Thursday and Friday attacking the Plum Tree and a Saturday Housewarming!

I did some work on the planes Thursday until it warmed up outside, then I got the chain saw out and cut down some vine maples that were shading the roses.  After I finished that I got the power pruner out and pruned the plum tree.  It hasn't been done for several years and really needed it.  There was a limb on the cascara tree hanging over a rhododendron that I have been wanting to cut off for a long time so it was next along with several others.  I ended up hauling several loads down to the compost pile and still had more on the ground when I quit because it was getting dark.  Friday morning I got started on it fairly early and pruned or cut down several trees that were shading the plum tree.  I took at least four loads down to the compost pile today.  On each trip I ran over a different trail chopping up the leaves with the mower.  After dinner I went out and finished the Cub's landing gear, now it is almost ready for a test flight the next time we go out.  I also got the reinforcement of the MXS landing gear done.  I am going to form a fillet on it with micro balloons and epoxy to cover the reinforcement.

Just after I got up Saturday morning it rained like crazy.  It made so much noise on the roof that I grabbed a camera and took a couple of pictures.  The rain gauge went up two tenths of an inch in about ten minutes.  I finished hooking up the Cub's servo wiring and hung it up, then I remembered the hubcap had been damaged and I needed to make a new one.  I used the bottom of a Pepsi can, cutting out an inch and a half circle of the dome shaped portion and it makes a pretty good looking hubcap.  This evening we went up to a housewarming for Jenny, a church friend.    We left a little early and visited with Marie for a while and put a new SD card in her digital picture frame with the latest pictures from my blog on it.

That is Jenny on the right holding the quilt a friend had given her.  We had a really nice time and there were quite a few people from church there.