A little adventure

Last Saturday while I was at a pool party at my Regional Vice President's house, we all heard this unusual thwumping (yes, I meant to spell it that way) helicopter sound in the distance. As it got closer, none of us could identify whether it sounded more like a helicopter or an airplane. Finally it came into view and we realized it was the magnificent melding of both worlds!  

Is it a plane? Is it a helicopter? Is it both? Is it neither? The answer is yes! It is classified as a tilt-rotor. The engines/props can rotate so the blades are horizontal for a vertical takeoff and then change position in mid air for airplane style flying. Callie and I got to see it up close and personal today over at the airport. My understanding is that they were doing some upgrades on some of the electrical/ computer systems in order to make more efficient, etc.  They chose Cache Valley specifically because of the ideal conditions here; the high altitude, clear air, and some other technical flying terms. Plus did you see that sky today? Talk about blue...

"Bunzie" said she wanted to be in the pictures too!

The ideal flying conditions also brought in a regional/ national glider competition this weekend. They said that the natural updrafts from all the mountains made it a perfect area for them to do their thing in as well. I'd hate to see what one of those propeller blades would do to one of those glider planes. Here's one getting towed up into the air.

interesting

The stringy things on the flower of this Purple Velvet plant remind me of an attempt to sew a button on a shirt using  yellow thread!

4th of July and stuff

We've had a busy couple of weeks! June 30th we went to see the Beach Boys, July 1st we went to a wedding reception for one of Debbie's friends, which she also made the cake for. We drove straight from the reception to the University to see the Diamond Rio concert and Logan city's fireworks show.

 

We had a little break for Saturday and Sunday. We had the day off from workon Monday for the holiday, but it was spent being busy around the house instead of relaxing. Tuesday through Saturday I was working like a crazy man at the Sprinkler Store. Sunday was church, This week so far has been crazy at the store, yesterday was the birthday (I am now officially closer to being 40 than 30! Eeek!). 

 Today I worked all day at the store. It was busy enough that I couldn't sneak away for a lunch break. Pure craziness. After that I went home for a quick bite to eat, then went back out to go do a merchandising job for a couple MORE hours! I knew that today was my only opportunity to do some blogging because tomorrow is my Primerica meeting, and Friday we get to pick up Callie so I will definitely be occupied till who knows when.

 Here are some pictures from that list of events:

'Nuff said!

At age 70, Mike Love is the only original  member of the Beach Boys and has been rocking with this band for 50 years! Plus he keeps a very full tour schedule! 

The rest of them haven't been there for quite so long, but it was still a great concert! Deb's anniversary present to me/us were tickets to see the show in correlation with Cache Valley's annual Cruise-in car show. They sang for two solid hours and it was amazing! It reminded me of driving all the way to Grandma's house in Idaho singing along to a Beach Boys tape in that big grey station wagon. 

I have some videos of it, but they will have to wait until later because it is about 1:00 in the morning.