I had been thinking about a television movie my parents had watched back in 1977 called "Green Eyes". It was about an African-American Vietnam Veteran who comes home but can't settle down. He decides to return to South Vietnam and look for the woman and baby he left behind. His only clue about the baby is that it looked like him and had green eyes.

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Finally, we went to Hannibal MO, the home of Samuel Clements aka Mark Twain. It was fun. The Mark Twain Museum actually several buildings spread out over a couple of streets. It traced the life of the author and introduced the people who inspired the characters in his novels. I took a picture of my husband white washing a fence and one of my daughter sitting in an 1800's classroom. They even had a couple dressed like Tom and Becky walking around the place though I never did get a picture

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The next day we went to Worlds of Wonder Aquarium and Museum which is supported (in part) by Bass Pro Shop. Tickets were expensive but worth it! The underwater exhibits were fantastic and it gave an interesting history of sport fishing. It even had a section dedicated to former presidents who enjoyed fishing. (Jimmy Carter being chief among them). It was truly amazing.

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Last Sunday, May 19, my family and I went to Wentzville, MO to visit my mother and other family members. This isn't our first trip. My daughter and I have made the trip almost every year since Mom moved to Missouri. My husband started coming with us back in 2018. we always manage to have a good time.

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I got a text this afternoon from a former co-worker. Our former boss, owner of the daycare we worked for, had died.

Miss 'Leesha had been in childcare for years. She had kept children at her home before eventually opening an actual daycare. She was a loving but strict person. She was always getting after me for holding the children too much. "You can't spend the whole time holding one child. You gotta watch out for all of them."

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I was at work having a rather slow day when my husband called. That is a little unusual for him. Usually he just texts me. Unless it is something important. Turned out it was important.

The house was on fire.

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Lately I have been reading some stories by a Brony named Bluecatcinema. His has some very interesting OCs, my favorites being the Napoleon brothers who are members of the Bitalian Mafia. One of brothers, known as Salt Napoleon, was based on the actor Jason Stratham.

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Today I did a very stupid thing.

Pinkie and I went to her favorite restaurant this morning to get breakfast. I got a biscuit, potatoes,....and a coffee. (Oh, you can see where this is going, can't you?) We parked in one of the spaces so I could put some sugar and creamer in the coffee. For some stupid reason, I thought it was okay to balance a full cup of hot coffee on my knee. Well, it tipped over and hot coffee poured all down my lap!

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Probably wondering about the title. Well, not too long ago I was looking up stuff on the Internet and ran across a YouTube video series called "Ask a Mortician" by Caitlyn Doughty (imagine a cross between Twilight Sparkle and Wednesday Adams). The episode was about the Essex, a whaling ship from Nantucket that served as the inspiration for "Moby Dick". Unlike the book where only Ishmael survives, about seven crew members lived to tell the tale. She described in morbid but humorous detail

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Covid19, the viral bitch, has made it to Florence County with at least one confirmed case in our zip code. No one I know is sick at this time, thankfully. I went to church this past Sunday. Counting the priest, there were only about 10 people present. Kinda weird considering this is the Lenten season.

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