Sunday, September 07, 2014

in the sky!!!


Every year at the local airport, they have a model planes weekend. We have gone before, but Ed so enjoys this, that we try not to miss it. There are "model planes" and then there are "MODEL planes".. these are those. This photo, for example, is a real plane (which they have there as well), but when the models fly.. especially high up.. it's hard to tell the difference...
One thing they do.. is have an air show where they fly a real plane and a model together. Now, mind you, the pilot of the model is on the ground, so flying from that perspective certainly requires some talent. Here are the two that will fly together ....
And here they are in the sky. I wished I had gotten some better photos, because they did all sort of "tricks" and such, but I was so busy watching (and my camera isn't fast enough) that you just have to know it was really, really neat.....
The other thing that can't be seen in these photos... HOT!!!!! The weather was extremely hot, and even though it was fun to watch, walking around an open air field, with hot tar under your feet... sort of made the day not at it's very best..... 
Kass, Nate and Reagan caught up with us. Reagan loves this sort of thing and kept pointing up saying "sky--sky".... he was so good, and must have enjoyed watching, because he basically stayed in one place.....
though, if he could have run out on the run way, I'm sure he would have in a flash.....
Poor Danny, I dragged him along as well... I have taken almost all of my service puppies to this event. I kept a careful eye on him, and thought more than once, I shouldn't have brought him because of the heat. But he seemed up for the adventure..... that's one thing with black dogs, you really need to be careful about them not over heating....
Along with model planes, there are cars as well. They have all sorts of races, but this little area was so other kids could try "driving the cars"... Danny was pretty fascinated with these little things zipping around.....
Reagan really didn't like the sound of the models, and was much more interested in the real thing.....
Not too sure what Dan thought of it..... looks a little worried that it might "move" on him!!!!
They had a beautiful old planes on display. I  found this one interesting.. it would have gone on a air craft carrier, thus wings that can fold in, to make more room. 
I have to say, I wonder how comfortable I would be flying in this thing, knowing that it's wings can fold in. I know, it's made to it, but think about it.......
I love this picture... this cute little girl was standing with her family looking at the planes, and Reagan went right over to her and began to talk. I am thinking he was telling her everything she needed to know about planes!!!!
We stayed at the air field for a few hours, and then the sky began to get dark. "They" said, that a cold front would come threw and bring the temps downs (yeah) but some pretty heavy storms would be coming threw (boo).... you could just watch them roll in....
I wish the photo really showed this, it looks fairly "light", but I can tell you, the sky was as black as could be. Camille began to get nervous, (me too).. we were in for some good ones.....
cool picture of the "whats to come"......
and rain... it did. But actually  not for very long, and once the rain hit, you could feel the temps dropping in a hurry. A nice cool breeze came it, and everyone seem to feel better.... and what a treat we had at the end.... this was a double rainbow, and it was in the sky for a long time.....






I also just need to mention.. that Livy went out to her first dog show with Karen!!! Actually there were four shows all together... her first two days, she did extremely well... taking first in her class both times and even picking up three points towards her championship. The next two days (over the weekend) the "big dogs" arrives, so we knew that she probably wouldn't beat any of them out (she still have lot of maturing to do)... but Karen said she showed well and actually took second!!!! So, this little gal is off to a grand start... Karen will continue to show her in the breed classes and I will take her to the obedience ring...... I am so in love with this little brown dog!!!!!