Karen's through Cincinnati (three hours SW of here) and headed toward Columbus. I'm busy getting the guest rooms ready for Brenda, Karen's sister, and Rebecca, Karen's niece. A few minutes ago I finished my last meal of hot dogs (Ball Park All Beef on whole wheat/oatmeal bread w/Miracle Whip, Heinz 57, and Tabasco Sauce; chips (Lay's Classic); and a Dr. Thunder (budget Dr. Pepper) for a while (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). Tucker and Tanner are curled up together watching me scoot around the house. I'm ready for some home cookin beyond the micro-wave and tube steaks!
Most of the severe thunderstorms have moved east into PA so Karen & Brenda shouldn't have any real weather to deal with as they finish out their long road trip.
Gotta go finish the guest rooms...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Karen's Getting Closer
Karen and her sister started driving from the Atlanta area around 9 AM this morning. They're now north of Knoxville and still taking miles off the tires. That puts them just about halfway to Coshocton. Another eight hours or so and she should be home. Wahoo!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Karen Comes Home Tomorrow!
I'm busy organizing the house and doing laundry this evening. Karen's coming home from Georgia tomorrow night and the dogs and I are more than ready to return the home management responsibilities to her.
It's not that we've torn the place up while she's been away (though Tanner did eat a big, thick, hardbound library book over the weekend) but it's been six and a half years since I've really batched it for so long and it's taking a while for the skills to come back. It's been a good reminder of why I shouldn't ever live in anything larger than a one room apartment without a worthy woman to handle the home front and Karen is one Worthy Woman! Praise the Lord!
Every now and then, given the right situation, it can be good to be apart from each other for a time. And it has been good to be apart this time, but it's so much better to be together! Enough apart-ness for now. Come on home, Sweetie. It's going to be wonderful to be have you home!
It's not that we've torn the place up while she's been away (though Tanner did eat a big, thick, hardbound library book over the weekend) but it's been six and a half years since I've really batched it for so long and it's taking a while for the skills to come back. It's been a good reminder of why I shouldn't ever live in anything larger than a one room apartment without a worthy woman to handle the home front and Karen is one Worthy Woman! Praise the Lord!
Every now and then, given the right situation, it can be good to be apart from each other for a time. And it has been good to be apart this time, but it's so much better to be together! Enough apart-ness for now. Come on home, Sweetie. It's going to be wonderful to be have you home!
Monday, June 1, 2009
Saving $2,000 and 90 Days for Gospel Carrier International
Gospel Carrier International's King Air was back in for a repair last week.
It seems two tracks for the restroom privacy door had broken making the door nearly impossible to use. Our guys researched the parts and found that the two tracks cost $1,000 each and would take 90 days to be delivered. Both the price and the timetable were unacceptable but sometimes you have to pay the asking price and accept the unacceptable. But because of MMS and the ministry we provide, this wasn't one of those times, Praise the Lord!
One of two, broken privacy door tracks for the GCI King Air 200. At $1,000 each, this repair was going to cost $2,000 and it was going to take 90 days to receive the parts!
The door tracks aren't structural or related to the airworthiness of the aircraft. They are simply plastic interior pieces that can be removed and/or replaced as needed. Dennis, our Chief Engineer, remembered having some surplus PVC sheeting in storage of a similar thickness to the door tracks. He pulled the surplus, measured and traced the door tracks, and before long had fabricated new tracks that were stronger and substantially more durable than the factory's original foam/resin design yet with with similar weight characteristics.
The repairs were completed within the week, the materials were free, and GCI was able to return their airplane to service this afternoon.
The GCI King Air returns to service earlier this afternoon.
(Click to enlarge photo)
What a blessing to be able to save GCI $2000 of their ministry resources and 85 days of waiting!
Thank you for your prayers and gifts which allow us to return missionary aircraft to service in a timely fashion for far less cost than would be otherwise possible.
It seems two tracks for the restroom privacy door had broken making the door nearly impossible to use. Our guys researched the parts and found that the two tracks cost $1,000 each and would take 90 days to be delivered. Both the price and the timetable were unacceptable but sometimes you have to pay the asking price and accept the unacceptable. But because of MMS and the ministry we provide, this wasn't one of those times, Praise the Lord!
One of two, broken privacy door tracks for the GCI King Air 200. At $1,000 each, this repair was going to cost $2,000 and it was going to take 90 days to receive the parts! The door tracks aren't structural or related to the airworthiness of the aircraft. They are simply plastic interior pieces that can be removed and/or replaced as needed. Dennis, our Chief Engineer, remembered having some surplus PVC sheeting in storage of a similar thickness to the door tracks. He pulled the surplus, measured and traced the door tracks, and before long had fabricated new tracks that were stronger and substantially more durable than the factory's original foam/resin design yet with with similar weight characteristics.
The repairs were completed within the week, the materials were free, and GCI was able to return their airplane to service this afternoon.
The GCI King Air returns to service earlier this afternoon.(Click to enlarge photo)
What a blessing to be able to save GCI $2000 of their ministry resources and 85 days of waiting!
Thank you for your prayers and gifts which allow us to return missionary aircraft to service in a timely fashion for far less cost than would be otherwise possible.
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