MFO’s father was somewhat of a woodworker although he preferred to work with metals and had quite the machine shop. One of the things he did was to build some baby furniture for us, consisting of a cradle, a little desk, and a chair. The design reflected his engineering background, in case a 400 pound baby was to use it, but they have a certain charm.
After our use with both of the FOJ’s, we saved the furniture in case it was needed again in the family and it appears that it is. MFO’s nephew and wife in Oakland, CA, are expecting, and we offered them the use of the “family” furniture. They enthusiastically accepted. So we faced the problem of the prospective parents being on the west coast and the furniture residing on the east coast. After much discussion it was decided that passing the cradle in person would be a nice gesture. After more discussion the final plan evolved into MFO loading up the back of the MOMSTER, driving out to Oakland where I will join up by air and then both take a leisurely drive back across country (where was that restaurant?) to the digs.
So, the current schedule calls for her to launch next Monday (2/8). There is a carefully planned out itinerary with reservations in place, routes selected, and maps positioned. A southern route was selected to avoid such weather as we appear to be slated for this weekend. It is not without apprehension on my part, but OnStar, and cell phones should provide risk reduction.
We’ll be chronicling her progress until we join up then you’ll have to suffer the trip back with us. Perhaps I’ll publish the return itinerary in case anybody has any tips on restaurants along the route. Meanwhile, we’ll wait for the damn weather to figure out what it has in store for this weekend..
Other snowflakes:
On a happy note, our friend Marty Sullivan recent executive director of Historic St. Mary’s city, and current director of the National Portrait Gallery has received a much needed and long awaited kidney transplant and hopefully will soon return to good health. We all wish him a speedy and happy recovery. Marty is not only a shining light in our Southern Maryland community, but a national treasure..
Other ice pellets:
Along with many other events, tonight’s “First Friday” stuff in Leonardtown has fallen victim to said weather and will be canceled..
Well, Sunday's super bowl will mercifully put an end to the weeks of hype. Lately, I have listened to “Mike and Mike” on ESPN radio some, marveling at how they can fill hours with banality, with brilliant statements like: “Indy will have to avoid turnovers if they want to win”. Gosh these guys are insightful. Anyway, yesterday they interviewed Mike Ditka. They started out with some question like “if Peyton wins this game will he go down as the best (our favorite word) quarterback ever?”. Whereupon “coach” launched into a tirade which will forever endear him to me. He echoed our opinion that calling anything “Best” is dumb, because (in this case) the game has changed, players are better, the season is longer, on and on. He did allow as how his defense in 60 something was “pretty good in it’s day” (after another question about defenses from M&M). Pretty straight forward guy...
Other sheltering in place:
With the inclement weather coming today, don’t know how it will affect publishing the “feeder”. Also, I am going to send this laptop with MFO so I don’t have to take its clothes off at the airport, and also the camera gear. So, publication will be reduced to text only for a while.
Did I mention I’m tired of this weather??
But, no matter of where you are, you can
DFD
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