Made It Home

After 4 days on the road Keith made it home Monday afternoon. He left Mt Home on Friday around 3:30 and made it about half way across Wyoming before stopping for the night. The second day he made it to Missouri and by Sunday night he was in Youngstown OH. I guess when you get into a grove you just don't want to stop.

One of the first things on his list was to get all the Idaho dirt off the car and out of the wheel wells etc. So most of today was spent get the car cleaned up. He even found some Tumbleweed stuck in the front.

He will be home for about three weeks before it's off to South Carolina. Not only will he be in the same time zone as we are he will also feel like he has returned to civilization as it will no longer be an hour drive to get to town.

Been Busy

A lot has happened since our last posting. The big reason that we have not put anything new up here lately is because our PC decided to begin a slow but agonizing death. To make a long story short the old PC has been relegated to the shop and has been replaced by a newer version. I didn't realize how many programs and files we had and even now still have some that need to be moved. As soon as Keith comes home, along with a load of extra parts, we plan on doing some major surgery on it, however the prognosis is not very good. It looks like it might be the processor in which case it to the parts bin for it. It has however lived a good life and we should not grieve at it's passing.

Speaking of Keith, he called today and should be leaving Mt Home on Friday afternoon. The movers are scheduled to pack his stuff on Thursday and his final paperwork for out processing is set for Friday morning. It looks like he will need to report to McEntire on the 16th of May so we should see him for a couple of weeks. We're just glad we don't have that 4 day drive ahead of us.

Besides that and going to work everyday, last Saturday we attended the 25th Anniversary party for some friends of ours from Central PA. It was great to see a lot of our old friends as we just don't seem to get together as much as we should. We spent a lot of time catching up on what was happening in every ones life and in fact had a hard time leaving.

Well it back to moving files and tracking down program files. Should be completed soon...we hope!

Happy Birthday

We called Keith today to wish him a Happy 21st Birthday. It's hard to believe he hit that milestone already. The bad news for today is that because of his change in orders his date to process out has been pushed back to at least the 20th. The problem seems to be that they cannot get his goods packed for delivery to McEntire by the 13th. So that leaves him and the other airman who are going to McEntire another week at Mt Home with no planes to work on. We just hope that he get some leave before he has to report.

Busy Weekend

With the nice weather on Saturday and rain returning on Sunday the gardener the carpenter and the wedding planner were all busy trying to get things done. Saturday we took some time to make a trip to Masonic Homes to take a look around the grounds. With the wedding this time next year it seemed like a good time to see what might be in bloom and how things would look for the big day. Well we were not disappointed as there were many spring flowers and quite a few trees in bloom. Hopefully this is a preview of things to come next year. We also spent some time checking out the local nurseries looking for some plants to add to the gardens.

Sunday the weather turned to rain so after running some needed errands the carpenter got to work on some of the wedding projects that were waiting for him in the shop. Although these were not completed he made good progress and should be done with these soon. A good thing since there are more projects waiting to be started.