Happy Birthday!

My goal today was to get the painting finished on the closet.  I went out right after breakfast and got it done.  It sure feels good to have that job finished.  Not long after I finished Barry called and we had a great visit.  I am looking forward to the birthday pizza in March.

Just after I finished, Cathy, Tierney and Tor came up to wish me a Happy Birthday and brought me a berry pie.  Tor found our Seahawks Nerf football and played catch with Tierney, he has a really good arm.  As they were leaving I gave Tor a tour of the shop and sent him home with a little glider.

I spent quite a while on Facebook reading birthday wishes this morning, a friend Diana posted this picture of me from about 1961.  Since it was so nice and clean we took the Blazer to Jiffy Lube and had it serviced this afternoon.  When we were done there we decided to try Grounds for Opportunity a training kitchen in Kelso for lunch.  When we turned onto South Pacific there were red and blue lights everywhere ahead of us.  I detoured around a couple of blocks to get to the restaurant and the police activity turned out to be right by it.  We found out that it was a stop for a road rage incident suspect that had taken place up by Castle Rock.  The cooks saw the whole thing as their window looked out that side.  They said the police came up to the car with their Tasers out and pointed at the driver.  He got arrested and they towed his car.  We had a great lunch, I had the Cuban sandwich and Vera had a chicken salad.  We are planning on going back and try their breakfast.

This afternoon I went out to the shop and worked on the stabilizer spar.  I lost a brand new Skyraider when the stabilizer fluttered during a high speed pass.  Ever since I have been sure to reinforce the stabilizer on planes I build.  On this one I am going to sandwich this piece of carbon fiber between the two pieces of the spar with epoxy.

After coating everything up with epoxy which is a messy job (I wore rubber gloves) and getting it lined up, I weighted it down with lead weights and left it to cure overnight.

The berry pie didn't last long, I had it for my evening snack while I was rereading the Facebook posts.  My birthday was very enjoyable and relaxing.