November 12, 2010

• Flying Trip

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  My trip to Moorhead to drive back with mom in her van
  began with the ride from Hector International Airport
  to Doug's house:

  

  (Notice the cello already in the van!)

  

  Nice pumpkins on the front step!

  

  I had my camera ready when I walked in the door!

  

  Jack:

  

  Margaret:

  

  Abigail:

  

  Doug, just arriving home from a long day of work:

  

  After a short welcome,
  I hopped in Doug's big van
  and we made a trip over to mom's house.

  

  

  I sat in  the front seat, with this large piece of furniture behind me,
  and it really crunched me right up into the dash board.
  Good thing I have short legs!

  

  

  This Craig's List acquisition
  looks marvelous in the living room with all new paint
  and newly refurbished hardwood floors!

  

  Back at Doug's house, some Grandma-&-Margaret time:

  

  Emma:

  

  Sisters watching a movie:

  

  Our drive down from Fargo,
  to Wichita on Sunday,
  then Tucumcari, NM on Monday,
  was uneventful,
  save for the many deer we saw dead by the roadside.
  I drove the whole way, so I was unable to take my usual quota of road trip pics.
  (I will say, though, that the first day especially,
  there were a very satisfying number of cows contentedly grazing
  in rolling pastures all the way down through
  South Dakota,
  Iowa,
  Nebraska,
  and eastern Kansas.)

  I was able to take out my camera finally,
  when we took a detour to stop in at the ranch on the way down from I-40.
  Mother was not thrilled with the ranch roads
  (nobody is thrilled with the ranch roads, believe me!)
  but I think once she got there she enjoyed it.

  

  

  

  Finally at home again,
  here she is,
  ensconced in her comfy chair
  with a warm afghan
  and her laptop.

  

  Thanks be to God for a safe journey.
  So good to be home!

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