October 22nd

Tilly's enjoying her oatmeal after being a little unsure at first.  She's still happy about getting lunch.

October 21st

Tilly's still on her bland diet, but enjoying chicken, and lunch.

She didn't get an ice cube before bed, so she wasn't sick all day.  We're out of rice today, so tomorrow we'll see how she gets on with oatmeal.

In the evening, I got up on the roof and cleaned the solar panels - I'm guessing there was a lot of ash on it from all the fires.

October 20th

Tilly's still on her bland food, but enjoying the extra meal at lunch time.  She seemed to be doing fine, but was sick again just before bed.  We think that might be the ice cube when she comes in from the garden before bed, so we're going to skip that tomorrow.

October 19th

Tilly spent the whole night getting up to be sick after eating Bob only knows what.  This isn't our first rodeo, so she's now on a bland diet.

After eating rice and chicken all day, she threw up right before bed :o(

October 18th

I started the day early, flying over to Cameron Park to pick up Chris.

Once he was all loaded on board, we flew down to Byron.

We met up with a bunch of guys from Cameron Park, and had a look at the Patriot Jet Team's hangar.

When we were all done, some of the guys were talking about flying to Merced for lunch.  Sure, it's a few minutes in a Sabreliner, but that was going to take us another hour, and an hour further away from home.  I flew us back to Cameron Park.

We took Chris' car and went to a pizza place he likes near the airport, then he dropped me back so he could pick up the horizontal stabiliser for his RV-6 and take it to Rio Linda.  By car.  I flew back to Lincoln, via the house.

October 17th

I got up early to go and get the plane out - the plan was to meet Don and Chris at Auburn for breakfast, but I was early, so I went and flew over Don's house, then Chris' house (to see if Jackie would come out and flash me - she didn't), then I toddled over to the airport.

After lunch, Chris and I flew back to Cameron Park and finished taking the tail off his RV-6A (his annual is overdue, and there are some strengthening brackets that need to be installed).

After doing that, I headed home to go and get some work done, flying over Chris' and Don's houses on the way.

October 13th

I'd looked at my records of the van, and the tyres are _9_ years old, so I got a new set installed this evening.

While sitting outside waiting, a low loader brought in a pickup with what looked like two tyres cut on the sidewalls.  It was upsetting watching them almost tear the tyres off the rims driving it in to the bay.