Great news – little Pinky seems to have made a complete recovery and is her cute (and sometimes) snarly self again.  One of the first things she did when she was clearly feeling better was go out onto the balcony for some sun:

Only for a few minutes though so she doesn’t get sun burned!  The next thing she wanted was a butt rub from Mike.  She got it:

Meanwhile, the other three kitties watched from the the couch, thrilled about their sister’s recovery:

I know – their enthusiasm is overwhelming.

Regarding this past weekend, the weather wasn’t good enough for a flight.  Fortunately, I had a chance to go on a great flight last week.  A member of the 99’s (female aviator group) came down for a visit from Germany.  I had the pleasure of taking her for a scenic flight around Niagara.  The weather wasn’t too good in the morning, so I didn’t think we would be able to make it over Niagara Falls (clouds were too low).  However, by the time 2:00 rolled around, everything lifted enough that we were able to head over the Falls.  She had just been there earlier that day, checking it out from the ground.  Kinda neat to see it from a different perspective!  She was such a pleasure to fly with – especially at the end when we did some aerobatics!  Great flight and and I hope to take her up again if she comes back for another visit:

Back to the weekend, Mike and I visited my mother in the morning, then we went for a stroll around the quarry in Port Colborne in the afternoon.  He had never been there before.

I used to go there quite a bit as a kid, to search for fossils.  We found a few this trip as well.  I just have to do some research on what exactly they are.  Good times:

I couldn’t believe I had so much energy that day.  After the quarry, we went to the Seaway Mall in Welland to shop a bit then see the second Disney Planes movie.  It was really good, by the way!

I was a little surprised to see Mya when I got back home.  She always acted like she hated baths, but it’s obvious she takes them by herself when I’m not around.  I don’t even know where she got the robe from:

I asked Abby if she knew, but she just looked stunned (as usual):

I begged Mya to tell me where she got the robe but she just pointed and laughed:

On a final note, I got a call from the walk-in clinic about an hour ago.  Apparently my urinalysis came back from the lab and the antibiotic the doctor put me on last week wasn’t the right one.  So, I’m on yet another one for the next week.  I guess it’s a good thing since the bladder infection isn’t getting much better.  Paws crossed this one works!  I think six bladder infections since January are enough, so I’m going to swear off of them for a while.

Today’s symptoms: After my long but awesome day yesterday, I was more fatigued today than “normal”.  The humidity made this worse.  I’m pretty sure I’ll feel better tomorrow after a good sleepy.

Poor little Pinky hasn’t been feeling too well lately.  She has been sick to her stomach quite a bit over the last few days, with it getting fairly bad last night.  This morning, she was looking really pale and it was obvious she was dehydrated, as she couldn’t even keep down water.  Mike came over.  Then I phoned the vet at 8:00 this morning.  They said there were no vets in the office until the afternoon, so they referred me to the Veterinary Emergency Clinic.  Mike drove us down there to get little Pinky checked out.  The one technician was pretty excited to see a sphynx, since she just adopted one herself.  Her kitty is adorable, as you can see:

She gathered some info on Pinky before the vet came in.  Pinky was not too happy at this point:

Everyone was so great there – very nice to speak to, really made us feel at ease and were not pushy at all.  The vet suggested blood work and x-rays.  We decided on the blood work and would do the x-rays if anything came back abnormal.  I was relieved to hear that everything was looking good, just some slightly off levels due to her dehydration.  They gave her some fluids, a shot of anti-nausea medication and shot of prednisone.  Once that was done, we headed back home.  Pinky was very good in the car.  She actually appears just a tad googly in this picture:

Once back home, Pinky wandered around a bit then headed back into the cat carrier.  I put a heating pad in there, plus covered it up a bit:  She stayed there all day:

The other kitties came by once in a while to check on her:

Since she hasn’t got up at all, I’ve been regularly bringing her a little water to drink:

I hope to see a big improvement in her tomorrow!

All the other freaks have been their typical selves – like googly Abby:

And Boo trying to turn her head inside-out:

Then there’s big (although very tiny) bully Mya who likes to stand on other kitties in order to take their warm spot:

But gets really ticked off if the other kitty pushes her away:

More Pinky updates to follow.  Paws crossed for a quick recovery!

Today’s symptoms: Seem to be getting over this latest bladder infection.  I think six in less than six months is more than enough and I’m not going to have another one for a long time.  Enough of this silliness!

As you probably read in my previous blogs, I seem to be plagued with infections.  I just ended a round of antibiotics for my last bladder infection last week and within days of my last pill, it started again.  I phoned the MS clinic at McMaster and spoke to a nurse.  She suggested I phone my neurologist.  Our fear was that the infections were caused by my MS treatment (Tysabri).  I’ve been on it for over three years and it seems to be working well for me, minus the infections.  My neurologist suggested due to these chronic bladder and sinus infections, I should stop Tysabri for at least two months.  If the infections lessen or disappear (paws crossed!) over the next two months, then it was likely the Tysabri  that caused or at lease contributed to them.  I’m certainly not dissing the drug – it’s been a life-saver to so many people and I have had very few issues while on it over the years.  So, hearing this news from my neurologist was a little stressful.  Fortunately, there are a couple oral meds on the market that I can switch to, even though they are not quite as effective as Tysabri.  The next medication will be my fourth MS treatment.

On a brighter note, I was actually feeling pretty decent on Saturday.  That combined with the nice weather only meant one thing – flight! 

I let my friend at the Flying Club know we were coming, and he got my plane all clean for us – so awesome!

I flew Mike and I out to a fly-in BBQ at Huron Park Airport in Centralia. 

As soon as we walked into the hangar, we were greeted by a really cute kid who offered us cake!  Best welcome ever!  Then a girl who appeared to be his older sister offered us our choice of beverage.  It was so nice!  We got our drinks and food and sat down to nom:

After good food and chatting with some really nice folks, we headed out. 

I was told by a friend that there were tall ships in the nearby town Bayfield.  It was only about a ten minute flight so we decided to head over and check them out.

It was a nice flight back to St. Catharines, passing some joyous windmills on the way:

We also passed the water park just off the QEW near (or in) Grimsby:

Then back to St. Catharines for a landing:

It was a nice flight – I always love going to airports I’ve never been to before.

I mentioned in a previous blog (with photo) that Pinky is desperate to still lay on the cable box, which I tried to raise so the kitties couldn’t fit.  Yet again, she smushed herself on top of it – well, most of her:

Weird!

Today’s symptoms: Feeling somewhat poopy dealing with yet another bladder infection and still the sinus infection.  Hopefully the antibiotics kick in very soon.  Also a little down for having to go off of my MS treatment, but we’ll figure out something that will work for moi!

Since my kitties are hairless, they are always looking for warm spots to sleep.  They were laying on my cable receiver for the last year.  I’m always nervous one is going to be sick on it, so I figured out a way to keep them off – so I thought.  I have my audio receiver on the bottom, and over that is a wire shelf which holds my cable receiver.  How in the world naughty little Pinky ever got up on it in that configuration is completely beyond me:

Looks really comfy too!  What a dork. 

Sticking with the naughty theme, my oldest sphynx is a five pound bully.  She’s also the sweetest cat I’ve ever known – most of the time. Whenever another kitty gets all snuggly and warms up a spot, Mya will sometime walk on them until they move and surrender their spot to her.  Sometimes she goes a little too far and bites them on the bum.  She was doing that to little Abby (who is bigger than her) while she was on the bed.  I Mya-proofed Abby by turning her into an Abburito:

Worked like a charm.  Mya just sat there and sulked for a few minutes, then found her own spot.

Third naughty kitty would be Boo.  I had a kitchen cupboard open for seconds while I turned my back:

I had Mike sit down with her and give her a little talking to:

Looks like the only good cat was Abby.  Paws crossed it lasts.

We had some pretty decent storms over the last week.  I love being up on the tenth floor, facing both West and North.  The view is awesome:

You know what else is awesome?  My fish.  Check out little McMortimer:

Hey Boo – don’t even think about it!

I had the day off yesterday, and since I’m finally feeling better, I went over to my little mother’s house to help sort things in the basement.  Every time we clean it out, we get rid of a fair amount of stuff and can never imagine being able to get rid of much more in the future.  Well, yet another big pile cleared out yesterday.  Her basement is starting to look very bare.  One of the things I did come across (and toss) was this nifty drum I made in high school for a project:

I have no idea why I painted it like that.  I even did the center portion with pipes, sewer system (with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), a subway and the flames of hell:

Maybe my mother was right all these years – I think I am a tad weird.

This weekend, the plans are to fly Mike and I to a BBQ fly-in at the Huron Park Airport tomorrow.  Then maybe we’ll come back to my place and watch some movies or something.  Hopefully if we have a snack, Mike with think twice about getting crumbs all over himself like last time.  Thank goodness for vacuums:

I thought I was going to need it again last night to suck up the body of the huge fly my cats were supposed to kill.  They were having too much fun playing with it though – it went on for almost an hour.  Poor fly must have been exhausted:

It eventually made it out to the balcony so I sorta shushed it down the crack to the next floor.  I’m sure it flew away before it hit. 

Today’s symptoms: FINALLY feeling better.  Yea!  I actually made it through a full day of work with not much more than my usual fatigue, a fairly bad headache and some minor aches and pains.  Life is good!

I wish I had more to report on this blog.  However, since I’ve been feeling rather lousy lately, I haven’t done too much.  I’ve been trying to fight this bladder infection the o’natural way, however it didn’t work.  I ended up going to the clinic on Friday and got a prescription for an antibiotic.  I was kinda hoping he would give me Cipro as it would treat both the sinus and bladder infections.  However, he gave me Macrobid which is only for bladder infections.  Oh well.  I’m surprised that it hasn’t helped too much yet.  I’m still really fatigued and tired and have been having to take one to two hour naps for the last few days.  At least the kitties were kind enough to keep me company, especially Abby who often sat on my shoulder and arm while I was laying down:

And then there was Mya, who has started chewing on my hair some nights:

Mike and I spent this past weekend just chilling and watching tv and movies, plus playing Call of Duty: Ghosts on xBox. He was also kind enough to help me hang my new shelves by my front door.  I have a small pewter fantasy character collection and have really been hoping to display it again.  These shelves I bought recently were perfect:

I had a barometer thing hanging there before.  We tried to find a new place for it – needless to say, the first spot I found (stuck in my kitchen light) didn’t quite work:

I figured other things around here look weird, so why not my decor?  Little Boo actually helps with decorating sometimes.  She likes to run around the apartment with her pipe cleaners.  I guess when she brings them near the dining room, the food distracts her so she drops them to eat.  Doesn’t typically remember to take them elsewhere after she noms:

She’s so weird:

This weekend, my friend from work had the back of her garage painted, which is totally visible from the trail behind their house.  It looks awesome:

Jan and I had one of our typical conversations over text the other night.  I told her I was kinda excited to capture a short clip from a COPS episode that I liked.  Here was her response (I’m in green):

Tee hee! 

Just so you know, I added a few videos on my website video page.  One is of Mike and I zip lining when we went camping a few weeks ago.  The zip line in this video was close to the area where they do the initial training.  The guides told us to scream at the top of our lungs to try and freak out the people doing the training close by.  Clearly, Mike and I were successful, as you will hear! 

Today’s symptoms: Still very tired, fatigued and achy.  Hoping tomorrow will be much better and this infection is finally leaving the premises!

The heat is really picking up.  As usual, as soon as I get home from work, Pinky goes running over to the balcony door.  I let her out for a bit – not too long or she’ll get sunburned:

The other goofs wander out there too, sometimes, but not as much as Pinky.  Boo’s favourite spot is in the bedroom, usually snuggled near or with Donkay:

When I took that pic, Mya was clearly too tired to care about how cute her sister looked:

Three of the four goobers needed a bath yesterday.  With no fur, oil accumulates on their skin, more so in the heat.  For some reason, little princess Mya doesn’t have this problem to the same extent.  I wanted to admire Abby’s clean belly after her bath – she was not amused:

I was hoping to fly over the Canada Day fireworks around Niagara last night, but wasn’t feeling up to it.  My stinkin bladder infection is back.  I’m really going to try and fight it off more naturally than with antibiotics.  I’ve already been on them three times in a six month period recently, and I don’t want my already rickety bod to start becoming immune to them.  Plus, they throw off my Tysarbi schedule, as I cannot have the infusion during or a week after the antibiotics.  So, I’ve been drinking tons of water, cranberry juice and pills, D-Mannose and apple cider vinegar.  Just in the last day, it already seems to be improving a bit.  Paws crossed!  Speaking of paws, Mya was rather interested in watching the fireworks from my bedroom window:

Had a decent show just North of us:

Then Donkay had to check out the action:

Yup, another joyous day in my lovely household.

Today’s symptoms:  Still have a bit of the sinus infection lingering, plus dealing with the bladder infection, which always completely wipes me out.  Very fatigued today with average aches and pains plus a somewhat worse than “normal” headache.

The kitties wanted to go out on the balcony (screened in – no worries!) to enjoy the heat and sun.  I heard some weird noises so went out to investigate.  Pinky was looking at me really funny so I picked her up to see what was wrong.  That’s when it happened – she let out a ferocious hiss and flashed a pair of huge vampire-ish fangs at me.  I jumped back with fear as she leapt from my arms.  Boo let a a fearful meow so I quickly ran over and grabbed her.  Pinky lunged at us so I shielded Boo.  She then sank her fangs into my neck:

Somehow she turned into some sort of vampire type zombie thing.  Fortunately for me, the effects were short lived and I regained consciousness about an hour later.  Pinky seems back to normal – Boo actually doesn’t seem traumatized at all.  Was I just dreaming?

Little Pinky actually looks more cute and innocent than before the “incident”:

I think I need to lay off the spooky movies for a bit…

Last week, I had my Tysabri infusion after almost a two month hiatus.

I had to go off of the monthly medication as I was having a bit of a flare-up and my neurologist needed to first rule out any side effects from the medication, such as PML.  I was quite glad to find out everything was all good and I could go back on the med.  As much as I don’t like having the infusion (always feel rather yucky for a couple days after), but as long as it’s doing what it’s supposed to!  I was actually hoping to feel better than I usually do after the infusion the next day, so Mike and I could fly up to Edenvale for breakfast.  Didn’t happen though.  I felt well enough to head over to Cora’s for breakkie, which was awesome as usual:

Afterwards, we headed back to my place and just chilled for the rest of the day so I could recover.

Thankfully, I’m feeling much better now despite a sinus infection that started a few days ago.  Tomorrow, I will be flying over the golf tournament my office is holding.  I was just going to take a couple hours off to do the flight, but I think I’m going to be a rebel and take the whole day off.  I have some highly joyous things to do around the apartment when I get back, such as clean windows and the floors.  Please, try and control your jealousy.

Today’s symptoms: Actually felt fairly well today, after a bad day yesterday.  A rather bad headache due to the sinus infection plus some extra body aches and pains.  I plan on beating the bout of insomnia I’m experiencing and waking up tomorrow feeling all bright eyed and bushy haired.

I’m rather excited about today’s post.  I mentioned in a previous blog that Mike and I flew up to Barrie for some air to air photos we won during last year’s 99’s Bingo Run.  The photo was taken by Peter Lubig.  He was kind enough to write an article for Canadian Aviator magazine on me having MS and being a pilot.  Of course, the star of the article was Vyctor.

Mike was kind enough to pick up the magazine for me today!  I was so shocked to see Vyctor on the front page.

If you would like to see the article online, you can check it out HERE.  It was very well written – Peter did a great job!

I had a friend email the other day stating he received his copy of the magazine.  He commented on my tattoo.  What?  How did that get in there?

Oh right, I flashed it to Peter before taking off for our air to air photo.  Tee hee!

Wow!  I still can’t believe how many pages the article is and the size of the pics!  So there you have it, Vyctor is famous!

Today’s symptoms:  I had a really long but awesome day yesterday so I’m kinda paying for it today – totally worth it though!  Really bad crushing pains in my paws and and much worse than normal headache.  Fatigue is pretty bad but it’ll be better tomorrow!

Mike and I both really like that Pharrell Williams song, Happy.  Mind you, whenever we hear it, we change the lyrics to “I’m Abby!”  Yes, we’re weird.  Ok, maybe weird to describe me isn’t a strong enough word.  Here’s the album art for the song:

I may have tweaked the title and pic a little:

Just to divert the “weirdness” attention from me a little, look at little Mya emerging from under the couch:

AND, even WAY more weird than me is this joyous little story.  My mother called me up the other night and just said she had quite the ordeal.  Like me, she rather dislikes spiders.  Well she went down into the kitchen at dusk with no light on.  She looked down and noticed this massive spider!  Yuck!  It was so big that even using a can of Raid (which she keeps one of in every room of the house) probably wouldn’t kill it before it took off.  She decided to run and grab a shoe out of the closet.  She was actually rather surprised to see that the spider hadn’t moved when she ran back into the kitchen.  Poor thing didn’t have a chance – she pounded the dickens out of it.  Once she was able to catch her breath, she noticed that there were no spider bits anywhere.  Actually, it looked exactly the same as before she whacked it.  Turning the kitchen light on, she discovered why – it wasn’t a spider but the top off of the tomato she had with her dinner earlier!  Tee hee – what a cute little dork!

I guess I better take back the weird spotlight.  Mike asked me to send him the pics of Boo and Pinky, sitting together:

In the second shot, Boo turned to look at Pinky as if she just did a little toot-a-roo under the blanket.  Again, I may have altered the pic just a little:

I guess I better stop or my blog readers may have mildly disturbing dreams….sorry!

Today’s symptoms:  Had a few nights of insomnia, so really feeling it today.  Very fatigued, bad aches and pains all over (always much worse the more fatigued I am) plus a pretty bad headache.  I’m going to take some Sleepy-time Tea tonight plus a sleep aid, hoping that will help.

Had an amazing weekend.  Mike and I went to see Edge of Tomorrow at the theatre on Saturday.  It was really good and we would both recommend it.  On the way back from the show, we stopped in at Giant Tiger to get some tuna that was on sale.  I really love tuna and have never seen Ocean’s brand for only $1 before, so I picked up ten cans.  That was all I went in there to buy so did not get a cart to carry them.  There was a cute, older woman in line in front of me.  I was still holding the stacks of cans as there was not enough room on the conveyor belt to set them down.  The belt moved forward so I went to put the cans down when I had a rather sharp but brief MS-related spasm in my left arm.  Well, that sent those cans just a’flying!  I was so worried that one was going to hit the woman, they all missed her.  The way I was years ago, this event would have made me extremely embarrassed.  It didn’t at all though – I just said that was really bad timing for a spasm – just a slight medical issue!

On Sunday, we went to a fly-in at the Guelph Airport.  I don’t know why I have never flown there before.  Anyway, we had to fly to Welland first to get fuel as the fuel truck in St. Catharines was out of  service.  After a quick stop, we headed west to Guelph.  There is no tower there so you basically talk to the other planes in the area, tell them where you are and where you’re going.  I got into the circuit and turned the base leg.  I noticed there was a plane at the threshold of the runway, ready for take off.  Lots of time since I still had to turn final.  Well, I did turn final and dude was still there.  I announced twice that I was on final, plus there was another plane behind me.  I started doing some S turns to give the guy time to take off.  I could no believe he sat there that long.  I thought I was going to have to overshoot the runway, but was also thinking that clearly this guy wasn’t too bright, so what if I declare an overshoot and he still takes off?  Fortunately, he finally took off and I was able to land safe and sound.  I got off the runway onto the taxiway as soon as possible (as you’re supposed to do).  Apparently the guy behind me kept going all the way to the end of the runway once he landed.  The guy behind him therefore would not be able to land on a clear runway so he did an overshoot.  He was quite ticked off as he radioed the plane that caused him to overshoot and yelled to get off the runway next time.  Geesh!  I was quite glad to get parked after that:

We were both rather hungry so we grabbed a burger from the BBQ.  The only seats were in the sun, and since we’re both the colour of bleached socks, we searched for shade.  The only shade available was under the wings of Vyctor, so that’s where we sat and nommed:

Really delicious burgers, by the way:

After our awesome food, we checked out the rest of the planes at the event, then headed back to Vyc.  During the flight home, we decided to go see yet another movie.  So, we landed then drove over to the cinema at the PEN Centre.  I really wanted to see The Fault In Our Stars.  After seeing the trailer, I knew I was going to be just a tad emotional.  I thought I would be safe with four Kleenex.  Nope.  I soaked through those bad boys and half a serviette.  I’m glad the movie didn’t go any longer at that point, because I was about to take off my sock to use.  Wow.  Absolutely amazing movie.  Mike really liked it too.

Even though I was really exhausted, we went to the Target store on the other side of the mall, which was closing.  We had to walk out of the mall and into Target via the external doors to get in.  Walking back to the other end of the mall was kinda eerie, as we were the only ones there:

It was a perfect weekend, but I think I may have done a tad too much.  I was physically pooped and emotionally drained from the movie.  I was in bed by 9:30.  I fell asleep after 11:00 but was up a couple hours later.  That’s when things weren’t so fun anymore.  When I am super exhausted and extremely fatigued, I sometimes hallucinate.  It only ever happens at night. The last time was probably two years ago.  Around 2:00am, I started seeing stuff.  My hallucinations typically have spiders in them, I guess because I hate them so much. Anyway, while it’s all going on, I am completely aware that I am hallucinating and what I’m seeing and sensing isn’t really there, but it seems so real that the fear is still there.  I honestly can’t believe people voluntarily take drugs to hallucinate.  I hate it – why the heck would anyone want to go through that?  Is there such thing as a good hallucination?  The stuff last night was horrible.  I wanted to call someone so badly to have them just be there as support.  I ended up texting my mother just after 4:00am.  Here’s our conversation.  Just keep in mind, I’m still seeing everything I’m describing.  (My poor mother!):

Isn’t that wild?!??!?  Wow, I can still picture everything perfectly.  Needless to say, I’m just a tad tired today.  And by tired, I’m mean totally wiped out.

I actually have more to write about the weekend, but I’ll do that in the next post.  Stay tuned.

Today’s symptoms: Very fatigued, bad headache and really looking forward to going to bed tonight.

It took an insane amount of time, but I finally got all of my 474 blog posts from my GoDaddy site transferred over to WordPress.  I’ll send everyone subscribed to my previous blog an email inviting them to subscribe to the new site.  If you would like my new blogs to automatically show up in your email once I publish them, you can subscribe to them by clicking on the Follow button down in the bottom right hand corner of my blog.  You just have to enter your email address and voila!

Have a decent day to report on this spiffy new blog site.  Being the only Friday the 13th this year, I was compelled (as I am every year) to fly over Port Dover and check out the thousands of bikers who meet up there.   The weather was a little poopy this year though.  I flew through a bit of rain on the way.  I was quite happy to see the plant at Nanticoke, which I flew over:

Soon after, Port Dover was in site:

The sea of black leather and motorcycles was soon apparent:

It almost doesn’t look real:

So cool to see!  I knew a few people who were down there at the time I flew over.  I’ll have to ask if they saw my cute little plane.

Coming back to St. Catharines, I hit a fairly big storm.  I heard there were thunderstorms there, so I did my first airport diversion ever since being a pilot, and landed at Grimsby to wait it out.  I contacted the St. Catharines Airport tower to let them know I had landed and got a weather update.  Within ten minutes of landing, I was able to take off again in a light shower and head to St. Catharines.  Just like me, my co-pilot was calm and collected in the less than nice weather:

On a bright note, my plane got nice and clean!  Once back in the hangar, the Flying Club’s massively fat cat (with my assistance) sat in the pilot seat:

After snapping a couple pics, I hoisted the enormous ball of lard and fluff back onto the ground.  I know have a very sore back.

Back at the apartment, Pinky quickly found the bag I had set on the kitchen counter after unloading it:

I said “Wink if you want a butt rub!”

Oh geez!

Today’s symptoms:  Still feeling pretty good after my awesome flight.  Not as fatigued as I usually get after flying.  Have a pretty bad headache though.

As I mentioned in my last blog, I had a great weekend.  I flew Mike and I to London for breakfast on Sunday.  It took a little less than an hour to get there.  There were a few other aircraft in the circuit, including this awesome private jet:

We had a great view of the runway while in the restaurant eating our tasty breakfast.  Unfortunately, Mike’s order was wrong so we nommed on my breakkie before his came out quite some time later.  Oh, and I couldn’t find Donkay so this was his replacement for the flight:

At least we had the view to enjoy while waiting for his noms.  There were quite a few larger commercial flights that flew in and out while we were there, including a couple Jazz planes:

Since Mike and I are going camping at Long Point Provincial Park again in May, we decided to fly over it and check out our exact campsite from the air.

That large round clearing to the right is directly right of our site.  That’s the site we had last year when we were there in September – most perfect site ever.  No one across from us or to the right and less than a two minute walk from the beach.

Here’s a shot of the Long Point area while we were heading back to the Lake Erie shoreline:

We passed a massive mansion under construction last year.  I see it’s still not quite finished:

Another awesome part of our flight was testing out the new GoPro camera I bought.  It’s so much more convenient to start the camera via the iPhone app, rather than just have the video record the entire flight.  Kinda neat to see what the camera was seeing on my phone:

The video quality is amazing.  I’m so happy with this camera.  Now I can use my old camera to video my passenger and I when we’re doing aerobatics.

Back at home after the flight, we chilled out and watched a couple movies with the kitties.  Mike got himself a drink of water and mistakenly left it unattended.  Everyone except Boo had a slurp:

Very naughty kitties.  Boo was behaving herself for a change, in the bedroom:

For some reason, I decided to gather a few of them up so we could have a little chat.  It sorta went well at first:

But then not so much:

Lesson learned!

Today’s symptoms: Felt a bit more tired and fatigued than normal.  Still having bad spasms in my calves and arms.  Not quite as bad as the other day though. 

I can’t believe it’s that time of the year already!  The annual Walk for MS is this Sunday (May 4th).  As I’ve done for the last six years, I’ll be flying over all three Walk sites in Niagara, while the event is underway.  It’s such a rush to look down and see all the folks walking for this cause.  If you would like to check out my sponsor page, please click HERE.Paws crossed the weather is good.  I’m so glad they’ve changed it to May, especially after the poopola April we had this year.Here’s a pic I took last year, whilst flying over Port Dalhousie:

The two other Walk site are in Welland and Chippawa.  After I land, I usually head over to the Lions Club in Port Dalhousie and visit with everyone.  Good times!I had an amazing weekend and am looking forward to blogging about it.  However, I didn’t get too much sleep last night and am going to finish doing stuff around here then crawl into bed early.  Mind you, I just went in the bedroom and noticed that my bed is covered in kitties.  Hopefully I can find a corner to curl up on and perhaps a little fold of blanket.  Hmmm….

Had a marvelous four day weekend.  The weather was great – finally!  Mike hadn’t been to the Waterloo Airport before so we headed there for breakkie on Saturday.  For some reason, I thought it was over an hour flight there but it’s only about 40 minutes.  I’ve been there are few times too.  Duh.  There were about seven of us in the circuit when I entered.  It’s always quite busy there.