60+ year old thread.

Sorry Susan, took me a while to find a more inclusive set...

 

Good Afternoon Rob. Back from this mornings errands and finishing lunch. Getting ready to go and pick up my son from school.

 

Been good Tom, thanks. Staying out of trouble is harder than working...still working with my son and driving for the dealership when they call. But I still am not nearly as busy as you are. Take care of yourself and enjoy life a bit...

No problem Rob, sometimes I get cranked up and forget to say "HI" as well.
X2 on Tom.

Hi Mike, I burnt wood for a lot of years and the wife called me "the wood whore" because I was always splitting, stacking or carrying wood into the house. Finally I switched to coal...it was easier to bring in a 5 gallon bucket of coal a day than all the wood I would need for a day. Coal heated the house much hotter than wood but my God, it was a lot dirtier...now I just heat with gas (only because the kids moved out and can't have them bring in wood or coal)

 

Welcome home Charlie! Glad to hear you got some relief. REALLY glad to hear that the pain is due to the healing process and not due to more stuff going wrong - you've had enough!

 

Afternoon all: X2! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

Hope the healing process speeds up a bit more for you Charlie.

Glad to hear you say the sailors did the right thing by running away. So many nimrods dissing them on the internet.

 

I'd about forgotten this...first two years in England we supplemented the radiator electric system with fireplace (setup to heat water to be circulated from fireplace versus electrical element); we could get coal there cheaper than wood. We kept a coal base that stayed hot "forever" and would add wood on top. Dirtier yes, but way more efficient. This was when we lived off-base, before base housing became available for us.

We're all gas here too for the overall efficiency rating of the house; sometimes I miss a real wood fire though.

x2 and QFT

And nimrods is exactly what the ones dissing them are ... OMG, don't even let me get into it with one

Hang in there Charlie.

 

for his safety and all going in harms way.

 

Evening all
Your one tuff cookie charlie.
One step at a time.
I know you can do it.

So many topics.

We had a piggy back coal/wood furnace. Would run coal or wood and if the fire went out the oil would take over.
No power, no problem. Open the zone valves and start a fire and let it work by convection.

I try not to watch anything about the wars or conflicts. My life is in enough turmoil without adding to it. It makes me sick to see us pissing tons of money for other countries when so much is needed here. Nuff said.

Suppose to have flurries tonight. We will see.....

The picture thread is hoot. Best one it a long time.
Glad we got some pics with boobies for miss Susan to choose.
Hehehehehe


Long day and I'm beat.
The porch looks real good right now.

 

Oh yea.

My DIL posted this on my facebook page.

This is so true...

 

That is awesome!

Reminds me of my RAF Mildenhall, UK days back about 1996. Had only known my Chief (as much a Dad to me as my own) about a year then. I had new modular consoles installed in the op center with all the latest ergonomic and high tech computer features of the time. Chief was dual hatted as both the squadron Chief Enlisted Manager and Chief of Maintenance. Shortly after the new consoles were installed, I walk into the op center and see BDU clad legs and combat boots sticking out from under one of the consoles; I knelt to see what was going on and it's my Chief looking around with a flashlight. I asked "What's up Chief?" To which he replied, " Just seeing how all this stuff works." Always was a maintenance (mechanic) guy first; love that man.

 

evening boys....

Thanks for the pics wbd... I'll look at them and let you know

real happy to hear you are doing better today Charlie.

Rob, what years were you at Mildenhal? Was at Lakenheath 93 - 96

 

Evening Susan.

July 1994 - October 2001. 4 yrs with 627th Air Mobility Squadron and 3 yrs with 100th Wing Op Ctr. We liked England and Europe in general.

Commander of 627th gave me indefinite DEROS and was trying to get me to take an assignment on AMC staff back at Scott when the Wing Op Ctr Supt offered me a job and worked an IPCOT with PCA to USAFE for me. It was a great 7 years.

 

Miss Susan

 

X2 & X2

Upper Heyford, Eng. (USAF) base 1956--1959

 

English countryside is beautiful from the air low level. Caught rides C17 flight decks a few times.

What was the occasion of that pic Jim?

 

Just a picture of Upper Heyford , I know it was turned over to the RAF, but now its shut down. I think the gov. is trying to turn it into a industrial park.It was a u-2 base when we were there . . Damm I might have to go back to high school..
Minnesota High School may soon permit boys and Girls to ...

 

All I can say Charlie is that if you have room for more than a 6" vasectomy scar, "You da Man!"