Putting the hammer down

After struggling to get to Cambrdige Bay the Board members put the hammer down and worked until just after 10 last night to get the meeting underway and completed - wow were we moving fast.

NS is sending the first year students to Nicaragua this year - sounds hot to me - but it will be early in May so it will not be to bad - I do not think I can go this year - but I need to look at a calendar to make that final decision

Today we climb onto an airplane and fly back to Yellowknife - the first leg of going home - found Mom's birthday pressie yesterday - will have to hand carry it home but that is easy

Our plane leaves at 1330 - going home is always the best part of the trip

After a day of climbing onto an airplane taxing and climbing off the airplane we are still in Yellowknife - sheesh - what a long day at the airport = a long day of waiting hopefully patiently but in the end we had an airplane but no air crew so we did not fly
This morning Cambay is -37 with the wind at 14 so a nice crisp -52 for wind chill - and I believe the airplane problem is straightened out so we should get in today and out tomorrow
I got invited out for dinner tomorrow night - lol - a very rare occassion for me - I bet I can win the tussle for the check = Juanita Taylor - lol and I out weigh her by 3 to one
Explorer hotel was lovely last evening - the Super 8 works but this is much nicer
Paper work for the sale of the airplane and hangar came through yesterday I should try and read each peice today to see what they are saying - there were lots of typos of our names when I popped one document open yesterday.
Time for breakfast

End of an adventure

The paper work arrived today to sell our airplane and the hangar. We have owned the airplane for 16 years and the hangar for 15 years. That is a long time for a hobby but a wonderful hobby it has been. I have learned a lot about myself from flying - being in the sky alone sometimes was the mental therapy I needed.
I will miss owning an airplane.
I am working on summer travels and summer plans. We are sailing from Iceland to Greenland in July - a two week cruise - which by the way still has to be paid for so erase thoughts of new motorcycles or cars post haste please.

I did not get to Cambridge Bay today - blizzarding there - but tomorrow is another day and the weather forecasts are much better.

I think the amount of travel I do is ridiculous - but I have been enjoying it for years and see little sign of wanting or needing to stop.

And away we go

It is blizzarding in Cambridge Bay and there is a 50/50 chance that the airplane will land but they want us at the airport for 10 p so off we go.
I would rather get there today so I will close up the suitcases and get ready to zoom through the skies once again

A sleepless night

A nasty letter distressed my sleep last night . I got up at 0445 this moring to craft the reply. The letter was written 25 years ago and now folks want to see it and write about it and discuss it. After a month of consideration I asked that the letter not be released. All that can come from any more distribution is revisionist history and lordy knows we have enough of that now.
Three hours until I get on the airplane - suitcase is not packed yet but it is such a normal routine that it only takes 20 minutes to do that now.
Yellowknife tonight and Cambay tomorrow - I have not been there for 4 or 5 years so it will be nice to see the community once again/
NSRT is starting to come back to life - next meeting is proposed for Yellowknife in mid April.
Car engine was not damaged when the hydralic pressure on the tension mechanism seems to have been stuck. A flush and an oil change did the trick.
Well suitcase time

How is this possible?
Today I quite by accident discovered that I had the timing of tomorrow's flight scrambled up and had I not discovered this I would have a) missed the flight b) missed the flight to Cambridge Bay and c) missed dinner with the CAMBAY CASARA team and d) missed the NS meeting -
Totally bizarre error on my part
So what else did I miss?

February and March travels

Leaving on Wednesday for Yellowknife and Cambridge Bay for a fast trip - will be home on Monday.
Then leaving on Tuesday for Pangnirtung and home the following Friday
Then Monday off to Cape Dorset for an FM module
and finally
Friday off to Saskatoon for a two week stay and the onto Whitehorse for a Northern Aviation Transport meeting on back home on the 1st of April

Suitcases will be full for the month