Pictureless Friday and Saturday

Friday

Friday turned into a pretty busy day,  the first thing I did was go see about the cats.  After a night out, Charlie was ready to come in, I ended up leaving them both in for the day.  Thursday afternoon Vera had gotten a call from Bruce Coopers wife, he wanted me to have the radio control equipment his family did not take.  I made arrangements to start picking it up Friday morning, I forgot all about Vera's walk, so she had to do the short version.  It ended up being two loads of stuff, some I can use, the rest I will give to other club members.  We were lucky, the rain held off until we got the last of it loaded.  I worked on the Stearman for a while, repairing the firewall, which came loose when I tipped it over doing a touch and go.  I found the problem during the repair, the axles were dry, a little oil and the wheels spin like crazy.

Saturday

Saturday after checking on the cats, I started sorting all the stuff we brought home yesterday.  That turned into a big job, it went a lot faster when Vera came out and helped me make some decisions about what to keep and what to give away.  We got a box prepared for the Lewis County meeting on Monday.  The evening kitty check went OK, Charlie was happy to stay in this morning while the other cat headed right outside.  This evening it was back to go in for the night and keep Charlie company.  I came in and watched Emmy's CWU volleyball team win their game in 3 sets.  Castle Rock Volleyball was in the final game at state at the same time and ended up coming in second, probably hard for the girls as they wanted first really bad.

Flying at Toledo

Wednesday

Since I was planning on flying Thursday, I made a run to town and filled the motor home's propane tank, got the mail and picked up the milk and bananas we forgot yesterday.  My breakfast wasn't dry as there was about a cup left in the jug.  The parts for the Super Cub were in the mail I picked up, so I spent the afternoon and part of the evening installing some of them.

Thursday

It turned out to be a great day of flying!  Eight flyers were able to come out and enjoy the beautiful weather.  Everyone was in a great mood, so we had a very enjoyable day.

Need I say that we stayed the entire day!  It really cooled off in a hurry when the sun went down.  When we got home, I went up to Laury's to put Charlie the cat in for the night.  He don't like me, I opened the door and tried to coax him in with treats, he was having none of that!  I went down the driveway and left the door open, but he still would not go in.  After a half hour I gave up and went home to put the motor home away.  I went back a tried again later, same story, I can see him in the shadows but he wouldn't go in.  I tried circling around behind him and that did not work either.  Maybe I will have better luck tomorrow.  

Church Fire

Sunday 11 - 6 - 2011
When Vera came home from church, she was excited about the fire at the church. A drunk had broken in and set 6 fires trying to burn the church down.  Thankfully they all went out, God's intervention?  Then my modeler friend who is a sheriff's deputy stopped by and filled me in on what he knew.  I spent most of today watching football, that was a waste of time, none of my teams won!  I did do a little work on the Cub.

Monday 11 - 7 - 2011
We ran to Lowe's this morning to pick up some new lights for the shop, I have been fighting with one fluorescent light and decided it was time to replace it.  I changed it to track lighting so I can aim it at areas where I work.  I had also picked up a new porch light that focused the light downward better.  Both of those projects were successful and I can see much better now.  I worked on the interior of the Cub today, it will have seats and interior so none of the framework shows.

Tuesday 11 - 8 - 2011
More work on the Cub's interior today, plus I put on the door handle, which made opening the doors much easier.  Now that I think about it, we forgot to make our mail, milk and banana run today, breakfast might be a little dry in the morning.

I went over to see what was new with the twins this afternoon.  They had just gotten up from their nap and it was lunch time.  Harper insisted on eating at the little play table next to my chair, it wasn't long before Ava wanted to be there also.  I had a great time acting like I was going to take a bite of their lunch.  They are really quick to put their hands over it and say "No! Mine!" or "No my cookie!".  Lots of fun and an hour went by really quick.  I really didn't need a cookie as Vera had just finished a batch before I went over there and I had 3.

Pizza

Friday we did our voting and turned in the ballots.  Afterwards, we decided to go down and checkout at the remodeled Walmart.  We liked it much better than the new one by Home Depot, if fact we disliked that one so much we only went there once.  I did some work on the Cub and was on the computer the rest of the day.

The motor I decided to use is going to work out great!  The people who have built the Cub report that it takes 2 to 4 oz. of weight in the nose, the motor I put in is 3 oz. heavier than the one they recommended.

This morning after I finished burning some DVD's for Will, we made a run down to Papa Murphy's, they had stuffed pizza's on sale for $13.  I spent the rest of the day working on the Cub, adding some more reinforcements, hinging the rudder and running the wiring for the tail light.

That is as far as I got before it was time to watch Emmy's game in Anchorage.  They were exciting games and it ended up going 5 games before Anchorage finally won.  It looked like Emmy played really well. 

Game day in Alaska

After a morning on the computer, I went out and started working on the new Super Cub.  I got the landing gear installed and did some reinforcement in the window area.  That is normally the weak point in a plane with lots of windows and doors.  I used my 12 inch drill bit to drill through the formers and glued 1/8 inch carbon fiber rods in.  This evening I watched online as Emmy's CWU Wildcats won in 3 games in Fairbanks Alaska.  They were good games, close enough to keep it interesting.

Brrrr!

29 degrees when I got up this morning, that put an end to doing anything outside for a while.  I puttered on the internet, then went out and worked on planes until Vera got home from bible study.  After lunch it had warmed up enough that I went out and got to work.  I moved 5 bags of wood pellets to the shop, drained all the hoses and put them away, took down the hanging plants, replaced the pond pump that went bad and used the mower to blow leaves off the driveway and lawn.

It is nice to have the pond back to normal.  When the pump failed, I discovered that style was no longer made, the one I ended up with had bigger connections, so I had to modify the skimmer.  Just as I was finishing mowing the leaves, James called and asked if we wanted to go to his basketball practice game.  As I was talking to him it started raining, I was lucky today and got everything done. We had a quick dinner, I changed and we headed to Kalama for the game.  We had a good time watching it, even though they lost they played well.  They have only practiced 3 or 4 times, so they have some work to do.

I might be there when it warms up!

When I saw the post on the forum about flying today, my answer was "I might be there when it warms up!".  They were thinking they might not see me until spring!  The airport webcam showed fog all morning, we left home at 11 and saw a few blue spots.  There was plenty of fog when we got to Toledo about Noon, I flew up into it once to see how high I could go and still see the plane.  Vera watched the altimeter and at 220 feet I had to quit.

Audrey is at the most popular spot today, it really felt good, it finally cleared off about 2 and got really sunny and I was able to shut the propane heater off.  It was great flying weather, I got in 12 flights.  There ended up being 7 flyers out today.  About 5 it started cooling down again and everyone gave it up and headed home.  I had a club meeting in Longview, so it was hook up the motor home to power, change clothes, grab a bite to eat and head out.  The meeting had the best attendance of any this year.  I ended up getting nominated for vice president, it is OK, as I have not done much there lately.