It has rained soooooooooooooo much, how much do you ask? For one it has rained so much even the ducks are mad. Another, the weather guy said we have caught up on rain since 2005 :-o. I can’t remember it raining like this for many a year. I’m glad we live on the side of a mountain, cuz I’m sure it is soggy ground for those in the valleys.
The other day we were driving home… I started the ditty “Home where the grass is greener, home where…” and I dropped it off. Jeana was giving me the eye. However from the back of the van I hear Michael pick it up “the women are meaner!”. I wonder when Jeana taught him that? ;) Well to even further solidify that statement, his sister starts beating up on him. I guess she felt compelled to live up to the statement, or hit a nerve :-D.
Michael has these model rockets we put together. We had not fired them off because of either windy days, thinking we didn’t have enough room around here etc etc. I finally found a guide on if you have this big of a rocket this is how big of an area minimum you need. For the rocket motor size we had 200 feet was the minimum. Read that again…. MINIMUM. We went out and we had at LEAST 200 feet from the launch site to where the rocket SHOULD land. We hook it all up and fire it off. I’ll say this, those things are fast. After the rocket nearly disappeared in the sky, you see this speck up there and think 200 feet MINIMUM??? The only way that rocket was going to land within 200 feet of the launch site was if it misfired. The wind up there picked it up and sent that rocket sailing over the trees. Thoughts of having to get a ladder and fishing the rocket out of the tree danced through my head. We go searching and found it in the neighbor’s pasture. Whew. So they ask, can we shoot it again? Uh. They talked me into it. Jeana and Aimee would stay in the pasture and watch it come down to retrieve it, because it took us 10 minutes to find it before. Michael and I go back and launch it for a 2nd time, and guess what, for whatever reason it goes off in the opposite direction, the opposite direction where there is NO pasture, and where there ARE lots of trees. After the parachute deployed, thankfully the wind picked it up and sent it back to the pasture where Aimee nearly caught it. That was pretty fun. I looked at the various engines you can purchase. The one we had was a 5 second burn. The biggest you can legally buy has a 40 second burn. WOW. You’d have to have a GPS locater attached to that rocket to retrieve it :).