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Getting a chance to travel again is refreshing, it feels good to simply go somewhere even if that place is familiar. I recently returned from a trip to Tennessee to visit family and mostly my Grandfather. He broke his leg a couple weeks back and is recovering very well for being in his late 80s. It was nice to take him out to lunch and get groceries (yes, he was zipping around the store with his big boot on).

I was fortunate to get the chance to watch my Nephew play soccer. He is so strong, can you believe he is turning 17 this year? I remember being up at 4 AM giving baby-him a bottle while he was wrapped up like a little burrito and now he is jump-scaring me when I come out of the bathroom causing me to shriek like a banshee. Time flies. I feel happy, proud, and blessed that my Nephew and Niece are strong, in good health, and are intensely smart. My Niece has a particular fascination with outer space so she and I talked back and forth about white dwarfs, black holes, neutrinos, etc. while the rest of the family laughed at our info dump session.

As I was leaving to travel back home I felt a twinge of apprehension which has only grown stronger since I've been back. Some members of my family seemed quite changed, subdued, and struggling with something. I'm not the family therapist but I still worry for them. This is not the ideal time to make big changes in their lives but since they put those changes off for years I suspect they're running out of time and ways to deny what's necessary. I promise to not do too much.

Ooooh temperatures in the low 50s today! I know things will be going up and dipping down but hearing all the cheerful bird songs this morning puts a smile on our faces.

We have all kinds of cool weather crops growing inside in preparation. Today I will get flower seedlings started, I don't want to wait until I return from my trip.

I know we're going to get more snow, but I'm just going to enjoy the hell out of today.