Flying

It was a beautiful day for flying at Toledo, I took my mower up because the club mower would not start the last couple of times we tried it.  Of course, today some guys were working on the machinery in the barn and came driving it out.  That had us wondering what we were doing wrong!  It turned out they used jumper cables on it.

The tables had just been moved, so there was some pretty tall grass between them.  I mowed it first, then I mowed and rolled about 3/4 of the runway before I started flying.

Our excitement for the day, we could see smoke over by this A frame, all of a sudden the smoke got real dark, few minutes later we heard sirens and the fire department showed up.  They put it out in short order, our club president thought maybe they had thrown a tire on their burn pile.  Update from the club president, "That Smoke that we saw was a chimney fire that caused a fire in the attic of the house."

Six other flyers showed up today and everyone had a good time.  We stayed until a little after 4 when the wind came up and it started cooling off fast.  After we got home and I had unloaded the tractor, unhooked the trailer and put away the motor home we ran to Kelso for a saw blade I needed for the counter tops.