A Nice Day!

After breakfast and emails, I decided to install the new lock in the tailgate of the Blazer.  It went great and I was probably all done in an hour.  It was in the sixties by then, so we headed down for our walk.  On the way back, we had an extra key made for the tailgate, got the mail and were headed for the grocery store for milk when we ran into Jeff P. who I worked with for around 30 years.  He is retired now also, we had a nice visit with him.  On the way home, I noticed the Blazer's temperature gauge had quit working!  Isn't that the way things go, fix one thing and another breaks!  I had gotten several things in the mail today, a new laptop battery, servo current meter and a new tail rotor gearbox for the Trex 500.  I installed the new battery and let the laptop charge, I gave the current meter a test and then started installing the new gearbox.  I had ordered a metal one because I believe there has been some static build up from the plastic one causing an occasional glitch in the radio.  It went great and when I finished the entire tail rotor system is grounded.  I took it out for a test flight this evening and it seemed much better, I was shooting approaches over the house when Vera heard me and took some pictures.  It was a good afternoon for working inside as it was 88 outside!