musing in Mississippi

I am having lots of fun visiting my beloved first born daughter B at her home in Jackson Mississippi. I have no idea why I always end up visiting her in a sweltering state in the summertime, but so it goes.

Anytime is a good time to visit her!

Nevertheless, with temperatures 100+ and high humidity, our activities are planned to include as much indoors-enjoying-air-conditioning events as possible.

Sadly, on this trip I will miss visiting the museum with the tw0-headed snake.


Oh, how I did enjoy visiting the two-headed snake and learning its story. One head of a two-headed snake usually tries to kill the other, forever frustrated by the fact that so many organs are shared that the death of one head will inevitably cause the destruction of the other.

There is a moral in this for all of us. I am not certain what it is, but I feel certain that there is indeed a moral.

But I digress.

We arrived Thursday afternoon. After B picked us up at the airport, we swung by B's townhouse where she now lives with her boyfriend D- and his mustache- so that we could drop off our bags and settle in to our own guest bedroom. We said hi & by to D who had stopped home briefly and was headed back to the office- followed by his attending a callback. So we wouldn't see him until later in the evening.

We renewed our acquaintance with B's dog Dov and met B's new foster dog Chewie and D's cat Loki.

B had some work to finish up on her computer and K and I set up our electronics and caught up on our email. It felt good to spend time with B! We opened some wine and B started roasting a duck. When D arrived we had a late dinner of delicious roast duck and green salad.

Friday we lazed around then went to a late brunch in Fondren. We ate sparingly as we knew we'd be having late lunch with DH. B had a computer that UPS had been trying to deliver, so we went to pick it up. The only UPS pickup station for Jackson is FAR from B's home AND in a hugely sketchy neighborhood. K and I were glad we traveled with her to what is arguably the hardest to find UPS station in the world.

We picked up her computer and headed out to meet DH for lunch. We ate at Hokkaido, a Japanese restaurant in Madison MS. It was great to see DH, but we had a stone faced waitress who was practically radiating disdain.

The food was good, though.

More soon.