I did something Thursday that made me happy and made me think a whole lot. After a long winter it was nice to truck over to Jerome, file a short flight plan, fuel LuciBelle and get into the air. The view was great I flew from Jerome to Lewiston Idaho, back over Montana back to Jerome Idaho. As the sun set against the mountain ranges and the warm glow of the rock sides of many made my mind race to some things that I have long overlooked and yet kept on a course that has put me so far behind the 8-ball that I think I need my real duty job of both flying and towing much more than I need all this TV and media crap. A little over two years ago after waiting breathlessly for nearly 3 years a mere payment on the interest of a law suit that was filed on behalf of my trust fund came through. For the grand some of $2,900.00 (.) So I sat one long two days into early morning talking to the officers of the Hazzard County Knytes the sister parent organization of the BlackSheep Vintage Aviation Association. The discussion resulted from trying to put together a Internet streaming radio station together with both the VMA/VMF214 and the Hazzard County Knytes. After months even years some times bringing me to tears, of me doing all or 80% of the work on the project and finding then as I do now a serious difficulty in finding a female co-host. Not that I really needed that but taking a page out of Howard Sterns play book, if it worked for him might work for us. Okay not having extra green to gain office/studio space outside my home, I did 100% of my media werx at home. But found that bringing anyone female into your home is really risky. On several levels as well as it made more than a few law enforcement types upset an looking at me more than they might otherwise. So in September of 2006 I took a flight run patrol from Bountiful to Grace Idaho to see kin folk. Now on my return flight instead of just cruising upside of I-15 back to the Bountiful SkyPark, I flew over Montpelier Idaho to CokeVille Wyoming. Where I landed, snagged a scotch and a few brews then as I was scooting on foot through town of Cokeville Wyoming saw this old bar that I considered would be a great back kountry production facility. A gal I had been online with from Montana was wanting to get involved. Her name is Julie McCalister. Well Julie met me in Cokeville a few weeks after and even with protests on location and the lack of infrastructure I told my friends who are officers of The Hazzard Knytes, if this did not go this time I was out of media. Well it didn't and the lord above must have been making me hold up to that since due to a trailer truck of manure I not only lost most of my radio gear but nearly lost my soul and nearly became homeless. If it had not been for AyreWolf Aviation paying bills I would have. After that decided to get to living near Hazzard so moved to Heyburn Idaho. Just to get a shop, turn wrenches and go tow and fly. Heyburn was chosen since it was near an airport where I could fly home if I wanted to and hoof a few blocks to where I lived. In August of 2007 after feuding with a TV station in Twin Falls to get the words out about AyreWolf Aviation I tuned to KPIF CH-15 out of the Pocatello Idaho area, and thought this would be a new way to tell the story about AyreWolf Aviation and Dixie Towing to those who needed their fields sprayed by air as well as needing a tow. After a few cell phone calls and all Brian and I decided that I might be a prime candidate for buying KPIF. Once again I was back in the media business, something that I swore I'd never do again and something that is starting to being again a bad taste in my mouth. After that due to a serious failure to communicate I moved to Pocatello . Which since I wished I had not done. The reception I have gotten in being here has been rather foul to say the least. The fact too that after a serious winter where real money could have been making me real money is why I'm getting really cold feet about media anything. Looking back on the deal in leaving Bountiful in 2006, If I had taken that same $2,900.00 and put that into a bigger shop there and rebuilt my tow trucks built a hangar near Tooele Utah for my byrds and all the $ signs and what I lost then just like this last few months just makes my innerds churn. As I got final approach to land in Jerome yesterday evening I thought as far as media its okay to treat it like a hobby, do a show or two on our local cable access channel here in Pocatello is fine past that even if I do complete the deal about buying KPIF and all I need to own it from a distance, let Brian run it like he is and that be that. As I drove home on my highway I called Brian found he dislocated some bone nerve and was not doing well. After we concluded the cell phone call, I got to thinking again. My main need is to fly, and tow. Not so much media crap. And too albeit its great for KPIF but if Brian along with others put as much time into finding me a honey to produce a few TV ad's, as he has done with the open talent call for America's Next Top Model. And we had done a open casting call at the same place or some other location a concept I'm going to chat with Brian about here over a few days, but if he had done the effort of finding me some show stopping honey for my ads, not only would Brian and another station made money from me but I could have made real $'s this past winter. That said I have decided to find the talent and produce my own ads using the gear from ch-12 our cable access channel here in Pocatello, first for AyreWolf Aviation then down the avenue so-to-speak do an ad complete with toe kiss for Dixie Towing, for release this fall. Beyond that 90% of my time is going to be in flying 5% into going towing and rebuilding my shop and then do my bit on CH-12 here. Past that who needs this grief. But I am in belief that when one looks at life from 20,000 feet the whole experience makes one see new horizons.
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