A bit more from the garden yesterday morning as I found a few of the squash that had been hiding beneath leaves and vines. The cucumbers had 10 ready and I could have picked more in the evening but left them for today.

The boys went to their friend's house for the day and when I got back to the house I loaded up the crank and the rods/pistons into the car and then headed out for Idaho.

It's a family run machine shop in Post Falls and he has way more work than he needs, but I am a small job that can be fit in between other jobs. They will be turning the crank on the worst channel that got the bearing slip then match the rest to it, then they will run the rods and will get me the bearings I will need. I'm hoping within a couple weeks I will have it back and I can start putting the engine back together.

I have a good bit to do still before they are done as I have to finish cleaning the one head and get the valves back in it.

I headed out and got gas in Idaho then on my way west I was watching the flags and in Idaho they were blowing from the North but as I got to Liberty Lake the wind was out of the west southwest. SO I stopped off at Saltese.

20 minute hike and I was at the top.

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I got my wing out and got myself ready. The wind was pumping pretty good and I pulled the wing up the first time and got drug up the hill, but I killed the wing and it fell into its wall. I watched the winds and managed to get it pulled up and overhead.

It pulled to the right but I walked under it and it straightened out.

Got running and soon was in the air. Very soon I was getting popped up in the lift.

The wind kept gusting and I found myself sitting almost stationary in places when the gusts matched trim speed on my wing.

I found myself floating over the gully with the trail up and the wing, (my Camino which is the higher performance wing) was not wanting to penetrate and fly forwards. I need to deal with the speed bar on my basic harness, I could have used it.

Finally I managed to crab myself back and forth enough to get out of the weird compression zone over the gully and into more regular ridge lift.

I hardly had any forward speed and as I flew towards the road and power lines I kept some brake pressure to ensure I had enough height to clear it.

Nicely I made it over the road and then crabbed south across the west blowing wind and got myself a nice smooth landing.

Not the longest flight but it was about half of the time it took me to hike so that is good. Many times I have gotten a much different comparison.

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The sled has had a grinding noise coming from the passenger side and once I was home I jacked it up and pulled the wheels off. I found the shield had been pushed in on the bottom and was hitting the inside of the brake rotor. I will know this morning if it was the true noise.

Later in the afternoon I headed out to dig more yellow spuds and as I pulled the plants I found numerous of these super fuzzy caterpillars. Any I found got hucked to the chickens.

I had just finished filling both baskets with spuds when Nick dove in with the boys to bring them home.

38.25 pounds washed and drying.

I finished up the last bit of the half of the potato garden, the smaller half, which added 9 pounds for 47.25 from the day. The section had 90 feet of row from 5 rows and I got 190 pounds of yellow potatoes or 2 pounds per foot.

A tomato and pepper were ready in the greenhosue.

Four 50 pound bags of potatoes got loaded into the garden cart then hauled to the studio for storage.

I have ample space on the racks to set them which will give them good air flow and mostly darkness.

Managed a short soak again.

I have my chiro appointment this morning then will be back in the garden. Once the Grove connectors get here I can work with the cardputer and some of my peripherals/modules, have spuds to bag, tons of weeds to pull, then this evening is the new flying club meeting in Chewelah and they are talking of flying Inklers before.