Deck and Delta again

This is the reason we are working on the deck!  When James' stood on the bench to hang Vera's birthday basket one leg of the bench was on a rotten spot and dumped the bench, James and the flowers.  James kept the flowers from getting destroyed but he ended up with a big bruise.

Vera had bible study today, while she was gone I did the recycling and picked up the rest of the lumber for the deck.

I spent most of the day covering the nose of the delta and straightening the rudder.  Going around the intakes and the curves of the nose took a long time but I finally got it done.  I mounted the motor and slid the spinner on to see how things were going to look.  So far I am pretty happy with the outcome.

Deck and then Delta

When I opened the kitchen curtains this morning the sun was just coming up over the shop and lighting up the fog.  I grabbed the camera, walked out and took several pictures to see how they would turn out, this is the best one.

This morning before it got too hot we started tearing out the benches so we can replace the deck boards.  It went pretty good and we got all the old boards hauled to the compost pile.

Barry stopped by today after dropping Mona and their friends off at PDX.  We had a nice visit and Vera loaded him up with cocoa mounds to take home.  This afternoon and evening I made pretty good headway on covering the delta.  Just before I quit I noticed the vertical fin was tilted off to one side about 4 degrees.  I thought I had fixed that before I started covering but obviously I hadn't.  I made a cut along the base so I can flex it and tomorrow I will glue it after bracing it into the right position.

Kaiser and Freddy's for both of us

Vera took this picture today of the Moss Rose her friend Carole gave her for her birthday.  We both had dental appointments at Kaiser today, Vera's at 8:50 and mine at noon.  After Vera's appointment we went shopping for Jordon's birthday present.   We stopped by the Hendrickson's but just Jazz was home.  I was going to kill some time at the hobby shop but they are closed on Mondays.  We ended up in the only shady spot in Kaiser's parking lot reading until it was time for my appointment.  Then it was off to Freddy's where it got exciting when the waitress knocked my full glass of Pepsi over.  Our meals were delicious as usual.  Once we were home I worked on the Delta but I am not happy with the way the Monokote is turning out.  Vera noticed some plums on the Oriental Plum tree, we were surprised when we ended up with a bowl full.

Flying at CVRCF

We were the first ones down at the Goble field for the Cowlitz Valley Radio Control Flyers meeting so I was all set up and had one flight in before any other members arrived.

Most of the tables got used today, there were ten of us there for the meeting.  We did lots of flying before and after the meeting.

I sold this RV-9 to Lincoln (on the right) and today I test flew it for him.

This is Tom taking off for the maiden flight on the Ultimate he got at an auction.  It flew great, I used to have one just like it and crashed it many years ago doing a tail slide.  I may have to finish the one I have in the shop.  I set a new personal best on the pedometer today, 8939 steps.  I must have walked up and down the flight line more times than I thought.

Family Garage Sale

I went to the Methodist Men's breakfast this morning and then stopped at the family garage sale on the way home.  I took this picture before I went down to look around.

Bridget had a table set up and was drawing pictures of people for twenty five cents.

I took this picture as I went back up the driveway so the stuff along the driveway would show.  I was a big spender today, one dollar total for a car charger and a small tape measure.  I spent the rest of the evening charging batteries for flying Sunday.

Eye appointment

I put in a flight earlier today with the quad and things showed up much better.

I got up high enough to see the curve of the earth, well not really, it is just something the wide angle lens does.

I think the quad was up about two hundred feet when I got this picture off the video.

Ava and Harper heard it take off and came right over to look at the screen.  Then it was back to playing with their radio control toy.

The lumber didn't show up today so I got some covering done on the delta before we had to leave for my eye appointment.  After some discussion and tests Dr. Berganza and I decided it was time for cataract surgery.  If the scheduling works out I hope to get them done August fifteenth or August twenty second.  We made a stop at Safeway on the way home for groceries and gas.  The funny thing about the gas was we were waiting behind a ham radio operator we used to know, when he pulled out there was Mik in front of him filling up the Mini.  I went down to see how the setting up of the family garage sale was going this evening.  There is lots of stuff again this year.  I had a nice visit with Lynne and got a lot of information about the lens implant as she has had hers done.

A cool Thursday

By cool I mean the temperature was in the low seventies for a high today.  We went to the Castle Rock Building Supply and picked up deck boards.  The front deck needs to be rebuilt so we are getting the supplies together.  After we got the boards unloaded we used some to replace a couple of bad ones on the back deck.

I put in a couple of flights with the Tarot 250 quad this evening and got higher than it has ever been.  I might have gone higher but it was getting dark and I was having problems seeing the details in the picture.