Good morning!!!!

[bakerg]

Right...who wants to hang around you guys, who do nothing but insult me?

I don't think I ever installed you.

 

[300UGUY]

Thank you for the kind words, they mean a lot.

Sometimes I do feel like hopping on a plane and getting out of here (as much as I love my homeland) but I can't for a multitude of reasons.

Hopefully I'll find employment soon, but until then I'll while away the hours winding up JDgreen227 :laughing:


Good luck, boy. Things will get better.
Speaking of which, is Bill still around?

Good luck, boy. Things will get better.

 

[300UGUY]

Right...who wants to hang around you guys, who do nothing but insult me?

I don't insult you. In fact, you might be a hero around here. Been a long time since I tried being a gigalo. You seem to be doing VERY well!!

Maybe we should bow down and chant " All hail Bill!!!"

 

[daugen]

now it's getting deep around here...going to need a strong FEL to push it all out of the barn...

A quiet, hot Sunday morning here, going up again into the mid 90's with an excessive heat warning out.
Have to chuckle about that, it would be a cool day for some of you Texans. sort of like the Vermonters laughing at us
below them worrying about an inch of snow.

I read somewhere that Texas has five distinct regions; now all this rain/no rain is beginning to make more sense.

going out to look at a motorhome tomorrow morning. Hoping we can take some small trips with that while Nadene's health is precariously stable for the moment. We went to the garden, at her insistence, the next day out of the hospital last week, with my carefully holding her hand.
And like a little kid, she squealed something about discovering something new, spun away from me, took five steps, tripped over the landscape fabric and fell hard onto the ground. Oh no. Took me a while to get her up, thank goodness the ground had been watered and had some softness to it and she fell "well". May have cracked a rib, she's pretty sore. Definitely shook her up and rattled her cage, which is not what we want at all. That sure ended our garden visit for the day. But we'll likely go up for a visit today. She wants to hunt for cucumbers and I think today we'll pick the celery and the few onions we planted. and maybe another shovel of potatoes.

As I've mentioned before, I act as a caretaker to a very beautiful private estate/farm not far from where I grew up. They allowed us to put in a 5000 sf garden on their property, which we scratched out of a fallow farm field. I jokingly call the property owners the Duke and Duchess of Windybush (name of the road) and I am merely their humble land serf. One who must bring tributes to the Duke, in the form of a sampling of garden veggies, which they always like. I hope they like hot peppers, we have them coming in like crazy now, planted by mistake frankly, and we don't eat them. I have to be careful even touching them when I'm sweaty; rub a little of that in your eye...

And her hand will not get out of mine. that's ok, we are hand holders from the very beginning.

So today we pick veggies, tomorrow we look at a motorhome, and most importantly, we start interviewing health aides for home. Need to hire someone for four hours a day, five days a week. It's taken me a long time to come to this but I can't do it all any more.
Hopefully we can find someone nadene can have fun with, go food shopping with, whatever. She has a nurse come in twice a week, so this is basic living help. I want to remember my wife for all her wonderful things, not an end game of changing diapers. After six years of taking care of her, dozens of operations, maybe thirty hospital stays, I know I need help. My clutch is beginning to slip...

Ok, back to positive things, on a lovely Sunday morning.
Wishing you all peace and happiness.

 

[jmurray01]

Good morning folks.

It's a beautiful day here in Scotland this morning, lovely and sunny but terribly bad for my hayfever!

I woke up with a sore throat and a caffeine (or lack of) related headache.

I'm almost half way through my second cup of coffee and both ailments are going away.

Just as I was going to sleep last night I saw a headline on my mobile (cell) phone saying a Boeing had crash landed in San Francisco. Not wishing to go downstairs at midnight and power up the PC I left it and checked it a minute ago - unfortunately there have been two deaths and a lot of injuries.

Here is a link to an article about it: Boeing Plane Crash Lands

I'm sure you will all join me on this Lord's day in a prayer for all affected people and their families.

Apparently the pilots had 10,000 hours of flying time and had met the standards, but that begs the question - are the standards high enough? If there were no engine or mechanical problems, was it pilot error? If so, questions have to be asked and actions taken.

 

[sam5570]

good morning got rain now 80% today 90% tonight. dog days or here so what we have is what we get for next month and 1/2. everyone have a great day.

 

[jinman]

Yep, Jaime, there are lots of questions to be answered by the flight recorder. It sure looks like that airplane came in too low under glideslope and decided to try an emergency go-around at a time when it didn't have enough speed or altitude to complete the maneuver. Probably couldn't get the flaps up in time, and thankfully did not raise the gear so it cushioned the landing. It essentially stalled in a nose-up configuration and dragged the tail across the rock berm wall bordering the bay. It's an amazing thing that the whole fuselage did not come apart at the impact with the runway. The loss of two lives is horrible and there are still 10 critical. The rest of the passengers seem to have walked away in what is nothing less than a miracle. I think everyone will be interested to know if it was equipment or pilot error. The flight recorder should clear up all of that.

 

[deerseeker001]

good morning its over cast and humid 65 degrees with chance of showers later topping out at 81.

 

[jmurray01]

Yep, Jaime, there are lots of questions to be answered by the flight recorder. It sure looks like that airplane came in too low under glideslope and decided to try an emergency go-around at a time when it didn't have enough speed or altitude to complete the maneuver. Probably couldn't get the flaps up in time, and thankfully did not raise the gear so it cushioned the landing. It essentially stalled in a nose-up configuration and dragged the tail across the rock berm wall bordering the bay. It's an amazing thing that the whole fuselage did not come apart at the impact with the runway. The loss of two lives is horrible and there are still 10 critical. The rest of the passengers seem to have walked away in what is nothing less than a miracle. I think everyone will be interested to know if it was equipment or pilot error. The flight recorder should clear up all of that.

Yes that was what I imagine happened as well. Very fortunate indeed that the plane didn't tear apart completely.

If this is pilot error I hope the rules are changed so more flying time is required before pilots can fly commercial planes, but I doubt it. Or maybe I'm just cynical.

Time - as always - will tell!

 

[toppop52]

Beautiful morning, they cut the wheat across from our house yesterday so the field is green again. Umbrella shopping online and doing nothing, easy but bad habit to engage. Have a great day!