Three planes and 22 hours in flight...

It was a trip to visit Pat's Dad and introduce him to E.Bet Yeager, our six-year-old roughneck (she never would have had any of those troubles I had working in the oil patch).


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on an internet search to see if a Nissan pickup really saved an airliner with non-functioning front landing gear ( Read more... )

I've been getting my exercize--no more 20 years in a cubicle ( Read more... )

the apple tree is in full production, we are gonna have a lot of apples. We went out and bought a fruit picker at discount mart, and are all geared up for trimming. We got an estimate of $1500 for trimming and cutting two trees, and removing a juniper bush the size of a 1960 Ford Fairlane, so we decided to give it a try ourselves ( Read more... )

We've been playing some games these days ( Read more... )

All the CJ Cherryh I've been re-reading!

when searching by the author's name doesn't pull up a hit...

It was Koko the Mighty by Kieran Shea- oops mis-spelled the author's name by one letter. Remembreed one work of the title, though.

However, he (assuming Kieran) has TWO books, amazon! Found it by searching "Mighty * SF"

Didn't that get me a lot of macho bluster...

and pitch in some here, so not on Lj as much as I would have liked ( Read more... )

and luckily have a 5-year old and an 8-year old to show us how to use them ( Read more... )

We're trying to teach DK how to not fall for bullies in the third grade. As she shrinks from aggression, and has fully interiorized the school precept "no fighting", several of the self-considered tough kids have taken to chasing, pushing and hitting her ( Read more... )