A big day for the angel house. We are beginning the celebration of our son's 17th birthday, by inviting several of his friends over to our house for a pregathering and then driving the bunch of them to a fancy dinner out. After the past 2 weekends, of fire in the tunnel in the pass and then the wildfires of this week, a nice normal fall day would be appreciated. I bought some appetizers, fried wontons, pot stickers and egg rolls, that I will have out for the kids and I figure they will just hang and enjoy. Knowing them, they will be viewing something on the TV and doing stuff with the computers in the house. That seems to be the way it goes with them all. Hubby is off today to celebrate with us. A rarity, of course, since Saturday is a busy day for him at work. But first up, flying. The winds have calmed down and it looks like a good day for it. A bit cloudy, but good visibility. This will be the first time both my husband and myself have been to the airport together to watch him fly. Should be a nice time and gee, I guess I don't have to bring work with me this time.
Update:
Back from the airport and more pattern work was on the agenda today. A new wrinkle in the normal was the fact that about half way into the lesson, it started to drizzle. Otherwise, things were about as routine as it gets. It was nice though, to have all three of us there together. His instructor gave him an early birthday gift, a book called Flight of Passage, about a young person who wanted to do something different before he hit 18 and he and his 15 year old brother bought and rebuilt an airplane and flew solo across the country in 1966. Many parallels to my son's feelings and obviously the teacher sees it, also.
A nice gift.
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Photo:
I took this picture
last weekend when he
was wearing his
Air Force Uniform while
flying.
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