We stayed on the premises here at Anderson Lake. Even remaining here is fun as there are airplanes buzzing around, and then there is the lake with views of the mountains in the background. Grant worked on finishing putting floats on an airplane while I "supervised" playing the role of hangar rat. Peggy played Betty Crocker and made muffins for the hangar crew in the morning. It was a nice day temperature-wise with mid-70s allowing Peggy to sit outside and read in the afternoon.
Debby had been so kind (again) and given us a salmon fillet. Peggy found a good recipe (pretty easy for us rookies to do) using aluminum foil, soy sauce, and brown sugar. The fillet was cut into spatula-sized pieces. Aluminum foil was cut so that they were just larger than the cut salmon pieces. A mixture of soy sauce and brown sugar was liberally applied to both sides of the salmon which were then put skin side down on the aluminum foil.
A low to medium setting on the grill was used. The fish was put aluminum side down on the grill for 6-8 minutes. The fillets were then turned. The aluminum foil was carefully peeled off and with it came the skin! Another 6-8 minutes on the grill for the 2nd side and VIOLA!! Awesome eating!!
And another very nice treat we got from Debby was some smoked salmon. Jim, who works part time with Grant and Debby, has a smoker. Jim and Debby get fresh caught salmon and cut it into narrow strips, dip into a brine solution, and then hang the strips in the smoker. And, OMG, is it good!
The evening was spent indoors as the clouds rolled in off of the Talkeetna Mts., and we got a very generous, much needed rain.
July 26 Yesterday the bedside window day/night shade on my side of the bed broke. The string in the blind had broken away from the plastic spool which is attached to the wall. I had emailed the Jayco support line, and they suggested going to youtube.com and look up shade repairs.
I found a very helpful how-to video. But in order to make the repair, I had to removed the valance, decorator curtain, and hanger hardware before I could even get to the shade. Once I had the shade removed it was relatively easy to get the loose string, rethread it, and put it back on the spool. Luckily having a full working repair facility in the hangar was nice as Grant allowed me to borrow his drill to put a new hole in the plastic spool.
Then I had to put the valance which contains the shade back up. It only took 2 screws, but Harry Houdini would've been challenged to do this work. It would have been easier if I had a phillips head screwdriver with a 18" shank as the screws went in through a bracket which had to be affixed to the inside, underneath part of the bracket. And everything was black colored, so I could not reference where exactly the original holes were.
After a few choice words and much trial and error to get the screw to balance on the screwdriver head and then to thread it into the hole, I finally got the valance hung. Everything else took little time to put back up. Jayco engineering on this sure leaves a lot to be desired! And, all this because a small plastic piece that probably costs about 25¢ had broken.
It was now late morning, and as I went out to the hangar, Grant had already removed the rudder, elevators, ailerons, and flaps from the Beaver airplane he is disassembling. I was able to help remove some access panels and the cowling from around the engine.
In the afternoon we moved some landing gear sets and the parts removed from the Beaver into storages areas so they would not be subjected to the weather. I was then going to help replace some light bulbs in the ceiling of the main hangar. Grant was going to put a basket on his skid loader and lift me to the ceiling. However, the skid loader had a dead battery. Off Grant went to make a new purchase.
Upon his return he put the basket on the loader and I met him in the hangar. However, he did not have enough light bulbs to make all the replacements. With that we called it a day as he'll go get bulbs tomorrow.
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