In the evening, we went to the airfield with jack stands, moved the Flightstar to the back of the hangar and pulled the wheels off and brought them home to play with at my leisure. I ended up playing with them on the drive, and discovered that if I put one foot on each side of the tyre, I could use one of my motorcycle tyre levers to break the bead away. I did this four times, and had both tyres off in less than an hour. I couldn't get everything to line up to put the new tyres on, so I left it for the night.

In the evening I tidied up in the garage, bringing the roof rack for the Jeep into the house, and dropping off the recycling that's been accumulating on that side of the garage.

In the late afternoon, we went to the airfield and took the Flightstar out for a trip around. I had planned to take the wheels off to replace the tyres, but was basically too tired after over an hour in the air. We put Todd's plane at the back of the hangar, so I only have to move Ken's Quicksilver out to get the Flightstar out. We'll see how often Todd needs to move my plane, but I'm hoping to continue flying more often than he does :o)

I swapped emails with Sara at Stephan's Autohaus - apparently the van's running, but they want to drive it around for a few days before giving it back. I'm happy to let them - better it seizes on them than me :o)

Jen's left the SPCA, so we took her and a couple of her erstwhile cow-orkers out for dinner to celebrate.

As it was fairly early, we watched Legion, which was OK, but no Prophecy.

As we were going to be without the van for a while, Vic borrowed Vince's pickup and went and got the parts for the Jeep. We took Vince to dinner to say thanks, then tidied up in the garden as it's green waste tomorrow.

Did you take the valve cover off?
No, why would I?
In that case we'll cover this rebuild.
Why's that then?
We found a rag in the engine.

After a quiet evening, I was reading in bed when Jen called to make sure that this wasn't us. It wasn't, but it was a couple we know :o(

In the evening we watched Surrogates, which isn't bad, even though it does raise a few questions.

We brought Jeff lunch on the way home - I haven't seen him in months, so it was nice to chat while he changed tyres for a customer.

After wasting most of the day, I took the DRZ out for a little run, and ended up doing about 50 miles. The Corbin's a lot better, in that I didn't realise that I was a little sore until I was on my way home on a flat, dull bit of road. I then found that I can move around on this seat, so I can mitigate that. Excellent.

In the evening we watched The Usual Suspects, it's a good flick, and you realise how far we've come from story lines once CGI took over :o(

I'd figured that I'll probably be doing runs to the Bay Area on the DRZ, but the seat is downright painful. Today the Corbin arrived, and after a little fiddling with the mount on the (non stock) tank, was fitted :o)

We barbecued, and Vince came over to eat roast beast.

We folded the roof up on the Jeep, and folded the seats down. We haven't put the windows back in, so it's still breezy, we're just less likely to get sunburnt faces driving around :o)

We picked up some home repair stuff, and Vic set to work painting the fence in the back garden while I tried to patch some of the grass - we'll see how successful I was in a week or so.

We went over to the airfield, and took the Flightstar out for a while. There was just us and the parachute jump plane around, it seemed, and when we landed in a bit of a crosswind, maybe I can see why :o) It was bumpier than yesterday, too, but that's just everything getting used to the new hot weather.

I took the advertising license plates off the Jeep, and tucked away the jump leads and suchlike - you can't bump start an automagic, and it doesn't turn the lights off when you take the key out like the Subaru, so I'm expecting at least one dead battery :o)

I washed the solar panels for (I believe) the first time this year - it's been raining a lot.

We went over to the airfield, and it seemed that there were a lot of the guys meeting up to fly in the evening, so we left and went home to get stuff done. I drained the hot tub, and Vic played in the flooded garden with Tilly to tire her out. We then went to the SPCA volunteer dinner, then went back and pulled the Flightstar out for a while. We'd all talked about heading to Far West Lake, but it was really bumpy with the rice fields full of water, so we all kind of scattered and headed in all directions. Some went to Freedom Field, but we went and flew over the house, where Vic got some blurry pictures - it was starting to get dark. She got some stellar pictures of the sunset though.

In the evening, Vic made spaghetti and meatballs, but everybody else was busy. We had talked about going to the airfield, but eventually gave up and just relaxed.