I took the kids to Family Fun Day at the Noxubee Wildlife Refuge this morning. It was foggy and a little chilly. This man had brought a live alligator as part of an exhibit from the Mississippi Museum of Natural History in Jackson. We were encouraged to touch him. He was very calm in the cold air. Can you guess which of my kids kept touching the alligators face? Even after we told him not too...Anyway, we met some friends there and had a good time. We got to try archery and hatchet throwing, we saw a great display of insects, butterflies and moths, we shot at computer animated prairie dogs and quail moving on a big screen with laser guns, ate free hot dogs, listened to live blue grass, and went for a canoe ride around the lake. Now we are back home and the ROTC people have set up army games in the soccer field behind our house. They are running around, hiding behind sheets of plywood, lobbing dummy grenades at spooky black humanoid forms, while men with clipboards chase after them. I had judo last night and learned the hip throw. We started out practicing rolls. Over the course of the hour, I must have either rolled or been thrown in a pinwheel motion threw the air at least a hundred times. And since class is at 6:30, I had been seriously contemplating my usual cocktail before class. Boy am I glad my lover talked me out of that. I came home sore, nauseous and a little disoriented. But it could have been much worse.
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