...am enjoying the annual madness that is the annual NCAA D-1 basketball tournament. I do not fill out any brackets and have no desire to do so, but I do enjoy watching the upsets. Already several traditional "powers" and/or presumed favorites to win it all have fallen by the wayside. Love it when the smaller schools who are hungry and just happy to be there pull one out over the big boys. Case in point: Northern Iowa knocking off Kansas last night. Northern Iowa, out of the "mid-major" Missouri Valley Conference, just won their conference tournament here in St. Louis two weeks ago and will return for their 'Sweet 16' regional next weekend. Bill Self's boys, um, will not. Mizzou, alas, will not be going any further after losing to West Virginia. They hung in there for most of the game but ran out of steam towards the end. Next year!
...spent an enjoyable day with my parents and niece Lydia yesterday. My parents kept Lydia overnight Friday night and all day yesterday while her parents tended to the process of preparing their house for sale. (speaking of which, if you know of anyone looking to buy a 5-year old townhouse in a relatively safe part of St. Louis city, let me know!) Love that Lydia! She is 2 years old now and has turned up the cuteness factor quite a bit. A happy, silly, normal toddler is she. I got out with Chili-dog late in the afternoon out to West City Park in Festus, down the hill from my parents' house. West City has expanded quite a bit since I've moved away and I never got over to see what all was there. The city really did a great job with creating trails and open space that are great for walking dogs and their humans.
...had some great fellowship time over lunch with some friends from church at our friend R's house. She's a great cook and hostess who has the gift of hospitality and enjoys using it. She first hosted about a month ago and served Mexican food. Today was Italian, with two varieties of pasta, along with salad and bread. Warm peach cobbler and chocolate-toffee brownies came afterwards. We all watched a good bit of the Mizzou basketball game on the tube before heading home.
...finally, a shout-out to our own Washington University Lady Bears, who won the NCAA D-III basketball championship this weekend in Bloomington, IL. Smart kids who can shoot hoops....love it!)
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