Pictures from back in the day…

Fun times… This is what is known as a Mark On Top (MOT). Not my picture, but I’ve seen this view a few times, including ‘certain’ waters where the boat was completely submerged, but still visible… And yes, biologists are … Continue reading

And another airplane…

Made its debut 51 years ago, February 9th, 1969… At least Boeing saved this one… And it became known as the 100 or SP series. The upstairs portion in the hump behind the cockpit was depending on the airline, either … Continue reading

A look back at luxury…

Stuffed in the back of the sardine can on the way back from SLC yesterday, got pretzels and a little glass of Coke… sigh… Granted it was a quicker trip, but… An interesting bit of history that most of you … Continue reading

On the road again…

At Life The Universe and Everything in Utah through Sunday. LTUE is a writer centric con with over 200 panels covering a wealth of information. Their website is HERE. Doing a few panels- Colonizing the Sea: Living on and under … Continue reading

Are the times right???

I was first in Italy in the summer of 1969, and I remember the tension then… While there are some in the United States who believe we are headed toward another Civil War, there is perhaps another, more recent parallel worth … Continue reading

Power… sigh…

Apparently the ‘outage’ was ‘local’ and restored after we left this morning. PP is home and resting ‘semi-comfortably’… Operation was successful, and the labrum was repaired, along with scar tissue clean up from the previous surgery. I’m glad that is … Continue reading

Grrr…

Surgery moved to tomorrow… Maybe… Maybe power and maybe no power… Third world California strikes again. And dogs… I thought Vito was bad, but there was only ONE of him. Karl (light color) and Koda (dark color), are licking and … Continue reading

On the road again…

Travelling out to NORCAL, posting will be light to non-existent for the next couple of weeks. PP will be operated on tomorrow, and I’ll be trying to corral two single digit midgets, plus two pups… Pray for me… I’m going … Continue reading

Well, that’s done…

50th HS reunion is done. It was ‘interesting’ to put it mildly. Some folks were recognizable right off, others not so much. And at least one couple must have pictures of Dorian Gray in their closet somewhere… Sigh… We had … Continue reading

50 years…

50 years ago I graduated from here… The sign wasn’t electronic, and where the flags are was the parking lot… And the arch led to the football field… Now that’s the ‘practice/PE’ field and there is a new 10,000 seat … Continue reading