Still good building weather!

Tuesday we made a run to town, Vera needed veggies for the salad she was taking to bible study.  They were celebrating Linda B's birthday with a lunch after bible study.  I needed some cereal from Fred Meyer and paint for the P-39 from Micheal's.  We picked up a little present for Cora's birthday while we were there, can you believe she will be one year old this weekend.  After a stop at Safeway, lunch at Jack in the Box we headed home and just barely got unloaded before it started raining.

Making up this link for the flap took most of the rest of the day.  I had the flap and flap servo on and off the wing numerous times.  I had to bring the transmitter in from the motor home, bind it to the receiver and use it to do all the programming for the servos in the wing.  I did some painting on the flap later.

Wednesday I went to coffee at the Vault, just six today but we had a really nice visit.  I gave the flap a coat of paint and started fitting the retract units into the P-39's wing.  I had to grind down into the mounting block quite a ways so I only got one done.  I did locate the airlines and quick disconnect for the retracts, I had forgotten I had them.  They were with a bunch of retracts I bought at a swap meet.

The first thing we wanted to get done today was send off Cora's present.  I went to the shop and located a box as soon as I walked in the door.  After giving the second flap a quick coat of paint I took the box in and we got it ready to send.  We headed down to mail it and I forgot about the flaggers at the North end of town by the railroad bridge, we were only held up a couple of minutes.  We were in luck, priority mail will get the present there Saturday, just right for Cora's birthday on Sunday.  I wanted to pick up some wood pellets so we headed for 4 Corners.  Wouldn't you know it, flaggers at the Ph-10 bridge also, again only for a few minutes and we were on our way.  Vera wanted to get some pansies for the tub Michelle got us and we ended up getting some nasturtium seeds also.  After we got home Vera planted the pansies and some of the nasturtiums in the tub.  She also planted some nasturtiums outside our bedroom window.

Grinding the mounting block for the second retract went much faster since I had a pattern to refer to.  I decided there was no more construction on the P-39 that I needed the building board for.  I cleaned it off, put it away, put all the tools back in the tool chest and even found a machinist's square I have been looking for.  After vacuuming everything I made up one piece of sheeting for the top of the wing and called it a night.  I had a call from Jackie today and during it Cora said "Hi" to us very plainly.