What did you do today?

Zeldman said:
Now, I am open to suggestions on what I should put in the box this time...
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Find a laptop, strip out all the circuitry inside, box it up nicely, put that in the box, tape it all up. They get a shell, a keyboard, and a screen.
 
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First snow of the year and I have no plans until Monday, fired up the 1916 beckwith for the first time of the season (slowly at first to dry out the masonry chimney) now preheating the oven for a big bone in pork but roast with carrots and parsnips and trying to decide between roasted acorn squash with butter and brown sugar, baked sweat potatoes with butter and cream, or classic mashed potatoes and gravy. Fall sugar beets and a spinach with garlic olive oil salad are already decided on. Just uncorked a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon so by the time I need to decide it may change lol.
 
Zeldman said:
Done that.

Maybe this time semi-liquefied bovine refuse.??
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I am joking obviously, but what is your current ability to source a few pounds of bees or hornets? (I’m a bee keeper, and can’t ignore the humor of the movie scene with Woody Harrelson and a small jar of hornets)
 
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Went on a bike ride, got a burger, prepped the tri tip and chicken with a marinade made from A1 cut down with vinegar and wooster sauce.
 
After I got a burger I had some pie mmm mmm mmm


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Made a set of tie-down anchors for the plane.
Added some teflon anti-chafing tape where my cowling has been rubbing.
Watched Penn State succomb to Indiana.
Took a nap (too short).
 
Fixed the liftgate on my wife’s Sorrento in less than an hour and $350 in parts. The Kia dealership wanted $3000. Absolutely criminal!
 
Zeldman said:
Went outside this morning to find a FedEx box with 1/2 brick still inside and used TP scattered in the driveway. I think I know who the person is. Time to install the security camera.

Now, I am open to suggestions on what I should put in the box this time...
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Everybody else is way too kind. A squirrel trap. Not the havaheart kind.
 
Getting too cold for the biplane, decided to get proficient again in the club Skyhawk so I can knock out CSEL this winter. Took my wife to breakfast today at a nearby airport and subjected her to lazy eights, chandelles, steep turns, and some pattern work. Power-off 180s are requiring I completely recalibrate my sense of glide range... sitting there with full flaps and a full deflection slip and wishing the thing had speed brakes. Biplane is like flying a hydrostatic lawn mower - you come off the power and it grinds to a halt right then and there.
 
ColinD said:
Biplane is like flying a hydrostatic lawn mower - you come off the power and it grinds to a halt right then and there.
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Try out a minimax, it’s about the same… if you could see through the floor between your feet when the engine shuts off you could see where you will land lol. (Exaggerating but not much).
 
Flatiowa said:
Try out a minimax, it’s about the same… if you could see through the floor between your feet when the engine shuts off you could see where you will land lol. (Exaggerating but not much).
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I don't have the courage to fly a 2-stroke machine of any stripe, much less one with that kind of glide ratio. :yikes:

If I do a power-off approach from a tight downwind in the biplane, it pretty much requires pitching down so far the horizon disappears from view behind the top wing.
 
Zeldman said:
Went outside this morning to find a FedEx box with 1/2 brick still inside and used TP scattered in the driveway. I think I know who the person is. Time to install the security camera.

Now, I am open to suggestions on what I should put in the box this time...
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Hornets. But make sure to get their honey first so they're angry.

 
I'm heading back to work to paint cargo racks to stack the skids they use on the airlines. It could be worse.
 
Today I made an appointment to go see a C-150. That will soon be for sale. The ol’ Ercoupe is getting difficult to enter and egress - because of these old knees and hips. Just food for thought at this point…
 
Beachy said:
Today I made an appointment to go see a C-150. That will soon be for sale. The ol’ Ercoupe is getting difficult to enter and egress - because of these old knees and hips. Just food for thought at this point…
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But, but, but... THE C150’s WING IS IN THE WRONG PLACE!

Worrying about you, bro.
 
Flatiowa said:
Fun fact most people don’t know but two pound packages of bees are actually mailable and it is commonly done in the spring time, but they don’t look like normal boxes.
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Can confirm. I haven't needed packages. But I have ordered queens when it's to early to rear my own.
 
I read the above as "two pound packages of beers are mailable", and wondered why the hell anyone would want to do that.

Today, I cleaned the gutters. No beer or bees involved.
 
Aviation related. Painted these racks that store aluminum cargo skids. Need to get on my marketing department and find out why I'm only selling these to one client. Modular to fit on a plane and getting shipped to Dallas.
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Spent 30 minutes removing old oil and filter. Then spent 2 hours installing new oil and filter.
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So, we did get to see a C-150 today that is undergoing a beautiful restoration - and tried it on for size. When my wife and I both climbed in it was smaller than I remember a C-150 being and she said, "This is a tighter fit than the Ercoupe cockpit." The Ercoupe cockpit is actually nearly an inch wider and there is more hip room and shoulder room (especially in warm weather with the canopy open. So, we'll be keeping the 'Coupe and I'll have the wing in the right place. I did a pro-con list. The 'Coupe flies a bit slower but uses a gallon per hour less, it has wonderful visibility, can handle more crosswind component than the C-150, it is a great photography platform and, of course, the wing is in the right place. Also, it's all mine, no loan.
 
wilkersk said:
Cleaned up the hangar and rearranged everything in preparation for the "great bubble canopy fitting", which will then lead to "the big cut"!
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My only advice: Cut slowly, smoothly, carefully, and a warm hangar is your friend.

My first canopy is on a midget mustang out there somewhere. The part ahead of the crack, anyways.

Nauga,
who gained his love of Cherokee 6's while loading canopy #1 in the back of one
 
My leased Port Authority hangar had infrared heating and excellent insulation. I currently have the thermostat set at 70f. We'll see if I get a nastygram from the airport manager about the gas bill next month. I'm also using a space heater, set to low, on the floor with the canopy on sawhorses above to gently warm the canopy even more.

Van's says to use a cutoff wheel on an angle grinder. So, that's what I'm using. So far just a few experimental cuts along the flange to get some practice before making any big cuts.

nauga said:
My only advice: Cut slowly, smoothly, carefully, and a warm hangar is your friend.

My first canopy is on a midget mustang out there somewhere. The part ahead of the crack, anyways.

Nauga,
who gained his love of Cherokee 6's while loading canopy #1 in the back of one
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