Mynee's Musings

Tony's Back

Woohoo!  Tony LaRussa will manage again.  OK, so it's only for one game but I'm excited.  He will manage the National League team for the All-Star Game this year.  When he announced his retirement, one of the first things I said after getting over the shock was "Will he still manage the National League in the All-Star Game next year?"  He certainly deserves this honor!

I've been working on a World Series card for my mom and dad on and off since the Cardinals won the World Series.  I had a hard time finding Cardinal scrapbooking items, presumably because everyone was buying them to make cards and scrapbook pages after the amazing win.  I finally found some and then Christmas rolled around and kept me busy for a while.  Once Christmas was over and the decorations were store for another year, I finally finished card.  Good thing too because Spring Training is just weeks away...

It was the Cardinals 11th World Series and it happened in 2011...11 in 11.  Here's hoping for 12 in 12.  

Blizzard of 1982

It started 25 years ago today.  It was a Saturday and it was a typical cold, dreary January day.  It had rained most of the day, in fact, quite heavy at times.  I remember thinking that if all the rain had been snow, we'd definitely have a snow day on Monday.  Well, it started snowing on Saturday night and by the time I went to bed, there was about 3 or 4 inches on the ground.  When I woke up the next morning, I couldn't believe it.  I had never seen so much snow.  The snow had drifted up against our front door and it was at least 3 feet deep.  By the time it ended later that morning, we had 24" on the ground with 6' drifts.  The city was paralyzed for 5 days!  It was the third biggest snowfall ever in St. Louis and the biggest one since 1915.   

I'm sure I'll never see another snowfall like this.  It was a once in a lifetime event.  Sorry about the quality of this photo.  I didn't have any printed photos of the snow so I turned on the VCR, inserted the video collage my dad had made several years ago and found this picture of me in the snow.  It's a picture of the picture on the TV screen so it looks a little funky but you can at least get an idea of how deep the snow was.  I'm standing in our driveway and our neighbors house is in the background.

This storm was very unusual in that it only covered a very small area.  For example, Jefferson City, MO which is only about 120 miles to the west of St. Louis had no snow.  Mt. Vernon, IL which is about 80 miles southwest of St. Louis also had no snow.  The weatherman wasn't even predicting snow!  It was just supposed to be a normal thunderstorm with rain but it was a thunder snow...hee hee hee, that cracks me up!

Today was beautiful and I even drove home with the top down and may be able to do so again tomorrow.  I'll take this weather over snow any day.  

Amanda is 16

Our oldest niece, Amanda, turned 16 on January 5.  Oh my goodness, where has the time gone?  It seems like just yesterday she was a tiny baby.  In fact, when she was about 2 weeks old, she contracted RSV and spent a few weeks in the hospital with tubes in her nose and head.  Poor baby.  The nurses called her Peanut. 

She had her family birthday party on Saturday.  Here's the card I made for her...

 

Ingredients: 

Card Stock - Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla by @Stampin' Up

Ink - Chocolate Chip by @Stampin' Up

Images - background by @Stampin' Up, sentiment by Hero Arts 

Patterned Paper - by @Stampin' Up 

Accessories - Buttons by @Stampin' Up, butterfly die by @Stampin' Up, banner die by Papertrey Ink 

Happy Sweet 16, Amanda.

La Cage Aux Folles

We saw La Cage Aux Folles at The Fox Theater on Saturday.  Here's a video clip...   

   

George Hamilton played Georges and Christopher Sieber played Albin.  Georges has a son from a previous "relationship" and he and Albin raise him.  The son is now engaged to the daughter of a very conservative political candidate who wants to close down the nightclubs in Saint-Tropez, one of which Georges and Albin own.  Anyway, the show is hilarious.  I still have one of the songs running through my head...We are what we are and what we are is an illusion. 

We ate dinner at Morgan Street after the show.  We hadn't eaten there in quite some time so it was the perfect opportunity and yum, it was good.  :)

The next show in the Broadway Series is West Side Story (which we've seen several times at the Muny) but we traded it for Rock of Ages which is next month.  It features rock songs from the 80's from Journey, Styx, Pat Benetar, Bon Jovi, etc.  We're looking forward to it.

Later...   

Happy New Year 2012