Late March snow

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Did not expect 15 inches of snow this late in the season but up here you never know must have been in the bullseye folks 30 miles away only got 5-6 inches Will try to get out tomorrow to send the 16 trojan to Brian it is in a wooden box I built will ship USPS since UPS will not be able to get up the drive for a while! I am going to turn over this broken stock to Eastern and let them sort it out, Gary

[charlie cleveland]

nice snow you could make a lot of snow ice cream....charlie

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Charlie, it is beautiful but I have been shoveling snow all day, think I will put some snow in a glass with a little bourbon! les see bourbon snow balls yea thats what I need, gary

[John Dallas]

If you want to make unusual ice cream, check this out - Memories of a WWII fighter pilot
https://youtu.be/Lo_irQ9bjzU.

Pour yourself a tall one, and marvel at one of the greatest generation. The ice cream story starts at the 10:12 segment

[Dean Romig]

What a great old warrior he was and his "tuti-fruti" ice cream story is pretty cool. :cool:





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[Dean Romig]

I can relate very well with your late March snow Gary.





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[Bill Murphy]

When will the 1967 to 1969 veterans like myself be known as "The Greatest Generation" or some similar terminology? What about the present day soldiers who serve tour after tour with no end in sight? What will they call these guys? At least the 67 to 69 guys were out of there after 12 or 13 months, and the WW2 guys actually saw an end to their struggle. What's up with the present day warriors who see no end? End of rant.

[Dean Romig]

Bill, i think we know the answers to those questions. Those who served then and who went to Southeast Asia came home to a different America... if they came home alive. They came to our airports to be met by throngs of 'protesters' who spit on them and chanted slogans like "baby killer" and "rapist" and so on. Protesters like those of the past few days who even now continue to direct their protests not at the cause and root of the problem, but at the visible or material object, not at the cause.

I think we will have to be satisfied to be known as the unfortunate pawns of a huge political machine.

Dean - cass of '66





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[Daryl Corona]

I just love what he used for a pointer.

[Daniel Carter]

Spot on Dean. On the other side of the coin last christmas i received a card with a 100 dollar bill from anonymous thanking me for serving[ 66-69]. Took the card to the local veterans agent and he told me that a local family got the names of vets from him and been doing it for a few years. He would not tell me who they were, i sent a thank you to the p.0. box return address and donated the money to the vets fund. There are some who care more than we know.

[Garth Gustafson]

I hope not Dean. The country owes your generation much more than that. Answering the draft call and serving was patriotic and honorable. I firmly believe that Americans are, on balance, more grateful and respectful than what the networks chose to portray us as on our tv screens in the 70s. Sorry about straying from Gary's thread but the way the media portrayed the members of our military during the Vietnam war infuriates me.

[Richard Flanders]

Nice snowfall Gary! Welcome to my world! I spent some of yesterday scooping and plowing snow on my pad to prepare for the impending melt.

PS. I'd highly recommend watching the video linked by John D in a previous post here. I've watched a LOT videos like this and this one is as good as it gets and worth every second. The kids milling aimlessly around in life today should be required to watch this.

[Kevin McCormack]

OUTSTANDING opportunity to amplify select comments in this thread! - Due to an extremely sore left shoulder and reaction(s) to pollen this AM, I did not head out to the Air & Space Museum's Udvar Hazy aircraft museum, and it really bummed me out This morning ONLY the museum (located in/on Dulles International Airport) hosted a fly-in of vintage British WW II aircraft; everything listed from Marine Spitfire to Lancaster Heavy Bomber to Hawkers, Hurricanes, etc.

This killed me because had I felt better I would have been there at dawn when they invited the "hard core" to see the approach, landings, & taxiing maneuvers, which I have done many times before.

Fast forward to later this afternoon when I visited my local Starbuck's for a tall dark roast, and noticed two men pull up behind my car in a large Mercedes 600 (E?) convertible, sporting the logo license tag for the museum with the SR-71 Blackbird on it. Both were porky, frumpy-stylishly attired (think summer weight jogging suits), looked like a father-son duo.

Assuming they must have just come from the fly-in, I approached, greeted them, and said, "Did you go out and see the vintage Brit WW II aircraft land?" To my amazement, neither one of them looked up from their cellphone screens to respond. When I posed the question again, the son grunted a clipped "'Nope'"! When I said "too bad", the father got louder, still not looking up from his HHED (hand held electronic device), and amplified a louder "NO, NO, we did not go!!" Getting the message, I gave them an enthusiastic "All righty then!" and went about my business.

This is what we are dealing with today - I wonder what their reaction would have been if I'd said, "Damn, look at that SCUD missile coming right for us!! Must have been an errant demo launch from the air show!!!"

[Dean Romig]

Should have called them out on their boorish behavior.





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[Ed Blake]

Never cast pearls before swine.