A positive thing bout "bloggin"....

Well Sir....I just cain't begin t'tell y'all how happy this Cookie is...Hooorahh!

Now mam...afore I get t'tellin y'all what I'm excited bout...let me say this. One of the good things about bloggin is that ya make new friends and acquaintences. Eventually ya wind up in a sphere of folks that you visit their blog's everday...and they visit yurs. After ya read their posts...ya can leave a good comment, a sly comment, a funny comment or just a good old ball bustin comment. Ya can share yur happiness, and sometimes sadness, with a whole passel a folks, and more times than not...they'll bust yur balls back or share their feelins bout things.

Well Sir...my wife and I are having our 40th wedding anniversary this Monday the 18th (I'm surprized she ain't kilt me yet). She got me something that I've dreamed about fer quite some time....I get to fly an actual WWII "Warbird", the T-6 Texan, a Fighter/Trainer. She lined this up through War Bird Adventures fer me. I linked in case any of ya out there wanna try it.

Whatcha all don't know bout this here Cookie is that I started taken flyin lessons at age 12...and solo'd several times at age 16. Then, real life took over, and that was really the last time I ever took controls of an airplane...a J-3 Piper Cub BTW. Oh yes...I've skydived about 5 times about ten years ago or so...and man did I love that...but I've really wanted to get behind the stick of a powerful aircraft and do some real aerobatics....

Well...looks like come this here Summer...I'll be doin just that down in a place called Geneseo, NY....CAIN'T WAIT!!!!

...and the other good news I'm a sharin with ya is that I'm puttin out this here post on a brandy spankin new Dell....which to my complete surprize...I was able to assemble and get runnin all by myself......

Y'all have a great day now ya hear....Cookie....

My Bad.... Pearl Harbor photo's not newly discovered...

Well Sir...When I first posted those Pearl Harbor photos, I had been led to believe that they was "newly discovered"...so takin the wurd of the good boy (an old Jarhead BTW) who sent em to me...I put em up in two posts. Comin frum an old Marine, I shoulda known better I guess...

Now sir...on this day I was notified by good old Jack Sandy who, as is his practice, checked out the photo's...and guess what...they been published afore, and much earlier. Y'all just might recall Jack, he's the good old feller who discovered that the submarine on the United States Postal Service Commemorative to the US Navy had a South Korean sub on it instead of a US "boat". I'm beginnin t'think that Jack is a "photo detective" or somthin....

WTR..ya was right missy.....so folks...just enjoy the photygraphs fer what they be wurth.....

Good News...&...Bad News.....

Well Sir....the good news is that this old cooter...is gettin a brand new "puter",

The bad news is...I'll probably be down fer a couple a days till I get it up & runnin....

See y'all when I get things situated and operational....

A whole Passel a Redneck toons & photygraph's...

More never before seen Pearl Harbor photygraphs...

Well Sir...just to refresh y'all, recently, a Pearl Harbor survivor passed on and his wife found an old camera of his in the attic. There was film in the camera so she had it developed, and lo and behold, there were pictures of the Pearl Harbor attack that had never been seen afore (see previous post for other photos). This is the second group of pix....enjoy.....

NOTE: In the first pic...notice the Oklahoma on her side......

War is an Ugly Thing......

Always liked this. Does this sound like anyone, or any group of folks that you know....? I was inspired to post this after reading Sonarman's post over at Submarines Forever this mornin...


"War is an ugly thing. But not the ugliest of things. The
decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal
safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being
free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men
than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)