I got up stupid early and went to the airport to fly to Cameron Park and collect Judi.
I started the day at the airport getting breakfast at the EAA hangar, then getting nagged into buying tickets for the Xmas party.
After breakfast, I took the plane out for a flight to look at Camp Far West Lake reservoir and the Feather River to see the leaves changing colour.
At home, we mounted a couple of solar powered lights to the side of the house to hopefully scare off the skunk that's tearing the ground to pieces digging up worms.
We talked to the vet about Tilly's test results - it sounds like she has Cushing's disease and is unlikely to make it past her 18th or 20th birthday.
We've pretty much agreed that this isn't something we're going to stress about yet, as other than maybe drinking more (and a lot of that ends up on the floor, so who really knows?) she's not showing any of the standard symptoms... her appetite isn't great, her lethargy is probably because she's 16 (and almost 4 months,) her hair's looking fine and she definitely doesn't look bloated. She also doesn't have thin skin or other skin problems or bladder infections.
Basically it seems that nobody realised how many dogs are getting this because it just looks like old age a lot of the time, and she is so very, very old.
We took Tilly to the vet for her annual inspection. This was our first visit as part of the Dog Aging Project's precision cohort, so there were a bunch more tests to be done. We also decided to try some drugs to help her with her arthritis and (hopefully) sleeping all night.
I went and met Randy at the airport and got the oil filter wrench back so I could tighten the filter about 1/4 turn. After lunch, I went for a brief test flight and everything seemed fine afterwards.
I went to the airport and test flew the plane.
Vic and I went to the airport and finished up the service on the plane - greasing bearings and so on, then went to lunch. It was crappy weather so there wasn't much else to do.
