WEEKEND TRIP

30 years ago my crazy parents had a dream to build a cabin. So they did. They bought some property in the mountains and a log house kit. After five years of hard work they were finished. We still have the cabin but rarely find the time to go up there. My dad has always loved going to the mountains, getting away and enjoying nature. So I figured this was the perfect place to spend fathers day weekend.

Everything was in green and luscious. The flowers were in bloom painting the field yellow, orange, and white, with flecks of purple. A Willow Flycatcher had built its nest in the eves of our cabin. We could watch it feed its four baby birds while we ate dinner. A snake was found taking a nap above our front door, which we lovingly asked to move to another location. A skink sat soaking up the sun on a rock. Besides getting bitten to death by bugs it was a lovely trip.

RIVET

A little rivet typography to keep me entertained.

SUMMER JOB

Okay. So I don't really have a summer job.

The last two summers I worked at my dads company, which is a loom factory. People always look at me so funny when I try to explain this to them. But basically it's the company that sells the machinery that makes seat belts and the tags in your shirts. I hope that makes sense. My job was to break down old broken machines, clean them and then rebuild them. Obviously not by myself.

The second day home from summer my dad brought up the looming question (unintentional pun) , "Are you going to work for me this summer?" Don't get me wrong it was a really great job. Truly. It was and I am very grateful that I had such lovely working hours. But it was labor intensive and extremely dirty. Extremely. As a compromise, and to make sure I am not sleeping till noon everyday, my loving father asked me to help him with his plane one day a week. This wasn't really a question.

The problem with photos is that it is impossible to see just how many rivets there are. My job has been to take these broken wings apart. The only way to do that is to take out all of these tiny little evil rivets one by one. It can be a somewhat daunting task as hours go by and you realize you havent even finished the one little section you wanted to finish. 

On the bright side I found a wonderful app called Songza that keeps me saine while I work. It's a wonderful song app because there are absolutely NO commercials and it's FREE and it helps you find new wonderful songs and artists that you never knew of. Basically it has a variety of playlists based on your current mood, or genera taste, or artist taste. I even got my mom to start using it! I heard her singing along to a song while washing the dishes the other day.