We had someone named Kelly come over for the second time yesterday, to spend time with Ann. The first time, after Kaylee left after introducing them, Ann asked Kelly to leave, so that was a bit of a fail. Last night was attempt #2, and Steve went over too, and then when he left those two did well, and hung out until about 9 pm. So that was the first successful run. Kelly will get her dinner and meds and do whatever she wants from 6-9 pm on Mon, Wed & Fri now, we think. Companionship, medical care like for her skin issues, do puzzles, take her for a walk, whatever they want to do for a few hours. They seemed to hit it off finally yesterday, so hopefully that continues to be a good thing for her.
I went to bed around 10:45 pm, and I woke up at 3 am, and never got back to sleep. Yay. I finally gave up and got up at 5 am, even though I didn't have to be up until 5:45 am. (Yay again). I had a MBros trip to Louisville, KY, wheels up at 7 am. It's only an hour flight down there and the weather was decent, so it wasn't even a challenge. When I got there, the courtesy car had been loaned out overnight and wasn't back. It's a tower controlled field, relatively busy, and their only courtesy car was gone all night and not back. I found that irritating. So I used Uber Eats and had breakfast delivered to me. Bacon, scrambled eggs with chives, and a "carrot cake pancake" which was amazing except it had golden raisons in it (blech). Everything else was truly delicious though. I read a book, caught up on some emails, and had a nice morning, and then the flight home was another basic simple hour flight, and done, and money earned easily for the day. I don't mind easily earned money. ;)
Because I was back by 2 pm, and the flights had been so short, I wasn't "done" yet. It was fiercely hot and muggy still, so I took the Legend Cub up with the door open, for quite awhile, did four takeoffs and landings after flying around. I still wasn't done so I asked Spencer if he wanted to fly it, which he did, so he got current and did his three full stop takeoffs and landings in it and added a new airplane to his logbook. Then Steve said 'no thanks' when I asked him, so I asked Isabel, and she wanted to go too, so we went up and messed around a little, and I let her do a takeoff and landing too. Then it started raining, so I finally put it away, fairly well satisfied. Tim put it up for sale, so he told me to go fly it if I wanted to before it's gone, so I am. He also has a Cub with tundra tires on it back in the corner of his hangar, and I'm going to take that one for a spin too. I've never landed with big fat tires on, so I have to see how this goes. :D I can't decide whether to let everybody watch and have some potential entertainment of me bouncing down the runway like a basketball, or to do it on my own and see how it goes first. People would get a kick out of watching me bounce around, I'm sure. I'm trying to decide if my manhood can take it. ;) Maybe I won't bounce it, who knows. I'm going to try to just put it down on one wheel and then fly it the rest of the way down, but...we'll see. I bet it bounces. lol
Ann isn't feeling well tonight, says her stomach hurts, and she has gas. Not sure what got to her, but hopefully she's better by morning. It's tough when she doesn't feel well and wants you to just sit over there and watch her not feel well, whether there's something you can do about it or not. And it's no fun to be almost 89, not feel good, not understand why or be able to communicate well.
My ear piercing is doing well! Doesn't really hurt at all, and the only time I run into trouble is the few times I've forgotten about it and accidentally pulled it doing something. That doesn't feel so good. I can wear a headset okay though. We'll see about the helmet tomorrow at the Westfield fly-in. It pushes in on my head and ears, so I'm a little more worried about it. I may bring my regular Bose along just in case, because I know I can at least use that if need be.
I enjoyed today, I think I kind of needed that. I've been feeling unable to get any time to myself for awhile. I'm with a student, or with Kaylee even if Steve's at work, someone needs me, Ann needs me, Roadie needs me, Kaylee needs me, I haven't had time to just...be. As an introvert I need that time. Today when I went flying by myself with the door open, it felt like that little bit of air and space I needed.
It was darker than this looks, but the sun was coming up.
Sunrise at 19,000'
Sweaty self-portrait
Legend Cub Flying
Kokomo Reservoir from above
Panel work
Model# and N#
Me & Isabel
She doesn't look like she's having fun at all. ;)
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