farmgirl19
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Too late to plan for this year, but maybe for 2014 or 2015 we can make a party trip to Oshkosh! I'll bet you and I could have a blast looking at old aircraft, bindian! Maybe make a TBN, Texas group party of it!
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Too late to plan for this year, but maybe for 2014 or 2015 we can make a party trip to Oshkosh! I'll bet you and I could have a blast looking at old aircraft, bindian! Maybe make a TBN, Texas group party of it!
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Bird
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I've only been in a float plane once and that was a Cessna 210 from Lake Hood in Anchorage out to a wilderness lake and back.
I've only been in Alaska during the summer myself, but my Dad always hated winters in Texas and Oklahoma, loved the summers, didn't have air-conditioning in the house or in his business, said air-conditioning wasn't needed, but he and Mother moved to Anchorage in October, 1965, lived there until the Spring of 1972, and then still went back every summer for several more years. I knew my Dad always liked hunting and fishing, but could hardly believe he'd enjoy being out in the snow hunting moose, caribou, snowshoe hares, etc.
farmgirl19
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If it weren't for the drag, bird, I'd say we need to get a really neat float plane for our TBN Texas group going to Oshkosh. If course, it might take us a couple of months to get there, with those pontoons hanging underneath us! However, with enough time to plan for the "pay hit", I'd be willing to make that trek! We'd sure have fun anyway!
farmgirl19
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Ok, since y'all have been nice, I'll post some pics from Oshkosh, and me and the J-3 Cub, and a couple of others. I grant you, the last stop was due to a fog bank, so had no chance to get a motel room to clean up and try to look good. I was just trying to get the aircraft there before the judging was going on. (What I was supposed to do!) So, the pics (of me) leave a LOT to be desired, but I still wouldn't take a million dollars for the experience and trip! First one to make a tacky remark, buys the booze for the rest of us in a couple of years!
If I look horrible, ask me what I had for instruments and ability to get there. 3 days in the air, is not good for one's looks, just for one's soul!
PS. Pacerron, is the cap familiar? :laughing:
If I look horrible, ask me what I had for instruments and ability to get there. 3 days in the air, is not good for one's looks, just for one's soul!
PS. Pacerron, is the cap familiar? :laughing:
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RobertBrown
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Ever been to Sun and Fun?
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farmgirl19
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It is in FTW this year, so I'll be there! Maybe we can have the first TBN "meet up" be there in Oct.!
EDIT: Beg your pardon, that isn't Oct. this year, rather next Spring. I know fun is coming up Oct,, this year a FTW, and I plan to attend
EDIT: Beg your pardon, that isn't Oct. this year, rather next Spring. I know fun is coming up Oct,, this year a FTW, and I plan to attend
jinman
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Again, nice photos FG. Remember, this is TBN, we like girls who have dirty hands and less-than-perfect hair.
My wife had my grandson to the doctor this afternoon for a sports physical. I got a ton of stuff done in town early afternoon (recorded a deed and got my new driver's license). While my wife was gone with my grandson, I started making bread and butter squash pickles. She got home and we just finished up. We canned a gallon of yellow squash pickles and a gallon of zucchini pickles. I think I used about half the squash we had and the neighbor stopped by to take some and some tomatoes. The garden waits for no man. It just keeps cranking out veggies and I have to keep up or be covered.
My wife had my grandson to the doctor this afternoon for a sports physical. I got a ton of stuff done in town early afternoon (recorded a deed and got my new driver's license). While my wife was gone with my grandson, I started making bread and butter squash pickles. She got home and we just finished up. We canned a gallon of yellow squash pickles and a gallon of zucchini pickles. I think I used about half the squash we had and the neighbor stopped by to take some and some tomatoes. The garden waits for no man. It just keeps cranking out veggies and I have to keep up or be covered.
RobertBrown
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My friend has had three taildraggers, 2 Aeronca's, a Chief, and a Champ, and now he has an Interstate. I've flown with him many times.
Few people understand the difficulty in landing a taildragger. But once you've landed in a crosswind, you get it...it's crystal clear.
Few people understand the difficulty in landing a taildragger. But once you've landed in a crosswind, you get it...it's crystal clear.
RobertBrown
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Again, nice photos FG. Remember, this is TBN, we like girls who have dirty hands and less-than-perfect hair.
My wife had my grandson to the doctor this afternoon for a sports physical. I got a ton of stuff done in town early afternoon (recorded a deed and got my new driver's license). While my wife was gone with my grandson, I started making bread and butter squash pickles. She got home and we just finished up. We canned a gallon of yellow squash pickles and a gallon of zucchini pickles. I think I used about half the squash we had and the neighbor stopped by to take some and some tomatoes. The garden waits for no man. It just keeps cranking out veggies and I have to keep up or be covered.
How about sharing the pickling recipe?....I'd rather just have the pickles :thumbsup::dance1:
jinman
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Robert, we had some pickling mix from Walmart that needed to be used, so we just used that. No mystery to our recipe. I hope it's good. We'll know in 3 to 5 days.
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Robert, the Heliocourier we experimented with in 1973 was a taildragger, but had crosswind landing gear. That's a bit different.
farmgirl19
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Robert; Do you want for yellow squash or zucchini squash? I have recipes for pickling both!
farmgirl19
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What a nice way to call it, jinman; Less than perfect hair. :laughing: I am used to being dirty, but getting there before the judging was the priority in that trip. Anything about looks took a VERY DISTANT second.
bindian
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FG,
It's a date. With or without anyone else! Texas TBN at Oshkosh would be a hoot!
hugs, Brandi
farmgirl19
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pacerron: Your place is sure green and lovely, right now! Those deer are very pretty, too! I have deer here, but usually hear them, and catch glimpses of them playing, before it gets a hint of light outdoors, as I sit on the porch and drink my morning coffee when temps are nice enough. I left an area untouched, in a pasture, last time I brush hogged. I could see where deer had been bedding down, and didn't want to take away their "shelter".
My place may never be that green again.
My place may never be that green again.
jinman
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One of the benefits of living in a mostly rural county is the county/state offices are not always packed. I keep hearing horror stories about trying to get a drivers license in Dallas or Ft Worth. Some of the pictures of lines there a bit frightening. Yesterday, I went to the Wise County Clerks office at 3:00 PM to record a deed I recently received on a my paid-off land from the Texas Veterans Land Board. The parking lot had about 20 open spaces, and when I walked inside, all three customer service agents were open. I was the only one there and was finished and out in less than 10 minutes. I needed to get a renewal sticker for tags for my dump trailer, so I next went to the County Tax Office. It was the same, 4 windows and nobody there but me. I got my sticker and was out the door in record time.
After a brief stop at Walmart to pick up some vinegar for pickling, I went on to the Dept of Public Safety Driver License Office. I got the first spot in the parking lot beyond the handicapped spot. When I walked in, all four agents were busy and four people were waiting in line. As it turned out, all four people were together to get one license, so I moved up to an agent right away. I had remembered to bring my Veteran's Administration yearly letter declaring my disability so I could get a vet's designation on my license. The letter the state sent me said either a DD214 or the veteran's letter would do. The clerk seemed to not know for sure if the letter would work until I showed her where it said it would on the renewal notice. She asked another more experienced clerk and she said it was fine. She asked my clerk if I was disabled 60% or more. My clerk first said she didn't know until I showed her on the letter where it said that I was 60% disabled and honorably discharged. The more experienced clerk said that was good enough and they would wave my $25 renewal fee so that my license was free.:thumbsup: So, in record time, I got my license renewed and it didn't cost me anything. Gosh! I love this state.
After a brief stop at Walmart to pick up some vinegar for pickling, I went on to the Dept of Public Safety Driver License Office. I got the first spot in the parking lot beyond the handicapped spot. When I walked in, all four agents were busy and four people were waiting in line. As it turned out, all four people were together to get one license, so I moved up to an agent right away. I had remembered to bring my Veteran's Administration yearly letter declaring my disability so I could get a vet's designation on my license. The letter the state sent me said either a DD214 or the veteran's letter would do. The clerk seemed to not know for sure if the letter would work until I showed her where it said it would on the renewal notice. She asked another more experienced clerk and she said it was fine. She asked my clerk if I was disabled 60% or more. My clerk first said she didn't know until I showed her on the letter where it said that I was 60% disabled and honorably discharged. The more experienced clerk said that was good enough and they would wave my $25 renewal fee so that my license was free.:thumbsup: So, in record time, I got my license renewed and it didn't cost me anything. Gosh! I love this state.
bindian
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Ok, since y'all have been nice, I'll post some pics from Oshkosh, and me and the J-3 Cub, and a couple of others. I grant you, the last stop was due to a fog bank, so had no chance to get a motel room to clean up and try to look good. I was just trying to get the aircraft there before the judging was going on. (What I was supposed to do!) So, the pics (of me) leave a LOT to be desired, but I still wouldn't take a million dollars for the experience and trip! First one to make a tacky remark, buys the booze for the rest of us in a couple of years!
If I look horrible, ask me what I had for instruments and ability to get there. 3 days in the air, is not good for one's looks, just for one's soul!
PS. Pacerron, is the cap familiar? :laughing:
I can not decide which photo I like better. Oh what the heck, I like them all!
hugs, Brandi
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Yep, they all look good to me, but I like the first one in front of that yellow Piper best.
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FG,, I like the second one with the guy behind you walking in place,, shows action, movement and sense of what is out there.. But there is a lot of things I like,, fire on a cold winter night or walking in snow with someone I like or some rain on my hay fields would be nice.:laughing:.
I like going thru life without feeling no pain,, or talking to people about half sane,:confused2:, or the things we like and love,:confused3:, you know like a twelve pack of ice cold bud.:drink::laughing:. Lou
. But there is a lot of things I like,, fire on a cold winter night or walking in snow with someone I like or some rain on my hay fields would be nice.:laughing:.I like going thru life without feeling no pain,, or talking to people about half sane,:confused2:, or the things we like and love,:confused3:, you know like a twelve pack of ice cold bud.:drink::laughing:. Lou
farmgirl19
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jinman; Really neat that you got so much done, without the lines and all. Yes, that is a big plus of rural living!
