The 12 Hour Road Trip

Cow Update:

We still have them.

I trust you all had a nice Thanksgiving, no?  The astute reader might recall that our oldest, Kate, lives far far away from us now in the land of Jason and Amy.

Remember Jason?

Jason and Amy were coming to the land of us for Thanksgiving and Kate was to hitch a ride with them.  Unfortunately, a great sickness fell upon the house of Jason and Amy, delaying their trip.  After a couple of days of canceled plans, Hadley and I hopped in the car at 5:20am Tuesday morning and started the drive to fetch Kate.

The weather leading up to this road trip was phenomenal.  David casually mentioned to me on Monday night that, “Oh, by the way, we are supposed to get a snowstorm.”  So, naturally, I was all fretful and could not fall asleep until 2am.  I woke up at 4am ready to tackle the 12 hour round trip drive through three states in a snowstorm on two hours of asleep.

Reader.  I am tougher than I look. I have been married to David Maliblahblah for 21 years, after all.

Because Jason had purchased a pig from us, Hadley and I were transporting butchered, chopped up, frozen pig pieces in a cooler.  As people do.  Jason offered to meet us with Kate so we wouldn’t have to drive as far, making the 16 hour round trip drive more like 12.  So that was just plum kind.

So, we set off.  I was super excited about the snowy roads.  At one point I lost control of my car whilst going 60 mph.  My heart leapt out of my chest and fell into my lap.  I made no sudden movements and was able to regain control of the car without harming one hair on anyone’s head and then my heart was able to go back and Hadley and I were a bit terrified and agreed that I handled that sitch like a total champ.

As luck would have it, we left the lands of snowy roads and entered upon sunshine and blue skies and rain and blue skies and rain a blue skies and we even saw this rainbow.

Majestic, no?

We collected Kate and did about 15 minutes of shopping.

Then we had to turn around and drive back through rain and sun and back to the land of snow and ice, the land we choose to dwell in.

We made it and I slept a lot afterwards.

It was nice to have Kate home for a few days and I was even a superstar and had the whole house decorated before her arrival.

I forgot about Rio and trees.

I also forgot to cut a tag off the tree, whish was apparently something I bought last year?  Can you see it?  Can you see it?

D.

Let’s move on.

Thanksgiving week has been full of visitation with relatives from near and far.  Jason and Amy were able to actually come and so we saw all of our kin except Alex and Lauralee.

We had a girls night with the females from the Maliblahblah side.

Sisters Meagan and Jess were also in town and they came to our house for a visit.  While they were there, a calf was down in the mud and unable to get up.

David, Jess, and I went and saved the calf’s live and won Thanksgiving.

Look at how joyous David is.

I forced him to take this groupie.  I am the light of his life.

Happy Saturday!