Flying

Plowing the garden

2011-11-29T11:12:00.000-08:00

Ruth plowed the garden today using the tractor. She sure had a big smile on her face.

Tractor Toys

2011-11-19T20:30:00.000-08:00

Today we picked up some toys for the tractor. They only cost us the gas to go get them. Some of them need some work, but the price was right. We got a scraper blade, disc, harrow and sickle mower.

Yard Work

2011-11-02T07:45:00.000-07:00

We are already putting the tractor to work.

It lives

2011-10-26T11:18:00.000-07:00

Yesterday the tractor finally started. It still needs some tuning, but it runs now.
Here is a video of Ruth driving it thru the yard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpWxBU2AGYA

My latest project

2011-10-21T15:49:00.000-07:00

Here is my latest project. Another car for my train. It is a double stack car. Now I just need to save my money for trucks and couplers.

Caboose

2011-10-12T19:02:00.000-07:00

I finally have finished the caboose for Ogden City. Some day I will build one of these for me.

Finally some progress

2011-10-07T12:12:00.000-07:00

We are finally making some progress. At least it is the right direction.

2011-08-23T17:23:00.000-07:00

The spoils of the garden today.

What did we get ourselves into.

2011-08-12T21:02:00.000-07:00

Fixing the tractor is progressing along, however we did not anticipate having to go this far.

Ruth's New Toy

2011-07-17T19:35:00.000-07:00

We just got back from Ruth's family reunion in blanding UT. Her brother purchased a new tractor so she bought the old one she helped her brother restore when she was younger. Yes it does need some work.

Traveling across the country.

2011-04-20T18:09:00.001-07:00

Guess where I am. The arrows will point you in to some hints.

Or you can cheat and use this one.

Trailer

2011-04-20T18:03:00.000-07:00

I bought a trailer. I finally found a used one that fit what I want and was not too expensive.

New Toy

2010-12-11T11:48:00.001-08:00

My new toy.

Views out the office window

2010-12-11T10:56:00.000-08:00

The sunset on the west coast
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Some interesting clouds on the decent into Denver.

Heating

2010-12-04T10:59:00.000-08:00

We are almost done with our heat ducting.

Decorating for Christmas

2010-11-26T11:39:00.000-08:00

Today we got the tree up and decorated complete with train.

Kitchen

2010-11-22T16:16:00.000-08:00

Today I went and picked up some oak cabinet doors and 2 sided melamine. I am going to use it to make my kitchen cabinets. I got 62 doors and 37 sheets of melamine for under 800 bucks.

Front room

2010-10-21T15:26:00.001-07:00

Here is the latest picture of our front room. It looks a little different than it used to.

Plumbing

2010-09-03T18:38:00.000-07:00

Old plumbing!

New plumbing!

Sheetrock

2010-07-22T18:21:00.001-07:00

Thanks to Brian and Keith a few rooms in my house are starting to look like real rooms.

Insulation

2010-07-14T16:50:00.000-07:00

Today we finally got some insulation in 4 rooms. 2 upstairs and 2 downstairs. Here are some before and after pictures of the front room.

Adventures in the attic

2010-06-12T19:56:00.001-07:00

I went into my attic to do some rewiring today and found some very interesting things. The old wiring resembles power lines.

If you want to wire in a door bell just place the transformer on a board between the rafters and splice it in.

This one all I can say is who knows. Splice in an cord for your attic light or Christmas lights.

Billion flowers

2010-06-12T19:51:00.001-07:00

This is just the flowers blooming in the front yard.

House update

2010-06-03T06:13:00.000-07:00

My new electrical panel is finally installed. Now I just need to contact the city to have it hooked up.

I got some of my garden cleared out and planted.

Transplanting Flowers

2010-04-19T17:41:00.000-07:00

I have finally started to clean out the garden so I can plant vegetables.

Rebuilding the shed

2010-04-19T17:00:00.000-07:00

Progress on rebuilding the shed.

Train Show

2010-03-08T07:41:00.000-08:00

There was a train show over the weekend that I helped at. On Friday I played with HO scale trains and Saturday I played with 7.5" gauge trains.

Home remodel

2010-03-03T10:02:00.000-08:00

This is one of the downstairs rooms.

ATK shuttle motor test.

2010-03-03T09:54:00.001-08:00

I got to go see a shuttle booster motor test last week for the first time. Good thing because it was the last one.

Remodeling Progress

2010-01-28T18:28:00.001-08:00

The remodeling has begun.

New House

2010-01-28T18:22:00.000-08:00

Well here it is my new house in Brigham City. I have already started doing some remodeling.

What is the view from your office window?

2009-10-05T11:53:00.001-07:00

Doh!

2009-09-19T20:18:00.001-07:00

Today my hard drive died.

Train Mountain Triennial

2009-07-15T07:06:00.000-07:00

We made the local paper one day.

I am holding the end of another train while they fixed a derailment.

We visited Crater Lake one day while we were in Oregon.

Locomotive Testing

2009-05-27T18:15:00.000-07:00

Today I took my locomotive to Syracuse UT to a guys house that has a track in his yard to do the initial testing. So far so good, every thing seemed to work well.

Strange Sightings

2009-05-22T14:15:00.001-07:00

Sometimes you catch a strange sight and get a picture of it.

New Toy

2009-05-09T16:13:00.000-07:00

I got myself a Plasma cutter that also is a stick and TIG welder.

Train Mountain

2009-05-04T16:43:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I went to Chiloquin OR to a place called train mountain. It is a location that has over 23 miles of 7 1/2 gauge track. For more pictures of my trip or of the locomotive I am building see my Live Steam Blog link to the right of the page.

Riding the train

2009-04-29T16:06:00.000-07:00

I am riding the Front Runner Commuter train.

New Toy

2009-02-27T18:22:00.000-08:00

I got me a new toy. It is a stand with 6 airbrushes on it.

Here are some of the projects I have been working on it with it.

My latest Project

2009-02-04T19:10:00.000-08:00

Here is my latest project. The question is do you know what it is and what the real one is used for?

Sometimes you just can't resist

2008-12-20T08:12:00.000-08:00

I just had to add the banana and take a picture.

Model Train Show

2008-11-01T19:41:00.000-07:00

I went and helped (played with my trains on a big layout) with the model trains show in Salt Lake City today. Here are some pictures of the layout and some of my trains running on it. My trains are the Utah Railway coal train, the Southern Pacific military and construction equipment train and the Utah Front runner #6. There is also a link to my HO scale model railroad layout at home to the right in my links.

Isn't life ironic

2008-10-23T18:25:00.000-07:00

I was in Denver on a 2 hour sit with nothing to do between flights. Not my favorite part of my job. Well I get home and get talking to Brent that night. Turns out he flew into Denver that morning for a meeting in Boulder. Well he landed at 9 and I was sitting there from 8 to 10. Wish I knew he had been there. Would have given me something to do. So close and yet so far away.

What do you do on a Saturday morning?

2008-07-12T10:21:00.000-07:00

Well this is what I did today.

New Car

2008-07-02T13:26:00.001-07:00

Well after "looking" for a car for 2 years I finally bought one 3500 bucks nothing fancy but good gas mileage and not too hard on the eyes. It is a 2001 Hyundai Accent with 75,000 miles.

Adventures at work.....

2008-06-26T15:13:00.000-07:00

Well this was one of the most interesting trips I have ever been on. It started off not the best. The first picture is our flight path. Yes we went back to SLC. Where the red arrow is on the flight path is where the pressurization system died and we started to depressurize. We were lucky because the captain declared an emergency and we started down. We were able to get low enough fast enough that we avoided the passenger oxygen masks from dropping. So we were able to avoid mass panic. Well that started our trip out on the wrong foot. We were about 4 hours late getting to our final destination that night. The next day we ended in Reno NV. The bottom picture is the next day in Reno. The visibility was so bad from the California fires that we were not sure if we would be able to get in. When we left today the visibility was only 3 miles. It also smelled like a big camp fire.

Train ride

2008-05-13T21:11:00.000-07:00

I went and played with someones train set.

New Project Hint

2008-05-03T16:20:00.000-07:00

OK so it is an obvious hint. I stayed the night in Durango CO. I went out and saw the Durango and Silverton steam train leave town.

Current Project

2008-04-18T11:16:00.000-07:00

Can you figure out what I am building?

Don't Ask

2008-04-09T21:07:00.000-07:00

Why? Do you really have to ask that question? I think you know the answer, because I can.

Sight seeing in the Northwest

2008-02-18T19:18:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures from my "office" window. It is in southern Washington and northern Oregon on a flight from Vancouver Canada to Los Angeles CA. You are looking and lots of volcano's like MT Rainier, MT Hood and Mt St Helen's. It is a rough job but someone has to do it. The bottom one is waiting on the runway in LAX (Los Angeles CA)

Someplace in the midwest

2008-01-23T18:32:00.000-08:00

Ok, actually it was out the window of my hotel in Springfield IL. I was on the 26th floor.

Travels post

2008-01-02T20:53:00.000-08:00

I have finally updated my Travels map. It has been a while.

Model train at Museum of Science and Industry

2007-10-30T19:50:00.001-07:00

Here are some pictures of the huge HO scale model railroad at the Museum

Museum of Science and Industry

2007-10-30T18:51:00.000-07:00

Riding the "L"

Down town Chicago

National Museum of the US Air Force

2007-10-20T16:01:00.000-07:00

So I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Dayton Ohio. Turns out there is a huge air force museum there. Here are some pictures of what was there. Sorry some of them are kind of blurry. It was a bit dark so they did not turn out the best.

Traveling around the US

2007-09-19T12:59:00.000-07:00

Due to the fact that I am traveling all over the United States I thought it would be fun to have a map and draw lines of where I have flown. So I have started a blog page Travels that shows where I have been

A day playing

2007-09-08T14:44:00.000-07:00

Brian's car is the red one mine is the blue one.
For more pictures visit my RC blog.

Zipping across the US

2007-09-08T07:26:00.000-07:00

So I am finally flying passengers. I just got back from a 4 day trip. One place that I stayed the night was Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. I walked into the hotel and the first thing I saw was this note on the desk. I am glad it was good weather that night.

"Home"

2007-07-31T08:50:00.000-07:00

Well I just found out that I am going to be based in Chicago Ill., the windy city, where the tallest hill is and overpass.

The next chapter in my life.

2007-06-19T20:47:00.000-07:00

Well here we go again. On July 9th I start ground school with Skywest in Salt Lake City. I will be flying the Canadair regional jet.

Planes

2007-06-15T18:00:00.001-07:00

Homebuilt

On a side note

2007-05-09T09:27:00.000-07:00

This is a picture out my front door, and yes my truck is parked in the street, or whats left of it.

Fourwheeling in the mountains by Cedar City

2007-04-19T14:21:00.000-07:00

I went up the canyon to check out the trails. Yeah there was a bit much snow still.

Birds can be such a pain

2007-03-24T09:20:00.000-07:00

Well all my flights were canceled when the plane we were suppose to take landed with a hole in the tail from a bird.

Pictures from the Beech at about 24000 feet

2007-03-01T09:37:00.000-08:00

This is what is refered to as white to the windows. All you can see out the window is the white from the clouds.

The one day I took my camera with me it was cloudy most of the time. Here are a few pictures. This is Monument Valley.

Cedar City

2007-01-05T11:22:00.000-08:00

I thought Cedar City was going to be warm. We got another 10 inches of snow last night.

Here are some cool pictures of the clouds from the sunset near Cedar City

Slacking

2006-12-19T20:40:00.000-08:00

Yeah I know it has been awhile. It is kind of hard to post when you are homeless. I have spent the last month and a half all over the south west. I spent a week in Visailia California some time in Hobbs NM and Farmington NM. I have also spent a couple of weeks in Cedar City Utah. Which also happens to be where I will be living for a while (I hope) I am getting tired of being homeless. My camera is somewhere packed up so I don't have any pictures to post. I will have to dig it out and start taking pictures again.

The Sim

2006-10-14T19:35:00.001-07:00

This is one of 4 rows of sims at Flight Saftey, the place where our sim training is.

Here is our humble sim. It looks kind of cheap compared to the other ones.

The inside is actually pretty nice.

This is where the instructor sits and makes everything break.

Playing with fire

2006-09-27T18:37:00.000-07:00

Today in training we were puting out a fire with a fire extinquisher. It is a required item that we have to be trained on. Here is our pyro teacher. He is the one lighting the fires.

I have just put out the fire. I know it is a tiny fire that you could probably put out with your foot.

Oh I can not forget to mention we had to wear the oxygen mask and smoke gogles from the plane. I could pass for a military pilot wearing that

The teacher is lighting the fire for me

Tim my roomate is taking his turn

What can you say some days training is more interesting than others.

A day in the life of training

2006-09-18T17:18:00.000-07:00

The mighty beech. This is one of the older ones affectionatly called the John Deere for obvious reasons.

Me standing in the doorway.

My roomate Tim

Most of our class

A United 737 landing.

Employment what a glorious thing.

2006-09-05T19:40:00.000-07:00

Well if you havn't heard, I got a job flying the Beechcraft 1900D. I will spend about 2 months in Wichita Kansas for training.

My Flight to Bountiful in the Baron

2006-08-01T08:50:00.000-07:00

The Baron parked by Danny's Hanger.

Random Pictures

2006-07-03T06:40:00.000-07:00

Flying with one engine shutdown

Some Military airplane that was taking off while I was getting ready to fly.

An Osprey visits Farmington

2006-06-06T11:38:00.000-07:00

Durango, CO

2006-04-15T08:59:00.000-07:00

Checking out the Durango Silverton railroad.

The roundhouse

The yard switcher

The 3:05 arrival

My last solo flight in a Bonanza

2006-04-08T09:16:00.000-07:00

The lineup

Sometimes referred to as the Mesa airforce.

Farmtown on takeoff

The snow capped mountains in Colorado

Photo ops

2006-02-21T19:24:00.000-08:00

Once in a lifetime photo opportunity
More pictures on my RC Blog

sonex761rc.blogspot.com

Flight of the Aircoupe

2006-02-18T10:32:00.000-08:00

The Aircoupe. I flew this plane down to the prop shop for my boss. Then I flew a few miles south and visited Brent.

The area around Socorro

Brent flying the plane

The Socorro airport

Leaving Socorro in the morning

some cool rock formations

The twin tail of the aircoupe from the copit

Mountain obscuration (the top of the mountain is covered by clouds)

Some cool clouds

Bad weather brings planes to Farmington

2006-01-26T11:52:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we had a pretty good snow storm blow thru here. The airport nearby in Durango CO. usually has worse weather than we do. this has brought planes to Farmington a couple of times. It brought the CRJ and now a Dash 8. Of course I did not have my camera with me, but I did find some pictures online of the same plane.

This picture was taken in Durango CO.

CRJ in Farmington, NM

2005-11-11T17:48:00.000-08:00

There was a CRJ-200 that landed in Farmington because the weather was bad in Durango.

My roomate took a picture of me fueling the plane. We put 550 gallons in it.

Of course we had to pose for a picture in front of it.

Leaving Farmington for Durango

Hmm, looks familiar for some reason, maybe my RC one.

My ride in a Pilatus PC12

2005-10-27T17:15:00.000-07:00

Today I got to ride in the right seat of a Pilatus PC12 IFR to Scottsdale, AZ. The airplane is Aircare 2, an air ambulance.
This is a picture of the plane from another day.

Flight to Logan, Ut

2005-10-01T16:49:00.000-07:00

Brian took these pictures.
Keith, and me in front of the plane.

The engine is running and I am ready to leave

Rolling down the runway.

Off we go.

Pictures of the leaves changing colors in the mountains east of SLC

A normal day at work, well maybe not.

2005-09-24T06:49:00.000-07:00

We had some unexpected visitors today.

The Canadian Snowbirds made a fuel stop in Farmington

We saw a total of 11 of them fly in. They came in small groups

A group landing

3 taxiing out for take off

The last guy decited to turn on his smoke on takeoff

After takeoff they did a low pass down the runway

To bad this picture is fuzzy

This is the air ambulance that flew over later that night

Random pictures

2005-09-10T14:00:00.000-07:00

3 Sea Fury's and a Bearcat flying down the runway

One aircraft turns out at a time for spacing for landing

Our private airshow. I got to be the one waving the wands parking them.

Off they go to the Reno air races.

Water running down the street after a quick down pour

A sea fury taxing in to Farmington.

There will be two more sea fury's and a bearcat tomorrow
I will post more pictures tomorrow.

Flight to Roswell, NM

2005-09-10T12:35:00.000-07:00

Some lakes on the way

Roswell is a airplane graveyard

A couple of 747's

rows and rows of planes

Flight to Tucumcari, NM

2005-09-08T10:40:00.000-07:00

Clouds I had to dodge by Albuquerque, NM

The thick haze east of Albuquerque

A crop duster taxing in at Tucumcari

Flight to Truth or Consequences, NM

2005-09-06T10:42:00.000-07:00

The surise as I was leaving Farmington

Socorro NM Brent lives here.(red arrow)

An old military jet parked at TOC.
Lockheed T-33

The famous radio antenna array

Some cool cliffs on the way home

Chasing trains is a lot of fun from the air.
I saw these on the way home.

Flight to Scottsdale, AZ

2005-09-05T10:40:00.000-07:00

Mountains north of Payson AZ.

Famous Meteor Crater in AZ

Canyon De Chelly Nationa Monument

Cool cliffs

Mountains south west of Farmington

Flight to Richfield, UT

2005-09-03T10:58:00.000-07:00

Leaving Farmington at the crack of dawn

Cool formations on the way

A rainbow caused by some virga

The sonex that I got a ride in. Richfield, Ut

Bryce Canyon

More cool formations on the way home.

Flight to Provo, Ut

2005-09-01T13:08:00.000-07:00

West of Moab

Looking down Spanish Fork canyon into Provo

Arches National Park. However I never found an arch from the air

Moab, Ut. I think this is slickrock

Look Ma no hands. If you read the Altemeter I am at 11500 feet

Mountain North of Blanding

Town of Blanding

Blanding airport

My flight to Socorro NM

2005-07-23T14:22:00.000-07:00

Flying over Gallup NM

A cool rainbow out the window.

Socorro NM Looking south

Socorro NM looking North

Socorro Airport looking North

My plane waiting for it to cool down in Socorro

New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM

some big clouds I had to dodge

Flight to Page AZ on July 9 2005

2005-07-09T09:57:00.000-07:00

This was about 6:15 in the morning on takeoff from Farmington. I was flying solo to Page AZ.

A close shot of shiprock

Lake Powell

This is Lake Powell just after takeoff at Page

These were just cool rock formations.

Bonanza flight on June 4 2005

2005-06-28T12:38:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from my flight on june 4th.

This is off to the north as I was taking off from Farmington

I am on final approach for runway 25 at Four Corners Regional airport in Farmington

This is a picture of shiprock

This is Kirtland NM