Snow Memories.

I thought it was going to start warming up! 16 1/2 degrees last night and it never got above freezing all day. 26 degrees when I came in to do this. Vera and I were talking about the snow today and I remembered the big snow storm in 1949. There was no snow on the ground when we went to school. They never let us off the buses, just sent us right back home. By afternoon the wheels of the car were hidden the snow was so deep. Dad looked out at the wood shed and the roof was bowed down from the weight of the snow. I can remember him up there with a shovel cleaning it off. He would just throw the shovel fulls in the air and the wind would blow it away. We watched Mr. Finkas clean his driveway with a push broom about once an hour all day. "What the heck is he doing?", we found out when they cleared the roads. He cleaned up the pile from the snow plow and drove to town. I think it was a couple of days before Dad got the driveway cleared. In those days the driveway was about a 100 feet longer, it got shortened when they straightened the Spirit Lake Hwy.

The snow is sure hanging on and it is darn slick going across to the shop. I have been being super careful.

Once this afternoon when I came in Vera had made Peanut Butter Cookies from the recipe on the back of the jar. They are great!

I made one flight today with my little Champ. I tried taking off the snow but that did not work so I used the driveway where it is clear. I flew about 5 minutes when the motor suddenly quit. Too cold for the battery (28 degrees) and it shut down on low voltage. It ran fine after warming up in the shop.

I got the hatch done on the camera plane today. Now it is time to start mounting servos and the radio while I can get at the rear fuselage.