Hangar news

Hangar 52 has been a bit quiet lately with weather that is not yet promising of nothing but blue skies. We catch a window of flyable weather where you climb next to the big billowy clouds and pick your way over and around them...such a blast!
Dakota, our Australian Shepherd, has taken a liking to the plane lately. We now have doggy ear muffs and seat belt for her so she can go with me on short jaunts. When she sees that I am starting my pre-flight check she is all over me and the plane.



Every now and then I get a ride in a really cool plane.

Spring has sprung

Well, it is time to renew the chicken flock. We are adding 10 new little egg layers to the mix.

What was really nice is that we got them at 3 weeks old which means they had started to get their feathers and did not need the normal brooding set up that one needs for 2 day old chicks (I did not have to be vigilant to keeping their area at 75 degrees).
I built the chicken wire fortress because we were leaving for the beach for a long weekend and I did not want birds of prey or anything else getting in.



Mmm...there is nothing like the promise of lilacs.
Just a reminder of old man winter...

We have our kitchen back!

Oh, where to begin? We have lived here for 9 years and have completely redone the ambiance of the place. We finished the kitchen "remodel" 2 to 3 years ago (which our son-in-law, Nate painted) and recently we have seen that the creamy enamel paint that we painted all the wood work had yellowed. We hired Nate to repaint but this time with color.



Not only did we add color, we took out the dropped ceiling that housed florescent lighting (it always looked green in our kitchen) and added an incandescent light with a tin panelled ceiling. Bruce, also, added 3 can lights over the counter. We are pleased so far with the results.

Enjoying family

We had Rae Ann and her family and Robin and Nate over for Easter. Ivy and Stella were at their best for us the whole afternoon (as seen by the pictures). We had a good meal, an exciting egg hunt and boisterous annialation of eachother in X-Box form. Ivy was introduced to the goats, chickens and chuckar. She was babbling the whole time to all the creatures.






What I find funny about this last picture is how the photographer (Bruce) placed himself in the shot.