Grey, Grey, Go Away!

Well, I was going to write a nice little post about the new ETFO building on Isabella, which I had occasion to visit this morning, after dropping the boys at ROM camp (they’d had a sleepover at my place downtown, where I’ve been staying these two weeks before heading off to PEI, in order to get my PPL done for once and for all)… 

The new, environmentally-friendly ETFO building blends in nicely with its downtown surrounds.

But then the power went out, and in the middle of me cooking myself up a little potatoes, eggs and buttered broccoli to boot!  So, instead, I wolfed down my (thankfully finished) boiled eggs, half-cooked potatoes, and very raw broccoli, put on my rain jacket, and headed outside to see what there was to see.

What there was to see was a lot of grey.

I wandered past neighbours visiting neighbours, peered through candle-lit windows, and trudged through the already-saturated grass of the nearby park to have a look at the two Porter planes that were lined up at the end of Taxi-way Alpha.

I’m not sure if they were lined up because of the thunderstorm, or the power outage, or what, but they sure were NOISY!  (Especially without the hum of a hundred or more air conditioners to drown out the din.  Let me just comment as an aside, that -- much as I am infatuated with aviation -- I do not subscribe to Bob Deluce’s “whisper quiet” promises… if these Dash 8’s are any indication of what the allegedly “silent” jets will be like, NO THANK YOU!!!)

In any case, I puttered about in the rain for a bit, then meandered back to the little town house I’ve been subletting across from the airport, to see if I couldn’t get a little more studying done and -- behold!  The power is back on!