Tonight's picture was taken on August 19, 2009. As you can see Mattie was wearing oxygen cannulas by that point. Despite how depleted and in pain he was, he mustered the energy to ride around on Speedy Red. Speedy Red brought some joy to Mattie's last few weeks of life. Which may explain why I was never able to part with Speedy Red. Speedy basically rusted out on our deck, as I did not have the heart to move the vehicle or give it away.
Quote of the day: I wondered why somebody didn’t do something. Then I realized, I am somebody. ~ Unknown
But it was a challenging commute home, which started with a 90 minute car trip to the Los Angeles airport (which is ONLY 27 miles from my parent's home). LA has a VERY big traffic problem and the ramp to get into the airport was backed up for miles. Literally I was in a stand still. This is one airport that you can't play around with timing. You absolutely need to allot about four hours to commute to the airport and get through security!
It was close to a five hour flight today and the first two hours were filled with turbulence. Thankfully I did not know about the terrible storms in DC. About an hour before we were scheduled to land the pilot informed us that National airport had been closed to air traffic because of rain and wind storms. He did not say much more than that, other than we were going to be in a holding pattern. However, I overheard the flight attendants talking about the possibility of re-routing our flight to another city. Thankfully, the storms stopped and they began to reopen the runways. But the back up of planes was significant. So much so, that there weren't enough crew members on the ground to help get planes to their gates and luggage to the terminal. So there was a lot of waiting around! Some passengers were not happy, but I was thrilled not to be in the air. Fortunately I can say that we had one smooth landing, and I was prepared for the worst given the storms that were reported to us!
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