What is that smell?

After I got home from flying Sunday, I went into the shop and thought I smelled something, but was too tired to investigate.   This morning while I was doing e-mails, Vera called from Vacation Bible School and said one of the church members wanted to borrow our dehumidifier.  I headed right out to get it ready and when I found it, I also found the smell.  When I was loading the motor home Saturday night I must have knocked over a quart of gear oil.  Boy does it stink!  I spent the rest of the morning cleaning up that mess, one good thing came out of it, my floor in now a lot cleaner.  After Vera got home, we made a run to Michael's to get a piece of plywood I needed for the B-36.  While we were down there we had lunch at KFC.  I made a visit later to see the twins and had my normal great time watching them.  I charged some of the batteries I used Sunday, worked on the B-36, took out trash and mopped the floor again as I could still detect a faint smell.

As I was coming in this evening, there was a deer eating fire weed across the driveway.  That was the second time I had seen it today, it is not too scared of me as it stayed right there as I locked the door and went over to the motor home.  When I came back it was still there eating.

When I took the garbage can down to the road, I noticed this rose and after I tried to get more pictures of the deer, having no luck, I took this picture of the rose.

The sunset looked like it might be pretty, so I spent some time outside waiting and watching, but it never got any better than my first picture.  It was a good day even if it was a little stinky for a while.

Flying Sunday 8 7 2011

I loaded the motor home last night, so I was all ready for a day of flying this morning.   I got started for the field shortly after 8, a quick stop at Subway and I was at Toledo at 8:45.  I was unloaded and had several flights in before anyone else showed up.

About 1:30 someone noticed a jet coming in low, everyone was scrambling for camera's and a place to see it.

It turned out to be a NASA DC-8 Airborne Lab from Dryden Flight Research Center.

We had a good turn out today, I counted 12 club members flying.  Steve showed up on his scooter to watch for a while, that was a pleasant surprise.   I had a good day of flying and flew a couple that have not been out for a while.  There were 3 crashes today, one unexplained, the plane just rolled over and dove straight into the ground.  Another was lost when the pilot lost sight of it, he was looking for it up in the sky and someone pointed out the wreck way out in the field.  The third one a new flyer turned the wrong way coming in for a landing, over corrected and ended up behind a tree.  You can't control them when you can't see them.

Our final excitement was a Sky Diver having a fouled chute and having to release it.  The chute with it's pack and harness sure looked like a person until it got lower.  It was a good day, I got lots of flying in, test flew a couple of planes for other flyers and gave a couple of lessons.

Here we go again!

 Here we go again, trying to remember what the heck I did Friday!

I headed out to the shop once and heard noises, the twins were outside and so much fun to watch.  Nothing else of any importance happened, messed in the shop, ordered some props and spinners for the B-36.

Today was a different story, we were up early for the Terry/Taylor garage sales.  We got there a little before the official opening time of 8 AM and there were cars and people everywhere.  We were lucky that we could park in Jim and Kim's backyard, which was only a block from Terry Ave.  If we had to park in the street, I am sure we would have had to walk a half mile or more.

This what it looked like at 8:39 AM on Taylor Ave, lots of people and sales.  We did not find much we were interested in.  Vera got some books, some dark purple Iris and a picture frame.  I got a blow torch like my dad used to have.  We saw Steve and Dianne and met up with Mik, Michelle and James several times.  My knee started getting tired after 2 1/2 hours of walking, so James and I headed back to the car.  2 1/2 hours of walking and we probably only went to half of the garage sales!  When Vera, Mik and Michelle got done, we all went to Quizno's for lunch.   James came home with us to spend the afternoon.

James and I made a trip to the creek on the 4 wheeler.  We hadn't been there 2 or 3 minutes when he found the first agate.  Then he spotted one 15 or 20 feet away on the other side of the creek, I never did find one.  We took a ride up to the pipe line and then down the steepest hill, he did great going down the 24 degree grade.  After we got back, we played some Xbox.  I am getting better at racing cars, but I got beat big time playing the wrestling game.

None for Me!

Exercises, shower, breakfast, e-mails, water the flowers, fill the ponds, that pretty much took care of my morning.  When I made my cereal, I discovered we had very little milk!  I looked around for something that would go good with granola, bananas and a little milk, I finally spotted the ice cream in the freezer.  I have to tell you, it tasted pretty darn good!  While Vera was down decorating for Vacation Bible School, I filled the ponds and checked our little garden.  Surprise, surprise the carrots were big enough to eat so I had several.  After lunch, We made a run to the post office, and all the mail was for Vera, I think that was a first, nothing for me!  We made a quick stop for some groceries and then headed home before it got too hot.

I worked on the B-36 this afternoon, making the under the wing airscoops.  This is my third try and the first one turned out great, only 5 more to go!  I did not take any pictures today, so here is a picture of the real B-36, all 230 feet of it.  David borrowed the 4 wheeler to take the kids to the creek this afternoon, while I was checking the oil I discovered I can get up off the ground with my left leg.  It has been a long time since I could do that!  Writing about the ice cream sounded so good that I had to go slice up a banana and put chocolate peanut butter ice cream on it for a snack.  It is sitting here waiting for me to finish, so I will have Vera proof read it and I am done.



Love this weather!

After my normal morning, I was planning on mowing the lawn, until I looked at my cell phone and saw James had texted me wanting to know if I wanted him to mow today.  Sounded good to me, so we got it set up that I would picked him up later in Kelso.  I heard noises while I was waiting for him to call me that it was time to get him,  It turned out to the be the kids in the wading pool.

Ava was WaWa'ing grandma's flowers with the watering can while Harper packed water in a cup across the road to water plants over by the fort.

I think Harper was liking the noise it made when it hit the rim of the pool.

After I picked up James and we had lunch, I suggested he visit for a while before mowing as there were lots of kids around.

The lawn looked great after he finished.  The new blades kick up lots of dust, so he was ready to hit the pool when he finished.  Later we played Madden Football on the Xbox, I lost big time.  Then we did some truck racing and I lost again.  Mik picked up pizza for dinner when he came to get James and watched some of our truck racing after we ate.

 Vera and I spent the evening on the deck talking over the day.

While James was mowing, I took this picture of our favorite Rose.

A cleaning day!

Well my teeth were what got cleaned today.  I had a 7:50 appointment this morning, the good news, nothing wrong.  I guess I have been doing a good job brushing and flossing, as the only place with any plaque was under my bridge.  She gave me a special brush to see if that would clean the area better.  I picked up a few things at Safeway and headed home.

 When I finished watering the flowers I decided to take some pictures of them.

 It never ceases to amaze me the amount of detail the macro setting brings out.

 We had almost given up on these blooming, but it seemed like over night the flowers were everywhere.

I spent the afternoon working on the B-36 again.  Then I remembered there was a model club meeting in Longview tonight.  I went in to tell Vera and she was just finishing cooking dinner.  We had Acorn Squash tonight and it was great!  The meeting was a short one, only 4 people showed up. One officer and 3 members, we did get several things done.  Afterwards, I went up to Fred Meyer to fill up with gas, then I called Michelle and since they had nothing going, I stopped for a visit.  I got to hear all about their trip to the Tri-cities for the boat races.  It sounded like fun!  Then it was home to have a bowl of ice cream and do the blog.

Finally!

Sunday was a stay at home day for me, I puttered on the computer and worked on the B-36.  I put the magnets that hold the tail cone in.  It turned into an all day job, grind a hole for the magnet, epoxy it to the fuselage and wait for it to harden.  Stick the matching magnet to it, push the tail cone against it to make an impression, grind out another hole, put plastic between the magnets so they would not be glued together, epoxy the second magnet to the tail cone, hold everything in alignment until it hardened.  I had to repeat this 3 times for the six magnets that hold the tail cone on now.

 Today, I finally got that last aileron covered!  I also put the plane together and weighed it, 9 pounds 6 ounces, it looks like I am going to be close to my target of 15 pounds.  I also charged the batteries I used flying Saturday, that gave me something to do while waiting on the epoxy to harden.

Since it is garbage day, I swept the shop floor when I was taking out the shop trash.  That does not happen too often, so I took a picture of it to show everyone.  It was sure a nice day out, I really enjoyed it during my trips to the motor home to change batteries.  I also stopped by the blueberry bushes each trip.  Hope you got to enjoy the sunshine.