Hangar and Home

Yesterday was a beautiful winter day with lots of sunshine and temperatures a little above freezing.  It gave Ian a chance to check out the replacement fuel pump on the Cessna 206 headed for Brazil.  If you look closely you'll see hoses (just below the windshield) from the engine compartment into the cabin for test gauges to indicate fuel pressures during the engine run.  The test gauges and hoses will be removed before the plane is flown.

This afternoon Jason, our son-in-law, brought Javin by to show us what they picked up from the taxidermist today.  This fox squirrel is Javin's very first wild game harvest so Jason had it mounted on this wall plaque.  He got the squirrel in October but the taxidermist has had plenty of work.  Javin got his deer in late November and I believe a spring turkey season is next on our hunters' schedule.

Leftover Beef Stew

Yesterday Rena made a very tasty beef stew which we enjoyed last evening.  While washing the crock pot after supper I thought about today's lunch and how good it would taste to turn the stew into a meat pie.  I don't have the culinary savvy to think these things up on my own; I learned the trick from Mom.  She would serve leftover beef stew this way.  The crust is biscuit dough.

There's beef stew under that crust.

It seemed logical to make enough biscuit dough for some biscuits too.  That way we'd be able to properly use some of the sorghum-molasses we brought back from Kentucky last year.



Biscuits are done.  (It looks like I'm trying to blend in with the kitchen cabinets.)

It's a quiet Sunday afternoon here.  You probably figured that out already; especially with this being a blog about nothing more exciting than beef stew and biscuits.

Rena continues to recover from her surgery.  She went to Sunday School and church this morning and was a bit tired when we got home.  That's probably why she didn't object to the biscuit experiment.

Some of my favorite things . . .

I'm sure you've heard the song from the musical Sound of Music that starts, "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens . . ."  (Now that I've mentioned it, it will probably be one of those tunes that get stuck in your head that won't go away.  Please accept my apology if that's the case.)  Anyway, what I saw as I walked into the hangar this morning makes my list of favorite things.

Mechanical restoration of the Cessna model 206 is practically complete.  Last Friday the plane was weighed and its new weight and balance data computed.  Ground-runs and final operational checks are yet to be done and all the maintenance records have to be completed before return-to-service flights can be made. 

The plane will soon meet transportation needs of Christian ministries in Brazil.  (They have a huge place there to take-off and land called the Amazon river and its tributaries.)  However, on a cold winter morning in Coshocton, Ohio, it's one of my favorite things.

A New Year At MMS

A new year has started at MMS. With inventory out of the way, work once again continues on many projects. Another item to deal with is the snow. Check out the MMS blog about this. Click here.

Flowers

Some little visitors and their Mommy brought me some beautiful flowers this afternoon. Gave my day a big lift. Thank you Jen, Javin and Chanelle.

Meet Stan

When Rena and I go for a stroll up and down the hallway, another fellow always goes with us.  I call him Stan.  He's a quiet fellow, but a more faithful guy you may never meet.  He's really skinny, but he holds I-V pumps and monitors day and night without complaint.  I've not seen him take any initiative and go where you don't want him to go.

Stan and I

Stan's big foot helps him perform his duties.

Stan's pretty stable as well.  I'm sure you'd have to be if you had the same vocation.  Now, you can picture, in your mind's eye, Rena, Dwight, and Stan out for a walk in the hospital corridor.

Most people might call him Stand, which is, I think, his full name.