June 15th

Tilly's been stung or bitten in the face by something, as she's looking a little puffy there.  We gave her an antihistamine, and she slept most of the afternoon and woke up looking and feeling a bit better.

June 14th

Randy came over and we did some work on his Honda Pilot - we replaced the thermostat, a tickover sensor and a sensor in the rear differential.  I managed to drop a gasket under the airbox, and taking that out we found the filter was filthy, so we replaced that too.  We went to get some lunch, and figured out that the cooling system has air bubbles in it (strangely never had that problem changing the radiator in the Jeep, so he'll work on that - it seems as simple as running it with the heater on for a while.

In the evening we went for a flight around Beale Air Force base's airspace, and it was glorious - warm enough, but no thermals or bouncy wind.  We even saw what looked like a Flightstar or Hurricane single seater and a couple of powered parachutes over by Camp Far West lake.

June 13th

I'm on call this weekend, so after I'd cleared out the work stuff, I went to meet Chris in Auburn for lunch.  I was a bit early, so I puttered around getting there.

We chatted with a bunch of guys who were collecting a Bonanza, and had stopped for lunch, then went and got our lunch before they closed.  I pottered around a little on the way home, as Chris was going to do some circuits in his RV, then landed and showed him Jamie's new M-22 in the hangar.

Marty and his wife were at the airport, so we chatted to them for a bit, then Chris headed back to Cameron Park and I headed home to clear out some more work stuff.

June 11th

I met Randy at the airport, and we looked at Jamie's new M-22 which was delivered yesterday.  Eh...

We went for a flight over to Chris' house, circled it and came back.  He wasn't in, it appeared, but Jackie was and saw us :o)

June 10th

After work, I went and picked Randy up to go and look at his pre-rotator - he'd had the bendix out and thought he'd stripped the thread on it.  Looking at it, no, he'd stripped the thread on the screw, so we replaced that.  He had a prior engagement with taking his kids to play mini-golf, so we decided against flying.

June 9th

After work, I went and met Randy at the airport, where we took the gyroplanes out for a little putter around the area.

June 7th

We flew to Auburn, in the wind and thermals from the puffy cumulus clouds, and met Chris for brunch.

The wind was coming from the North, so we took off on 33 and flew along above one of the streams out of the foothills to get to Auburn.  Once there, we did the usual "answer questions on the gyroplane" thing, and I let a couple of kids sit in the plane.  I also roped in Chris to let one of the kids sit in his RV-6A (he said he wanted to practice flying it, I say he was late and wanted the faster aircraft) so he could be a cool kid too :o)

After getting back to Lincoln, we headed to Costco to pick up some stuff.  Notably they didn't have any Dr Pepper, only Diet, so I couldn't get any to load up the fridge in the hangar :o(