Monday - early

I might have gotten up a bit too early.  I figured I need to be up at 4:30 am to take a shower, get some coffee, kick back for a bit and wake up.  I still have half and hour before I need to leave lol.  Actually, I woke up without the alarm anyway.  It was going off but I couldn't hear it.  The alarm was muted somehow, only on vibrate.  Well, with ear plugs in, I'm certainly not going to hear that and will now have to figure out how it was muted so that doesn't happen again.  It was 4:37 am, no big deal fortunately.  Knowing me, however, I could have slept a couple of more hours before waking up.

Mother is going up to the mountains.  She is not driving, the oldest brother's wife is taking her up to her property as she goes up as well.  My oldest has a cabin about 7 miles away from mom's property.  So, she still gets to go up there, just not as much as she used to.  She's going to be up there 2 weeks so that puts my trip off.  I figured it was far better for her to go to her favorite place on the entire earth than put a trip off for me.  I don't know how many opportunities she's going to have to go up there, but my brother/wife is being very generous in helping her out with that. 

Every year, there are always forest fires somewhere up in that entire regional area and it's simply not safe to drop her off and go back to the valley (Phoenix metro area) and come back up for her when she's ready to go home.  Otherwise, she knows how to pack for a month or longer, she's been doing it for decades. I'm very happy she gets to still go up there.  That was concerning to me for I think it would have degraded her spirits to stop driving and never be able to go again. 

Well, I think I'll leave out of here  a bit early now that I think of it.  Showing up at Peterbilt gates 10 minutes early isn't the end of my world.