A fun filled 4 days !

We just had a great time at Jeremy and Jamie's house. We got in late thursday and enjoyed dinner out with them, Jamie was home when we arrived via plane thru St. Louis and then to Birmingham, then via car for 2 1/2 hours. Jeremy was busy texting me as soon as his last flight landed, was worried about getting home to see us so we 3 sat in the car visiting with Jamie in the driveway as it was freezing out until he got there 1/2 hour later. He wanted to be there when we first saw what they'd done to the house !

Here is Jamie showing us her pendants lights that will hang over the breakfast bar.

Here you can see behind her, a dining room wall that has come down, and the kitchen wall that is gone ! Wall towards the entry behind Jamie still has no sheetrock but is soon to come ! Ken did lots of measureing for cabinets in the kitchen, dining room, master bath and laundry.

The next day was beautiful out so Jamie and I got to enjoy some yard work together, smoothing some sand out that was piled here and there to fill in ruts in the yard and doing odds and ends of trimming. Her garden still is loaded with peppers, look at these peppers, we buy these kind at the grocery store ! They were huge ! It was neat to see the change of seasons, since we were there in Feb. last and it was winter !

It was great to see the renovation of Jeremy's shop. This room was a huge room of no use to them, is part of the house between the garage and family room and was actually sort of a game room but now is this great work shop ! And yes it is VERY organized ! It's getting it's share of use now that the house has been GUTTED !
and here is the best sport and helpmate to do all these renovations ! Jamie and Aileron ! Jamie is right in there doing things but for this photo she was in her "furniture" with the "lap dog" !
Yes camping chairs and you can see, cement floors and all the wall repairs behind her ! I can't wait until we take the cabinets there to see the beautiful stone tile floors they are going to lay, and the paint on the walls and new lighting everywhere.

And wouldn't you know it, there was still a wall that could come down ! Yes watch out walls, if you are around Jeremy and you aren't a bearing wall, out you come ! So now you see it...And now it's gone ! But look at how nice and big the laundry room just got, those cabinets are on the "burn pile" by now I'm sure ( altho he's very good at Craigs listing all kinds of things and people come and haul them away with a smile ! ) Things like old carpet....the fireplace front....the couch and loveseat....more carpet. Gotta love those Mississippi people ! Most of the cabinets and such are finding their way to the fireplace for heat ! It was lovely to see the change of seasons in their yard ! And watch as the breeze blew now and then and the leaves would fall ! I got my "fall" in this year !!!!We spent one afternoon on base so it was wonderful to see where Jeremy works now. It was the spouses ride along day and so we got to tag along on all the wonderful things they had prepared for the wives to do.This is the jet that Jeremy is teaching now, the T6, he loves teaching and is now Assistant Flight commander of one of the flights in his squadron.
They had this great static display for us to take pictures ! Thanks to whomever organized all this !

Here is Jeremy's flight room, thought you might be interested in seeing what it looks like. Those are posters from past flights that have graduated on the ceiling, his desk is in that far back corner so that is where he sits to brief and debrief his students on their flights. That table down the center is for all the students to do their flight plans on, close quarters to all the Instructors so I"m sure there is alot of "tension" in the air on busy days ! He's got great incentive photos of his C17 flights on the student side of the desk. And Jamie and I found the stash of red vines and cherry coke and peanut butter and apples ...his time between turning students is minimal during the day so when one is done the other is on the way so I can see those 12 hour days are fast and furious with food tossed in when you can !

This is outside the squadron building.

We had great tours of the tower and radar rooms.

Jamie had some egress training , of course she got to wear Jeremy's flight suit but they had patches made with her name on them, see how her wings have a heart in the center !Here she is suited up, helmets, parachutes, all the good stuff !

Jeremy's got her in the jet now ( they let us walk out to the jets too with our "student " escort. That was so nice so we could see what was going on ! Jamie you make an awful cute pilot !
I think she's ready !

And here is the "real" pilot ! Now you can envision what he's doing every day ! Here they are ready to go. Jamie is in the back seat where Jeremy normally flies, the students sit up front. Ok, this is my very first video, hope it works. Jamie is in the back, hands up, don't touch anything while they remove the blocks underneath !!!

Here is the Capt. and his Mrs. !

sure was fun seeing Columbus AFB !

We took a detour one day on our way to a Loews run to look at cabinet stains, buy paint etc. and went for lunch and a jeep ride. They showed us this marvelous lake and park just a few miles from their house, we actually got to go along for them to hide a geo-cache that they were putting out ( it's under that big live oak tree-shhh!) We had a wonderful mississippi bbq ( it was actually as good as Joe's BBQ here !) but they wanted to put the "SLAW" right on my sandwich, I guess that's a southern thing ! We did hunt for another geocache that they hadn't found yet and it was discovered !

We loved our 3 dinners out with them, we had a fat fest at Chiles one night and drove to another town to a place called Mug Shots and had the best and biggest hamburger I've ever had. This photo is at a little italian place in Starkville, we went there to celebrate their first wedding anniversary that is coming up later this month !

So here are the "boys". Everyone always asks how they are doing, they are so happy and mild now that they have so many acres in their back yard to run in ! Aileron is still part human, best friend and always hungry !

Rio is the "guard" ! Anyone coming near is a fool with him keeping watch. I'm so glad he's there when Jamie is there alone ! He also is able to stand on the back side of the fence rails and peek over the top !

and here is Riley, just chilling out by the pool that is covered up once again ( some day we will see it uncovered !)

So that was the end of our fast 4 days in Columbus Mississippi ! We drove back to Birmingham at noon on sunday, flew to Nashville this time and home to Phoenix by 8:30 ! Maybe next trek we'll be able to have more than 2 days, but it sure was fun to see the renovation in progress and have time with Jeremy and Jamie !