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There are a surprising number of experimental aircraft from the late 1920'-30's in this video that actually flew. Some darn clever innovations. The pilots here will really dig it... and since my Beautiful Witch got a kick out of it, perhaps somma you normals would like it.

If you look at the clip of the "Flying Potato" where it is coming right at you, it is exactly the profile of a Cessna Spam Can.
 
There are a surprising number of experimental aircraft from the late 1920'-30's in this video that actually flew. Some darn clever innovations. The pilots here will really dig it... and since my Beautiful Witch got a kick out of it, perhaps somma you normals would like it.

If you look at the clip of the "Flying Potato" where it is coming right at you, it is exactly the profile of a Cessna Spam Can.

Walt ever watch the youtube video on the old planes they find in hangers stored for years
The darn things start right up with a little work
 
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Gooode morning brothers and sisters of the sacred herb! What a lovely new wet day in Paradise at 62F with 95% RH, rain and predicted to reach 64F.

Yesterday I whomped up some cottage eggs for breakfast and a batch of Creme Brule, including one fresh cherry one that is alas now gone. Breakfast out this morning with NM at Gravy and then some shopping for gate parts to finish the security gate between ours and our neighbors garages.

I ordered a 4' X 10' heavy red cedar planter for the back yard delivered for $200 and it is due next week. At the price of lumber, my labor to gather the materials and build it would be pretty cheap.

I finished my PT yesterday and made an appointment to see a back specialist to see what she recommends.

The cleaning ladies postponed this week's cleaning until this morning, so after breakfast me and the brown eyed girl are headed for Fernhill dog park for some socializing and serious ball chasing.

Grayfox will be back from her annual week at the Ashland Shakespearean Festival midafternoon today, so things will be back to normal and the good times rolling.
 
Gonna be a hot one here, too. Supposed to get up to a blistering 76 degrees. The lawn is still wet with dew and needs cutting. Hoping it'll burn off soon so I can get it cut before beer thirty. Getting thirsty just thinking about it.


I knew it!!! The hardest-case bastages are the utter softest inside. When I go to my neighbor's pond, the fish come to the edge and the turtles come out to get treats. Yeah, and I have both feeder and raccoon-accessible plates. Bunnies and peacocks come to my back door, looking for nummies

While I am on the subject, I have a koan to handle.

Squirrels will destroy a mango tree crop. They take bites out of green hanging fruit, looking for any that are ripe enough. While they are welcome to the daily feedings at the proper place along with all the other wildies, the mango tree is verboten.

My problem: There is a giant new squirrel nest IN the top of my mango tree. There are no fruit yet, not even flowers... but what do I do?

Air strike?
 
I knew it!!! The hardest-case bastages are the utter softest inside. When I go to my neighbor's pond, the fish come to the edge and the turtles come out to get treats. Yeah, and I have both feeder and raccoon-accessible plates. Bunnies and peacocks come to my back door, looking for nummies

While I am on the subject, I have a koan to handle.

Squirrels will destroy a mango tree crop. They take bites out of green hanging fruit, looking for any that are ripe enough. While they are welcome to the daily feedings at the proper place along with all the other wildies, the mango tree is verboten.

My problem: There is a giant new squirrel nest IN the top of my mango tree. There are no fruit yet, not even flowers... but what do I do?
Do you have neighbors? Them squirrels destroy everything. A .22LR will take care of them, if you don't have neighbors in that direction.
 
blackberries. I was just excited about how well they are growing and wanted to show someone.

Blackberries do so well in these parts that they take over if given an inch. As bad as bamboo or Johnson Grass......... Ostensibly a less common thread would be how someone successfully controlled them.

Extremely tasty and a visiting businessman was so impressed that he ordered enough seeds to plant 100,000 acres. He received two seeds in the mail and pruning shears .
 

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