Winging It Daily

No Snow for Fayetteville

Instead of shoveling snow on Sunday, I spent the day blowing leaves and cleaning up the yard. My dog "helpers" were with me for most of the time. Well, Bailey was with me all of the time. In fact I almost had a Bailey-oscopy when I stopped all of a sudden. Once we were done, I threw the Frisbee for the girl. The Mechanic and Pepper came over and we enjoyed dinner and a trip out to look at Christmas Lights in Hope Mills. We stopped at Steve's house and enjoyed the lightshow and music broadcast over the radio. A very nice job, not to mention some of my favorite Christmas music from Trans Siberian Orchestra.

You can see our Christmas tree and a photo or two by visiting Sunday Stills on the left side of this blog or you can visit another site of photos I have at Morephotosplease.

In February Armywife and I are heading out to see Lord of the Dance and with luck we'll get to go see Wicked at the Durham Performing Arts Center in the Spring.

Armywife had the Bunco Babes over for their Annual Christmas Party. The house was decorated for Christmas with all of the Dicken's Village stuff put up.

It will just be Armywife, Regular Guy and the dogs (including Baxter) on Christmas morning. Mom and dad are coming over for dinner. The Mechanic and Pepper will be in Ohio and the Airman will be living it up in his new apartment out in Utah.

It looks like many of you will have a White Christmas, lucky dogs. Oh well, I can take a nap and dream about having a White Christmas and going out in the snow with the dogs and sledding and warm hot chocolate afterwards.

Taking a que from my Sunday Stills adventures I've left a card for all of you visitors to this site.
Merry Christmas to all - Keep A Smile On Your Face and your driveway clear.

In Like a Lion or at least a Mean Pussy Cat

It rained all weekend, to quote our dog Bailey (if she could talk that is) - "Bailey Day Sucked." She stuck to me like glue hoping I would venture out and toss the ball or Frisbee. Not so, to wet and muddy, not to mention - cold. We are supposed to get an inch of snow tonight. We'll see. Schools are already delayed in the area. North and West of us are supposed to get a sizable snowfall. Not the norm in these parts. As they say, in like a Lion and out like a Lamb for March weather. The Lion part seems to not be quite as bad as they first thought.
Friday was our 28th Wedding Anniversary. Thanks to those that sent cards, called, emailed or wished us well.
The Airman is doing well, studying basic electricity or something like that. He continues to do battle with his bank over where he lives. USAF Credit Union here he comes.
The Mechanic and Pepper are doing good too. The Mechanic gets to report to work at 4am on Monday. Maybe he'll see some snow falling or lay the first tracks on the road to work.
The weather is supposed to warm up to the mid 70's by this weekend, crazy weather.
Keep a Smile On Your Face.

Some gas stations are selling gas for $1.96, we bought it for $1.79 at WalMart. Still waiting for snow at 11:30pm, maybe I'll get a delay in the morning.

Bound for Mississippi

We made it home in relative ease. The flight back from Texas was shorter, I guess the tail wind made a big difference. The flight from Charlotte to Fayetteville was even shorter. The planes we flew on leave a lot to be desired. Both were commuter jets. The one to and from Texas was slightly larger. Our knees practically hit the seat in front of us. Not much comfort there. We took sandwiches on board both flights, good idea along with chips and our drink. Otherwise you have to pay for all of that on your flight. We did get to nod off on the flight, but let me tell you those are some cramped quarters. I don't know how we'd do a trip overseas to visit him. I'm sure we'd endure and figure it out.

Our TomTom GPS was a Godsend. It performed liked a champ. I've never been to San Antonio and let me tell you, there are overpasses, double decker freeways and gobs of roads all heading every which way. They call the mess of roads from Virginia to DC the mixing bowl. I guess I would call this a mixing bowl on steroids. I'm sure locals would ask why did you go that way, but the TomTom got us everywhere we wanted to go. I have all of the Air Force Bases loaded too, and it took me right to one of the gates to get on base. So we are prepared to visit him anywhere in the US. No messing with print outs of directions or maps.

A few more stories from the Airman. On Saturday they gave them most of their civilian stuff back. At the hotel he tried on his jeans. Just to paint a picture, those jeans were tight when he left. In fact, when he arrived back in December a Training Instructor made the following statement: "What are you wearing, spandex? Do you want to be a ballerina or something?" Now those same jeans are at least two sizes to big. Also, while traveling anywhere in the car for more than five minutes resulted in lights out for the Airman. One minute he is talking the next he is asleep with his mouth slightly opened. If they had a cell phone when they arrived, they got that back on Saturday, except for their batteries. They were getting their batteries as they departed for the bus. Not sure how much power that battery will have, it will be a while until he gets to charge it up. He does have his iPod though. We charged that up and took it with us. One step closer to being somewhat normal.

He is so motivated and pumped up, I know from experience he will lose some of that while in tech school and then a lot more when he arrives at his first duty station. But he is enjoying life now (well right now he is probably on a bus hating life). He'll get to Mississippi all tired, but then he'll have to in-process and begin his next phase of being in The Air Force.

Keep A Smile On Your Face.