Farm Scenes

It was a perfect day for flying. Jim and I needed an excuse to go somewhere. We dug good old 15X out from the back of the hangar and flew to Clintonville to visit the avionics shop, where we ran into two pilots we knew. It was such an awesome, calm day!

I saw a farm that had both a simple corn maze and a hay bale maze. I saw another farm with a field full of round bales reminiscent of the "needle in a haystack" challenge that was on the latest episode of The Amazing Race, where contestants had to unroll hay bales to look for one of only seven race flags hidden among 186 bales. Perhaps next season they should add a corn maze to the competition.

It Looks Like November

The leaves are almost gone and the landscape is mostly brown. October was unusually cold and wet with a lot of bad flying weather. The corn harvest is behind schedule, and lately I've been seeing a lot of farm equipment out in the fields. Now we're having warmer than average weather with some hazy skies. I'll take it! After a lesson today, I rode in the Archer with Ted, Dale, and Zach, an aviation mechanic who is new to the area. We flew to Manitowoc for lunch and wished Ted a happy birthday.

Brennand Airport is hiding in the picture below. It definitely looks like November.