Wet Wednesday

This morning it was a quick run to Aurora, IL and back to drop off the 340.   It was IFR and a little rainy.  Dustin flew the 340 over, and I took the Aerostar and Steve C to pick him up.  I got to shoot the RNAV 33 into Aurora, and I hand flew that to keep up on the practice.  On the way home, it was IFR the whole way, and I shot the RNAV 5 into Kokomo, down to about 500' and 1.5 miles vis, letting the autopilot do that one so I could remember how to hit the buttons, too.  It was good practice.  I offered to let Steve fly on the way over (he said no), but I didn't offer to let Dustin fly home.  He flies left seat in the best (worst) weather all the time while I just monitor from the right seat.  Today I wanted to do the flying and he could monitor.  ;) 

We made it to lunch just 10 minutes late, and then I went to the store to pick up a few things for Ann, and the BMV to transfer the Buick into our names and get new plates for it.  Our plates expired today.  I go in there and they didn't like all my paperwork, so sent me home.  I made it home, got the new thing filled out and signed, and got back to them before they closed at 5 pm, so I would have legal official plates again before tomorrow.  Whew.

Kaylee was out late last night.  She texted me that she was going to be with friends until pretty late.  When 11:30 pm came, I texted her "remember that tomorrow is a school day".  She texted back with "Austin gets his leg cut off tomorrow so some of us are hanging out with him at his house tonight for a last night."  Austin is the young man with bone cancer.  He got his leg below the knee amputated this afternoon.  So last night the Encore kids hung out with him, signed his leg, offered support, etc.  Kaylee didn't get home until 1 am, but it was a good cause.  She was back up at 6:30 this morning to go to school.  She's a very tired girl.  Austin's surgery went well, and he's recovering now. 

Kaylee also talked to the Discipleship Training School folks, and she's very excited about doing it.  They answered all her questions to her (and our) satisfaction.  She's super pumped about it, and will almost certainly be going to Oregon for 6 months after graduation.

Guess that catches you up on our family life for the day.  No pretty pictures from today--it was gloomy gus all day.  :)