Toilets and Ohio

We flushed our toilets tonight a few times, because we could. The sewer guys came this morning, and it took them most of the day, a backhoe, a jack hammer, a trailer full of gravel, and all sorts of stuff, but it is fixed. They still have to come back and put a bunch of gravel down, then repave the alley road with asphalt. I don't know the cost yet. But they came in, dug down, tore up the alley, and then found a concrete cap under the asphalt. So they had to go out and get a jackhammer to get through THAT, then found where the problem was. Two pipes had collapsed down into a 'v' and come apart a bit. So stuff was running downhill, getting to that area, then had to go UPhill to get to the city sewage pipe. That was a problem all its own in the works, as a lot of pressure had to be built up to let stuff run uphill to clear out. Tree roots and all sorts of stuff had also gotten into the area that was broken/bent/collapsed. The bad area was between our house and the city pipe, so it's definitely our responsibility even though it's not on our property line, but rather in the middle of the city street. They're coming back to keep working on the alley part of it, but for today, we have sewer again, hallelujah. Steve informed me thustly by sending me a photo from a vantage point of sitting on the toilet. lol  I will be quite happy to run my own load of dishes and laundry and such again. Man that's been a long month. I wish if it had to happen it would have happened at any other time prior to going into winter, but since when do you get a choice when things happen, eh? ;)

This morning we watched them work back there for awhile, and then met up with Ty and Mark T for lunch, then out to the airport, where I took the Aerostar with Steve, Morgan and Ashley over to Ohio to pick up Ethan's 340. Morgan and Steve took the Aerostar back, and I took the 340 back with Ashley and let her do all the flying.  The Aerostar passed us again, which they got a kick out of, but they did it very close and in Ft Wayne's airspace, making their alarms go off and them query us several times about if we had each other in sight. Tsk tsk. 

I didn't have enough time to deliver the 340 to Frankfort and get back for a 4 pm lesson, so I landed at Kokomo, and flew in the Champ with a guy who wants to get better at tailwheel ops. We did a lot of 3 points, and some wheel landings. Those got interesting. We'd bounce off the ground and he'd shove the stick forward, and that'll make you pucker. He kept leveling off high, dropping it in, bouncing, then shoving the stick forward. So he asked if I'd show him one. That's always dangerous. I haven't done one from the back of the Champ in ages, and there was a crosswind, but I said sure, I'd show him one, and if it was bad we could both laugh. Fortunately for me, I rolled on the right main (into the wind), then the left main, then flew the tail down, super smooth. Probably couldn't do it twice in a row, but I was glad to at least have demonstrated one for him. His next one went a lot better. 

From there I took the 340 over to Frankfort, and put it away in the hangar, and Cameron came and got me in the Cherokee 180. I passed him in the air on the way to Frankfort, and said "Hey, your gear is still down".  lol We had a really pretty sunset on the way home too. Nice end to a nice day. Topped off the airplane at the self serve pump, put it away, I drove through Steak-n-Shake for dinner, and home for the night to enjoy my sewer. ;)

Tomorrow I had off, and Kaylee and Steve are going hiking together again. I'll probably go with Morgan on a Meridian trip to Florida. I'll be able to sit around and do nothing on Sunday instead, even though I won't have the place to myself. ;)

Oh, and they got the Conquest fixed finally too! Ethan's putting it up for sale asap. He's had enough of not being able to get parts and maintenance messes. Unfortunately there are 12 of them for sale at the moment so that's not gonna help him. But...he wants it gone and wants to replace it with a new airplane with plenty of parts availability and minimal old airplane maintenance down time. I don't blame him. This has been a cluster from day one...

Cherokee 180