Hey,  it is almost the end of the week!  And that means we are almost to Door County.  We have not got to this point smoothly but we have got there.   Chris is finally home!  Of course she was supposed to get home last night.   What did we have more of last night,  rain or lightning?   Well is was rain but gave it a good run for it’s money.   I got home for one storm, and tried to get some things done while I waited for Chris.  We did get a break in the storm, and I managed to get the cat in the house.   But then another storm came, this one with more wind and lightning with heavy rain.  When Chris texted me that she was on the plane and the doors were closed I headed for the airport.   The flight should only be about an hour and in good weather the ride is a half hour.   By that time our road was flooded over, pretty deep.  Of course I forgot to mention that early in the first storm we lost power.  So our large sump pump on the road may have helped some,  but it had no chance to try.  So I had been sitting in the breeze way with a flashlight trying to keep the cat calm.   But anyway, I creeped down the road with Chris’s Trailblazer, I knew better than to try the Focus.   And could feel the water on the undercarriage.  Made it through there and when I got to 21 into Oshkosh hwy 21 was flooded.   I wondered why the Sheriff was sitting there with his lights on.   So creep again.  And made it up the on ramp on onto hwy 41.  Well before I got to Neenah I got a text from Chris that they were opening up the plane.   The pilot was looking at radar and reports and was not willing to try and get into Appleton.  The weatherman,  the old weatherman in Green Bay had said he had never seen as many lightning strikes.  So even though I was watching an eerie sunset, a hole shining through the storms.

So back to Omro I headed, back through the floods.   I got home and got out the generater, ran extension cords into the house and down to the sump pump.  And ran that for awhile to give it a chance to keep up.  Of course it could not keep it from flowing back in,  but at least emptied out a lot.    And Chris received the news her flight was canceled and had to go get a rebook for the morning.  And we discussed what to do next.  It was already late in Detroit and Mary Jane has a good hour ride to get to the airport.  Then an hour home,  then do it again in a few hours.  So we decided Chris should get a hotel room and everyone try to get some sleep.

Oh, except John.  Wednesday John mentioned his elbow had been bothering him the last couple of weeks,  and I hear it was swollen.   So he went to urgent care, and when they looked at him they said he should go to the hospital.   When the hospital looked at him they said it could be an infection, and they kept him there.   Not sure what they all did besides pumping some anti biotics and pain killers into him.  This morning he was doing better, so the antibiotics were helping.  The doctor ordered some more rounds of IV and he gets to stay another night.

Oh and when Chris got to the airport this morning she had a call from MJ that her throat started bleeding again.  Chris told her to drink cold water and call the doctor, and the doctor said to get to his office right away.  And of course Chris’s plane was over booked and they needed some people off.  She was considering it at that point.   But MJ was far away and already on her way to the doctor.   So she kept her seat.  Of course they pulled away from the gate almost on time,  but then had to sit on the runway and burn fuel because they were overweight.   But she did finally make it home this morning!  And the doctor did a chemical cauterization in MJ’s throat.  And it sounds like the hospital did not do that on the first round of bleeding, which the doctor was not happy about.  He also does not sound thrilled that she will be 45 minutes from a hospital when she comes camping.  She and John are supposed to stop in Milwaukee on the way to Door county for a class reunion for St Sebastians.   But that is not the most important thing right now.   We will have to see how things play out.

So just an uneventful week.  There are people in Oshkosh whose homes are flooded, and we don’t have that.  Much of the camper is packed and we get some days to vacation with friends.  So life is not so bad.