What?

I was trying to remember what I did yesterday, and I came up a complete blank. I said to Steve "Hey, what did we do yesterday?"  He didn't remember. Finally we pieced a few things together. Lunch with Nathan and Chuck and AE, taking the Jeep out to Mark's, going to bed at 10:55 pm because we were exhausted.  I wrote up a few important emails that took a lot of thought and time. Drawing boundaries.  Drawing boundaries is important, for everyone.  Getting ready for my flight today, staring at not so great weather.  

Because we went to bed so early, I woke up at 4:30, I sort of dozed for another hour, half asleep, half awake, and then I was just up at 5:30.  Boo.  The weather was troublesome. It was thick, red, and wide, and it covered the southern part of Georgia and the northern part of Florida, and it was aiming for our destination, too.  It stretched across the entire country, to Texas, and actually shut down Houston's airport for awhile.  Usually I have a plan before I leave. This time my plan was to go up fairly high, and see what I got when I got there and what my options were.  I'm cruising along, on high alert, at FL340, and there aren't a lot of actual buildups.  It's a lot of "moderate, heavy and severe precip", and some moderate turbulence just below me, but...no real convection that I could see.  So I just kept going. It was smooth.  I deviated around one area that I just got a gut feeling about, and right after I requested it, the controller said "Another airplane 2000' below you on your previous path had to deviate due to moderate turbulence with inability to hold altitude".  Well, glad I went around that.  Landed in Florida no problem, shot the ILS 15 in, but saw the runway pretty far out.  Picked up Kevin and family, got gas, stared at the weather, and now the convective area looked like it had moved right into our path.  So I deviated pretty far this time, went out to the ocean a ways until I could get around the worst of it, and turn back on course.  A few moments of bumps then, and when we were coming back in to land at Kokomo, and other than that, uneventful.  Just how I like it.  You just never know. If that had all been convective, it would have been a problem, as there wasn't a super clear area clear across the US down there.  So I'm glad it worked out the way it did, for all of us, and made my life easier.

We have all our broken down vehicle fixed and home again.  They better stay fixed and home now, too.

Haven't heard from Kaylee in a couple days. I asked if she was alive, but no response to that yet either.  I'll assume so.  ;)

Cathy is coming up this weekend to spend time with Ann, so Steve and I can go to Ohio and visit Kaylee for one day.  Ann didn't take her night pill last night, so she didn't have a good night's sleep.  We've been having her do more independent things again, setting out what she needs, and she's been doing it.  But she put the pill next to her, and then just didn't take it. No harm in the long run, but I'll make sure she takes that one tonight. A lot of her meds are vitamins. She has a vitamin for her eyes, Vitamin D, Iron, and Vitamin C to help the iron absorb better. She has very few critical meds, and we make sure she gets them... 

It was a beautiful weather day here. Tomorrow I was supposed to T-6 fly with someone for training, but we're looking at 20 knot wind gusts with a 50 degree crosswind because Runway14/32 is closed.  I was sketchy on that for him, and fortunately he was too, so we are rescheduled for next month.  I feel better about that.  So instead I have a couple of my students who haven't been able to get in lately.

Devon's been gone 23 years. Weird.

And on to tomorrow.

Some of today's weather encompassing several states here, and the green line is where I went.