Hunker Down

Kaylee had school as normal today, while it snowed and rained and sleeted.  She is getting some good driving practice in on these less than stellar conditions.  Today she went back to Encore practice, and once there, a dad called in to Mrs. E and told her the roads were a mess, and she canceled practice and sent everyone home.  Except by then, the roads covered in that rain and sleet had already frozen.  One of the other dads slid off the road three times on his way from Kokomo to Greentown.  Now he may stink as a driver, I don't know, but it's obviously slick.  So she's decided to stay in Greentown with a friend overnight.  It won't be much better in the morning, with temps of 5 degrees, but at least it won't be dark too.  And maybe some of the main roads will be better off.

Steve got a lot done out at Kokomo again, and after lunch I got a fair amount done too.  I got my exercise in.  That's harder than it was last time.  I'm trying to get in about 2 miles of walking before or around lunch, and then whatever other walking I get in during the day is a bonus.  I've only had two days this month where I didn't make that goal, so that's pretty good.  But I weigh more again, almost what I used to, and now my feet and legs and hips are having a harder time with the exercise.  When I first get up in the morning, or any time I sit for very long, my feet/legs/hip hurt a little and I stumble around a few minutes.  I look forward to having the weight back down, which will help with that, I'm sure, but for now, just moving it around takes more effort than it used to.  I also do some arm, leg and ab exercises, but some of the things they want you to do, aren't happening.  I can't just drop into squats or hit bent knee stuff, or burpees, without hurting my knees, too.  I've always had weak ankles and knees, and they aren't any better now.  lol  So I've been modifying what I need to in order to not hurt myself, and trying to keep walking every day even though it doesn't feel so good sometimes. I feel pretty limber once I get in the groove and get going, but I feel stiff before and after, once I've sat down, both.  I don't like that. It's been more than a month since I've been walking, so I hope it starts...smoothing out...soon.  It kind of freaks me out to see myself hobble for the first few seconds when I first get up.  Like an old lady.  I'm still way too young for that.

My driver's license expires in March, which I'm posting now so I'll remember to go do that.  I have to get one of the new "official" ones with a star on it that can be used to board airlines after 2020.  They require information I didn't have last time, so I just got a  normal driver's license before.  Now the deadline is coming up so I have to get the information together and get it taken care of.

My CFI expires this year too.  You can do that one three months early, so I'll probably do that and get it out of the way as soon as I can.  Wish I could do it now while we were stranded indoors for 3 days with wind chills of -45F coming up.  *Yay*

I've gotten a few emails about T-6 training already for next Spring.  The T-6 annual can't start until the Toga is out of the way, so Steve is working on getting that done as fast as he can.  I know the Six will need a new battery, I can tell you that much.  ;)  I'm looking forward to Spring and having it back up, too, so I can go up and do a workout from the front then back seats.

Well, the roads are frozen, the kid is tucked in somewhere else, and we're just hunkered down, trying not to overeat while there's not a lot else to do.  :)