Some recent happenings.

 

I dropped him off in Wendover Monday.  We get to get him tomorrow morning.

Altair and I saw "The Boxmasters" featuring Billy Bob Thornton last night in Draper.

He drove for a few hours on I-80 in Wyoming.

Epic.

The campus is best described as an Air Force base in Yellowstone National Park.

We picked him up from the Air Force Academy last weekend.

Fifteen! Where did the time go?!

Holy cow!  This kid is 15 today!  What a whirlwind journey.  He's SUCH a good kid!

Happy Birthday Skyler!

Major award.

Presenting Major Kaminski!

I headed over to see him promote to Major last night.  Wow.  Next big promotion is the Spaatz!  

Good job kid!

Power company workers earning their paychecks.

 They had to replace 3 rotting power poles in the neighborhood here this week.  What an operation!

(pics are in reverse order, start at the bottom.)

Yesterday's replacement.  Power was off for a little over 3 hours.  Amazing.

Swinging a bag of gravel to backfill the pole.

Crane moved down a bit for the second pole.

Linemen had to climb and had a tracked bucket truck that fit through gates.

Ground wire with the lockout/tagout.

The trucks have everything!  All kinds of fasteners and rigging.

Any guesses on what the digger truck costs?

The crane is $1.2 million dollars and can lift just under 5,000 pounds at the tip.

Never seen a folding, mobile, tower crane before!

Crane!

Weekend pics.

 

Skyler had the cats in and out of the "catio" all weekend.

He started tilling the garden.  I finished after he spread 50 pounds of IFA fertilizer on it between passes.

We got to walk "Sir Reginald, aka, Reggie" down to the grocery store yesterday.  Our fiends on the canal road adopted him a few weeks ago.  What a sweetheart!

I pressure washed the patio last week and re-painted the John Deere G flywheel umbrella stand.

Not shown, the dishwasher conked out Friday morning.  We got lucky!  The solenoid cracked that holds back full city water pressure while we were in the kitchen.  If it had happened at night or while we were gone, it would have flooded the house!  New Bosch dishwasher arrives Friday.