A Double Quad Day

Woody got up early and walked five miles. Before it got too hot, he also did some more weeding and mulching and added some pruning into his gardening chores. After lunch Elijah came over and Woody gave him his birthday present from us. He got it a bit early...one reason is that he won't be here on his actual birthday and then the other reason was that Goosey (Woody) didn't want to wait to give it to him! You see pictured our sweet, clown-faced Elijah who will turn six in a little more than a week...his face is painted because he participated in a clowning workshop. Woody placed Graham in charge of teaching Elijah how to fly his quadcopter...the package says for 14-and-up...so Woody decided that perhaps Elijah would need a bit of guidance. By the end of the afternoon he was doing a pretty good job of getting it to take off and fly a bit...landings were still a bit hard (as in they weren't soft landings!). We had given Graham a larger quadcopter some time back, but he hadn't been able to get all the settings just right to be able to fly it. But this afternoon he was successful both with teaching Elijah and with getting his off the ground. We had two happy boys...and a girl (Joy) who now wants a quadcopter and their daddy over here watching and/or playing with the quads! Graham had some hands-on experience at robotics camp with remote control quadcopters so that extra info gave him the boost to get his off the ground today...plus wanting his to fly since his little brother's was flying! Anyway, we had two quads buzzing around our family room this afternoon. At the moment Woody is next door with the children...Nathan and Kathy have gone out on a date. I stayed over here and worked some more on Sunday's Sunday School lesson. This morning I did manage to get my blouse cut out, but haven't gotten a chance to start sewing on it yet. We had a storm blow through a few minutes ago. As soon as it stops raining, I'm going to go next door and see if there is a diaper to change as well see if there are some children who need to get into their jammies.