I thought I was higher than that!

Not many garage sales today, we ended up going to three.  I found a couple of things and so did Vera.  We picked up the mail, picked up some groceries and headed home.  Vera made some great turkey, tomato and avocado on sourdough sandwiches for lunch.  I worked on the Suzuki this afternoon and I made great headway.  I got the rear rack and fenders off, then pressure washed it.  Vera took some pictures of her Moss Rose, it sure likes that spot, it has bloomed all summer.

Later this afternoon, I decided to fly the Champ, I had flown 10 minutes shooting touch and goes when I thought it would be a good idea to test the glide.  I took it up a couple of hundred feet and shut down the motor and started gliding down.  I took a little different route into the yard and I will be darned if I didn't put it right in the top of the oak tree.  I got my 24 foot extension pole and it did not even come close to reaching it.  I got the ladder out and got up on the carport roof and I was still way short of reaching it.

I moved the ladder over to the tree and extended up to a good solid looking limb.  After I got up and hooked up my safety line, I extended the pole and I was just able to touch the Champ with it.

It only took a couple of wiggles of the limbs and the Champ started falling.  It ended up about 4 feet above me, after lowering the extension pole, I went up a couple more rungs on the ladder and I was able to reach it.  After all that, there was not a mark on the Champ.  That was enough fun for the day, I came in and got caught up on my blog while watching the Steelers.