On Feb 16, 5:48 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
Well, it's past Valentine's Day, and apparently NO ONE (other than
me?) took their honey for a V-Day flight? I can't believe it.

Hey,
We did go the airports the last two days trying to dig the
Cardinal out in preparation for a flight. The good news was that
there was no snow on the bird. Although the snow was somewhat heavy,
the strong wind probably blew them all off. Yesterday the airport
snowplow had not cleared a path to our tiedown spot. Today, it was
not done until about 3pm. It had been pretty cold down in the 10's
and 20's but the sun melted down the snow layer then the cold wind
froze the melted snow into solid sheet of ice about 8 inches thick all
around the plane. We had to break the ice sheet into big chunks with
a sharp shovel then hand carried them piece by piece to the snow
mound. After 2 hours we got the front part clearout. If the weather
continues to be nice, we may have the time to go for a short flight in
the afternoon after picking up the car. In spite of the snowstorm,
this is a Valentine week to remember for us. Rick's 18-200mm VR
Nikkor lens finally arrived after putting in the order 8 months ago.
Roberts Imaging only charged us the original price of $679 while
people snapping up every available lens at Best Buy or Circuit city
for $900. I got my manual Honda Fit for $100 below MSRP after 3 days
while people pay up to 25% over list price or wait 6 months or more to
get it. The best news of all just came in half an hour ago. My
daughter called from Colorado and let us know that she was accepted to
Vet school. Yippee! Life is good. If we manage to go up this
weekend to celebrate a late Valentine, it will be icing on the cake
(and not ice around the plane ;0).

Hai Longworth