Friday in the Hangar, Saturday at Home

Friday In The Hangar
Friday wrapped-up in the hangar with all kinds of activity. Ian worked on the Asas 206 headed to Brazil; Chuck pushed ahead with MAG 206 headed to Honduras; Dale, Gertjan, and David prepared the tip tanks for the MAF 206 to be painted that will ultimately end up in South Africa; and Scott G., Scott L., and Josh put their efforts into the Moody 182 headed to Spokane, WA. While that was going on Tim handled repairs on a couple local aircraft and Mike was down in Florida doing a special electronics job for Missionary Flights International.

On the admin side I was writing the minutes from Thursday's SMT meeting, preparing for next week's staff meeting, handling some recruiting, and studying for a presentation I'm to assist with later this month. Karen was in taking care of her part of the receipting responsibilities for MMS and managing the organizational mailing list. Bob was preparing new chapter tests he'll soon administer to apprentices. Dwight was overseeing activity in the hangar and preparing for next week's board meeting. Here are some photos from the hangar:

Chuck fabriciates a control surface for the MAG 206.

Scott G. and Scott L. use a pnuematic press to remove a pin from the landing gear actuator

for the Moody 182.

Josh and Dennis measure the "warp" of the 182 wing that Josh is repairing.

Saturday At Home
Well, I lost all track of time and didn't blog last night because after dinner I was slicing and dicing and hopping and chopping all the peppers and onions FOR THE NEXT BATCH OF SALSA! That's right, it's another SALSA SATURDAY. Last night's prep session took longer than we thought because 1) it looks like we might get three batches out of the latest harvest so I had to chop six cups of everything, 2) the onions were blinding in their intensity so my eyes were clamped shut for that whole process, and 3) the beautiful "banana" peppers I chopped up turned out to be "hot" peppers not mellow and flavorful peppers.

Consequently Karen made a late evening pepper run only to discover there aren't ANY banana peppers in town between the three markets and SUPER Wal-Mart. We had to settle for green peppers which we usually don't put in the salsa. Oh well, we will make some jars of X-treme Salsa using the Jalepenos AND the hot peppers. Yee-haw.

While Karen's cooking that all up, I'll be outside installing the second handrail. A couple weeks ago I installed the first rail on our porch steps. This second one will go on the front steps leading to our porch. Wish me luck. Better than that, please pray for me. Home owner projects are not my strong suit, if you get my drift.