Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Farewell to a Friend!
This past weekend I was able to spend the evening with a great group of girls from pur church. The evening was celebrating a dear friend's last week as Children's Minister at our church. Jessica is following God's call and moving to St. Joseph, MO to accept a ministry position there. Fortunately, before leaving, we were able to spend some much needed girl time out on the town. Jessica, we will deeply miss you!
Friday, July 24, 2009
Wonderful Blessings!!!
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." Leonardo da Vinci
This is one of my favorite quotes, simply because, to the passionate aviator (and you know who you are) it speaks so much truth. If you have ever been bitten by the flying bug, it doesn't matter where you are or what is going on, but if you hear an airplane above, there is something inside that makes you look up to see if you can spot it before it moves on. Many of you know that my flight career has been put on hold to be able to stay at home as a full-time mom. This was a choice that both J and I were eager to make, having both known the enjoyment of stay-at-home moms growing up. This decision, though wonderful, has left me personally longing at times for the thrill of flight that was once part of my daily life. This week, I was wonderfully blessed to be able to accompany my husband and his colleague to IL to have some routine maintenance performed on the aircraft that they fly. Being the generous people that they are, I was able to sit up front and man the controls for both legs of the flight. From the rush of the takeoff, to the entrancing cloud formations, to the seemingly walk-on-the-clouds feeling as we descended, and finally to the touchdown, I literally had my head in the clouds. During our trip, I was able to perform one takeoff, two landings, part of an ILS approach and numerous cockpit tasks. My husband was willing to tend to little J during the flights (who actually slept the entire trips). I'm sure some of you are thinking, what's the big deal, but for me, not having been in the cockpit for 10 months, it was 2 days of bliss!!!
This is one of my favorite quotes, simply because, to the passionate aviator (and you know who you are) it speaks so much truth. If you have ever been bitten by the flying bug, it doesn't matter where you are or what is going on, but if you hear an airplane above, there is something inside that makes you look up to see if you can spot it before it moves on. Many of you know that my flight career has been put on hold to be able to stay at home as a full-time mom. This was a choice that both J and I were eager to make, having both known the enjoyment of stay-at-home moms growing up. This decision, though wonderful, has left me personally longing at times for the thrill of flight that was once part of my daily life. This week, I was wonderfully blessed to be able to accompany my husband and his colleague to IL to have some routine maintenance performed on the aircraft that they fly. Being the generous people that they are, I was able to sit up front and man the controls for both legs of the flight. From the rush of the takeoff, to the entrancing cloud formations, to the seemingly walk-on-the-clouds feeling as we descended, and finally to the touchdown, I literally had my head in the clouds. During our trip, I was able to perform one takeoff, two landings, part of an ILS approach and numerous cockpit tasks. My husband was willing to tend to little J during the flights (who actually slept the entire trips). I'm sure some of you are thinking, what's the big deal, but for me, not having been in the cockpit for 10 months, it was 2 days of bliss!!!
Monday, July 20, 2009
G.I.M.P.
Well, a friend of mine has introduced me to a new design and photo editing tool called G.I.M.P (GNU Image Manipulation Program). It is a free download from http://www.gimp.org/. I have been learning this new tool and really like all of the things that it allows with photo editing. I have never really played with Photoshop, so please forgive my ignorance if I am wrong, but this program allows me to do many things that I know that you can do with Photoshop. I'm sure that it is limited in many respects (thus the much smaller price tag!) Anyway, as I play around with this new tool, I hope to share some renderings of my newly learned skills in the future. At least that is my hope, that I can get back to blogging more. Thanks for being patient!
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