Tigger got chipped today, he’s faster, more economical.. “Oh, that’s not what getting chipped means?”. Your joking, oh well, he’s had it done now. We now own a scan-able cat. He was far from thrilled, hissed and bared his teeth when they stuck him with the needle. I’m glad they do retina recognition for humans, don’t see why Tigger couldn’t have gone that route. Today I flew the big heli in the kitchen with the camera on it, honestly, it’ not worth your time to watch this video. It’s just the view from the heli for almost 30 seconds, the video has been made worse by youtube trying to reduce the vibration..
Not a great deal has been happening with us. Last weekend we were pretty social, going to friends on Friday and Saturday night then having friends over on Sunday night. Last week was scorchio, since then we have had a few thunder storms which have given way to fairer weather, a lot less humidity, which was regularly reaching the 100% mark. This week we gave up the Versa, the lease expired. Not more car for us.. poor us.. just pulling your leg, you didn’t really think for a moment that Brendan would go car-less did you?? Te he. We have a rental now, a Mazda 3. Hannah has been super organised as normal, and is getting things organised for the big move. I think Tigger is convinced that we’ve gone crazy, he’s having to inspect all these new boxes and things which are coming out of hiding or simply moving […]
This weekend we did Dragon boating on Saturday, it was fun, needless to say we didn’t win. Golder put in a team every year, Hannah and I rowed on the team. It was a lovely sunny day, great fun, though other than rowing in the three races, we walked about Bell Park and sat about in the shade!! My heart sunk when I returned to the car to find a piece of paper under the windscreen wiper, this is what it was: Initially I wasn’t sure whether to pay it or not! But it later occurred to me that I did’t want the credit for inspiring someone to become a traffic warden/officer. On Sunday we headed for Killarney, arriving at about 1pm, we stopped briefly in the car park to unpack the bits we wanted on the beach, put on sun screen etc, as Hannah was doing my back, a […]
Thought I’d take a few pictures this afternoon, as I felt these following topics were important for you to know. Such as the fact that I had repaired both my helicopters, the large one had the broken blade grip (as per the entry) and the small one had a broken skid leg, so I repaired it with some plastic and superglue. Also the Genius now have a chipped tail rotor, so I shall be ordering another one, two, maybe three or four as I seem to get through them pretty quick. I also made a box for carrying and transporting them without the worry of damage, being an eco friendly type, I made it from the original packaging! The box was/is constructed from corrugated cardboard, I was able to fold it accurately by flattening the corrugations using the a ruler and the back edge of a pair of scissors. Today […]
We really enjoyed our visit home, much fun was had, wonderful to see everyone. We made it back, a pretty uneventful journey really, though many of the people on the plane did clap and cheer when plane landed, not sure why as it wasn’t particularly windy and it seemed like a pretty fair landing. We’ve not been up to very much since we got back, I installed the AC unit. We picked up Tigger and got him settled back into life at the flat. Hannah got a great video of him last week: You might have noticed that there was not a keyboard on the desk? Well that’s because Tigger has pushed it right under the upper desk shelf.. and that is why Hannah and I sometimes fail to do much typing on the computer, it’s all Tigger’s fault! The Weather here is warm and humid, today Google says it’s […]
On Saturday there was a mud bogging event at Chelmsford, which is a community just outside of Sudbury, about a 15min drive away. Mud Bogging is a basically a drag race through a water/mud filled trench against both the clock and your opponent in the other lane. There were a number of classes, standard, which are just trucks, some with bigger wheels and more powerful engines, others looked like somebody’s mum was going to pretty cross that they’d had her car, because she has to drive it to work on Monday! Then the modified class, which meant that the truck was not road worthy and specifically built for the task at hand. also there were 4 wheelers (ATV, quad in English), but I didn’t see them go.. It rained, hard, so i left at about 3pm. I found this wasp, building her nest in Troy’s shed, I asked if I […]
This morning I went looking for somewhere big and open to fly the helicopters. Having been exploring south of Sudbury last summer I remembered a quarry I had seen down that way. It proved to be a great spot to fly, very quiet, devoid of tall objects to crash into and set in the bottom of a valley. Perfect. I was able to fly fast and high without too many worries. View Larger Map The first flight went well, with the Genius, then I flew the V120D02s, I flew some very fast lengths of the open area, did some turns and was able to bring the helicopter back fairly confidently. Until I eventually did a turn close to the ground and touched the ground, with the helicopter rolled over at 45deg, one of the rotor blades detached from the head and went somersaulting through the air, landing a few meters […]
So without Hannah around we (Tigger and I) have not been getting up to too much. We’ve mainly just been hangin’ out at the flat, We’ve been watching the tele, relaxing and drinking beer. At one stage I was trying to model my helicopter canopy, as per the picture, I was going to take many photo’s and use them to produce a mesh, but Tigger was fooling around getting in the pictures, so I gave up. I think we both need her here to keep us inline, especially Tigger, he’s a bad influence on me I think. As you can see! Always wanting to do nothing.. I don’t know,, He’s so lazy!
This the executive summary version of our visit: We left Sudbury in the rain on Friday 10th May morning at 7am, by the time the train got delayed for two hours on the way from Toronto. We really enjoyed the leisurely trip, stopping in at Winnipeg for a bus tour around the city and arriving in Edmonton at 7am on Sunday 12th morning. We spent the best part of the day at the West Edmonton Mall, where we watched the sea lion show and I fired a 9mm hand gun. We caught the Grey Hound (coach) to Calgary in the evening. We stayed at an apartment down town rented by my work for us, didn’t do too much, I worked, Hannah visited the Chinook Mall with an acquaintance and later on in the week the Zoo. Friday we left for Penticton BC, making it as far as Canmore before we […]
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