Laid to rest

We had excellent weather today for my mother-in-law's funeral. The minister at the Faith United Methodist Church did an excellent job with the funeral message. We had about 100 family, friends, and neighbors of hers, stop by and pay their respects. Which is saying a lot, because most of those she knew have already preceded her in death.

She was the last survivor of her generation. My sister-in-law is now the old (new?) matriarch of Susan's side of the family.

Susan and I would like to thank all of you who read my blogs and have remembered us in your prayers the last few days.

Alma Earlene Barnard 1921 - 2007

It is with great sorrow and sadness that I share with you the passing of my mother-in-law, Earlene Barnard.

She had been in poor health the past 9 weeks. Susan has been in Kansas City every other weekend for the past 3 months.

Mom passed at 8:30 pm Sunday night the 7th of October. Both of her daughters (Susan and Kathleen) were with her. She went peacefully to be with her maker, and her husband Maurice Russell Barnard, who preceded her 12 years ago.

Visitation and funeral services are to be held tomorrow at the the Methodist Church in Grain Valley, Missouri.

She is survived by her 2 daughters, Kathleen Barnett, and Susan Twente and her husband Ronald, 3 grand children, and 6 great grand children.

I was in route from JFK to Cairo, Egypt. I was informed by scheduling as i was clearing Egyptian customs. 12 hours later I was on a KLM flight to Amsterdam, then a connecting flight on Northwest Airlines to Minneapolis, MN. Then another connecting flight to Kansas City, Mo. I got into Kansas City at 3:00 pm today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHANNON......

Ok, 32 years ago today it was a Sunday night in Wichita, KS USA. My wife went into labor at about 8:00 pm and hours later at 6:00am the next morning, we had to wake her up to push!

Now mind you that she had no drugs, in natural labor and they had to wake her up to PUSH! CRAZY! But Shannon is here and that is all that matters.

Now, Shannon took her own sweet time on coming into this world. 3 weeks late! But hey, she wanted it to be the right time. I was one of the first husbands to be in the delivery room and not out in the waiting room. Susan and I were one of the first to try the LaMaze (sp) method of birth delivery.

Now here we are 32 years later, 2 grown children, and 4 grand children. And the oldest grand child went on his 1st date last night!

Where I have been..

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Scheduling called....

Scheduling called last night. Here is what I will be doing this weekend, if the trip doesn't cancel.

10/6 Saturday. Leave at 9:30 pm EDT, JFK to IAH (Houston, Bush Intl). Then go to hotel for 12 hours for crew rest.

10/7 Sunday. Leave at 11:00 CDT. IAH to CAI (Ciro, Egypt). Then go to hotel for 20 hours for crew rest.

10/8 Monday. Leave at 9:30 pm Local. CAI to VHHH (Hong Kong). Then hotel for a couple of days of crew rest and SHOPPING!

Grandkids at the park

Last weekend we took the 3 younger grand kids to a new park not far from Shannon's house. Susan, Shannon, Frank, Natalie, Kalliegh, Brad, and myself had a picnic then let the kids play fro about an hour.

Natalie thinks the sun rises and sets with Kalliegh. All three had a great time and didn't want to leave.

Scott was umpiring 4 little league games that day and Westley was at an all day cross country meet.

Not much happening today in NYC. Just waiting for scheduling to call with a trip.

New York, New York...

Ok, here goes...

Sunday at 7:15 am scheduling called and said they had a trip for me. But I have to leave at 3:10 pm that afternoon for NY. I get to NY and they tell me that the trip was cancelled. But, they want me to take a limo from Newark to JFK and ferry a plane (N704CK) back to Newark, then take another limo BACK to JFK and ferry another plane (N714CK) to Oscoda, Michigan.

I take the limo Monday afternoon to JFK and get the first plane (N704CK) and ferry it back to Newark. But, wait....

The "plan" has changed again....

Instead of taking a limo back to JFK, we are going to ferry another plane (N747CK) from Newark to Oscoda. Good news! (for a change).

We fly to Oscoda, then drive a company car (ex-police cruiser) the 4 hour drive down to Ypsilanti.

Get up this morning and run over to the office at 10:45 to see what scheduling has planned for me. At first, they don't have anything for me, but as I am standing there talking to them (time is now about 11:30 am)they change their mind. They assign me a trip out of JFK to fly to France, tomorrow morning. I rush back to the hotel, pack and get a ride to the airport for a 1:45 flight from DTW (Detroit) to JFK.

Get to the motel at JFK, call scheduling to let them know what room I am in, and guess what......

The France trip cancelled!!!!!

So here I sit until further notice.............