25 Sept., 2008 -- Thursday, end of the week for them

Thursday, end of the week for the excavation crew. They'll resume Monday morning.

Load 'em up!

Ben gets insulation blown into his hangar.

There's a grasshopper on that mound of foam. I wonder if he can eat it, and what his system will do to it. ... hm..

Scrap Your Day-the 25th

This months theme was reflections (www.shimelle.com). We started off with breakfast, then I handed the camera off to LAD. He didn't do too bad. It's very funny to watch him watch the camera screen and "find" stuff in it!

Then at lunch time I took a walk around campus looking for reflected things. I found a few interesting things!

I like this one how their heads are all under water at the same time!

This is a sculpture by Christian Peterson, a artist in residence for a time period at Iowa State.

This was at the end of the day, when I went to pick up LAD. He spotted me immediately after I had pulled up to park! Look at those spotchy hand prints on the glass, I think they spend a lot of time at this window!!!

LAD took this one all by himself! It's perfectly level!

He picked this not-quite-ripe strawberry all by himself. He can lean over the fence now and just picks them himself-ripe or not! He ate it, after we washed it. The other day when we had 3 ripe ones, he shared one with me. They were sweeter than candy. I can see why he likes them so much!!!

Looks like all that pre-LAD landscaping has paid off. Nothing like a great rock digging spot right in your very own back yard!!!

Fresh applesauce made from 3 different apples LAD had taken a single bite out of over the last few days. They've been waiting patiently in the refrig for final consumption!

The back of the iPod Touch. This thing is like a mirror!!!

It's uncanny how I can (almost) always pick just 25 pictures!!!

24 Sept., 2008 -- Flight Simulator - Eureka, it works!

Flying stuff!!!!

Extracted the flight simulator from the EAA hangar at Willow Springs, installed the "new" Dell computer, fired-er-up, and of course, Ben had to be the test pilot!
Eureka, it works! Friday, we take it to a home-school bunch of kids and let them get a taste of the "real thing".

This is a Thorpedo. Originally, the Thorp was the forerunner of the Piper Cherokee. This is the new model with a Jabiru engine. Flies with the canopy open or closed. Nice.

Ben's going to have insulation blown into his hangar, so the Sport goes into his neighbor John's hangar for a few days.

23 Sept., 2008 -- More yaller, er, yellow

And red dirt, red dirt, red dirt.

Just nibble a little bit more here, sir.

22 Sept., 2008 -- No, THIS is red

These red flasher lights are lined up and waiting to be used to mark the excavation at the airport. They activate automatically at dusk.



Before:

After:

Shot some aerial photos this morning. There has been a lot of clearing along the runway.

This afternoon:

Smudge the Cat led me across the runway to hunt around the Big Cats. He found a snake. Then he ran for home. Coward.

AD-OS. I found this little jewel in the driveway, and when I picked him up, he coiled up into a frizzy prickly ball. He's sorta red and sorta yaller. Sorta oj?

There's a yaller bug inside the yaller flower, and one yaller termater
in the weed patch. What color or texture will show up tomorrow?

21 Sept., 2008 -- Red

Late afternoon sun on the angel wing begonia... now THAT'S red.