Place: Hillsville, VA 34/46 > Centreville, VA 29/46
Main activity: Thurs - travel
Notes: Awake awhile in the 3-4a hour and then didn't wake again until after 6a. Was thinking I wanted to pull out by 6 so got in gear and packed up quickly. Scott had gotten up to check on the garage door opener and then Cami poked her head out and we chatted briefly before I pulled out 638a. Cami still quite sick, Gizzy and Lilly Mae came and let me say goodbye, Harley was more jumpy. Took the back roads to Roanoke, got light pretty quickly and was a beautiful drive w/ lots of picture-worthy little things along the way ... couldn't stop and take pics of all tho but enjoyed the ride. Pulled into Roanoke just a few min after 8a, filled up w/ gas and then on to Earth Fare where I loaded up w/ several kinds of grass-fed beef, ghee, yogurt, cream, some choc bars ... was over $200 (b/c of the whole 6+ lb tenderloin they cut for me, a standing rib roast, 2 big ribeyes). Headed back out and decided to do 81 for awhile - even tho i was very leary of being on it again after the horrific drive out a couple weeks before. Early morning, a weekday and not near a holiday helped and I sailed thru smoothly. Still felt like a long day but rolled into Michelle's a few min before noon. She has just finished a work call and had lunch break and was able to help me unload everything. I repacked the meat then and took the extra freezer stuff up to Julie's (again - thank goodness she has space I can use!). Mom & Dad's Christmas gift had arrived so Michelle opened it and that was fun - and they gave us the same amt of $ as last year - very generous and very exciting (I really didn't expect it again). Michelle went back to work then and I dug into unpacking, organizing (the part that gets really old). Also cut the pomegranate and pulled out 1/2 the seeds. I also opened the new toaster oven/air fryer that was ordered from Costco - stainless insides except for the walls and stands up out of the way when not in use. I was pretty hungry by then so heated up one of my cooked filets and had 2 boiled eggs. Did yogurt w/ pomegranate and honey after. We watched an episode of Yellowstone - she's in season 4 (I finished the whole series just a couple nights ago in Hillsville. I made a batch of kombucha jello then and started the new toaster oven while Michelle did some exercises - it was smelly so I took it out on the balcony and let it run out there for awhile. Michelle had her 7p session then and I caught up some online stuff and watched some tv. We spent a bit of time together then throwing the football and watching some of the Broncos game. And then we did a little IRT (injury recall technique) on each other before calling it a night.