True/False

True – we had another snow day:  yesterday from church which makes three months of no fast Sundays in a row and today from school which puts our last day of school back into the first full week of June.  And, it was really seemed like a bogus call on both counts.  We were slated to get 6-8 inches on Sunday over a glazing of ice and sleet and we got nothing but a smidge of ice/sleet.  We broke a 100+ year record low this morning when we hit zero degrees with a minus-20 degree wind chill so I guess that warranted a school closing for a day but it also kind of didn’t since we had other school days with temperatures at those levels.

False – we had a mini family gathering.  No, we did not because of the aforementioned “winter storm”.  Julina was going to drive to St. Louis Friday night and in to Columbia Saturday.  Emily, Joe, and kids were coming Saturday evening.  We were going to have a pizza feast Saturday night and a brunch Sunday and then send everyone on their way Sunday afternoon.  Then, the “winter storm” was forecasted and everyone stayed home.  All except…

True – Kirsti, who flew in from Utah Wednesday night to attend the True/False film festival over the weekend.  Being the graduated film major, this was a big treat for her and she saw a total of  five documentaries.  I joined her on Friday and saw my very first T/F film which was “Rich Hill” (about three teenage boys in a small Missouri town with varying levels of dysfunctional families).  Steve and I went with her on Saturday to see “Tim’s Vermeer” (about a fellow whose background was in engineering and inventing – not art – but he figured out how Vermeer created his amazing paintings and successfully set about to recreate one of them).

 

 Here we are on MU campus going back to where the car was parked.  We had just joined Steven and Tamara for lunch at El Rancho after seeing Tim's Vermeer.

False – temperatures were perfect for the festival.  No way.  While Kirsti left 60 degrees in Utah, she came to 20 and 30 degree weather here in Columbia.  Since Julina and Emily did not come, Steve and I drove her back to St. Louis Sunday afternoon and the roads were relatively clear most of the way.  St. Louis got a bit more snow than we did but we were in the truck and just put it in four-wheel drive and we were just fine.   Kirsti stayed overnight with Emily and family and flew out this afternoon for balmy Utah.

True – Steve and I watched “Oz, The Great and Powerful” and “REDs 2” Friday and Saturday nights.  Oz was interesting while REDs was waaay too violent.  I finished Catching Fire today and started Mockingjay.  The two Hunger Games movies are next on my Netflix queue.  Oh, and I watched the season finale of “Downton Abby” earlier in the week.   I will miss that show but “Once Upon A Time” starts back up this Sunday – yay.

False – I have much more to write about last week.  Nope.