Leisurely Day VLOG

We are only three weeks from heading back to Utah.  Kelli leaves August 29th and I leave August 31st.  Here is a little video for you of what we are up to on this fine Saturday.  Tomorrow we are both picking up shifts for other people so we are only out for a little bit today.

 

Joshua

How's the Flying?

Have you ever written an exam paper only to forget to save it and when you go print it off, you can't find it?  Weeks ago I wrote an entire post about flying IOE and starting to fly on my own at Seaplanes only for it to not get saved and then lost forever.  Writing the same thing twice is dreadful  […]

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New Arrival

Look who showed up... Kelli made it up here after us being apart just over two months.  She flew in Tuesday June 4th at 9:45 after a little delay in Ketchican.  I picked her up at the airport and she met Northern Light for the first time about 10:00.  I took the next day off work so I could show her  […]

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Settling In

My early 20s (and mid-20s) was filled with lots of moving.  I moved from home to Arizona for college at 18, back home, then into a farm house where I worked, into a single-wide mobile home next to my parents, off to my sister's in Truth or Consequences, NM, then to Leadivlle, Colorado at 24, Avon,  […]

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North - Part IV

Day three I awoke early, made breakfast and coffee, and took a look at the manual for the autopilot.  There was a magnetometer calibration procedure I wanted to try.  The magnetometer is the electronic compass the autopilot steers by.  I looked through all the settings in the autopilot, fiddled with  […]

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North - Part III

I woke up to a nice morning still anchored where I dropped the hook by Whitney Island sometime near 6:30.  Being new to everything still, I wasn’t sure how good of a spot I picked but it seemed to be good enough as I hadn’t drifted at all.  The standard anchoring protocol is to put out seven times  […]

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North - Part II

My flight from Seattle to Petersburg on Alaska Airlines is referred to as the "Milk Run."  It makes multiple stops along the way at small airports and several places you just stay on the airplane rather than getting off.  We stopped in Ketchikan and Wrangell before stopping in Petersburg  […]

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North

Big changes.  I'm sitting in a little cafe a six-minute walk from the harbor I'm living in.  My laundry is tumbling next door in the local laundromat.  My location is Juneau, Alaska.  How did I end up here? So, I've been thinking about a change in jobs for a while and applied for a medevac job close  […]

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Tips on Communicating Part 1: Scatter Coms

Strange title, right?  Here's what this short blurb is about: being focused in communication. Communication is hard, anyone who is married is likely to know this simple fact.  It is difficult to communicate with a husband or wife, our minds work in significantly different ways.  There are many books  […]

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Drift

How do you make sure you are headed where you want to go? As I sit here trying to remember how to collect my thoughts into something other people will understand, I am thinking about changes in life that go unnoticed for a long period of time. Life changes on us all, and at least for me, a lot of  […]

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Why It Is Important To Read Revelation

From time to time I am asked to teach on a Sunday morning at Church.  I plan to continue posting these audio files on this blog.  I have thought about posting my notes as well but I'll hold off for now.  If you would like to see what my notes look like for a service, let me know and I will consider  […]

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One Of the Reasons I Don't Write

This is NOT about excuses.  Anyone who chooses to blog has plenty of excuses why they don't write.  Life is good at giving a person excuses.  This is about choice.  Why do I choose not to write when I have things I would like to write about?   I am very introspective.  Speaking is hard for me at  […]

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Ye Ole (Techy) Cabin Part II - Hardware

Pi-Web_01.JPG, Jan 2020

Let's talk about some of the hardware. -Raspberry Pi The heart of the system is a Raspberry Pi.  It is a SOC (system on a chip) computer running a version of Linux called Raspbian (Debian).  These sell for $35 and are highly supported by both the manufacturer and a large, great group of developers  […]

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Winter Is Here

Winter_Cabin_Back_s.JPG, Dec 2019

We woke up to 8 inches(ish) of snow on the ground the Tuesday morning before Thanksgiving. The wind blew hard and there was snow suck in the corners of the windows on the outside. It looked kind of dreamy, like an old painting of Christmas. I love getting snow. It messes up our road, make it extra  […]

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