 8 inch lengths so that they can be burned in our little cast iron kettle in the backyard. Jim breaks up the remaining larger pieces - we should have had a hotdog cookout for supper. We have two or three more burns to do, but eventually we get through through the winter accumulation.
We have three main projects on our list of things to do on Sunday - enjoy the girls, enjoy the newspapers, and I've already forgotten the third item - I do have a list of errands for Monday. I would like to get started going through the accumulated notes that I've gathered since I last updated the Jobson genealogy file.
Be safe.
B.
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