Nipped down to the field today to pick up MYRO’s logs and other papers that Rosie still had. The temperature was below freezing and I was surprised to see just how much snow there still was on the open area in front of the hangars and on the runway itself. The field is at the roughly the same altitude as our house but whereas we now have just the remains of the light dusting from New Years Eve, the field still has a couple of inches of cover at least. I guess it’s because it’s closer to the coast and is the first area to be hit when the winds bring in wintery weather from the east.
It was good to be back there though as I haven’t flown for several months because of the time spent working on MYRO right through the summer whenever the weather was good enough. I just couldn’t afford to miss any opportunity and I know that it will be worth it in the long run. As always, although there was no flying going on, there was someone there to chat with and that’s all part of the fun. The dog became very impatient because all he wanted to do was go off to investigate all the interesting scents around the place, so eventually we did. Rosie’s trailer was more or less where I left it when I returned it after picking up MYRO but she had made little progress on re-erecting her polytunnel hangar and part of what had gone up looked to have been blown down again with some tubes looking a bit bent and slightly the worse for wear.
But there’s just something about being back on the airfield among aircraft. Time flies and pretty soon we’ll be taken by surprise as always when the green shoots of spring start to emerge. I can hardly wait this year and I’ll be raring to go to get back up there along with MYRO 🙂