Feb 23th, 2013 – Yuma Az

Feb 23th, 2013 –  Yuma Az                                                            Weather – lo 41/hi 68 clear

Total Kilometers this trip -  11315.9                                                Km travelled this day – 0

Staying in a larger area, there seems like there are always lots of things to do. 

Today, there was a model railroad show, a model airplane show, and of course the usual garage sales and flea markets.

Today, we had decided to got to the Model Airplane show.  They have their own little runway off Hwy 95 at mile marker 35.  The show started at 10am, so we had a quick breakfast and then off to pick up Herb.   The weather cooperated nicely in the morning, very little wind and clear, it was not that hot either.

The owners of the aircraft put on a very good show, with one unfortunate landing, with an older airplane like the Red Baron or Snoopy flew in.  The variety was great, gas engines – 2 stroke and 4 stroke, radial engines, and of course the new – electric.  The size greatly varied as well, small ones you could hardly see, to the large 12 foot wingspan, which you could definitely see.

 bi-plane

 coming in for landing

 oops, ouch, dang that was hard

 in a dogfight

 hanging in mid air - being held by power

 Lake aircraft

 Cessna

 P51 coming in for landing

 Cessna coming in for landing

 flyby of Lake aircraft

 some of the models

 Cessna 182 landing

 Lake aircraft landing

 more models

 even more models

We dropped Herb off and then headed home.

One task which I had in mind to do for a long time, was to correct the seat cover problem in our car.  The seat covers continued to ride forward, so hopefully I have corrected this with the winding of the strap through the seat spring.

I had taken the front seats out to correct the seat cover problem, so I thought I might as well clean the car as well, it does make it a lot easier to do.

While I was cleaning the car, Pat asked if we would like to play cards, so we dropped the car cleaning and played a new (to us) game of cards. 

While I continued cleaning the car, Vadie made us hamburgers for supper.

Special people today – All the people who put in their time to make Flea Markets/Farmers markets happen.  There is a lot of behind the scenes work which goes unnoticed.  Thankyou to these people.