Tuesday May 20th~

 In the end, it's not the years in your 

life that count. It's the life in your years...

Sniff and I made it safely to Branson; we almost 

did not come due to bad weather.  Arvid was checking on 

the weather in Branson all day long because of the tornadoes,

 hail and lightning that was predicted at around the same 

time Sniff and I were going to be in the air.  

Arvid kept communicating  me all during the day 

because he knows how I feel about turbulence in the air, 

as in the plane dropping often, and I mean turbulence

 where the plane feels as if it were splitting apart. 

 We’ve had it before on flights from Florida to 

Springfield and vice versa.  Not good at all.  Even 

though at one time in my life I was a flight attendant

 in Palm Springs, California, I have not experienced

 turbulence as bad as the ones on this route.  

 Having Sniff with me made made me even 

more stressed.  Mostly for him.  Arvid called me and 

even said that I should reschedule the flight because it 

was going to be bad.  Arvid was very worried for us.

We don’t reschedule, and though there were some 

not good moments we landed and as soon as we did the bad 

weather hit. All incoming flights after that were looking

 at either being cancelled or rerouted.  The Midwest has 

bad tornadoes and of course they have gotten worse.

Sniff was super good on the flight.  I guess it helped 

that I sprayed his carrier with something called Feliway 

which is a calming pheromone spray.  This was recommended 

to me many years ago by my friend Anna.  At the time I did not

 need it, but lately Sniff has not been a good traveller.  I also

 called our ver and she recommended the same.  It works.

   Sniff is such a good boy.  As soon as we got him home 

Arvid showed him the litter pan.  After a few minutes Sniff

 used it.  He walked around a bit and then ate some foodies.  

When we used to travel with Brutus it took him at least 

an entire day if not two to eat and use the litter pan.

We lost power this morning.  Right at breakfast time. 

 Everyone who knows Arvid knows that breakfast is 

his favorite meal, and can never be skipped.  Thank

 goodness for Denny's, the day started out great.

Looking forward to the day and to see how Sniff adapts.  

Arvid has been really busy while we were gone.  He even
 met a guy whose mother is Norwegian and father Swedish.
  What a small world.  Arvid has already found a group of 
people for us to socialize with.  Interesting indeed👏

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back;

 if you smile, it returns the greeting...

~Nadiya~