December 30th

There was a meeting at the airfield about the new Village 5 development that they're aiming to put in south of the runway.  Obviously the developers did absolutely no research, as it appears that they were unaware that the published instrument approach puts planes at ~500' over the ground that they're talking about building on.  It seems that the FAA waits for people to build stuff too high, then tells them to take it down rather than getting involved in the planning process.  Great.

I went to lunch with Ken and Jack, and discovered that Danny had crashed the Eurofox I few a couple of weeks ago.  Luckily he's unhurt.  Later, while standing around talking, Danny arrived to get help unloading the wreckage into his hangar, so we helped unload the wreckage into his hangar.

December 29th

We had the day off work, so I took Caroline next door up in the Flightstar to see her new house being built.  Hopefully she didn't totally hate it, even though it was chilly.

December 25th

Jen arrived at the house with cookies for us, on her way to her folks.

I went to the airfield and took the plane out.  On a whim, I flew up to Auburn because I haven't landed there, and there was nobody about.  My approach wasn't great, as there's a hill by the 25 threshold, but hey, any landing you can walk away from, right?  Actually my landing was fine.  It was cold at 2500', so I headed back to Lincoln and put the plane away, then went home to cook dinner.

While eating, we watched "The Incredible Hulk", and it was better than "The Incredible Hulk", but probably not as good as "The Incredible Hulk".

December 24th

Another day with less than great weather, so I wasted it doing stuff at home.

December 23rd

Vic was going to get her hair done, so I washed the van (did you know it's white?), did some work, then headed to the airport and took the plane out for a bit.

December 22nd

I had the day off from work, so obviously the weather wasn't great.  I pretty much just wasted the day at home.

December 17th

I went and bought a tool cart that's on sale at Harbor Freight, then went over to the airport to build it.  I'd pretty much just taken it out of the box when Danny showed up, and we chatted for a while, then went out in his Eurofox.  I did pretty much all of the flying, and it's a lot different from the Flightstar, not least for being about twice as fast - we were over by Cameron Park and Danny suggested we could go and land at Placerville - I said it was going to be dark in about 45 minutes, so I didn't think we had time.  We were back at Lincoln for a hard, but not quite bone crushing landing about 15 minutes later.  Danny reckons he burns about 4 gallons an hour at 120mph, so that's more economical than most cars :o)  We put the plane away, and he dropped me back at my hangar to finish building my tool cart.  I've even started loading it up with stuff that I don't want draped all over the floor any more :o)