30 | May | 2024 | dual personalities

On the road again.

by chuckofish

Well, we made it to Friday. It was a short week, made even shorter by taking Friday off. That’s right, the whole St. Louis fam crew is road tripping to Illinois to celebrate a certain four-year-old’s birthday. Thankfully, I wrapped the presents on Monday night and hopefully, I won’t forget to load them into the car.

This sweet, sleepy pup is headed to the kennel for two plus days of what I’m sure he considers more fun than home life. Ideally, he will come home very tired and want to cuddle with me while I have the Sunday Scaries.

We have had the most ideal weather this week–upper seventies, minimal humidity, sunshine. And the Southern Magnolias in my neighborhood are blooming. Our ear drums maybe bursting from the loud cicadas, but our walks have smelled delightful.

Well, I’ll leave with this short post. I’ve got to pack (oops) and this way, you can look forward to a fun update from my mother on Monday. Pray for our safe travels. xo.

This and that, here and there

by chuckofish

Today marks the 113th anniversary of the first Indianapolis 500 race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Ray Harmon was the first winner of the 500-mile auto race in his Marmon Wasp.

I will toast Harmon and his Wasp with an orange soda and the wee bud, who, as you know, loves all things with four wheels and a motor.

It is also the birthday of film director Howard Hawks, born in 1898 in Goshen, Indiana. I appreciate him more and more as the years go by. As Orson Welles once said in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, “Hawks is great prose; [John] Ford is poetry.” I think that is a good assessment. Anyway, I will watch one of his many great movies tonight. Maybe Air Force (1943) since I have been on a WWII kick since Memorial Day.