Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 -- Mattie died 360 weeks ago today. 

Tonight's picture was taken in June of 2004. In Peter's parents living room, you can see the stack of vehicles in front of Mattie. The more the better! With Mattie, I learned that children do gravitate to the things that interest them. You can expose them to a lot of different things, but to some extent what they want to play with is hard wired within them. So despite not know much about vehicles, I quickly got up to speed because this greatly interested Mattie.  


Quote of the day: Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

We flew back from Boston today. The weather in Boston has been beautiful. Clear blue skies and very little humidity! A real change from DC. While in the air, we saw SO MUCH air traffic around us. It was actually daunting. One jet literally flew right under us and we could see it distinctly! 

It took us about 40 minutes to land. Which is unusual! Especially since the flight from Boston to DC is around 65 minutes altogether. So this flight was much longer than normal, and of course that concerned me. However, look what we were flying into...... it looked like pea soup. You can hardly see National Cathedral. 

We flew passed the Washington Monument and you can see how hazy and gray it was today. 

Since I found out that our vet extended her hours until 8pm today, we dashed in the car and picked up Indie a day ahead of schedule. They said she wasn't vocal and ate very little while we were gone. When she got home, she headed right underneath the bed. But she did not last long there as she clearly recognizes us and knows that she is home.