When I got home, Steve and Kaylee were outside around a pit fire with AE and Kenny, so I pulled up a chair and joined everyone, and we just hung out and talked until about 11:30 p.m. when we let the fire finally burn out and everyone went home.
I would have liked to sleep in a little this morning, and I would have liked to let Kaylee sleep in a little more too, but I had a job to do today, so we all left the house at 9 something this morning and went to Kokomo Airport, arriving just in time to see my morning appointment pull up in his airplane. I got the T-6 out and preflighted while Kaylee drove the golf cart to the ramp to pick up the gent, and then we had an hour ground and an hour flight for a flight review. Ground/taxi/tailwheel work, steep turns, slow flight, stalls, going upside down at least once, and a couple of takeoffs and landings later, it was mission accomplished. I was more tired than the guy was after it was over, I think. :)
This evening our family loaded up and went out to the Winding Creek Bluegrass Festival held out where the Ko-Ko-Mah reenactment is each year. It's out in a really lovely wooded and hilly area, with nice paths, old-style wood cabin buildings, some booths/tents, a couple of stages for acts/concerts, a lot of people camping out, etc. When we walked in, a woman came up to us and handed us all a free ear of steamed, buttered corn on the cob that she shucked right in front of us. That was good stuff, man. We walked around, checked out the area, then went down to the wooded theater area where folks had lawn chairs set up, the stage was lit nicely, and they had rope lights strung around some of the trees to provide a nice ambiance and light as it got darker. They then had several bluegrass bands play, and they were still playing when we left at 9:30 p.m. We had Indian Fry Bread, homemade chicken and noodles, homemade vanilla ice cream, and enjoyed the company of a couple of friends while we sat in our lawn chairs and enjoyed the concert. They did some gospel as well, and one of the guys said to come back tomorrow because they were bringing in a real live Kentucky preacher. He said folks weren't just going to get music, they were going to get some good down-home country preaching. You don't really hear that at a large public venue in this day and age I guess, and I thought it was kind of neat. They also sang a song about how country music, country strength and country values were disappearing fast. There were fiddlers and harmony and guitars and bass, and while I wouldn't tune my radio in to bluegrass on a regular basis, when you're sitting in a chair in the woods with yummy foods as the sun goes down with lights around and music going, there's not much that is more relaxing. Especially if you have bug spray, which we did. ;) Best of all, when we went to leave, there was a guy driving a big John Deere tractor who was giving us a ride on a wooden trailer back to our car, when he stopped and asked if Kaylee would like to drive. She was all over that, so she ran up to the tractor, climbed up it, sat in front of him and he let her drive us and the trailer/platform all the way back to our car. Now that was pretty cool. She's now driven a big ole John Deere. I tried to take pictures of that, but as you'll be able to see, it was dark and I only had my cellphone, so it didn't go too well. Go central Indiana...some places might consider a bluegrass festival "backwards". I consider it...simpler. And in some ways, better.
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