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.

Herriman stairs trail.

Boo!  Highly overrated.  With the exception of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail connection, the trails from the stairs all dead end.

Butterfield Peak.

The stairs.  Every fitness Sam and Sally were on them "getting ripped".

Jesus, I can remember when this was all open land 30 years ago.

Altair exploring another dead end trail.

Good day for contrails (chemtrails?😜) yesterday.

A naughty visitor.

 Mr. Six Toes showed up here in the backyard the other day. Skyler enjoyed his visit but the cat ended up on the roof!

"Hello?"

Look at those toes!

Mr. Kinx was not amused.

CATS!

 

Big tum tum!

Box!

Princess Puffles on her new donut.

Mischief out!

Kinx the Sphinx!

Their favorite time, eating time!

Mr. Kinx sleeps.

Window!

Pakhet on the clean laundry.

Staying warm.

Even though it's been a really mild winter here in Utah (and most of the West) this year, the cats still love the warmth of being inside.

Kitchen heat vent.

Fireplace.  

Kinx got too hot and crawled away while Pakhet was the trooper and stayed in front of the fire.

Pakhet loves the heat vents!

All of them huddled together on the window perch in our bathroom.

 

Taking the drone for a walk.

Altair needs to keep accruing time flying the drone for her FAA part 107 certification.  We headed up Butterfield Canyon (along with many others) yesterday afternoon.  We walked 2 miles up and down the canyon and she got a bit over an hour of flying time.

It was a bit windy so the drone was low.

Dogwoods were stunning.

A little ice on the stream.

Drone.  

You know what is missing from this pic?!  Snow!  

In the 35+ years I've been coming to this canyon, I've never not seen the road packed with snow on the first day of February.  Sigh...

Miraculous recoveries.

The boys are nearly back to 100%. They  can't stop playing rough and we have to keep an eye on them for licking.  No more cones!  

Princess Puffles (Shaggy Cat) is still getting to sleep in our room at night and you should see how excited she gets right before bedtime!  She also has an internal 6 A.M. alarm to eat in the morning so that's always a bonus wakeup call.

Mr. Kinx had to have abdominal surgery since his testicles hadn't descended and probably wouldn't ever descend the Nurse said.

Fresh air Friday.

Puffles sleeping near the open window.

Pakhet was relaxed yesterday.

Shaggy cat the Princess.

Mr. Kinx the goof yesterday.

Mr. Mischief taking advantage of my soft side Friday night on the new couch.

A little while later while we watched a show.  He was out!

She missed her brother Pakhet Thursday while he got fixed.

Front window sunshine sleeping.