Pack that Weekend

So its amazing how much cant be done when the Granddaughter shows up on Saturday afternoon... Everything kinda shuts down since she has to be and is the center of our attention. So.. yep.. nada... but its been fun of a little sleep deprived now.

Starting Saturday morning and the flight of Patturns In Czech ( Terpsnickery ) and it was a quick flight due to some 16 mph winds..landing in a "supposed" clear field and running over a piece of cement with re-bar sticking out of it... thus tearing a section of the leather on the bottom of the basket ( Kick Plate ) made for some frustration. I think its easily repairable with some glue but I will ask Lindstrand USA in Galena Ill to send me a new one.

Bummer but it could have been fabric and that would have been much worse. Then as easy as it is to put her away it was still exhausting then home.. dump pictures and videos and then .... then things got interesting.

We went over to pick up our Granddaughter for the night to let her mom have a break and get some cleaning done to Said Granddaughter not wanting to nap or sleep and then in the middle of the night screaming her head off to wake the neighbors.. woo boy. So that kinda ended the sleeping part of the night...

To make it more fun Mo wanted to fly and had volunteered to fly some people so we ran out to Rainbow, which is far North and West of our usual launch site and he took off from there with a new friend. The drove South then popped up to 10,000 msl to catch a North East wind and after hanging up there for a bit dropped back out to a South West and a fun bouncy landing on a road.

Home right after and back to playing with the baby.... Loads of fun... and now waiting for some BBQ to be brought over will top the day.

Here are the shots from the Vid Cams and today's main cams.. Yesterday I took 15 pictures .. not much heavy but oh well...

Flight date info. Flight time is wrong and Temp is wrong. Why... I dont know.

Standing up and ready... almost...to go.

Off we go with Nelly B and Charity besides.

Up and over the big arroyo.

Back down South or Paradise and racing across the ground.

Passing over Unser.

Tree and rabbit avoidence processing quickly.

Over Paseo Del Norte quickly too...

Third and final bump but just past the nasty re-bar and cement. More damage to deal with. sigh!

Above is the Kodak 360 can and now the GoPro cam on the side..

Im not sure why my hand is on that whisper burner but I didn't light it off. Must have been for stability as we were swinging.

Kyle taking pictures as we head South.

Building avoidance.

Roofing inspections.

Up over high... Looking at the balloons in front of us to gauge where to descend.

Hi truck number 1..

Bush.. rabbit.. bush bush rabbit rabbit.

I same truck no 1.

 Mojo off and up high.

Much higher.. Looking South.

10,000+ and looking at Rainbow launch site below and to the right.

Headed North like crazy.

Dropping out over the Star Center..

Close to the ground and transitioning into ground tracking flight.

Groundtracking across the mesa basin.

And waving off that landing spot as we watch from the truck.

Right before landing on the road....

 gound.. bounce across the road and stopped on the edge.

Surveying the basket before standing it upright. Nice fun flights both. Much fun to be had.

 So that was the weekend... Not much of the week but what to say about that really. This next week is coming up and is full of stuff. I do have to get the basket into the garage and taken apart to see how much leather I have to glue... fun city.