...do you want your money back? An old rhyme from my childhood. This morning about five coal cars derailed down by Kickapoo Creek. Some of them got twisted up pretty badly, but it was back in the woods and I don't think any people got hurt. This afternoon Katie and I stopped by to watch the cleanup efforts from a distance - there were cars and cranes from Indiana and Missouri. Lots of fixup battles at home to this weekend. I tackled the leaky kitchen drain, made it much worse, then much better (thank God and Great Blue Pipe Joint Compound). Not a fan of plumbing projects! This mornings fix it was funny: I attempted to use my cheap, rusty spreader to put some weed-and-feed on the lawn. First one wheel came off on the way to my starting point - I said OK, I can still make this work. Then the powder flow control was rusted shut so I turned around to head to the garage for some engineering, and on the way back the other wheel came off! I think its a sign that I should save my fertilizer-spreading for the classroom. We have all been pretty busy with school stuff this week. Karen likes her class. Kris had lots of soccer practice but no games. Katie even stopped by her preschool for an hour or so on Friday (she starts this week more fully). She was eager and nervous to go, but she enjoyed it. Last week was the Peoria rock and fossil show. We saw someone selling a fossil from Katie's province - a Jurassic sea reptile called a Giuzhou dragon (behind her head in the pic).
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