Week six of the engine adventure. Week two of our kind hosts’ hospitality in Carbondale. They seem to be holding up just fine so far. The new engine is almost completely assembled, but there was a problem with one of the piston/sleeve assemblies, so the repair shop had to get another one from Caterpillar. By the end of tomorrow, they hope to have the replacement piston in hand, the engine assembled, and the reinstallation begun. On a sad note, our friend Lloyd died. Cousin Jennifer’s husband; always smiling, laughing, happy guy. About my age, died unexpectedly. We love you Lloyd. We’ll miss you.
Wild Turkeys
Through the windshield.
A walk on the Rio Grande Trail.
Yellow Warbler.
Northern Rough-winged Swallow.
Lewis’s Woodpecker.
Carbondale
The sound of morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vuMiEvZFXo
A quiet day today. Took a drive up behind El Jebel. Saw some birds. Came back to Carbondale. Bought some tires. Mountain thunderstorm showers. A rainbow out the window.
Meatloaf for dinner.
Gardens
The horticulturally inclined might walk around here and recognize all the individual plants.
I recognize pinion pine, juniper, lilacs, ………aspen, sage.
Chad
Remember our visit with Chad in San Diego? Here are some pictures:
He used to go on family vacations with us as a kid. Now he’s on his way to Afghanistan again. While he’s away, his unit is going to be changing over from Prowlers
To Super Hornets.
He’ll have to train on the new equipment when he gets back. In the meantime, here he is training, body armor on, in the Florida heat for the upcoming mission.
His specialty is Electronic Warfare. He says he can’t make anything, but he can jam anything anybody else can make. He should be doing that from a relatively safe place, but we still want him to keep his head down.
Stay safe, Chad.