More Kaden Photos

Here are just a few photos I took of Kaden this morning. He was in his chair eating and I was just playing with the camera.

You can see them all by clicking here.

Friday Room Update

I know I'm doing a lot of updates on this room, but they are cruising! Yesterday they had the floor done and before I left for work this morning, they were nailing up the first of three walls. The second wall was pretty much built as you can see in the photos. Won't be long!

Check out all the building photos by clicking here. There are three new ones.


6:05PM update: Getting home from work, they have all three walls up, plywood sheets on all three sides and some braces across the roof area. It seems that the trusses are here and ready to go! It won't be long now.

Sat. 9:22PM Update: The latest photos can be found by clicking here. Here is a teaser.

Kaden Pics

I uploaded a few new photos of Kaden from the past few days. What a cutie! You can see them all by clicking here.

Room Addition Update

Today they put the joist(?) across the center and then build the floor on top of that. It is starting to look like a room more than a hole now.

Check out all the room addition photos by clicking here.

Night Flight

I went up in the Arrow tonight to log a little time. I haven't flown it in almost three weeks. I felt like I was going to get rusty on flying complex before even getting going on it. The winds were 190 @ 17G24. That made it interesting, but nothing I couldn't handle. It was turbulent in the air, so that made it a little unnerving.

Either way, I logged a whole .5 and got used to the extra lever and the gear handle again.

[video coming soon]

Fat Brandon

I went digging through some of my pictures from 2005 and found these three that really show how fat I got. Yikes! I'm sure one of these has me at my highest of 250 pounds, give or take a pound or two. I am just posting these as a reminder while I continue my exercise and healthier eating regiment. I am currently at 224 pounds and have been exercising for a couple months now. My goal is to get below 200 pounds and stay in the 190's - my pre-career weight.

And now, for posterity sake...and to scare myself next time I want another slice of the oh-so-delicious pepperoni pizza:

More Room Addition Photos

I added some more photos to the room addition album. You can view them by clicking here.

As of this morning, they were filling in dirt around the new foundation walls. Rain stopped their work a little early, but they are cruising along!

Kaden Likes Cheetos

Laura let Kaden have some Cheetos tonight for a snack. Looks like he likes them enough!


Check out all the photos by clicking here.

Home Addition Begins

At 8am this morning, the builder showed up and started on the room addition on the back of our house. We're planning a 22'x24' addition to be used as a living room/office. Here is the "before" photo when they showed up to remove the concrete slab outside the back door:


You can view the progress during the whole time by watching this Gallery Album.

Prayer Flight

Today I flew the Archer in a prayer flight setup by Kenny from the BFS at 5G7. There were eight airplanes (Archer, Arrow, Cheetah, Sierra, Saratoga, C-195, C-172 and another). We took up about 20 passengers to pray over the area - about five or six counties. I ended up flying over Wapak and St. Marys.



Before the flight, I took the Archer over to Ottawa (OWX) for a couple touch-and-go's. Check it out below on the GPS track map and altitude graph.



If you use Google Earth, you can download the track by clicking here. (Be sure to look at it from the side, as you can see the altitude change.)