Good Day

Today is a good day.

We got the prop back for our C-45 and it will be able to go to its event in Arkansas this weekend.  We had advertised, had hotel room, had everything set up to go, and no guarantee we'd have an airplane. The prop shop wasn't responding to us, and we had a few days to get the prop back, get it on, get it tested, and head to Arkansas. Well, it arrived today. Unless something bad comes up on the install, we're gonna make it!

But most importantly, our lawyer called and it's over. We were dismissed from the case, we don't have to pay them Anything, and we just had to pay "our portion" of the expenses from the mediator, which is still a lot. Our lawyer actually fought that, saying we shouldn't share an equal expense with everyone else considering we were sent home halfway through the day and were dismissed from the case altogether, and we could have gotten some of that taken out too, but they'd have had to go back to the others and adjust everything they'd already settled on and done, so Steve just told him we'd pay it just for it to be over with. I like the idea of making them go back to all the others and adjust it out of principle if nothing else, but... So that payment was made today, and we're done, and out, and not bankrupt after all, which was actually a legit concern, and didn't have to give the family themselves a single dime. After 4 years, 1 month and 8 days, it's over. And they can....you can fill in your own blanks. There are multiple choice options that are all correct.

That put me in such a good mood I pulled out the 340, pulled out the Cheyenne, pulled out the T-6, took it up and did some gentleman's aerobatics for about 20 minutes. I didn't have enough gas to go high enough to do vertical stuff so I just did some rolls and some yanking around, came back down and did 2 takeoffs and landings, after which I was down to 10 gallons/side, so I stopped, topped it off, and put everything away, feeling quite satisfied.

Steve, Kaylee, Morgan and I went out to dinner at Red Lobster, had a celebratory drink and meal, and decided that this was a most excellent day.

The post after this one is going to have to come later, it's going to be about our trip down to Panama City yesterday, Steve and I, so that'll require scrolling past this post. :)

Rounding the corner

The fading Autumn colors, with everything else going BROWN.