Haircut

Remember that train wreck along Kickapoo Creek on Labor Day weekend? (See previous blog entries for pictures.) Well I was looking up something on Google Earth recently and was surprised to find a view of the almost-completed cleanup efforts. Check out the following coordinates:

40deg41'22.49" N
89deg39'02.00' W

You can see 1 car being loaded and 3 cars waiting to be loaded onto the train. You can also see employee vehicles parked along Kickapoo Creek Road. Turns out that this picture was originally taken Oct 6.

12 inches of snow so far this season.

Tonight we ran errands, rode the train in the mall, and Katie got a hair trim. We like the haircut and hope it stays looking nice for a while. Karen commented that she looks a little more like a boy. I replied that her hair looked like that of one of our female guides in China. About a minute later, a bell-ringer expressed confusion about whether Katie was a boy or girl - ah well....