Mom's 90th Birthday
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Hopper Has Hospital Visit
Sir Hops-A-Lot got in a cat fight. He had to get shaved on the left side of his face.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Up On The Roof Top
I heard very loud noises on the roof this sunny afternoon. When I went out to investigate, I found Sir Hopps A-lot on the roof. A blue jay was dive bombing him.
I have not a clue how he gets up there but I got photos of how he gets down.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Promotion Night
We had a promotion ceremony at the squadron Tuesday March 13th. I got my promotion to Lt Col.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
February
I was called for a missing aircraft search on Feb 4th in Eastern Arkansas. We flew a parallel track East to West from roughly Jonesboro to the Mississippi river. It was a beautiful sunny day. I thought "good, scanning flat terrain for a change". However, a lot of ice remained from the previous ice/snow storm and the glare off the ice was incredible. The aircraft was later located in Alabama.
Then Tuesday Feb 5th around 11:45 pm I got called for a ground search around the Lost Bridge area. A signal from an ELT, emergency locator transmitter, from an aircraft had been picked up by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center. We left the hangar around 12:30 and spent the entire night in the boondocks taking readings, triangulating coordinates, and tramping through the woods. It's very hard at night since we cannot go onto private property without permission and who wants to go knocking on doors at that time of night? It turned out to be an aircraft that was having some maintenance done and the mechanic had disconnected the ELT but failed to turn it off. I got home about 9:30 the next morning.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Christmas Car Crash
My sister Catherine got clobbered in an accident just 20 minutes after leaving Ft. Smith on the 26th. Traveling in the left lane, she was hit by a lady changing lanes at an entrance ramp. The state trooper that was attempting to merge onto I40 got hit by both the lady's car and Cathy's car. She had to correct right to keep from going into head-on traffic on the opposite side of the interstate. Cathy's beautiful Saab was creamed and sits in a tow yard in Sallisaw. She is all bruised up from her seat belt but at least it saved her. I never knew what a hassle it is getting back home when you are in a accident that totals your car. Insurance pays for thirty days of rental car but if you don't take it back to the place you got it, you have to fork over a $250 drop fee. We went through all kinds of scenarios of me driving her there and flying back, $400. Her flying and trying to mail all her stuff back to Dallas, $500. Me taking my car to Dallas & back, Joe thought my car was not in good enough shape. Finally, Bill drove her down and is spending the night. What a Christmas!!
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Monday Spent at XNA
CAP got tickets to the Presidential visit to NWA on Monday the 6th. Left home around 11:30 - got back home around 8 pm. We were packed in the hangar like sardines and nearly every time you put your camera in the air to get a photo you ended up with a picture of other cameras or pom poms. I got a couple of usable ones. We have one CAP member who in the very tall and has a great camera. He was able to get some great pictures.
Friday, November 03, 2006
The flowers in my garden were absolutely stunning this year. Alas, the frost last night finally got them. I planted most of them from those 10 cent seed packets and they survived without watering when I was out of town for staff college and the trip to Virginia & DC. Many of the bedding plants and baskets that I bought didn't make it through.
Cosmos
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