Just flying..

Sometimes I just enjoy flying for the sake of doing something different that most people don’t have the ability to do. If that sounds shitty, then so be it. It’s the truth and I’m not going to apologize for it. I lost the ability to fly for a while due to a motorcycle accident, I wasn’t cleared medically to be a pilot, and it was a rough time in my life. I can fly again, and I’m going to enjoy it while I can.

Some pics from Friday.

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Oh yeah. It’s raining in California for once, I hope it stays for a while…

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Time to look at other properties

Unfortunately, even though I own my home and can use all the equity in it toward another piece of property, the lenders let me know that the property in the ‘I like this’ post is one I cannot qualify for. Such is the price for being unmarried and without a second income to add to the cause. Thank you to EVERYONE who had their fingers crossed on that one.

Never fear, I will not give up and there is the perfect property out there. I just need to find it. Lol.

To console myself I spent the evening eating indulgent foods, thinking deeply about my favorite red headed women, working at the watch bench, and drinking home made rum. In other words, its still been a good evening.    😉

The wonderfully clean valley air…… not.

Just a quick note to those who care, this was what the drive to work looked like.

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As I drove to work I was thinking to myself , ‘wow fog already this year?’  Nope. Thats smoke from all the fires in California ringing the Central Valley. When I got to work it looked even worse.

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The smoke was so bad the airport turned on the runway lights so that FedX 757 cargo flights could see where they were going.

Feeling the need for land

*Warning, this post is more rant than anything else.   😉

For a couple of years I’ve been looking through the local area trying to find a good piece of land to move to. I like certain parts of the local foothills, like the place I looked at in the header photo above. I need desperately to get out of the city I currently live in. I was born and raised in the country away from all the BS of city life and the years spent living IN a city have taken their toll. I’m tired of looking across the street and seeing all the houses in my tract that I watched be built now being bought for section 8 rentals. Tired of the domestic disputes across the street like my own personal live ‘COPS’ show. Tired of the ‘ghetto bird’ circling at 1000 feet with the turbine on full power and the blades beating so hard the windows and shelves shake. I grew up wandering the hillsides in peace and being able to hear my own thoughts mingle with the wind in the trees. Where I am now I cant hear my own thoughts if I scream at myself in my own head over the thump-thump-thump of overdriven bass speakers and hoards of welfare children.

What I want is some acres, with neighbors that have their own acreage. Room to plant my garden. Room to blacksmith, forge, melt and cast metal, machine parts on my mill and lathe, room to open the door to my garage without the recovering meth head across the street trying to asses my net worth and whether I would be an easy victim for cash to get his next fix.

Room to relax… Room to breathe… Room to just be me without outside interference.