I woke up this morning with a headache at about 4:30, which is too bad on a day off. I actually have the whole week off because Beverly makes my schedule and she intends for us to go to the cabin and start putting in posts for a new cabin. We have been trying to do that for a couple of years and haven't made much progress yet, but we will press on and we may even succeed some day. Having a Google account, I had forgotten that I had started this blog a long time ago. My kids all have their own blogs and I caught up on all of them and it came to me that maybe I should do it too. And then I recognized the blogger symbol from somewhere in my dim memory, and checked my Google account, and here we are.
There are too many things running around in my head to catch up on, so I may have to content myself (and maybe you) with a view to the extremely recent past and the future. Beverly and I just got back from a whirlwind tour to Kentucky to rescue Robert and Bethany and Hannah and Winnie from it's evil clutches. Robert graduated, you know, from his orthodontic program this past Friday. Yesterday (Sunday) someone asked me what he was (jobwise) and I said without missing a beat, an Orthodontist. I guess it happens just that fast.
The blow-by-blow for the trip is as follows:
Monday and Tuesday I had lots of patients and Tuesday night after work, Mom and I headed to the airport where we spent the night on the plane in barely reclinable seats pretending to sleep on the tray-table, flying to Kentucky and arriving there about 11 AM. We crashed for 3 hours, then got up and Robert had friends who came over to help load the 20 foot container. I was in the container and packed it pretty solid until about 10:30 PM (Wednesday). Thursday morning we finished packing the container and the truck came to pick it up and had a heck of a time getting it on the truck. They said it was very heavy. Anyway, 2 hours later and scraped driveway and asphalt and grass and moved mailbox, they got it loaded and hauled it off. We started working on packing the rest of the house and went out to dinner with Robert and Bethany's friends about 6, came home and went to bed and got up the next morning and worked on cleaning the house. We worked till noon when other friends took us to lunch. We came back and worked for a few more hours when we had to go to the graduation, which was nice. After the graduation, we went to bed, got up the next morning and packed the bags into the neighbor's van and Mom and I and Hannah and Winnie got on the airplane and flew to Chicago where we had a 12 hour layover until the flight to Alaska. We killed time in the airport until Robert and Bethany showed up, and then finally got on the plane for the 7 hour flight home.
I thought perhaps that I had taken pictures of the container or the airplane or Robert's house or something. I did take pictures. They were, however, mostly meaningful to Robert and Bethany, so you will have to look at their blog for further details. I will share one of Robert and Bethany on graduation night.
