Well, that did not go as planned!

Thursday

I decided Thursday to finish a plane that has sat around the shop for years half done.  My first problem was, the glue I was using did not stick to the material very well, the second problem was I don't like the way the edges of the material look.  I have tried several ways to fix it and none of them look that great.  I decided to finish it, test fly it and then give it away, that would get it out of my way.  I puttered away most of the day on it before coming in to watch some TV.

Friday

I did some more work on the plane today, getting the rudder, ailerons and elevator hinged.  We made a couple of runs to town, one to do the recycling and pick up the mail.  Later, we made a quick run down to BK for dinner.  I went back out to work on the plane some more and discovered the glue was attacking the foam, so I quit for the night.

Vera had made Cocoa Mounds, so I had a few of them and settled in for the evening.

Oops!

We were up early and headed to Vera's 8:40 appointment, the only problem was, it is next Wednesday!  I guess we should have checked the print out from when we made it, or the calendar on my phone.  We zipped back home and Vera was able to go to her bible study.  After the class, we stopped and picked up the mail on the way to see the house Debbie and Josh want to buy.

My blog book was in the mail, so I opened it for a quick look at the cover, then it was off to see the house.  They were not there when we first stopped, so we ran over to Mik and Michelle's place to drop off a couple of things.  Mik showed up while we were there, so we had a short visit before heading back to see the house.

It was trying to snow so I never got any pictures outside, this is the fireplace in the living room.  It is a nice place, lots of closets and storage space, we had a good time looking around.  We had lunch after leaving there, picked up a few things and got gas at Fred Meyer before heading home.  Along with my book, the HDMI splitter for the shop TVs came today, so as soon as we were unloaded I went out to install it.  It worked great, I plugged it in, plugged in the HDMI cables and both TVs worked.  I spent the rest of the afternoon getting the cables neatened up.  Hanging two pictures back up after taking them down to run the cable just about killed my back, I am headed to the heat pad as soon as I finish this.

An old friend Diana sent me a couple of pictures from about 1960, this is me and my 1960 MGA Coupe.

Blue Ray

I was waiting anxiously for Fedex and UPS this morning, Fedex had a new Mustang and UPS had the Blue Ray player.  Normally Fedex shows up early in the morning, but today UPS was first, so I took the Blue Ray player to the shop and started unpacking it.  Before I got it all hooked up, Fedex showed up with the new Mustang, it is to replace one I crashed, but I still have all the gear from it in a bag.  I put up a shelf under the new TV for the Blue Ray player, but while I was making it, I had a Blue Ray video in the player watching it.  After the shelf was up, I started covering the plane of Bill's I have been repairing and watching TV and Videos.  By the time I came in this evening, I had it all covered and the motor mount modified so the cowl would go on right.  It looks like I will be able to test fly it the next time we go flying.  Vera made a double batch of corn bread today, it turned out great, we had it for lunch and dinner.

New Teeth and New TV

The big news here Sunday was, John Patrik had two teeth pop through!  Jackie gave me a call to tell me and we had a nice visit.  I messed with the Facetmobile Sunday, changing to a little smaller motor, it did not need all the power the first one had, I was flying around all the time at half or less throttle.  Then I watched the Seahawks' Big Win, that really topped off a good day.

It is Monday as I write this, patiently waiting for my new TV to show up.

I think it was about 10:30 when UPS showed, I took it right out to the shop and started unpacking it.  The installation went pretty good, I hooked it to the antenna first and after pointing it the right way (the wind storm had pointed it off to the Southwest), I got 14 channels.  Then I got the drill out and started running the HDMI cable from the Dish Network Joey to the TV.  After I got it hooked up and working, we had to make a run to town for cable clamps and the mail.  After I got the clamps installed and the wiring neatened up, I took a break and went over to see what the twins were doing.  I think I grinned the whole time I was there, they are talking so good and boy are they fun to listen to.  I had to move quite a few things to run the HDMI cable, so I started cleaning, sorting and putting things back.  I took another break later, we went down and had Whoppers for dinner.  I spent a little more time out in the shop, watching the new TV and putting things away before coming in for the evening.  It is sure nice having HDTV out there now.

Flying at Toledo

Vera and I headed up to Toledo a little after 9 this morning.  The 2 heaters are the most important part of my setup today, the high was about 40 degrees!  I had made some changes to the Facetmobile, so it was the first thing I flew.  Vera came out and volunteered to take some video of it with the new video camera setup.  She did great and I will add a link to the video later.  We were all by ourselves until a guy who got a plane for Christmas showed up.  He had tried to fly it 4 times and crashed each time.  He wanted to know if he could try it at our field where there is more room.  Because he did not belong to the AMA (which provides our insurance), I had to tell him No, but I would check it out and test fly it for him if it checked OK.  It checked good enough to try, so I took it up and trimmed it.  He took some video of the flight and was really excited to see it fly.  I let him do some flying high enough to stay out of  trouble.  After the flight, I made some suggestions of changes needed before he brought it back to test fly again.  Only 4 other flyers showed up today, but we had a good time.  We headed home about 3 and after unloading, I put the motor home in it's carport, the first time it has been there for many weeks.    I spent the evening editing pictures and videos.

Here is the video Vera took of the Facetmobile flying.

https://vimeo.com/56842127

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Time to catch up again!

Wednesday the 2nd.

After our day of flying I felt like resting today, so I spent most of the day right here on the computer.  I used Blog2Print to order a book of last years posts, I am trying a little better format this year.  It makes the book bigger, which costs more, but I had a discount coupon that had to be used by the 3rd of January that helped.  I also got expedited shipping because I want to see how it looks, it should be there the 18th.  This evening I settled in with another Pink Panther movie, I did not know that there have been 4 actors playing Inspector Clouseau!  I have 3 of them recorded, now I just have to find the one with Roger Moore.

Thursday the 3rd.

First thing this morning, we headed down to Kaiser,  I made an appointment to get my teeth cleaned.  Then we had lunch, did some shopping, picked up the mail and went home, UPS had been there!

The UV-C Air Sanitizer I had ordered from Costco had showed up.  I did some looking at where they recommended putting it and decided it would be an easy job, so I started in.  It was a complete kit, there was even a 2 7/8 hole saw included to cut the hole for the UV light.  I spent some time sealing up the duct work in the filter area and installed new filters, I also washed the electrostatic filter.  Now we just have to wait and see if we can tell any difference!

Friday the 4th.

We made an early run to Castle Rock for mail and some groceries.  Then I worked on one of Bill's planes that needed lots of repair.  Once Vera came out with me and said we should recycle the old TV before the new one shows up Monday.  We did some quick checking online and found we could take it to Kalama.  I called and found out we had 45 minutes before they closed.  It went like clock work and we had about 20 minutes to spare.  On the way home, we stopped and had Jack in the Box for dinner.  A little more work on Bill's plane and it was time to come in for the evening.  Just before I came in, Jackie texted me and during the session, she mentioned that JP got his hearing aids!  We are excited to see if they help.

New Years Flying

We headed up to the Toledo field about 9:45 this morning.  Dick the club president already had 4 or 5 flights in and had cleaned the snow off the tables for us.  Leonard and Audrey were the next to arrive, we ended up with 8 people there before the day was over and 7 of them flew.

Leonard brought his Flying W and it worked great in the snow!  I ended up getting to put 1 1/2 flights on it and had a fun time shooting touch and goes.

Yep, that black blob is me flying my helicopter.  It was right at freezing all day, but with all those clothes on I felt great!  We managed to give one of Bill's planes away to a new member today, I had let him fly it and then Vera and Audrey talked him into taking it.  It was a good way to start the New Year, I hope you have a great New Year.

12:37 AM

Here are a couple of late additions, Dick Anderson posted the pictures on the club forum.  The first one is me with the plane we gave to the new member, it will be a good one to learn on.  The other is Leonard with the Flying W, here is a link to a 3 minute video of him flying it.
https://vimeo.com/56616993