Kill Devil Hills NC (Wright Brothers first flight)

"Slipping the surly bonds of earth"
 First flight copy of (actual photo)

first 4 Powered flight markers

 Starting marker

 The walk back from flight 4

Tina, Lincoln and Noah

 Just this week Aug 5 2012
After an 8 1/2 months voyage

Landing Curiosity

on Mars

Curosity has its own "kill devil hill"

IT BOGGLES MY MIND

Sid's French toast Supreme souflet

Ingredients:
3 eggs
1/4 cup Picante sauce (optional)
1 oz Philadelphia cream cheese
2 slices bacon
1 slice crisp toast buttered on both sides slice into cubes

Preparation:
1- Cut bacon into small pieces
2- Break 3 eggs into a bowl, add Picante sauce, then mix thoroughly with whisk.
    Add a little salt if you like things salty.

3- pinch off the cream cheese into small pieces into the egg mixture.


4- with the oven rack in the  next highest position start the oven on broil.
5- with a pat of butter, fry the bacon bits in an 8" fry pan until crispie?

6- Add the toast bits

7- Pour the egg mix evenly over the toast and bacon bits

8- cook on medium high for about 2 minutes

9- sprinkle on 1 tablespoon full of shredded parmigiana cheese more or less

10- Place in the broiler for about two minutes or until the top begins to brown.

Serves 2 or more.  Enjoy

Spooky

I was about to comment on Tina's blog when this authorization code popped up.  Spooooooooooooky

FRUIT FLY TRAP

I WAS REALLY GETTING FED UP WITH THOSE DARN FRUIT FLIES

SO, I CHECKED THE INTERNET: A QUART JAR, A SHEET OF CARD STOCK ,  A LITTLE TAPE. A LITTLE BANANA PEEL AND VIOLA,  

S         U          C           C            E          S           S

Fly traps built on this principle have been around for a very long time.

I built this one yesterday afternoon and within a very short time it had more flies

in it than are shown now.   What did I do with them? you ask.

Well I wasn't going to turn them loose outside so I stuck the bottle in the freezer

and froze the little devils.  This is the results of an after freeze, overnight catch.

I haven't been bothered by one of the little devils all morning. 

So where do they come from? 

We cart them home with the fresh fruit we buy at the grocery store etc.

Next time you are shopping for fresh fruit look for the little fruit flies.

FUNNY FOTOGRAF

This photo I saw on Face book bothered me right away.

Then upon examination, I discovered that  it has been doctored
 or is a hoax.

Can you see the most blatant mistake?

Don't scroll down until you find it or give up.
CLICK THE PICTURE TO ZOOM IN

NAT GEO GOT SUCKERED ON THIS ONE!

Morning Walks

I surely have been enjoying my morning walks especially when Cecilia, my sweetie, comes along. Just when I had given myself up for dead, I now am walking briskly, (at 3 mph) almost every morning. We are up to about 2.5 miles per morning and will probably go 3 miles tomorrow. I have accumulated 51 miles to date. I also really enjoy my the Cardio tracker app on my smart phone. It plays my favorite music and tracks my progress. While we stroll through paradise. When I see a beautiful scene, I pause and snap it. My family is becoming "guarded" about their "proclaimations". If I question their validity I google it on my smartphone. On our trip, Lincoln was telling me about the "Darwin award". I googled it and found that he had recited the intent of the award almost word for word. But when I googled "lawn chair Larry" I found that his proclimation was somewhat erroronious. LIFE IS GOOD even though my heart is breaking for my little "Hopester" My dad used to really glory in the "Life of Riley". My Hopester actually had a wonderful "Life with Ryley" albeit ever so brief. She will continue having a wonderful life, because that's the kind of girl she is. We love Our Hopester.

A Wow Wednesday

The freedom to rant and rave, is mine.

The freedom to grant the powers of leadership, to the qualified, is also mine.

Freedom to Recognize "qualities of leadership", is also mine.

I deny these freedoms to no one.

Click the following for a:

"GREAT LISTEN"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/43168704#43168704

Malicious Monday

The congressional and senatorial

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

We pledge allegiance to the flags

of the foreign nations of the world

and to our Aid for which they stand.

Public education, underfunded

With oppression and injustice for all.

How does that all hold with the preamble to the constitution.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,^{[note 1]} promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Subsidies for the BIG OIL companies

while the bleed us at the pump.


Foreign countries using the aid money we give them 
to hire lobbyists to represent their interests
to influence our elected officials.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42917213/ns/world_news-death_of_bin_laden/

The utterly irresponsible behavior of our elected officials makes me

FURIOUS

Flash Back Friday

When my hands were young,

I used to shoot,

These

With this, a 410 shotgun.

while walking in front of a combine threshing barley,

I shot Five "from the hip" within 15 minutes.

My brother called me back to the combine and 

scolded: "you don't shoot from the hip"

Alas:

I've been trying to recover my "aim" ever since that time.

Now my hands are OLD and trembling badly, but

Thanks to my daughter Tina, whose husband Lincoln, is a 

CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT  

in the United States Air Force,

I am shooting "Thunder Birds" at the USAF Air Show:

With This:

here are some more shots:

What do you think?

(the preceding stills are"stills" from my shaky videos)