Watching time march on.....

A pretty day here today. I have walked the dogs, visited with my folks, finished trimming the grapevines, taken some pictures of the yard and spent over an hour on Facebook; reading new to Facebook but old friend's pages and adding pictures to my page. The morning is almost gone and I have yet to take a shower and get ready to face the rest of the world.

I had a great visit with the western kith and kin last week; saw all the younger gen, complete with dogs. Hopefully we will be able to do it again in April before our dog sitters fly the coop. The first night we spent in NYC. I was a typical tourist; spent so much time looking around that I couldn't keep up with Kent. The next time we are going to go to Central Park via the subway. Seattle was better, family and not such an intimidating city atmosphere.

This trip was sandwiched in between Jake's spring break and Alix's. They were each home only several days and they didn't overlap. But Jake had spent several days vi sting Alix. Nick was also visiting Alix and the two guys got to spend some time together as she had classes. Alix rode home with Nick to Lansing and then flew here in the middle of the week. She returned the same day we did and was able to use my car which saved a trip to the airport. When she left yesterday she rode in with Kent on his way to work so all in all a very efficient trip home. Her getting back to MSP was a nightmare though as the planes are very full on Fridays-Mondays during spring break time. After looking at full airplanes all afternoon it looked like I would be picking her up and heading for MSP. She was able to find out that the plane from Lansing to MSP on Monday had many seats; now just to get to Michigan. I was praying and an answer arrived the next time I checked the CVG to DTW (Detroit) flights for Northwest. You could get there if you flew Comair to Grand Rapids to Cleveland to Detroit. The important part of that trip was the Comair leg from CVG to GRR. She was on the phone with me when I found it and almost screamed, Grand Rapids! Thats only 90 minutes from Lansing! I checked it and it had 6 seats and she had time to catch it. She texted me this morning that she was on the plane to MSP and would arrive in time for her classes. Hallieuha!!!!

All the action and disruption of my routine was good for me. I am becoming more of a stick in the mud with each passing day. But it is good to have some time alone now and work on the things around here. Like spring cleaning everywhere.