The week so far

Got back to LKSC on Tuesday - no tug yet. Latest ETA is now Friday!

Since then I have spent most of the time chasing cattle off the strip, including a huge fat bull, and trying to fix the electric fence to try and stop them coming back. So far they seem to be winning the battle. However last night after I stood the fence up yet again, I had the satisfaction of seeing the bull test it and get zapped on the nose!

We have had another water problem - we ran out of dam water last night. No the lake is not empty - there is a problem with the pipe going into the tank on top of the hill. The state park don't seem to be able to fix it quickly, so they have trucked in about 8000lt. No more watering to be done until this problem is solved!

Went up to the fence again this morning - sure enough down again - but not as badly as before. Then the motor bike I was on broke down. Lee McKinnon, visiting Camden pilot, helped tow it back to the hangar.

Dave Shorter arrived at about lunchtime - he flew in the Puchatek with Lee - who is getting back into gliding after giving it away in 1967! He used to instruct in T21s in Malaya, and learned to fly in a primary glider. I flew the tug. It's quite fun to be tuggie instead of instructor now and again. It looked like quite a good day, but they didn't manage to soar. I think we were a bit too late getting going.

Harry and Wendy Medlicott arrived this afternoon. Harry says tomorrow is a welding day - but we'll see what the weather does.

The feedback from our students at the weekend is good - both are intending to come back for more of the same! Both are shift workers. Crag took the trouble to ring and offer to come and help out during the week if we need him. Thanks for the offer Craig - I will definitely let you know!

Thats all the news I can think of at the moment. Standby for the next exciting installment!
Jenny