Friday's Following

Poor Kaylee had a bad headache all day yesterday while at school.  When she got home, I gave her two Advil and had her lay down for a nap, and it didn't go away all the way.  I waited the full time and then gave her two more Advil.  It still didn't kill it, nor did a hot shower, so I sent her to bed. When she first got home, she had that wan expression, circles under her eyes, pale, eyes look small, a look I've seen on my own face in the mirror a few times.  But she refused to ask to go to the nurse and get any medicine because she doesn't like 1) making a 'scene', 2) causing any 'problems', 3) nurses, or 4) medicine.  She had to go through choir and band practice, playing a saxophone, with a really bad headache.  When she got home, she couldn't do her homework because it hurt her head to even think.  That's when I sent her for a nap.  She was up late finally getting her homework done when it dampened down a bit, but it never really went away, which is why I was so glad she woke up this morning doing okay.  Unfortunately I think she gave it to me, because I woke up with it this morning.  ;)  It wasn't terrible though, I just took some Advil and went back to bed until after 10 a.m., and that kicked it.

I flew the Aerostar with D to St. Louis today.  It was cold and white and dreary and windy and cold and snowy and cold out there.  When we got there, Steve C. said if we got in the airplane in the hangar he'd tug us out in style.  Now there's service with a smile!  :)  Uneventful flights.  I've been doing the flying and having D do the radios for these trips with Gumby.  Normally on trips where he goes, I have him do the flying and I just act as a co-pilot, stepping in if he gets busy, plugging in a transponder code or plugging in the re-route on the GPS, for example.  He hadn't ridden along while I do the flying in a very long time--since we first got the 340 and I told him I needed to be the one getting familiar and comfortable with the airplane first before having him do it.  That's been awhile. So he enjoyed sitting right seat and watching me do all the flying work these last two trips.  Yesterday, I made two small mistakes due to it having been a long time since I'd flown the airplane, differences in how something worked vs another plane, nothing big, but he thought it was great, highly amusing.  After that trip, I'd worked through most of the rust, read through procedures, etc., so today I decided I'd give him a 'perfect' flight to chew on.  ;)  As we got closer to St. Louis, the weather went a little downhill, and it was reporting a mile and 700' overcast, and he was gloating that I'd have to shoot an instrument approach in, without the synthetic vision or glass panel.  We broke out to better weather than that, but I just kept my head down until minimums for the practice of it anyway.  He was hoping I'd wander around a little on the approach for him, but unfortunately for him I still have a lot more years on steam gauge approaches than I do glass, and so far it's still familiar turf.  ;)  Before the last landing of the day, Gumby felt like a comfortable friend again.  Tis a good airplane.

It was so dreary in Kokomo that it was nice to get on top and to an area with some breaks in the clouds for a bit, get a little sunshine before the clouds rolled back up to meet us...

Kaylee had two drama things to do today.  Her first official "Advanced Acting Class", and her first official practice for her upcoming play, "The Twelve Daughters of Hercules".  She's excited about this play, says that she and the three others she is working with have a lot of stage time, and it's humorous and fun.  She's wound up about it a little bit, and had a blast working on it tonight, even if she was tired afterwards.

Steve's Aunt Ruth just passed away, so if you can keep her husband Hank and her family, like Steve's mom, in your prayers, I know they'll appreciate it.  Aunt Ruth was a gentle, loving, Godly woman, and much loved.