Not a dull day

I remember being awakened by Jonnene around 5 am, saying "There's a new hole under the new sidewalk out front." Whaaaat? She had walked Sophie before leaving for swimming workouts at LSU-S and spotted a sinkhole that had developed where we had the sewage line replaced last week and it was directly under the sidewalk. I put on a robe and walked out to take a look, saw water in the hole and I was immediately curious as to what I was looking at and what caused it.

I went back inside and got ready to do a run. It was foggy out and I decided a bike ride wasn't a good idea. Plus I wanted to do a run that several guys I knew did every Wednesday morning from a nearby tennis club. I had been invited to join in before but hadn't been out there yet. It's an easy 4-mile run they do, easy to converse at about a 9:30 or so pace. Counting my run to and from the house, I got in 4.5 miles all told.

Called the plumbers and they came out. Thanks to all the extra dirt I had in the yard, they were able to fill up and pack the ground under the sidewalk so we'll see how that goes. They also fixed the front sprinklers that weren't working after the sewage line had been replaced. Our theory is that one of the sprinkler supply lines wasn't sealed up well enough and the escaping water might have caused the sinkhole. Well, we'll see what it looks like later this week and if the repair worked like it was supposed to.

Spent much of the day working for a T-shirt design and then got a call to do another helicopter design...actually, I already had the design done for a Ranger 407 aircraft but they wanted to see the layout on an EC-135. Here's how the Ranger paint scheme I did last month turned out in real life:
It looks pretty good and was exactly what the client wanted. Click on the image to see it bigger. I probably have 12 or 13 helicopters around the country sporting paint schemes that I designed. Flying right now. There have been about another 20 I've done over the last fifteen years...don't know if any of them are still spinning their blades.