A Day at the Airport

This video starts our day at the
airport. A small plane taking off.
It looks like a Cherokee 140, which
is a small four seat airplane.


























These last two pictures show that this
is a small airport. Mostly private pilots
and instructors fly here. They do get a
few business jets and helicopters.













This is Cloudhands standing next to a
small fast homebuilt that flew in
for this event.














This is me in the middle and a friend
on the left of the picture. E.B. will
be 90 on his next birthday. His flying
days are over because of his eyesight
but he still gets rides in the small
planes fairly often. I will be 70
on my next birthday and I can still
fly. I sometimes get folks who have
never flown tell me how an airplane
is suppose to work. Most of the time
they are not right, but since it won't
cost me money or my life I just let
them talk. The same thing is happening
with the Global Warming scam. This is
an issue that I have studied for
almost 20 years and I am still not sure
who is right. I usually try to follow
the money and I have noticed that Al
Gore has gotten wealthy and so have
others pushing this issue. G. E. stands
to make tons of money over this issue.
The new Cap and Tax that Obama is pushing
will cost folks a lot of money. A lot
of seniors are tapped out with heating
cost and can't afford any more! This is
an issue that I have to talk about
because it could cost me a lot of money
that I don't have. It probably won't kill
me but I may have to give up some of my
medicines which could kill me. I spend
a lot of time at Dr. Roy Spencer's site
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Silver Haired Daddy of mine is a song
that I heard my Dad sing many times.
Cloudhands Daddy use to sing it a lot
also. I guess memories of you father
good or bad cause you to wax sentimental.
This band was at the airport event all
afternoon. They were enjoyed by all.














Future pilot? This little girls mother
is an accomplished pilot with just about
all the ratings you can have in the pilot
world. She is an instrument rated multi-
engine rated pilot with an instructors
certificate. What more could a kid ask
for in a mama?

High Flight

High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
by John Gillespie Magee

In this picture I am at about 9000ft above
Florida. I had left Pinconning, Michigan the
day before. I stopped in Crossville, Tennessee
and spent the night with my mother and father-
in-law after 6hrs of flight and will be landing
at Tampa Bay Executive airport.














This is a view of our home near Almont
Michigan. We lived there for about 14
years. It was about 2 miles from the
airport that I learned to fly at. I am
probably about 2-3000 ft above the
ground in this picture.















This is a view of the airport where
I trained for my pilots license, which
I got in 1984. We eventually bought a
home that joined this little airport.














This is my first airplane. It is an
Eagle ultralight. I saw one of these
flying in a TV movie and had to have
one. I didn't need a pilots license
to fly this ultralight.














This was my second airplane. It
is a 4 seat Cessna Skyhawk(172).
This is the plane that I finished
my license training in. I had two
more Skyhawks after this one. I
had partners in all of the Skyhawks.
Made flying more affordable.

Melody of Love

Forty Nine years and wanting more.
Happy 49th wedding anniversary sweet
wife.
Music by Billy Vaughn

A short Walk

These are some of the folks I meet on my walk
in the neighborhood. You will need to expand
the picture to see them














If you look closely you can see two Japanese
beetles making little Japanese beetles.















It is really interesting the different configurations
that the mushrooms have taken this year. May be the
extra rain that we have had this year.














More mushrooms. It has been a wet summer
this year. It's good for some things and
not so good for others. Either way, we like
it.














Grand niece looking cute as usual. Our
little creek has been flowing great this
year.














This is a large geode stone from
Kentucky that is at the entrance to
our labyrinth. This geode is about
12' by 12" in size.















This is a fairly large Petoskey stone from
the state of Michigan. If you look close
you can see the sea creatures in the stone.
This stone is about 6" long.














This is another example of the growth of
the mushrooms this year. Nature is an amazing
thing.