24 April, 2009 -- Happy Birthday, Cameron, 9 on the 22nd

The waitress moooshes Cam's face into his ice cream, with Monica and Roger urging her on.


Cameron doodles during dinner. See that book on the table? Third grader, only he knows what this means.

Wednesday, April 22 was Cameron's birthday, nine. So I drove to Jeff City for the celebration.
Samantha helps Cam celebrate!

Today is the 365 day marker, I've been at this for a whole year, almost every day; only missed a few, and I had good excuses.

Thursday, I had no excuse for not posting, just didn't get around to it.
The dogwood trees are massively in bloom.


This one is near the old Frisco caboose at the park in Mountain Grove.
Back in February I visited a caboose in Little Rock that had been painted over with graffiti. This one is fenced off to prevent that.

Today, I worked the yard, cleaning up the debris left over from the roof excavation. Finally it's done.

21 April, 2009 -- Flying weather finally

Finally the wind calmed down and Randy could put out a load on somebody's alfalfa!

This is the decal that a soldier put on the office door yesterday.

20 April, 2009 -- Ft. Campbell to Washington State

But only to Pueblo, Colorado today, via two fuel stops in Kansas.





Fired up, then shut down for a minor repair.


Now, this is something we haven't seen before... Blackhawk taxiing all the way up the ramp past the hangars!


Looked like he was going to taxi all the way up to Ben's hangar!





Guys had to steady Randy's Ag Truck when the Blackhawks took off. Randy didn't get to spray today, as the wind got up. Tomorrow is another day.


Still working on the roof, enclosing the east end and the north side. Tomorrow is another day.

18 & 19 April, 2009 -- Job in a box, still working

Took on a project... transfer vhs and vhs-c tapes to dvd. Then make copies.
Karate demonstrations. I'll be busy for a few days!
That's ok, it's foggy and drizzly out there. See ya later!

17 April, 2009 -- More roof every day

This morning:

This afternoon:

No ag flying today, too windy.
Lots of phone calls; parts came in - wrong parts; life as usual.

16 April, 2009 -- Randy's birthday

So, how old ARE you? (He's not a lady, so it's ok to ask).
47... WOW.

G'pa Airplane tinkering with the Ag Truck.

Robinson R22. Cute little helicopter. That's Randy's Ag Truck on the ramp. It's yeller, feller.



And, roof progress. It's gettin' there!

15 April, 2009 -- Taxiing day

Progress on the roof. Maybe they'll be done in a few days.

Engineers inspecting the previous roof installation, determining why it blew off.


Randy arrived in the afternoon, from Georgia with the new ag plane, via the bootheel where he tested the spray pattern at an ag pilots' gathering. It's spring, and the bugs are working already!



John exercised the Zipper, then Black Bart, and a couple of guys limbered up their remote controlled planes. Good day, little breeze, lots of sun!

14 April, 2009 -- Hard Work Day

Yeah, I worked hard today.
No, I didn't work on the roof.
I took down the Alaska windsock and put up the Flag windsock.
Thanks, Juanita!
I'll mend the Alaska, and put it up at the house. The kinks will blow out of the Flag, eventually.

13 April, 2009 -- Raising the Flyer

Another four hours to raise the Wright Flyer replica to its final hanging place in the new terminal building in Springfield. Lookin' good!











After all that, we got a hard-hat tour of the concourse. Missouri's rivers and streams is the theme that runs through the whole building.