Monday

Kaylee's doing great in school, still keeping her As, got an A+ on her test of states, capitals, rivers, mountains, and oceans, and is just doing really well.  She was complaining lightly tonight about how when she was looking up her grades, her Spanish class grade has everything online written in Spanish, and she says "And I have to THINK about what it's saying."  I looked at her and said "You're in an Advanced Spanish class, kid, you're Supposed to be actually able to read and translate Spanish!"  Her Advanced Math class is so far not too hard, and in fact this year she has had much less homework and more time to work on it in class than she did last year.  So far.  She isn't having any trouble at school with other kids, boys or girls either one.  She has a good group of school friends who are smart, and funny, and non-back-stabby (that's important and not that easy to find in Junior High), not into rebellion or making trouble, respectful to adults, happy and silly and supportive.  I can't put into words how glad I am for the school, heck, the childhood experience she's had so far.  :)

I think it's really funny that my FitBit thinks that I walked 11,500 steps today.  I sat in an airplane from 1:30-7:30 p.m. pretty much solid, with two stops for fuel.  Almost four hours in the J-3 Cub, and then another almost two hours in the 172.  The pedometer thinks that flying out of a grass strip is a whole lot of bouncing around, aka walking.  It tried to tell me I had an extra 450 calories of food to eat because of all that sitting in an airplane, but I was not fooled.  ;)  Now when it tells me I walked a lot after flying the T-6 all day, THAT I believe.  I moved the rudders so much my knee hurt by the end of it.  On windy gusty days, more than my knee ends up hurting after a full day of rides, but fortunately it was a pretty wind weekend.

That almost four hours I spent in the Cub today was with two different guys, and we stayed in the pattern the whole time and tried to master the 3-point landing.  Sitting in the back seat of the Cub with no forward visibility, the pitch up to do a good 3-point is way more nose up than most pilots are comfortable doing, and it seems to take awhile to get it nailed down.  Normally I keep my hands off of the stick/yoke of airplanes unless I need to save something, but lately I've found it goes faster in teaching this particular thing if I go ahead and get on and pull to where it's supposed to be with them, if they're not following the "back back back keep pulling pull pull!" instructions.  Then they can at least see it a few times in a row and then try to duplicate it better...

There are so many good photos from Warsaw.  I was too busy tonight flying to do much but I'll try to post some soon.  For now, bedtime!