A Trip To Columbus, Cleaning Up After The Cockers, and Spring Arrives in Coshocton

A Trip To Columbus
Yesterday afternoon we had the pleasure of making the trip to Port Columbus International Airport to meet Andy & Heather Swanson and their children, Abigail & Matthew, as they arrived to undergo candidate evaluation at MMS Aviation next week.

The Swanson Family: Abigail, Heather, Andy, and Matthew

The Swansons are from Scotland and are in application through our training partnership with MAF-United Kingdom. Coordination and oversight of the candidate evaluation process is one of my responsibilities at MMS.

We met the Swansons without complication and stopped at Hoggy's (a Columbus BBQ chain) for their welcome to Ohio dinner (at 12:00 midnight their time!). When traveling with two little ones, strollers, and car seats, packing for a week uses up some space so we took the MMS van and Karen's car to bring everyone and everything back to town. We greatly enjoyed our time with Andy, Heather, Abigail, and Matthew and look forward to getting to know them better over the next week. They're being hosted by another of our MMS families.

Cleaning Up After The Cockers
And speaking of our trip to Columbus...while we were away Tucker and Tanner found their way upstairs and had a grand time ripping and shredding and spreading the bathroom trash all around. I'll spare you the photos of the hallway, guest room, and stair landing to just share a snapshot of my cleaning the bathroom floor. At least they didn't go for to toilet paper rolls.

Cleaning up after Tucker and Tanner's fun time.

Spring Arrives In Coshocton
So as not to leave you with the image of Cocker Spaniel mischief, here's a photo that really shows spring has arrived in Coshocton. I took this picture of a Cardinal from our "library" window upstairs (our "library" is the small guest room with all our books in it).

A Cardinal in Keith & Karen's front tree.

Cardinals are the Ohio State Bird and we have several that always return to our corner of the neighborhood in spring. We really enjoy watching and listening to the Cardinals. You can also see that the leaves on our big tree out front are starting to break out! The weather today is beautiful. The sky is a deep blue, the sun is warm, the grass is green (I've already mowed twice!), and it's supposed to reach 66 degrees today.

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