Early Morning In Bristow, Virginia

With Coco and Halle

The Girls

Halle Bissell  2nd Grader

A different morning here in Bristow, the same darkness, a different routine.  Drew left for work around 5:00 and Hayden and Halle have to be gotten up and readied for school.  Unfortunately, Hayden has a sore throat so she is staying home today.  At 8:30, I get to walk Halle to school, with Coco, about a mile walk  It's going to be a nice day, but warm here in Virginia, the high around 77 degrees.

We had an easy seven hour drive from the lake, foggy much of the way, some rain, but by the time we got to Virginia, it cleared up.  We stopped at Gio's barbecue, near State College, for a mid morning pulled pork sandwich with cole slaw, my routine on this trip.  We got to Jill's around 2:15, to an empty house as Jill was working.  Around 3:00 Hayden returned home, looking very grown up and chic,  and I was to take her to an eye appointment while Evie and Jill were going to take Halle to her dance class.  Things got screwed up as Evie thought Jill was picking her up at home, but Jill thought Evie would be at the eye doctor's office.  So plans changed, and I shopped with Halle, her dance class cancelled, went home where Evie sat waiting to see her granddaughter, and Jill stayed with Hayden at the eye doctors.  Got that?

Drew got home early, an a friend from high school, a landscaper, came over to give them some idea as to how to landscape their backyard, something they have been wanting to do.  He spent about a half hour with them, had some good suggestions, so they may go with him.  For dinner, we had rotisserie chicken, Italian sausages on the grill, and Evie brought stuffed shells.  We didn't eat till later, around 7:15, so we were all hungry.  The girls did not get to bed till around 9:00, as Halle read a book to me and Evie quizzed Hayden on her science terms.

The four of us watched Modern Family, taped, till about 10:00 then went to bed.  Evie and I were quite tired, perhaps because of our drive but bed sounded really good.

Today, my sister Ellen comes over for lunch, to help with landscaping ideas and to see us since it has been quite awhile since we have seen each other.