Tree Hugging Tank and a House Under Construction, Again.

Hello everybody, Steve here.

          The past few days have been busy. Wednesday was a rainy morning , and my help to continue removing the wings off the T182 would not be available till the afternoon so figured I would work on a post of what happened this week.
         Last Friday I spent some time figuring out if I could send the oxygen tank from the T182 with Gabriel Jones (a pilot volunteering in Guayaramerin) in his checked luggage. I ended up calling the TSA and they told me to take the valve off the tank so they could visually inspect inside the tank, and they would allow it to be carried on an airline flight.

The first attempt to remove the valve off the tank with Gabriel. The tree was too small in diameter, so the tank spun around the trunk of the tree. Richard(the TV station director) had just pulled up in his car and thought we had come up with a new way to remove trees, by launching them.

The next attempt to remove the valve included wrapping the tank in rubber inner tubes, getting bigger ratchet straps, and strapping the tank in the fork of a tree so that it could not spin around the tree trunk.

Sabbath we went with Richard (the TV station director playing the trumpet) to a church and Helen played her violin with them. Kody, a volunteer from Guayaramerin played the piano.

     Sunday Gabriel and I went and we started getting the T182 ready to have its wings removed so that we can transport the plane out to our property. While Gabriel and I were at the airport working on the plane the Bolivian builder that we had hired before to stucco/plaster came to the house asking Helen if we had work to be done. We have hired him to stucco the rest of the house, and we are thinking of having him lay the tile on the floor. Those are two time consuming jobs. That way he can work on the house, and I can work on the planes.
       So Monday morning we cleared out one bedroom and I went and got some materials for the stucco work.

The cleared out room.

                         

Cement with all the stuff from the cleaned out bedroom.

A pile of sand in the driveway.

        Monday afternoon I ended up talking with DJ Knott and Jeff Sutton over Skype about maintenance to get the planes here flying again. During that time Helen was getting tired of acting like a pregnant lady and started digging some holes in the ground to plant some fruit trees that were given to us. So Tuesday morning she went to the doctor because she was cramping. The baby is ok, but the cervix is thinning, so the doctor ordered Helen on bed rest for a few days till the next check up. I spent the rest of the day doing some parts/materials inventory.

Helen’s side of the bed.

   So I'm going to go dig some holes so that I take that temptation away from Helen.
God bless you all,
Steve