SEQUIM — Mike Heacock called his sweetheart’s sons, Jason and Jeremy, to ask for their blessing. He was planning to propose to their mother, Ms. Wright.
The sons extended their good wishes, and Heacock got out the golf balls.
Two hundred of them.
A week ago Thursday, shortly before Gaylen Wright was to fly into the Sequim airstrip, Heacock used the golf balls and a roll and a quarter of toilet paper to pop the question in cursive script in his back yard.
“Initially I didn’t see it,” said Wright, who’s been flying her Cessna 182 from Seattle to Sequim for the past year to visit her man.
Heacock had told her to look down at some new raised flower beds that he’d built.
“He sounded relaxed,” on the phone. “I thought he was just out working in the yard.”
They weren’t flowerbeds
Wright scanned the land for the flowerbeds — and saw this other project.
A pilot since 1999, she had to do several flyovers to make sure she was reading Heacock’s message right.
“The word ‘marry’ was pretty prominent,” she said later.
Her answer was yes, and the next morning they went aloft again, so Heacock could photograph his work while Wright concentrated on piloting her plane.
His next message may have to be: When will you move here?
