Big changes at the park.

The grass situation has made me make up a mower to cut the grass shorter. The grass stalls the engine. I was going to talk to the guy in charge about cutting my spot lower and today I tried to see him. I pulled into the park and at the turn I take to get to my spot there is now two posts in the road way. No way to drive to my spot. no sense talking ot him now. I can walk to the spot if I want, about 500 feet. We had checked out the North Park site and found some soft ball fields that would be as perfect as I can get and a parking lot that has possibilities. On the way home today I stopped at the park to measure the parking lot. The grounds crew was mowing the ball fields when I got there. The parking lot is 125 feet across and that is a few feet short of what I need to fly a small plane. I got out the Nomad 6 and two batteries when I got home and will charge them for an outing tomorrow. These soft ball fields have a smooth clay infield and grass outfields so taking off is as good as it can get.

Running in the high grass.

The first time I heard that saying I was in the Rhode Island Air National Guard. It refers to someone being sneaky around home. In other words staying out of sight while doing bad deeds. "On the front lawn" is the opposite. But here it means that the grass at the park is high and giving me problems taking off and landing. The only way I can defeat it is to use one of the Pathfinders that has a nose wheel. The PT-19 is flying as good as I can get it. The Evo .36 engine is running well and has a bunch of power. I ended up with 61 foot lines and the Evolution propeller that came with the kit. It's sitting ready for use. The weather turned around and it's been raining for the last 3 days. So far in my yard I've got over 8 inches of rain. It's tapering off though. I fixed a lawn mower that will cut much lower than the park is cutting and is light enough for me to put in the truck.It may be dry enough to mow a bit tomorrow. The club has settled on a contest director for the October contest. It was me but a newly minted director took over. Now I can fly. I did win the Publishers Clearing House 5 million dollars for the 5th time today.