12 Aug, 2008 -- Eureka! (No, not the vacuum)

How marvelous! I can take a photo from the airplane, Lightroom will take the latitude longitude information from the digital photo, and lay that photo right on the google earth map. It only took me a week to figure it out. Now, what to do with it... The professor's computer geek Vicky in
Rolla is as delighted as I am. I sent her about 1,600 photos thereabouts, of Missouri and Iowa. I'm done, she's just beginning. This will actually rotate Google Earth to match the direction of the photo, which was southbound. Unbelievable.

Oh, by the way, that's Grant, Iowa.

And, Fonda, I have invented the dual monitor setup. Where's my Nobel prize? Egad, where have I been hiding? Lightroom, Google Maps, Google Earth, Photoshop, all on the same screen. Not any mooorre!

Well, Smudge had to have his Pringles this morning, then some lap time. Biggest feet on the planet! Now, here's Bitty Dainty Feet War Kitten...

Briggs brought Bitty a present today, and she lost it in the hangar somewhere.

11 Aug., 2008 - Pringles for breakfast

After opening the shop door this morning, I picked out some Pringles, pizza flavored, for my breakfast snack. Well... whine whine meow meow... Smudge wouldn't leave me alone, so he and Bitty got a breakfast snack, too. sheeeesh.

I stirred the dirt in a big flower pot this evening and out popped these potatoes, and a cluster of onions. Save the root end of onions from the store, push them into the soil, and they grow a new onion.

Nibbling on the last of the blueberries. That's a fruit leather, made from blackberry mash I saved in the freezer. Lots of seeds, but good flavor. I've been too lazy this summer to pick fresh blackberries. Well, really haven't taken the time, and don't need any more chigger bites,
already have plenty, thank you.

10 Aug., 2008 -- The days I didn't post

Here are a few pictures that didn't get posted while I was in MO & IA shooting corn fields. That's Randy & Fonda & Lad on the ramp at Boone.

And, hey, there's Grant! Oh, it's Grant, Iowa. There's a Fonda, Iowa, also, but I couldn't find it.

Sam has a complete collection of crocks, and a very organized collection of license plates. Ole Ted, just keeps pumping that gas. It was very hot those days at Marshall.

Interesting patterns in Missouri fields, crop rotation.

There are wind farms going up in northern MO, and in IA.

Got out of Iowa just in time.

Larry and Juanita manned the airport at 1MO while I was gone.

The brown recluse was in the shop sink this morning.

9 Aug., 2008 -- Some Saturday airport stuff

After breakfast at Willow Springs Saturday morning, Ben and Scott flew to Lebanon in the Sport.

Sporty wheel pants, eh? Cessna 150 taildragger.

Roy, meanwhile, kept working. It wasn't hot today, just a sprinkle now & then in the afternoon.

8 8 08 -- D8re ya, d8re ya, d0uble d8re ya...

I dare you, just guess this guy's last name!

Easier: guess the model. From St. Louis, a day late.

Isn't that a pretty airport?

Roy's been mowing more hay today. Loretta drove in to deliver him some refreshments. She opened the trunk to carry home a tractor part, and ...

egad! Loretta, where's your winter emergency clothes? Where's your bungee cords? Where's your sleeping bag? Where's your empty oil cans? Where's your operator's manual? Where's your used empty zip-lock bags? Where's your jumper cables? Where's your camp shovel? Where's your rags? Where's your power inverter? Where's your spare fuses? Where's your TOOL
BOX???

Roy dangle-waggled his slip-joint pliers like a dainty teacup, from the tractor, "Here's Loretta's tool box... hee hee."

So, what's in your trunk? (Uh, oh, another theme, another project).

Now, I dare you. Would YOU put your hand in there to pet Briggs, the elder War Kitten? Double dare?

All arms and legs.

I almost forgot, Roy reported catching a bluegill. Well, a couple other species, too, but he wasn't bragging about it.

7 Aug., 2008 .. Red Sky At Night

Red Sky At Night, Sailor's Delight, right?

Well, boys, here's something that will delight you. Not serious, I hope. Also, at 60 hours, the 180 is due for an oil change. Aren't you glad to see that you will have something to do.

By golly, the crack-o-dawn fellow from Colorado didn't show up. Of course, there were massive storms between MO and CO, that's called KS. But even the guy who called from St. Louis didn't show up, either. Whodathunkit.

Roy's going fishing in the morning, got some boat gas. He had to move the boat to mow under it, no sense wasting that effort. He said somebody was catching a few white bass... he knew he could do better.

Yak, Yak, Yak and another Yak

I tried posting this last night, but for some reason it didn't go, so trying again...

Just after Grandma Airplane departed Boone Airport last Sunday, these 4 came sauntering in, from OshKosh to destinations scattered across the US. Randy said they were Yaks, I dunno. They bunched up and came in plop, plop, fizz, fizz and rallied around the gas pump!!!