The worst day of the trip going north

 I’m glad I only had 200 miles to go on that rainy day, did I say - RAINY? I had an easy night at the hotel in Lexington. Then I didn’t get on the road till 10 ish. And after filling the tank and finding my first

 300 miles had my dear 18 year old car get 35 miles per gallon, I started my slow route right up the interstate.

There won’t be many photos of that trip. It was slow and fast, never knowing when a slowdown would happen, just from traffic mostly. Lots of trucks, and the rain was light most of the time, but roads were always wet, and those trucks threw up lots more water into the air. So it was in white-out conditions a lot of the time. I’d just try to slow down enough to not be behind someone’s blinding fog of water, and sometimes there wasn’t really any place to do so. But I didn’t see any accidents and most drivers were courteous.

That reminds me, when I wrote about trust the other day, I forgot how we trust all the other drivers on the road. Our lives depend upon it.

Me using nebulizer in the hotel room. Not watching whatever was going on TV.

Tree in lobby where I filled up my coffee carafe as I checked out. I’’ll be back Monday night on my way home! I sure hope I get better weather on my way back to NC!

Probably crossing the Ohio River going into Cincinnati. 

One of the few times I didn’t have trucks and cars all around me so I could perch the phone on top of the steering wheel for a photo.

As usual I stopped for a break when tired, or just needing to move around. The first half hour was my first stop!

I must say this wasn’t a boring trip. I had to have my attention, and my eyes, peeled the whole trip. I was so tired when I arrived at my son’s that I just wanted to close my eyes. But for me lying down when tired just made me cough a lot…so I found comfort in sitting with eyes closed on the couch. What a guest I am!

Setting up to get a photo of Audrey, her dad had something to say about that. This was taken on Wednesday after I had recuperated!

The pose!

Granddaughter Kate came home from college, where she's a freshman at Ohio State U! (Incidentally, I made the mug she's drinking coffee from with a straw, forgot to ask exactly why though...)




My other granddaughter is Caroline, the Pie Baker. But each of the daughters signed up to cook at least one dish for the holiday dinner. Many delicious things! Which was covered in another blog!

I must mention that it snowed the whole day Thanksgiving, but it never stuck because the high was around 33. At night it got down in the 20s, and the next day stayed cold, but the wind had finally died down.

Today’s Goddess:

The Venus of Laussel is 46 cm high bas-relief of the Great Goddess holding a moon counter, with marks of the 13 moons each year which women follow with their menstruation cycles. It was carved in limestone approximately 25,000 years ago and is painted with red ochre. Associated with the Gravettian Upper Paleolithic culture it was found in 1911 at Abri de Laussel in the commune of Marquay, France. 

(Note the original description said the moon counter was a horn of plenty, but all the female archaeologists I’ve read say it refers to women’s menstruation cycles.)

It is currently displayed in the Musée d'Aquitaine in Bordeaux, France. 

The Mother Goddess on FB

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PS. The family watched a movie together last night…we all enjoyed “King Richard” the story of the early days of Venus and Serena Williams. I give it 5 stars.