Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
I have thought about blogging many times this week but never got up the gumption to do so. Usually I think about it as I am snapping a picture with my cell phone (and I have many potential blogs based on them) but by the time I get home and get the picture off of my phone and onto my computer, the desire has passed. But I have some time now and have nothing in particular to do so here we go.
It was 103° the other day...
...per the handy dandy outside temperature feature of our Kia so we decided it was time for some ice cream. I have mentioned before how we schedule an ice cream night once a month. With the vacation to Kokomo, we missed our usual night so given the temp outside, we headed to Braum's. It was good (as always). Today (and up until Monday night) we are under a heat advisory as temps will be upwards of 105° for a high.
When I checked the national gas map before our vacation, I noticed that Missouri was one of the states with the lowest price gasoline and that in particular, Springfield was really low. I made a point to fill up there...
This was about 30 cents lower than Texas and 40 cents lower than Indiana. I filled up on the way there for $3.52 and on the way back (see above) $3.56. Even now (at the time of this blog) gas is $3.33 at the same gas station as this picture. Each time we drive back and forth to Indiana, we dread Missouri. It is the state that we spend the most time in (about 5 hours total) and there is nothing interesting to see other than the arch in St Louis. The wife and I have come to view Missouri as more of a necessary land bridge connecting Oklahoma and Illinois. The east half of the state is very hilly making it tough to navigate by the semi's going slow up the hills and getting the heck out of their way as they come from behind you down a hill. The west half of the state appears to be there only to host several "World's Biggest Fireworks" stores and many adult themed "book" stores. There are no less than a half dozen (with billboards advertising for them) dotted along interstate 44. Our favorite name is The Lion's Den book store. Without thinking about it too much, it sounds like a proper name for that kind of store since there is danger in going there (or at least the wife indicated that it would be dangerous for ME to go there) but remembering the biblical story of Daniel and the lion's den, I don't think the title makes much sense. The only way to avoid Missouri is to head through Arkansas and as I recall (from the one time we did go that way) there are too many "vasectomy reversal" and "dentures in 24 hours" billboard signs for my taste. What is it about Missouri that there are so many adult stores and what is it about Arkansas that you need to have fake teeth quickly and cheap reversals of vasectomies? I hope never to find out.
We had a knock on our door at 8:30 pm one night this week. Usually anyone who knocks is looking to see if one of the kids can come out to play but they know better than to ask this that late at night. Sure enough it was a neighbor kid but they were telling us that there was a rainbow outside...
You can't see it real well from this low quality cell phone pic, but it is actually a double rainbow with one faint one just to the right of the main one. We stood outside with the neighbors for a bit watching the rainbow and chatting then it was time for bed for the kids.
Well, that is enough for now. Hopefully I can get back into the habit of regular blogging. I have plenty of pics still on the cell phone. Until next time...
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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