Day Log 07.14.05 Thursday

Up and about at 8 AM with Aunt Flora going to the Dr. at 9:45 AM. She came back with the report that all is ok and will be taking a echocardiogram in about a week. This seems to be a standard for her every few months. After the exam Aunt Flora took Janine and us to a late breakfast near by. We then came back packed the car, said our good-by’s, and was on the road at 12:45. We arrived here at Jed & Kelli’s at 5:30 and traveled 260 miles. The trip took us up I-99 to Stockton where we started to head back east on Rt-88 which took us through fields of grapes, nut trees, dry grass range land, and true pine forests. We were as low as 137 feet above sea level up to 8000 feet and then back to 4667 here in Menden. Was a good ride and better in some ways than going all the way up to Sacramento and across on I-50.

Grandma has been holding, feeding and trying to play with a very happy and at one time a hungry baby boy. Drew will find this lady getting in his face a lot the next few days, as we are staying here in his home instead of paying the local hotel fee of $80 a night. If now I can keep from blowing the electrical circuits in the bedroom with my air machine. It is about 10 PM and mom and I are going to hit the pillows soon. Kelli has Drew asleep in the closet. Tippy has had his snack, Jed is at work until tomorrow afternoon, the air is cooling down with the weather guy calling for another hot one in the morning.