10.22.07
Posted in random at 11:54 pm by wendy
Yeah, I haven’t posted in a while. Yeah, San Diego county is on fire and it’s a lovely little repeat of the 03 Cedar Fire with the incomplete and inaccurate reporting of fire locations and conditions and endless repetition of useless information–wheezing is a sign of smoke irritation! Really!?! Simply shocking. Let’s go back to Qualcomm! Oh, aren’t we San Diegans such amazing generous people! Oh, sorry, is there a fire in the East County? Do rich people live there? No, well…back to our reporter in Rancho Santa Fe!
So, I’m going to ignore this. I will catch up on everything else when I can, and I’m going to go for silly and useless and random and whatever I have on the memory card that doesn’t take much exposition.
So without further ado:
Look how fat Cristina has gotten! This alpaca just can’t believe it.
My Big Bunny soloed! (He piloted a plane at one of the busiest general aviation airports in the United States on a busy day safely all by his lonesome! I have to admit I was very nervous, but all his landings were beautiful.)Here he is post solo with his instructor, Bob Lewis, quite a handsome man himself:
This is my favorite pic of the post solo party–and I didn’t take it. My instructor did.
I know.a) he should be wearing a belt, because he is more bootylicious than this pic indicates,
and
b) I may have to kick my instructor’s @ss for Love Rights to the Big Man 
And this is a picture of a correctly oriented rudder bumper tang on my plane (well, not my plane, but the one I usually fly):
This is important. (warning: NTSB pdf) (I told you this post would be semi-random memory card stuff).Ooh, random & flipping back–here’s
Sophie looking cute in the handknit cardigan
Nancy made her:
Good facial expressions, eh?Anyway, so Nick soloed on the 12th, and I spanked it out on the 18th. Here’s the obligatory pic:
So that’s the best of the latest that’s been going on with us. We haven’t been able to go flying since, because of work and suchforth–we were house-sitting at my Dad’s in Deerhorn Valley and left to go to his place in Tombstone for a family gathering. We came back just in time for flames on both sides of the I-8 and the road closed to the way to his place. So we went to ours.
And that’s all there is until the smoke clears.
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June said,
October 23, 2007 at 6:10 am
Congrats on the flying accomplishments! Stay safe while the fires are going on, ya hear?
elizabeth said,
October 23, 2007 at 7:47 am
Congrats on your first flight! And yes - you may have to protect your man from the instructor! haha
Kirsten said,
October 23, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Wendy! You posted. I’m glad you are still around. And very happy to hear that you and Nick are safe and not displaced.
Keep flying! That is SO cool.
Cindy Fitzpatrick said,
October 23, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Flying solo - Amazing! Congratulations!
Here’s hoping the fires stay far from you!
Teresa said,
October 23, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Kewl! Flying!!! And boo — biased non-informational coverage. My family was evacuated 16 years ago during the Oakland Hills fire — 5 houses away from totally destroyed houses. We were blessed by a wind shift. Hugs to the entire county.
Mary-Kay said,
October 24, 2007 at 5:28 am
You cannot KNOW how excited I was to see that you had posted. You know you were my first. Heehee!
Sooooo cool that you’ve been flying. Do those little planes have air conditioning? Please be safe.
And, also, the first man! What a mess. I’m very glad to hear you guys are ok.
Ande said,
October 24, 2007 at 10:09 am
Yeah for Wendy and her Big Bun-ny! Yes he needs a belt!
Stay safe, it’s nice knowing either of you could fly your asses out of there!
JenLa » Weirdo Wednesday said,
October 24, 2007 at 1:24 pm
[…] There has been no threat to Casa de La, nor to any of the grindstone locations to where we stick our nose, though the DH’s office got shut down Monday due to smoke. So far, we’ve been lucky…damned lucky. My parents and my one brother and his family are on voluntary evacuation. From what I can tell, there are no fires near them, but the cabin my parents once owned (sold it a couple of years ago) up in Running Springs is gone, as is all the homes on that road. My other brother has yet to be called up to the fireline, but we’re thinking it’s only a matter of time. He’ll probably be on one of the relief crews. I have Roman friends up in the Valencia area, and they’re on standby evacuation. However, I AM concerned about Jill, Stacey, and all of our San Diego knitting friends, or anyone else in the fire zones, my thoughts are with them, and I hope they’re all okay. Wendy posted Monday, so that’s encouraging. ~~~~~ […]
loriz said,
October 24, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Hi! Congrats on the flying! I’m glad to hear that you’re still alive and kicking!
Terri said,
October 24, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Hi Wendy! I was glad to see your post and learn that 1) you’re all okay there (you and yer man and the pups) and 2) you’ve been doing fun stuff - flying, etc. Very cool!
Sabrina has met two whippets during our vacation. One was FAT and the other was a little “mini-me” Sabrina in Vancouver.
Stay safe and fire-free!
Hilari said,
October 25, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Woo hoo!! Solo flyers! Way 2 go!!