Thursday, February 6, 2014 (La Posa South LTVA, Quartzsite, AZ)

It was a cool windy day today...not the best weather for the Quartzsite Desert Flyers Fly-In that the guys are going to this morning. They (Earl, Eric and Steve) headed out at about 10:00 to the event being held in Quartzsite. I'll pass the blog over to Steve to explain his morning...

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This club has a nice facility with a large paved runway. I knew what some of the planes are...hopefully I got them right...

Brothers Eric and Earl in red and blue...

Predator Drone...

Cool bike with a machine gun...

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk...

Spitfire...

P-47 Thunderbolt

Grumman F6F Hellcat...

This guy owns several of the large planes flown today...

This was a real helicopter that flew over...

There was a fairly large crowd considering the cool weather. We left at noon just as they shutdown for lunch...by donation. We all have lots of work to do this afternoon in preparation for leaving tomorrow...

While Steve was gone, I puttered around...doing a little banking, baked a Walnut-Raisin Loaf...just "stuff". I was actually in the shower when Steve left this morning, having just returned from a 45 minute powerwalk. I quite enjoyed a little alone time this morning.

The guys returned shortly after noon and the first thing Steve did was get to work...he borrowed Earl's portable sani-dump and emptied our holding tanks and added more water. Once he was finished doing that, we had lunch and then he puttered around outside while I got a little more exercise by walking the garbage down to the dumpsters.

I downloaded all of the pictures Steve took at the fly-in this morning so that he could get editing. While he was doing that, I read my book. It was not an outside kind of day today, so we were sitting inside. Hopefully that wind dies down before Steve has to go up on top of the trailer to lower the solar panels!

Once the sun was getting close to setting behind the mountains...and with lots of cloud cover anyway...Steve went up to lower the solar panels and brushed the dust off of the slide toppers. So all that could be done beforehand had been done...in our preparation for leaving tomorrow morning.

We're looking forward to our one week "vacation" to Yuma and Ocotillo Wells! We will leave a few things in our site just to save it for our return.