Home for the Holidays

Monday 12/29/2008
Christmas is over and the the last week was a whirlwind. We drove to Nashville on Tuesday, December 23, to visit Mary Evelyn, our sister-in-law, and family. Visiting from Washington,DC were Elizabeth, our niece, with her husband, Matt, and one year old Alex, whom we saw for the first time. Mark (our nephew) and Amy with Evan and Kate came over on Christmas Eve for brunch and opening gifts. Mother had been driven to Nashville by Mary Evelyn and Elizabeth on Tuesday and spent the night with Mark and family. We then drove with Mother to Bruceton to visit with her for a few days.
Coming back it looks like we drove over 1000 miles. The drive was uneventful but long. Lots of traffic around the metro areas, but not too bad once you left the cities. It's a interesting that thru Tennessee and Kentucky where the speed limit is 70 MPH there is always someone driving faster than you. You drive 70...someone is going by at 85....you drive 80...a car passes you at 90. Must be something in our psyche.
The rain gauge shows 2 inches of rain during the 6 days we were gone...maybe it means we will have a beautiful spring.... and today turns out to be a sunny one, which we could surely use. Time to go outside and play lumberjack with the saw and clean up the yard which has quite a few limbs and twigs scattered around.
Al