2024 Sheep Dog Trials.

They switched the dates from Labor Day to Memorial Day this year.  What a better experience!  Not as hot and everything was GREEN!

Taking after me and Grandpa, he picked the chicken fried steak dinner for lunch.  We waited in line for 30 minutes to get it.  Sigh.

There goes Bishop the dog, up the hill!

Quark the dog!  He's gorgeous!

Quark didn't quite make it in the 24 minutes allowed for the run.

Lee was our final dog to watch.

Here he is grabbing 8th gear on the way up the hill!

Sheep a coming!

Bringing them about.

Almost...

He did it!  5 minutes to spare!

Our old Border Collie dog laying in the sun after a bath when we got home.  

She did pretty good while we were gone but had to be cleaned up a bit for reasons you can probably guess.. 

Memorial Day.

This year it hits a little harder since Skyler joined the Civil Air Patrol. 

Wendover work weekend.

Skyler got to participate in another work event all weekend.  He sure was exhausted last night! Their summer encampment is only 4 weeks away, he is SO excited. 

(All pics from the Utah Civil Air Patrol Facebook page.)

Dining hall.

Saturday morning breakfast being prepared on the flat top.

Line up for chow!

Senior member main office.

WWII barracks.

More.

Lots of remaining building in need of restoration.

Fun fact!  The base was used for filming in the latest Amazon Prime series "Fallout".

80 year old concrete is in remarkable shape.

Army Aviation Support Facility tour!

We got a behind the scenes tour last Thursday during the CAP meeting. 

Pre-meeting chatting.  

Note the tractor I delivered in 2009 with Maizey dog riding shotgun in my work truck.

Ready room.  Talking about airspace and training missions.

Blackhawk hangar.  There were 4 helos in for maintenance.

Medevac bird.

The Apache that experienced a dynamic rollover a few months ago.

Everyone listening.

Just a small lockout/tagout tag on the crashed Apache!

Serial number of the incident helo.

Apache targeting pod.

A tour of the SLC Delta Airlines hangar.

 I couldn't believe how huge it is in person!

What?!

Brand new 9540R!  540 powered by Deere ponies!

Gorgeous!

Probably going to be a snow plowing beast when they get to use it.

Wet and rainy ramp.

New snowblower too.

Time to paint the hangar doors.

Airbus A319 radome open.

Unlimited access.

Got tires?

Good lighting!

Lube rack.

Airbus APU.

One removed for display purposes.

Did I mention it was huge!?

The Airbus looked small in the hangar.

Drone display.  Altair is currently working on getting her FAA drone pilot's license for the Civil Air Patrol.

Fire suppression foam generator outside.

Snandby generator building. 8 units inside!

West side parts delivery area.

Water for the foam fire suppression system.

AOG (aircraft on ground) parts delivery spot.

Maintenance building in front of the tower.  

Rumor has it that Skyler's Squadron might get a tour of the tower.  Fingers crossed!