I needed a photo for a Young Womens Project. I was bored, too. I hope you all like it.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Charlee Riggs
I needed a photo for a Young Womens Project. I was bored, too. I hope you all like it.
Young Women's 2012 Theme
Verily, Verily I say unto you all Arise and Shine forth that thy light may be a standard for the nations.
-D & C 115:5
Monday, August 16, 2010
Reilly Fishing
Crazy Reilly
Reilly's first fish caught all by himself from the Indian River
Small but HUGE Reilly cast his line. He then waited a few seconds and then he felt something start to tug on his line. Then he yanked it back and he felt something swimming/pulling back against the line. He started to real it in FAST. When the fish came out of the water it was squirming crazily. Then he heard a ?farting noise coming from the fist. He dipped it in the water and it was better. Brenden then came and took pictures of the fish. Reilly was fishing off of the bridge to Veteran's Island.
Brenden Scuba Diving
I had my final exam in college for the Instrument Rating course I scored a 93. So I took the FAA Instrument test and scored an 83, followed by the CFI which I scored a 90, and finally the Instrument Ground Instructor test where I scored a 92. Three tests in one day! Start SCUBA lessons tonight!!!
By Brenden Riggs
I didn't drown today, despite my best attempts. Scuba diving is tough. I was doing really great, breathing through that apparatus, looking through my goggle, equalizing my ears. Then they actually made me put my head under water. What the (you fill in that word) were they thinking, didn't they know that is how peop...le drown!!! Did the pool work, then they went crazy on me by moving us to a lake.
They said there was a platform 25 feet underwater that we could stand on, I really think they missed a zero on the end of that number. I was doing alright having fun, then we went to explore a boat that they had sunk. Ok, so I am headed d...own to this boat when all of a sudden I discover that it is white, a white sailboat, with a little black window facing me. Back story now...I watched JAWS and one of the scenes in that movie was a diver swimming up to a sunken white boat and that stupid shark comes flying out of that window, or so my over active imagination was telling me at that moment. Then my partner reached out and touched me, I have 2nd degree burns on my arms from the friction I generated trying to get to the surface.
I get to go to the ocean tomorrow. yay?!?
Did the ocean dive yesterday. Thankfully I was not any where near the dive instructor when he reached in a pulled a nurse shark out of a hole. But I did see it swimming away. I learned lots of things, one such thing is that Lobster in the ocean look a whole lot bigger and meaner than they do on my plate.
And I don't care if they say that things look 30 percent bigger underwater than on the surface, it is still big if it has teeth. And the ocean has ALOT of water, when I came up an was facing east (out to the ocean) and didn't see any land I about had a heart attack, you can take the desert rat out of the desert but you can never take the desert out of the desert rat, I like to see dirt. So now I am a certified Open Water Scuba Diver.
Ok - So Nicole is not really happy about being left out, so hopefully Nicole will be going soon. Because Nicole is so Jealous!!!! But she is really happy that Brenden was able to do this, but oh so envious.
By Brenden Riggs
I didn't drown today, despite my best attempts. Scuba diving is tough. I was doing really great, breathing through that apparatus, looking through my goggle, equalizing my ears. Then they actually made me put my head under water. What the (you fill in that word) were they thinking, didn't they know that is how peop...le drown!!! Did the pool work, then they went crazy on me by moving us to a lake.
They said there was a platform 25 feet underwater that we could stand on, I really think they missed a zero on the end of that number. I was doing alright having fun, then we went to explore a boat that they had sunk. Ok, so I am headed d...own to this boat when all of a sudden I discover that it is white, a white sailboat, with a little black window facing me. Back story now...I watched JAWS and one of the scenes in that movie was a diver swimming up to a sunken white boat and that stupid shark comes flying out of that window, or so my over active imagination was telling me at that moment. Then my partner reached out and touched me, I have 2nd degree burns on my arms from the friction I generated trying to get to the surface.
I get to go to the ocean tomorrow. yay?!?
Did the ocean dive yesterday. Thankfully I was not any where near the dive instructor when he reached in a pulled a nurse shark out of a hole. But I did see it swimming away. I learned lots of things, one such thing is that Lobster in the ocean look a whole lot bigger and meaner than they do on my plate.
And I don't care if they say that things look 30 percent bigger underwater than on the surface, it is still big if it has teeth. And the ocean has ALOT of water, when I came up an was facing east (out to the ocean) and didn't see any land I about had a heart attack, you can take the desert rat out of the desert but you can never take the desert out of the desert rat, I like to see dirt. So now I am a certified Open Water Scuba Diver.
Ok - So Nicole is not really happy about being left out, so hopefully Nicole will be going soon. Because Nicole is so Jealous!!!! But she is really happy that Brenden was able to do this, but oh so envious.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Heathcote Botanical Gardens
Charlee and Reilly being COOL!
Kids!
It doesn't look it here, but it was very orange and pink.
Huge Leaves!
Cool spiderweb!!
Tool people!
Beautiful Trees!
More tool people!
Whirl pool!
Dead tree - put to good use - painted!So Friday, July 9, 2010 we went to the Heathcote Botanical Gardens (free - Yeah! another bargain). It was really beautiful and nice and cool. The tree's were magnificant! The kids loved the Japanese garden and the Reflection garden (it had a whirl pool). We were there for about 3 hours and loved it!!
4th of July in Vero Beach
Reilly and sparklers
Charlee and Sparklers
Fireworks
We had a fabulous 4th of July!!!
We went to the Indian River Park and watched the fireworks over the river.
It was very beautiful!!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Multi - Engine Certified
By Brenden Riggs
Went for my multi-engine checkride today. It was awesome. We did the usual stuff, steep turns (turns banking 45 degrees), stalls, and slow flights. Then we moved onto one engine maneuvers, that is where we really turn an engine off and do some more maneuvers. My favorite though was when we simulated we were a turbo prop aircraft and had to descend rather quickly from 6500 above the ground. So we set the propellers to 2000 rpm, and the manifold to 20", then pushed the nose over. I set the speed to 120 knots because that is what my instructor told me to do. Check ride dude looked at me and said, "what are you doin?". I told him I was doing an emergency descent. He replied, "Why so slow?" My instructor said not to exceed 120 knots, whereupon Bill called me a wimp (not really but I had to G-rate his word). Well you know me, I showed that man. I pushed the nose over and ratcheted the speed up to 135 knots, he laughed and said cmon you can to better. This is gettin good, I pushed it up to 154 knots. The reason 154 knots is because that is the maximum speed before you get into the "YELLOW" zone. Yellow means you can only go that fast in smooth air. I was brave. Then I heard that word again, "wimp". He asked me if I liked speed, I replied, "duh". So I pushed the nose vertical and the speed rocketed up to 185 knots, there I held it, at 185 knots. Just so you know at 194 knots is the max airspeed that Beechcraft has deemed MAXIMUM, any faster and you risk catastrophic wing failure (wings rip off the airplane). Oh man that was awesome. I started my levelling off at 3500 ft and didn't get level until 1500 ft above the ground. And we were still screaming along at clost to 160 knots. Anyway, after we landed (simulated one engine out) he said I did a very good job and gave me my Multi-engine certificate. It is purtier than my Single engine one.
Went for my multi-engine checkride today. It was awesome. We did the usual stuff, steep turns (turns banking 45 degrees), stalls, and slow flights. Then we moved onto one engine maneuvers, that is where we really turn an engine off and do some more maneuvers. My favorite though was when we simulated we were a turbo prop aircraft and had to descend rather quickly from 6500 above the ground. So we set the propellers to 2000 rpm, and the manifold to 20", then pushed the nose over. I set the speed to 120 knots because that is what my instructor told me to do. Check ride dude looked at me and said, "what are you doin?". I told him I was doing an emergency descent. He replied, "Why so slow?" My instructor said not to exceed 120 knots, whereupon Bill called me a wimp (not really but I had to G-rate his word). Well you know me, I showed that man. I pushed the nose over and ratcheted the speed up to 135 knots, he laughed and said cmon you can to better. This is gettin good, I pushed it up to 154 knots. The reason 154 knots is because that is the maximum speed before you get into the "YELLOW" zone. Yellow means you can only go that fast in smooth air. I was brave. Then I heard that word again, "wimp". He asked me if I liked speed, I replied, "duh". So I pushed the nose vertical and the speed rocketed up to 185 knots, there I held it, at 185 knots. Just so you know at 194 knots is the max airspeed that Beechcraft has deemed MAXIMUM, any faster and you risk catastrophic wing failure (wings rip off the airplane). Oh man that was awesome. I started my levelling off at 3500 ft and didn't get level until 1500 ft above the ground. And we were still screaming along at clost to 160 knots. Anyway, after we landed (simulated one engine out) he said I did a very good job and gave me my Multi-engine certificate. It is purtier than my Single engine one.
Friday, June 25, 2010
SCOUTS KAYAKING ON THE INDIAN RIVER
ONE OF THE FUN THINGS WE GET TO DO BECAUSE WE LIVE BY A AWESOME RIVER AND THE BEACH. fLORIDA IS AWESOME!!
IF YOU TOUCH THE THUMBNAILS (PICTURES) IT WILL TAKE YOU TO THE MAIN WEBSITE, SO YOU CAN SEE THE PICTURES BETTER.
IF YOU TOUCH THE THUMBNAILS (PICTURES) IT WILL TAKE YOU TO THE MAIN WEBSITE, SO YOU CAN SEE THE PICTURES BETTER.
AWESOME PICTURES FROM FLORIDA
SOME REALLY COOL PICTURES WE HAVE TALKEN WHILE ON THE ROAD!!! ENJOY THE BEAUTY!!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Private Pilot License
Bill Corcran - The FAA Examinerand the plane he passed in!!
Brenden and His new Pilot Bars!!
Brenden and His new Pilot Bars!!
Charlee's 5th grade graduation
Charlee and Jason Olcott,he is a boy is our ward and in Charlee's class
He is very intelligent and sweet.
The Sharks of Beachland Elementary - Class of 2010
Graduation Night, getting her portfolio!
Walking in to Graduation.
Haley and Charlee!!Friday, June 4, 2010
Reilly's School Stuff
Reilly and his two school buds!!
More school friends!!
Reilly was the Author and Illustrator of a Bare Book. More to come on that. He wrote a full story and illustrated
Reilly and his school class and their Bare Books.
Peace out man!!
Reilly and his school class and their Bare Books.
Peace out man!!Stage Check
June 4, 2010
Went for my Stage Check ride. That is like a pre-test for the FAA check ride. Brian, the Stage checker, had me plan a route from Ft. Pierce to Key West Int. a 3 hour flight in a Cessna 172. The flight was scheduled for 11:00 am, this is me we are talking about so you know how smooth this is going to be, however I got a phone call at 9:30 saying they moved the flight up to 10:00. I hadn’t even finished my flight plan, you can’t do those too early because winds and temperatures never stay the same (stupid weather), it takes me usually and hour or two to crank one out now I only have thirty minutes. I finished it in time and I am pretty sure I stayed in the United States although I didn’t know Florida had a San Diego, and I was also pretty certain that I would never see winds greater than 15,000 miles an hour. It’s amazing what you can do in a hurry if you need to bad enough. Enough of that boring stuff.
We walked out to the plane N739FC, I did my pre-flight inspection perfectly. Engine started perfectly, I flipped the Flaps up switch and heard what sounded like an aluminum can being slowly crushed. NOT GOOD!!! So we brought the flaps back down and raised them again watching the flaps. About half way up, the flap looked like it fell off the track. Brian looked at me and said, “What are you going to do?” I realized that my best learning experiences have always come after making a really dumb decision, but I wasn’t in the mood to learn anything that day, so I calmly told Mike I wouldn’t fly this plane. He laughed and said that I had an amazing Falsetto voice, but had a hard time hearing because all the dogs were barking. We walked to the mechanics and had them take a look, one brought out a pair of sheet metal cutters and cut off a chunk of skin that had broken loose and got wedged in the track. Good to go I was told. Yee Haw, I get to fly.
We took off, turned south for my route. Hit the first way point almost perfectly, hit the second waypoint spot on. Brian turns to me and says, “Bad weather we have to divert, take me to Okeechobee.” Hehehe, this pilot was prepared, I already had that stuff figured out, so I turned to 270 degrees that is west for you ground based people (Jo Erickson). Now Brian goes where are we? I pull out my map open it up, select two different VORs (radio beams that come from towers). Remember I am still flying in the air. With my map open, I have to draw two straight lines from the VOR stations. I have to open my map bigger. Find the VOR, meanwhile the wind is pushing my plane up, down, left, right, once or twice I think I was upside down. Finally I get my lines drawn and tell Brian I am right here. He says prove it. I am right in the middle of three airports according to the map (sectional) I start looking at the ground. I don’t see no friggin runway. I consult the map again, I know I am there, I look to the ground again still no runway. Brian takes the plane and immediately dives, and I am NOT kidding when I say dive, I know what color a stomach is because I saw mine floating above me. Anyway, he tells me we are on base, I still don’t see the runway, then he turns on final. Finally I see a long backyard. Is that it? That piece of grass that looks just like the field next to it? The one surrounded by trees? Yep.
Now we climb back up and he says close your eyes, ok, Brian you have the plane, he responds with No. Umm Brian, you want me to fly the plane with my eyes closed? I hear a yes. Ok, I close my eyes and fly, now the devil next to me says turn left. OK, a start my left turn, WITH MY EYES CLOSED. Whoever said ribs are meant to contain and protect your heart is a liar because mine was bouncing off the windshield or at least I think it was because my EYES WERE CLOSED. Soon Satan says now turn to your right, so I turn to my right. I swear I thought I was in a dive so I pulled up, now I felt I was climbing so I pushed the nose back down, now I felt I was banking too steeply to the right so I turned to the left, but I was supposed to be turning right, so I turned back to the right, but I am climbing so I push the nose over. Now Brian says open your eyes. I was 100% positive I was in a right turn dive. I mean I would have bet my life on it. I opened my eyes and beheld beautiful blue dirt. Ahh beautiful blue dir…..blue dirt??? Since when is dirt blue? I quickly scan my instruments, Holy Cow, I am in a climbing left turn. Full throttle, level the wings, bring the nose down. Brian says good job. Now I know why they don’t allow students to carry guns.
Next Brian says lets do slow flight, I ace that, then he says power off stall, my favorite. Chop the throttle, maintain altitude, wait for the stall horn, I hear that, wait for the buffeting of the wings, I feel that, wait for the stall (the plane quits flying and just falls from the sky), I don’t feel it. That plane wouldn’t stall, I had full back pressure trying to get the nose up to help it stall, it NEVER stalled. I guess I passed that that. We recover and Brian says your lost where are you? I immediately reach for the radio to call somebody and let them know I am lost (prior experience with that one) the devil says you have no radio. I am in a Cessna 172 they don’t go very fast and I was just shown where I was less than 5 minutes earlier I had to be in the vicinity still. I start my VOR vectoring when Satan says now you have no engine. At that point a very interesting weather phenomenom occurred, it started raining inside the cabin. It was soaking my map. I tossed everything in the back seat, and started my mantra; aviate (fly the plane), navigate (put it somewhere), communicate (brilliant with no radio) I pick a spot to do my emergency landing, go through the checklist. We descend to about 600 feet when Brian said I’d done a pretty good job. Lets go back to the airport.
We arrive over the airport and I discover a 4 billion knot crosswind. Even Brian asks if I can land in it. Whereupon I reverted back to my previous learning experience, my greatest learning came after a dumb decision. I confidently say I’ll never know unless I try. So down I go, crabbing into the wind. If you want to see some cool landing go to Youtube and type crosswind landings. I make the worst landing of my life, I hear the tires skidding crosswise, the runway is over a hundred feet wide and I used all of it. But Brian said considering the crosswind I did a pretty good job.
I am scheduled for my FAA checkride Wednesday.
Went for my Stage Check ride. That is like a pre-test for the FAA check ride. Brian, the Stage checker, had me plan a route from Ft. Pierce to Key West Int. a 3 hour flight in a Cessna 172. The flight was scheduled for 11:00 am, this is me we are talking about so you know how smooth this is going to be, however I got a phone call at 9:30 saying they moved the flight up to 10:00. I hadn’t even finished my flight plan, you can’t do those too early because winds and temperatures never stay the same (stupid weather), it takes me usually and hour or two to crank one out now I only have thirty minutes. I finished it in time and I am pretty sure I stayed in the United States although I didn’t know Florida had a San Diego, and I was also pretty certain that I would never see winds greater than 15,000 miles an hour. It’s amazing what you can do in a hurry if you need to bad enough. Enough of that boring stuff.
We walked out to the plane N739FC, I did my pre-flight inspection perfectly. Engine started perfectly, I flipped the Flaps up switch and heard what sounded like an aluminum can being slowly crushed. NOT GOOD!!! So we brought the flaps back down and raised them again watching the flaps. About half way up, the flap looked like it fell off the track. Brian looked at me and said, “What are you going to do?” I realized that my best learning experiences have always come after making a really dumb decision, but I wasn’t in the mood to learn anything that day, so I calmly told Mike I wouldn’t fly this plane. He laughed and said that I had an amazing Falsetto voice, but had a hard time hearing because all the dogs were barking. We walked to the mechanics and had them take a look, one brought out a pair of sheet metal cutters and cut off a chunk of skin that had broken loose and got wedged in the track. Good to go I was told. Yee Haw, I get to fly.
We took off, turned south for my route. Hit the first way point almost perfectly, hit the second waypoint spot on. Brian turns to me and says, “Bad weather we have to divert, take me to Okeechobee.” Hehehe, this pilot was prepared, I already had that stuff figured out, so I turned to 270 degrees that is west for you ground based people (Jo Erickson). Now Brian goes where are we? I pull out my map open it up, select two different VORs (radio beams that come from towers). Remember I am still flying in the air. With my map open, I have to draw two straight lines from the VOR stations. I have to open my map bigger. Find the VOR, meanwhile the wind is pushing my plane up, down, left, right, once or twice I think I was upside down. Finally I get my lines drawn and tell Brian I am right here. He says prove it. I am right in the middle of three airports according to the map (sectional) I start looking at the ground. I don’t see no friggin runway. I consult the map again, I know I am there, I look to the ground again still no runway. Brian takes the plane and immediately dives, and I am NOT kidding when I say dive, I know what color a stomach is because I saw mine floating above me. Anyway, he tells me we are on base, I still don’t see the runway, then he turns on final. Finally I see a long backyard. Is that it? That piece of grass that looks just like the field next to it? The one surrounded by trees? Yep.
Now we climb back up and he says close your eyes, ok, Brian you have the plane, he responds with No. Umm Brian, you want me to fly the plane with my eyes closed? I hear a yes. Ok, I close my eyes and fly, now the devil next to me says turn left. OK, a start my left turn, WITH MY EYES CLOSED. Whoever said ribs are meant to contain and protect your heart is a liar because mine was bouncing off the windshield or at least I think it was because my EYES WERE CLOSED. Soon Satan says now turn to your right, so I turn to my right. I swear I thought I was in a dive so I pulled up, now I felt I was climbing so I pushed the nose back down, now I felt I was banking too steeply to the right so I turned to the left, but I was supposed to be turning right, so I turned back to the right, but I am climbing so I push the nose over. Now Brian says open your eyes. I was 100% positive I was in a right turn dive. I mean I would have bet my life on it. I opened my eyes and beheld beautiful blue dirt. Ahh beautiful blue dir…..blue dirt??? Since when is dirt blue? I quickly scan my instruments, Holy Cow, I am in a climbing left turn. Full throttle, level the wings, bring the nose down. Brian says good job. Now I know why they don’t allow students to carry guns.
Next Brian says lets do slow flight, I ace that, then he says power off stall, my favorite. Chop the throttle, maintain altitude, wait for the stall horn, I hear that, wait for the buffeting of the wings, I feel that, wait for the stall (the plane quits flying and just falls from the sky), I don’t feel it. That plane wouldn’t stall, I had full back pressure trying to get the nose up to help it stall, it NEVER stalled. I guess I passed that that. We recover and Brian says your lost where are you? I immediately reach for the radio to call somebody and let them know I am lost (prior experience with that one) the devil says you have no radio. I am in a Cessna 172 they don’t go very fast and I was just shown where I was less than 5 minutes earlier I had to be in the vicinity still. I start my VOR vectoring when Satan says now you have no engine. At that point a very interesting weather phenomenom occurred, it started raining inside the cabin. It was soaking my map. I tossed everything in the back seat, and started my mantra; aviate (fly the plane), navigate (put it somewhere), communicate (brilliant with no radio) I pick a spot to do my emergency landing, go through the checklist. We descend to about 600 feet when Brian said I’d done a pretty good job. Lets go back to the airport.
We arrive over the airport and I discover a 4 billion knot crosswind. Even Brian asks if I can land in it. Whereupon I reverted back to my previous learning experience, my greatest learning came after a dumb decision. I confidently say I’ll never know unless I try. So down I go, crabbing into the wind. If you want to see some cool landing go to Youtube and type crosswind landings. I make the worst landing of my life, I hear the tires skidding crosswise, the runway is over a hundred feet wide and I used all of it. But Brian said considering the crosswind I did a pretty good job.
I am scheduled for my FAA checkride Wednesday.
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