I was at the airport yesterday - and the town is doing a bit of a makeover on the exterior of the terminal building. Fun to watch.
The old siding was just terrible. Painted faded plywood.
Nice new metal siding.
We've got Duane's niece's wedding coming up this weekend....and I have let my hair get a little wild....
Unfortunately, I forgot to pack the clipper kit that has my special #8 and #10 combs that allow Duane to "buzz cut" me perfectly. So I put on my mask and went to the local Great Clips. Luckily, the same lady who cut my hair 4 years ago - Maria - was there! Feeling much lighter now.
Duane and neighbor Jim loaded the last of the big logs that are cut. There may be more later but that's it for now.
I walked up the runway in the evening - a large flock of Canada geese were out - they let me get amazingly close.
But at some point one of them signaled that I was too close - and they all took flight. Yuck - they leave quite a mess behind!
The heat has finally broken a bit but it is soggy humid!
Just more tree handling on a off-and-on rainy day. Neighbor Jim came over to take more logs back to his saw mill.
Jim cutting the logs into 12' lengths. Duane loads them on Jim's trailer.
So there was left-over 36" pipe from last fall's earth-moving project. It's huge and just in the way.
Nice fellow - lives a few miles away. He has a couple of projects in mind for our rubbish. Off to it's new home and I didn't have to lift a finger! (Other than on the keyboard to make the ad.)
More outside work. The temperature was only around 90F, so much better. Haha. No.
Spreading out a couple of loads of dusty-dry dirt to level the new drainage area. Lots of roots to pick out.
Seeded, fertilized - ran out of straw half way thru. Hoping for some gentle rain soon.
Duane wanted to get rid of some trees on the back side of the hangar that were leaning just a bit too much towards the hangar.
This makes me nervous!!
He cuts a big chunk out of the base in the direction he wants it to fall. You can visually see that the tree is leaning towards the hangar.
Timmmmmbbbbeeerrr!
Scary to watch - perfect aim though - the branches just lightly brush over the edge of the building.
And then it was just a bunch of cleaning up the limbs. Our life for the past few days!
All done - Duane will cut these into 12' lengths and give them to our neighbor with the sawmill! Doesn't look that big, but I paced it off and measured about 66' left after trimming.
Sorry to be so repetitious....but our days are filled with this....but what you don't see is the 4 hours we spent troubleshooting the ancient dump truck. New fuel pump installed and we're good to go.
Getting the area pretty cleaned up.
I forgot this photo - I was at the Siler City airport the other day - a King Air and a Hawker jet on the ramp!
We're just busy, very warm, taking down some more trees.
Duane prepped this tree to make it fall the direction he wanted.....
Then all that's left is the cleanup!! It's 90+ and sunny - so we're taking an air-conditioning break every hour or so.
More tree work.
Hauling off the brush and trimmings.
Then our neighbor, who has a sawmill, came over with his trailer to pick up some free wood! (And get it out of our way!)
Cool little trailer. Duane was able to use the fork lift on the front of the tractor to easily load the heavy logs.
And a short little garden update. Some of the tomatoes are ripening....not the greatest. Not sure the soil is quite right for tomatoes.
And also courtesy of Denise and Keith, these poblano (I think) peppers are doing quite well.
And towards the end of a very hot day, Duane changed out a noisy wheel bearing on our car....busy!
Duane has been busy getting his old dump truck running. Now he's using his new little tractor to clear some underbrush in the woods beside the house. Good fun! Nothing nautical happening....
Continuing the cushion making saga.....
Beginning to assemble the "box".
One finished shell. I put two tabs on each cover so that we can anchor them on the seat to keep them from slipping around.
And after applying some muscle, the stiff foam is inserted. One down, one to go.
Both finished. Don't look too closely - a few puckers here and there but these cushions won't be visible when installed.
If you're having trouble imagining where these cushions will go - they'll be tucked under the existing cushion at the arrows.
The sling seat on the boat needs some more "structure" in the sitting area. Currently, we've got some orange life jackets tucked in there but that's not a very nice solution.
So we stopped at the fabric store in New Bern and bought this sheet of very firm closed cell foam. This foam absorbs zero moisture so it's perfect for this application.
With the electric knife, I cut out the two pieces to size. I contemplated making one very long cushion, but decided that two smaller ones would work just as well and handling them would be much easier!
Cut out the Phifertex mesh fabric pieces to make a waterproof cover for each of the cushions.
Installed a long zipper to aid in the assembly.
Kinda hard to see that is a zipper, so I un-zipped it for this photo.
And the "box" is ready for assembly. That's as far as I got today. More tomorrow. This is not the most fun material to work with - the mesh is very thick and not "bendable" like most cloth. So not really looking forward to sewing the assembly...
I was at the Asheboro airport doing some paperwork. Pretty summer day - there was a nice Falcon jet in.
Duane and I ate at a Chinese restaurant for the first time in a couple of years. I particularly liked the fortune cookie!!
We're back at the house for a while. We have our annual physical appointments, Duane's FAA medical appointment and our niece's wedding coming up in the next few weeks, so we'll be in Pittsboro for a while.
Our buddy Cecil has been keeping his Cessna 190 in our hangar over the winter while he built a nice hangar at the Sanford airport. His hangar is now complete so it was moving day. (Unlike our airplane, his old Cessna has a radial engine - it's normally very "smoky" so no worries about the blue trail....)
A quick flight in our Mooney over to the Sanford airport (Raleigh Executive Airport to be exact) and we'll pick up Cecil so he can retrieve his vehicle at our house.
Very nice brand new hangar!! Fun little sojourn.
With plenty of room for all Cecil's toys!
