Time, as it always does, has rushed on, and our annual May trip to the rolling hills and lush green valleys of eastern Missouri’s wine country has come and gone. It was a wonderful, restful vacation despite a few less than ideal circumstances. One of these being the fact that I got some kind of intestinal bug on Tuesday, the day we left, that brought with it a two-day fever and off-again, on-again stomach cramps that didn’t go away until Saturday morning. The other was a week-long rainy forecast.
Don’t feel bad for me though, we really did have a relaxing and refreshing time together. I didn’t get any pictures to share this time, just the mental ones I took of the beautiful green countryside that we drove through each day on our outings. We did a lot of exploring, and a lot of reading. I decided to let this post serve as an “I’ve returned” message followed by some mini-reviews of the books I managed to get through over the course of this past week.
