Sunday Aug 19/07

I must mention that we have enjoyed the comments and discussions with many of the pilots training at Harv's. Harv Penner is running a smooth user friendly operation. It's a good facility.
One of the pilots we started talk with said that he was flying out of Lyncrest and lived at Fort Francis, Ont. I thought to myself, well that can only be one person, Doug Mcdonald. I was correct, Doug is the former President of the Manitoba Ultralight Association and he is also the moderater of Canultracom a group on Yahoo. I have emailed him many times and it was very good to finally meet him and put a face to a name. Doug is working on his Rec licence.

I also have to say I had a great time seeing my nephew Frank tie the knot. It was a beautiful sunny day Saturday afternoon. They had an outside wedding it his home in Marchand, Mb. The highlight was seeing him and his groomsmen riding into the yard on Harley Davidsons. Had a good time and returned to the tent at about midnight. Lauretta, Richard, Jeremy and Kira had driven Thursday night by car for the wedding. They picked up Crystal at the Winnipeg AP on Friday. It was good to see them and give by lovely wife a good hug and a kiss. Lauretta will visit her sister at their cottage for a day or two and fly out on Tuesday. Most of my nieces and nephews were there as well. It's always a pleasure to visit was family and see the new arrivals.

Lawrence and I were up at about 8 ab time this Sunday morning and had a good look at the weather reports. We have made a decision not to attempt the run up to The Pas. The weather system that prevented Joe from coming our direction is headed into the Dauphin / The Pas area. My fear is that if we wait for that system to move through we will lose the clearing weather that will be opening across south Sask. At this end it looks like there could be a south east wind with the clearing and we think it more prudent to make for home. The plan at this point is to see what tomorrows weather is like in Steinbach and perhaps push out as early as tomorrow.

But that's for tomorrow, today we headed to the annual BBQ at Lyncrest and we were part of the 40 plus planes that flew in. We had a great time, many people were very impressed that we were from Aberta and had flown across. We heard comments like " If these guys can fly cross Sask the little hop to Carmen, Mb shouldn't be too hard for us." "You ultralight guys sure have good radios." "Did you trailer your planes across?" "You flew from where?" It was fun. When we signed the visitor board there were several Holy Cow comments.

When departed to return to Steinbach in the 30 +KM wind I think every eye was watching. We are back in Steinbach waiting for the wind to calm down and then plan to head down to Sprague. I'm glad we pushed the wind a little to get to Lyncrest #2 on my list and hope the wind backs off a little so I can do #1 on my list. It is sure good to be experienced enough by the winds we fly in to know what and where the limits are.

Marty and Lawrence 3pm Mb time