Terry's daughter Jennifer was here for a few days last week. She planned the trip around a family reunion on her mother's side. Cassie also came home for two days to see her.
Jennifer flew in Wednesday, stopping in Houston and Chicago before flying to an airport an hour from us. It's a long story but let's just say we made two two-hour round trips to the airport and finally got home at 2:00 a.m. The funniest part of the saga was when Cassie and I made the second trip to pick up Jennifer. We got her at the airport, stopped for Cokes to wake us up, and headed home. I got on an Interstate highway with the same number as the state highway I intended to take. I've made this trip easily one hundred times and can't believe I made the wrong turn. It was late and we were talking is all I can say. It took a few minutes to figure out what I'd done and we got out the GPS to see if it could guide us home. We followed it for about ten minutes and tried not to be too skeptical as it took us onto more and more isolated country roads. Finally, we came to a road where the GPS said, "turn right onto Indiana 65". The road to our right was NOT a state highway, it was a gravel road. Directly in front of us was a small cemetery and Jennifer insisted the gargoyles on the gate were staring at us. We turned around and found our way back to the interstate, retraced our steps and made it home over an hour later.
One bit about Jennifer's flight: her flight into O'Hare had to circle for almost an hour. The flight crew said the delay was weather-related but Air Force One was landing at O'Hare at the time, so we wonder. Finally, the plane ran low on fuel and had to land in Peoria for more. They sat on the ground in Peoria an hour and a half while airport maintenance crews searched for a fuel hose big enough for the aircraft. The pilot announced he would have to "pop" the engines to take off from the short runway. So, after all the turmoil of Jennifer's travel day, I can see why she found the gargoyles menacing.
Saturday morning, we made biscuits and gravy for breakfast. I made biscuits from scratch and we baked them in our gas grill! (We don't turn our oven on in the summer.) I put the biscuits in our largest cast iron skillet and put the skillet on top of a cast iron cornbread pan so the biscuit bottoms wouldn't burn. They were fantastic, if I do say so myself.
Pictures of our pool time are on my Facebook page. If you'd like to be my Facebook friend, let me know and I'll be happy to point you in my direction.
Happy End of Summer!
Sandy
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