Slow Southern Life

The past couple of days here have been very relaxing. I've been able to catch up on my sleep and get my health back to a reasonable level. I'm still sort of congested and I'm starting to wonder if I have pneumonia but my energy levels are quite high and I 'feel' better.

So far my days have been pretty unstructured with plenty of 'me' time as well as plenty of time with the family. Danny and I have been working on some shelves for Sarah's room and got to go out yesterday morning and hang out a bit. I took my car in to get the oil changed so we had an hour or so to kill. We went to Costco so I could re-supply my car snacks and then shot over to Home Depot to check out the lumber. For lunch we went to Beauregard's which has really good wings and their fries were quite tasty, too.

I've been swimming with the kids a bunch of times as the weather here has been quite warm. Temps are in the low to mid 90's and with the high humidity it can be oppressive at times. Luckily there has also been a nice breeze to go along with it so overall it hasn't been too bad. I wonder if I'll get home having gotten used to this high humidity and then have to go through the awful dry skin phase back in our dry desert air. At least my poor curly hair won't be crazy frizzy anymore :)

On Tuesday we went down to the Greenway which is an open-space park which a nice jog/bike trail and a creek running through it. Right by a bridge there is an easy access point to the creek which is quite shallow so we played in there for a good bit. Danny and Christopher were building dams and things again and got a nice 'super channel' going by damming up most of the river except for a 2 foot wide section where the water was forced through. The current there was actually pretty strong and you could see some minnows fighting to keep from getting pulled down. Along with the minnows we saw some tadpoles, some mid-sized fish and a snake. The snake looked like he had just eaten something and was out on a rock getting some sun and digesting whatever it was. None of us were sure what kind of snake it was but I'd estimate it to be about 2 to 2 1/2 feet long with a pretty banding. Sarah and I spent some time skipping rocks and I helped her figure out how to get some good skips. Later she went off to make mud rocks so I explored the creek a bit more. Just past us was an oxbow where the creek got pretty deep but I got into the water just past the oxbow and it became shallow again. I walked up the creek for a few hundred yards, reminiscing about how I used to spend my summers doing this back in Dallas. Good times.

Other than that there's not a lot of major interest to tell. Tonight we're going to Point Mallard which is a local waterpark where they had the nation's first wave pool! Friday night we'll go to a Huntsville Stars baseball game and then Saturday I leave for Arkadelphia.

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