What's Going On?

It's been such a long time since the last post that I went back and re-read what I had written. It still seems unreal having him back on USA soil. But with re-reading comes the realization that I have been slacking off again in letting every one else know how he's doing, so here goes nothing.

Blake is still at Ft. Hood and expects to be there until sometime around mid-October. We've been getting together as much as possible over the weekends and just enjoying his company. It's an odd feeling now to just be able to pick up the phone and call him, or actually get a response to a text message. I think he's getting a little anxious to go up to Kentucky though. Several of the others in his division are already there setting up their housing and getting their kids settled in school, and Blake actually said that they would send him up when he got ready to go. He's just been enjoying having family and friends close enough to visit over the weekends.

From the sound of it, it seems that they are having trouble finding things for his group to do, so they get off pretty early in the day. One day Blake said that they all showed up for PT and when it was over, they were all released until the next day. Getting passes is pretty easy, or so he says. More and more, he's grateful he chose what he did as a career field.

One thing I can add is a couple of weeks ago, while he was spending the weekend with us, we had a pipe start leaking in the main bathroom at about 1 in the morning. So, for the second time in our lives, Blake woke us up to tell us there was water on the floor of the house. The first time was in 2001 with Tropical Storm Alica in Houston. Fortunately this time though, there is no carpet in the house. It's all stained concrete, so the cleanup was a lot simpler. One lesson that I learned was the wet concrete in the garage is just as slippery as the wet concrete in the house. I slipped and fell twice trying to get the rugs outside. Everything is ok though, and the house was back in shape in just a couple of hours and I had a knot on my head.

That pretty much says it all. I'll keep this up as long as you keep reading. It's been a lot of fun going back over the past two years.

More when we have more...