According to the old men, those who (supposedly) have forgotten more that I know, this presages a very cold winter. Which makes sense since the previous winter was unusually warm. (or last year was just a surge of glowbal warmenizing. (although we didn’t set any records that year)).  This fits with what my Dad’s Dad always told me prior to his passing. (and the older I get, the smarter he seems)

Nature finds balance,  I think this gonna be a really cold winter. And I think that the deer and the skwirelz and the other forest denizens will need those acorns and walnuts hidden in the snow.

You heard it here first. Plan accordingly. Or not. 

One wonders why the cops couldn’t have climbed the same ladder or gotten one from the fire department and simply done the same? Or arrested the dude on the roof?

That they ALWAYS fall back to calling the other side a “Racist”…..even when it is obviously not true? (sometimes directly and sometimes in thinly veiled hints that shows their cowardice)

I mean, if you disagree that illegal immigrants should be allowed to come over the border any time choose and that they should immediately get Free Shit like welfare, food stamps, ObamaCare and other state benefits…..You must be a racist….Even if you are hispanic in heritage.
If you think the Wall is  a flawed, but acceptable part of the counter to illegal immigration, not perfect, but indeed, a part of the overall solution….then you Must also be a racist.

If you point out that in (most)larger cities (and many smaller ones), crime is nearly 80% black crime (much of it black on black), yet there are only 22% blacks in the population and tossing large amounts of (government) money at the problem doesn’t seem to help and hasn’t for 50 years… you are a racist.

If you think that Affirmative Action demeans black people because it says that they are somehow lesser, and cannot compete on their own merits, then you are, somehow, a racist.

If you point out that a black person (and to a lesser extent, a hispanic person) with an education, who speaks decent english, and who doesn’t have (much of) a criminal record can go VERY far in life……who will have opportunities that white folks would not, merely based on the color of their skin….Then you are a racist…because it is unfair to expect those folks to not have records or speak decent english….or get an education.

If you point out that NO ONE in your ancestry has ever owned a slave, yet you are being blamed for slavery, that marks you as a racist.

And the folks, the leftist, the ones that brand you a racist, are (generally) white. Yet they don’t apply those same criteria to themselves, nor the folks who talk like, and vote like them. Sadly, this overuse of “Racist” waters down the epithet that it once was, and when it is used against REAL racists, no one even bothers to care.

At least it makes it easy to tell when they are losing the  argument and got nothing else.

Murphy said the same thing about protests in New Orleans.

Not saying the protests aren’t for a good cause…(Maybe they are, and maybe they aren’t there is doubt either way, but the folks killed by police weren’t choirboys) but you’d think, since it is Black Lives Matter, that there would be a majority of black folks instead of young white girls….

Oddly, I had issues taxiing this time. I found the 150 hard to steer. Maybe ’cause it is a higher time airframe and  a bit worn. I dunno.

My takeoff was good, even with a LOT less power to climb with. My climb out was good.  I got straight and level down. Turns, (level,climbing and descending) were OK. I got the concept, now I just need practice.

Pracicing descents was ok. it was windy, and I fought the changing wind a bit.

Landing? Nope. I got behind as we descended and was chasing the damned thing. Ended up giving up and going around and letting my instructor do the landing. He bounced. Twice. The gusts were straight out of 180, but they were on and off. I didn’t feel too bad that I had to go around.

Monday is 30% chance of precipitation, so maybe I will and maybe I won’t. We shall see. 

Likely, as you read this, the Cassini probe is beginning (or, has ended, depending) it’s final portion of its mission, diving into  the atmosphere of Saturn.

Just shy of 20 years….and everything (mostly) still works. Pretty good engineering for a VERY harsh environment.

And, despite the protests, it hasn’t polluted the earth with Plutonium 238.

Instead, it has increased our knowledge about our solar system immensely.

and there were no afternoon slots available for aircraft. Except the Baron, and I am not ready for dual.

The Forecast for tomorrow is much better. So there is that.

“Help, I can’t stop hooking up with Trump Supporters!”

Perhaps she should stop hooking up so much? I mean, yeah, she can do what she wants, and I am all for women of questionable virtue and all….But damn, this one has issues. 

Maybe tomorrow.

Thanks, Irma. 

Yep, I started private pilot school yesterday.

I got a lot of work to do. Lots of things to learn. And unlearn.

Turns were ok…. for some reason a coordinated turn is easy for me. Straight and level, I have issues. I tend to climb slightly.

But hey, one hour and 6 minutes. Lots more to do.

It was fun. And I learned a fair bit.

I wasn’t the great car driver I am today the first time I tried that, either.

Thanks to StinsonGal and Aaron and others who inspired me to get off my ass and do this.