Happy Birthday USA!

Many thanks to those who served, gave and sacrificed so that we may enjoy our freedom!

Ken

Son Of Medicine Man

Bockscar

Yeah Ken;

The stay over for two nights was about $70 a night? :$140

The food and extras about another $100

The gas, three tanks, about $40 each :$120

So even on the cheap this year will set me back about $400 minimum by car.

Expedia has a round trip fare starting at $603 to Toledo if I hitch a ride with Rich,

and $602 direct to Dayton. The same expenses plus cab, That's about an $850 trip by air.

That's a lot of cash right now, either way.

Hi Dom,

That is the reason I was suggesting the camping thing.  I have a tent that is big enough for two people, and if you need, I can probably even dig up another air mattress and sleeping bag.  We can buy groceries and cook our meals there at the campsite saving more money.

That being said, if you could schedule it when you could take your time coming down, then be able to spend a few days here to make the trip worth while, and have enough time to take your time driving back.  We would also need to wait until this heat wave passes.  100 degrees Fahrenheit is way too hot to spend in a tent!

Ken

I camp every year. Prawlum is the overall cost. I wish I had company to split the driving to Dayton, that would make all the difference. But they prawley wouldn't want to camp.

I dunno, i'll buy a house in Dayton as a cottage...yeah....

Dom

65 mustang. Only ford id ever consider owning.

One day you will be nostalgic for now.

Oddly enough i got that quote from a "Suicide Girls" DVD. Their first Burlesque tour. One of the girls (Nixon i think) has the US's largest privately owned bone collection. (I cant remember if it was human bones or bones in general)

Hey everybody,

Tonight I went to my Mom's house and down in her basement and dug out the old 8mm film.  It took me an hour to figure out how to use the projector without a manual, but I got it.  I only watched two films (8mm films only last a few minutes) but much to my surprise one of them had my very first car on it!  A 1965 Ford Mustang!  (This was back in 1973.)  Man I wish I still had that car ( and in the same shape it was in back then!).  Boy did that bring back memories!

Ken

Bockscar

Yeah Ken;

The stay over for two nights was about $70 a night? :$140

The food and extras about another $100

The gas, three tanks, about $40 each :$120

So even on the cheap this year will set me back about $400 minimum by car.

Expedia has a round trip fare starting at $603 to Toledo if I hitch a ride with Rich,

and $602 direct to Dayton. The same expenses plus cab, That's about an $850 trip by air.

That's a lot of cash right now, either way.

Hi Dom,

That is the reason I was suggesting the camping thing.  I have a tent that is big enough for two people, and if you need, I can probably even dig up another air mattress and sleeping bag.  We can buy groceries and cook our meals there at the campsite saving more money.

That being said, if you could schedule it when you could take your time coming down, then be able to spend a few days here to make the trip worth while, and have enough time to take your time driving back.  We would also need to wait until this heat wave passes.  100 degrees Fahrenheit is way too hot to spend in a tent!

Ken

Sparrowhyperion

Hi Guys.

I feel for you Dom.  My Mother had Phlebitis.  They had to do a Veinal ligation in both legs when I was about 12.  She was off her feet for over a month.

I am kind of in a catch 22 situation here.  I need to ose weight badly, but I can't do much in the line of exercise because I can't do anything that would raise my blood pressure or there could be an issue with my aneurysm.  Now the joint problems have me all messed up.  I have found myself needing to use my chair more and more often over the last 6 to 8 months.

I really didn't want to give up on the Dayton trip, but if you guys can't come along, it just wouldn't be worth the trip.  It's no fun alone. lol

On the model front. I got my last jar of paint today, and I got a nice bonus the other day.  I got my pitiful $18 cashback reward from Capital One, which could not have been more timely.  Snagged a Revell, 1/32 F104 Olympos kit (Hellenic Air Force), AND an ESCI F5 Aggressor with ground crew kit in 1/48.  Both kits, including shipping was $16.  I FREAKING LOVE EBAY!!!!!!!   Now if I can just find a C119 on sale. lol...  I just got my eBay bucks today.  LMAO......

I did some more work trying to clean up the F86.  It's gettiong there but I am doing it in stages to make sure I don't mess up the re-scribing with shaky hands, so I do it in 15 minute sessions to let my hands settle in between.  My little F104 is coming along.  Same thing, 15 minute sessions.  I alsop finally managed to get my FGR.2 kit out of storage, so I am starting to do a bit on it for this years Rhino build.  My Mossies are kind of on hold again.  One is missing one of the wing lights so I am going to try and build one up out of Micro Crystal Clear, and the other needs some more primer.  

I'll let you know how things develop.

Dom.  Do you still have that scan of your B58 decals?  The Aurora ones.  I lost the file... and I decided to build it if I can make some for it.

Rich

That's a real score alright.

I've never pulled off value like that.

Mind you, I can't complain either.

I sent three scans to your email address, let me know if they turned out.

I wimped out on vein stripping, the doctor said everything in my legs was balloon crap anyways.

I just found two earlier scans, they may be lower rez. Let me know.

-Dom

Yeah Ken;

The stay over for two nights was about $70 a night? :$140

The food and extras about another $100

The gas, three tanks, about $40 each :$120

So even on the cheap this year will set me back about $400 minimum by car.

Expedia has a round trip fare starting at $603 to Toledo if I hitch a ride with Rich,

and $602 direct to Dayton. The same expenses plus cab, That's about an $850 trip by air.

That's a lot of cash right now, either way.

Hi Guys.

I feel for you Dom.  My Mother had Phlebitis.  They had to do a Veinal ligation in both legs when I was about 12.  She was off her feet for over a month.

I am kind of in a catch 22 situation here.  I need to ose weight badly, but I can't do much in the line of exercise because I can't do anything that would raise my blood pressure or there could be an issue with my aneurysm.  Now the joint problems have me all messed up.  I have found myself needing to use my chair more and more often over the last 6 to 8 months.

I really didn't want to give up on the Dayton trip, but if you guys can't come along, it just wouldn't be worth the trip.  It's no fun alone. lol

On the model front. I got my last jar of paint today, and I got a nice bonus the other day.  I got my pitiful $18 cashback reward from Capital One, which could not have been more timely.  Snagged a Revell, 1/32 F104 Olympos kit (Hellenic Air Force), AND an ESCI F5 Aggressor with ground crew kit in 1/48.  Both kits, including shipping was $16.  I FREAKING LOVE EBAY!!!!!!!   Now if I can just find a C119 on sale. lol...  I just got my eBay bucks today.  LMAO......

I did some more work trying to clean up the F86.  It's gettiong there but I am doing it in stages to make sure I don't mess up the re-scribing with shaky hands, so I do it in 15 minute sessions to let my hands settle in between.  My little F104 is coming along.  Same thing, 15 minute sessions.  I alsop finally managed to get my FGR.2 kit out of storage, so I am starting to do a bit on it for this years Rhino build.  My Mossies are kind of on hold again.  One is missing one of the wing lights so I am going to try and build one up out of Micro Crystal Clear, and the other needs some more primer.  

I'll let you know how things develop.

Dom.  Do you still have that scan of your B58 decals?  The Aurora ones.  I lost the file... and I decided to build it if I can make some for it.

Rich

Hi Dom,

Yes I remember the story about working in the sea food counter.  Wow, sorry to hear about the other bits.  Try to do healthy exercise just to have it actually tear your body up more?  Man, what a slap in the face! 

I am trying to lose weight myself.  I try to walk at lunch time every day.  It is a constant battle for me.  I just try not to give up.

I know money is tight now, at least it is for me.  I imagine trying to afford a flight would be more than I could handle now.  If the economy ever gets straighten out, maybe then.

Ken

Ken,

No violin music,

but working at the sea-food counter was the last straw for my back.

I have just enough to get me by. I injured it using a big ice dispensing hose,

long story, sure it is in the threads somewhere. Essentially I have Aurther Idas

visiting my back and hip joints so I have to take powerful anti-inflammatories.

The left leg starts to feel like there is an electric cord running from my hip down

to my toes, they get numb first, and it feels like there is a big rock in my shoe.

I think it is more because of the back, but I try

to sit in the right posture when I drive, i only know it is a 'mild' pinchy type problem.

I thought all those sports like track&field (hurdles), skiing, weight lifting, karate, cycling, and running, would build me up......ahem! Ruined my hip joints with all the stretching for karate kicks, and the running didn't help. Screwed my knees skiing, kicking, leg-presses, running, and cycling. Radial condyle fracturing. Right lateral meniscus cartilage not present. Bursa ruptured. Pateller ligament scarred heavily at patellar roots. Under side of pattela has lesions. Semi-torn ACL, never repared....blah...blah....blah....my back is in worse shape than that. I suffered a semi extruded disc somewhere around L3, I can't remember. I somehow managed to crunch the vertabrae together at some point so they are now heavily arthritic.

Hip joints suffer Rusty-Tin-Man-Joints-In-the-Morning Syndrome.

Ooops...I think I hear violin music, I better not carry on too long....Rich's injuries make me look healthy!

Last year driving to Dayton I had to stop and walk every couple hours as well as do resistance exercises

in the car half the time because i vericosed some of my deep veins from hi-impact sports, so I have to deal with 'car-pooling'.....get it?, as in phlebitis?.....lol....

I am hoping to avoid surgery, but where would they stop? They could give me a new chick-magnet face while they are at it......

When I was on that trip two weeks ago I got on the bike for 15 minutes to see if I had any knee left, it swole up like a grapefruit. The mostly older cyclists said i could get ceramic knee and hip joints. I drove all that way and missed the rides.

They don't have ceramic lower lumbar yet....

Anyhow, that's the short list.

When I dump the long list, they play the Stradivarius for me......

Hi Dom,

That is sad news about your nerve.  I have a little bit of that, but not bad.  It is the source of my back pain.  So I have a sense of how painful that can be.  Is there anything that can be done like surgery?

Ken

Yeah Mikey,

That is it, says it all.

All the best to Jim as he deals with it.

My pop went from a stroke. Or at least complications after a stroke. He had the first one in 2003 i think. After that he was never the same. It was always upsetting talking to someone i knew, and not knowing who they were. If that makes sense. The image ill always take with me is seeing this tiny frail man lying in a coffin. Before that pop was always 6 foot and bullet proof. A tall strong robust man. It just wasnt him any-more. And that feeling when you find out theyre gone. Its like the bottom of your heart fell out and is leaking into your guts.

Sorry, never mind my depressed musings.

My Dad died of his second Heart Attack.  My Mom died from her first.  I'm just glad they didn't suffer.  I was living out here when my Dad died.  I drove back to Boston and we had to move back there so I could deal with the mess he called his estate.  Lots of bills and not much to pay them with.  I got a call just under a year later saying my Mom had died while in a taxi cab on her way to shop.  We stayed out there until I couldn't afford it anymore when we had Marissa in December of 1996.  I really wish I was still out there sometimes.   Toledo is drying up and it's actually more expensive out here now.

Dom.  Any chance you could get a flight into Toledo Express Airport, then we could pick you up and we could drive down together.  My Minivan is fairly comfortable.

I just got Diagnosed with additional Osteo-Arthritis, so I know the feeling.  

Let me know.

Rich

Which one? i leave alot of semi abusive messages all over this site lol all in good fun of course.

Yeah guys the emptiness is so absolute.

I cringe at their suffering.

My dad's femur and humerus bones had split from

the advanced cancer. His hands burst open a couple

of days before he passed.....never forget that.

Oh well....

I have no idea how to get to Dayton this year.

I tried driving a 3 hour trip a few weeks back and my left leg

almost went comatose. I can't sit for very long without

standing up. Doc says it's sciatica. I'll never make a 9 hour drive.

Hey Mikey, thanks for the comments over on my rant thread!

Very much appreciated.

DOM!  Where have you been buddy?  You and I have a lot in common.  Our parents both died close together.  You just get over one and then whammo.  While my Dad wasn't ever going to make Father of the Year, he was my Dad.   So I know how it feels.

On to happier things.

I have an idea for Dayton.  How about the 11th of July?  With a rain date of the 18th just in case it rains badly. 

It's been hectic down here.  Since Deb got her Bachelors, she's been interviewing a lot...

I have been working on multiple projects while waiting on paint, and other stuff to finish a couple.  But I am starting to se the light at the end of several tunnels.

Ken, awesome images.  I especially liked the Thunderbirds.  I really don't know which team I like better, the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds.  I lean towards the Thunderbirds a a bit because I just love the F16.  Simple elegant design... 

I will be sending up some more MIG images soon.  Right now I am waiting for a bunch of paint to dry on a few kits.

Rich

Hi Dom,

It is great to have you back my friend!  Of course you can snag any and all of those photos, that is why I posted them.  If there is any you want a better copy of, just let me know and I will send it to you!

You know, it is funny, but even after two years, I still grief my father's death.  The pain is still as great as the day as when he died.  Maybe more.  I don't equate it to fear, only loneliness.  He was my best friend.  At my age, making friends is a difficult thing to do.  I am left with a huge hole in my being.

Ken

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Unfortunately that seed of fear is whats sewn when someone close to us dies.

Let go of the fear, let go of the hate. Suffering will soon leave.

Hey Ken,

Great photos, I hope you don't mind if a snag a few for my aircraft file. Those T Birds are real pretty, i can hear them ringing in my ears.

Dom

Hi Jim;

Sorry to hear about your mom. Sounds very similar to what my mom went through.

You worked very hard looking after her, you stayed with her to the end, and that is the most important thing. You will never have to second guess your decisions, you did the right thing. That's the only comfort you will get from all of that, all the rest is pain that slowly gets pushed into the background. it never goes away, you never move on, it is always there. All you can do is learn to live with it. I'm still working on it.

I was with mom and dad when they died. I had to make the decision to send dad to the hospice, he lasted 72 hours. The hospital gave my mom a super-bug, no-charge, while putting a small cast on a badly sprained ankle, and it took a year to kill her.

She died soon after my dad, and you are right about being put off for doing hobbies. It is very tough having to give the Do-Not-Resuscitate instruction. My mom died June 15th, 2010. Dad was May 10th.

Maybe that's why i got so grumpy, I still can't understand why I blew my top like that. I've been trying to get back and build but then always fall short. I spend more time looking at threads than replying, and more time looking for kits I do not need than building. It is slack, but that's just how it is.

Anyhow Jim, don't blame yourself for anything, you sacrificed for your family, you were loyal to the end, just take it easy.

Dom

Gamera

Jim: So sorry to hear about your mother, please hang in there. My thoughts and prayers to you and your family.

Ken: Those are great photos, looks like you had a heck of a time. Interesting there are two P-47D painted in the 'Hun Hunter' markings in the Pigeon Forge Aviation Museum in Tennessee. Wonder if this is one of them or yet a third fighter in these markings.

Hi Cliff,

I really wish I could answer that question.  I know that a majority of the aircraft there were from different organizations from around the state of Indiana.  But that is all I know.  But I had such a great time I am planning on going all three days next year!  Here is a link to this year's event that gives the description:

http://www.indyairshow.com/ 

Ken

Jim: So sorry to hear about your mother, please hang in there. My thoughts and prayers to you and your family.

Ken: Those are great photos, looks like you had a heck of a time. Interesting there are two P-47D painted in the 'Hun Hunter' markings in the Pigeon Forge Aviation Museum in Tennessee. Wonder if this is one of them or yet a third fighter in these markings.

Wow, i didnt realise how big the spads were. They kinda make the P-47 look like a toy. Amazing shots. Wish id been there. Dont get to go to nearly enough airshows.

Hi Everyone,

Okay, here is the last of them. (There are more, but I won't subject you to ALL of them    )

 And finally, the "Blue Canoe", Cessna 310:

Ken 

More pictures.  This next one is a Skyraider.  I almost missed it.  I only had a small opening to the runway to see them taxi by:

 Here is that Mustang that I promised:

 P-47:

Not sure what this one is:

 Another shot this time in flight of the Skyraider:

lol cheers Ken.