Sine last fall, one of the history teachers has come over to watch the WW2 series Battlefield with me and Mer. Jordan likes the in-depth approach of the series, and so he came over on Sunday to watch the fourth show in the series, on the Battle for North Africa.

But Jordan is also a runner, so he brought his running stuff with him, and we drove over to Kendall Lake. We ran a loop across the street from the parking lot, then the hilly section of the trail, and finally the short section around the lake itself, for a run of about six miles total. It was not a fast run, given the hills and the heat, but it is always nice to have company when running.

We went back to the house, and we took advantage of the house’s two full bathrooms in order to get cleaned up for supper and the show. I made chicken fingers and cheeseburger bread and cookies for supper, and we settled in for the two-hour analysis of the tactics of North Africa in World War 2. It more or less boiled down to supply lines – when the Germans would make gains, they would have to stretch their supply lines to a breaking point and could not continue. The Allies had a base on the Mediterranean island of Malta, which helped them harass the Axis supply lines by sea. The Americans had their first action of the war in an amphibious landing in French-controlled Africa; none of us had realized we had actually had to fight the French during the war; granted, the resistance was only halfhearted, but I had not known we had to fight the French at all.

We wrapped up the show around 8:00, but kept talking until well after 9:00, when Jordan had to get home to help put his kids to bed.