happy 4th everyone!!

[monty]

Phil and Greg, I was fortunate enough to see the WWII aircraft flyovers yesterday afternoon, just sitting on our deck - the best was the B-29 with a large fighter escort. They flew very low right over our house and the sound was like nothing else.

Were B-29s before they figured out how to synchronize the props? When they retired the GALCIT wind tunnel, they flew over all the planes they could find that were designed in it, which included most of the WW2 bombers, and I was told that the sounds were very distinctive between "before" and "after" synchronization. I think they had both for that flyover, though, and with multiple planes it's hard to tell.

I haven't seen any WW2 planes recently, though; for a few years I was lucky enough to spot them at random without going to airshows, but my luck seems to have run out... in 2002 I was driving down the freeway and saw something that looked like a Mustang or a Spitfire doing some stunts, just "out of the blue."

Anyway, happy 4th, everyone!

 

[monty]

I haven't seen any WW2 planes recently, though; for a few years I was lucky enough to spot them at random without going to airshows, but my luck seems to have run out... in 2002 I was driving down the freeway and saw something that looked like a Mustang or a Spitfire doing some stunts, just "out of the blue."

About an hour after I posted this, a C-5 made low 4 rather low passes over my house... we're guessing as part of the Rose Bowl show... not the right vintage, but maybe my luck is still intact with respect to exotic aircraft. On New Years, they actually flew a B2 over the Rose Bowl, which was a bit more nifty, but I'm not complaining...

 

[um...]

Happy 5th of July! (The day the rest of the world celebrates America putting down things that go boom, and takes a symbolic sigh of relief.)



(Hey, I missed out on the Day incendiaries, so I figured I light a little one here.)

 

[sorseress]

Happy 5th of July! (The day the rest of the world celebrates America putting down things that go boom, and takes a symbolic sigh of relief.)



(Hey, I missed out on the Day incendiaries, so I figured I light a little one here.)

 

[cuttlegirl]

Here's my niece with some of the cherries we picked (40 pounds!). I helped my mom pit all of them and she made cherry pie for the 4th, there is nothing better than homemade cherry pie and vanilla ice cream for a summer dessert!

 

[cthulhu77]

40 lbs? That's one hell of a pie!!!!

 

[sorseress]

Num!

 

[cuttlegirl]

Originally posted by Cthulhu 40 lbs? That's one hell of a pie!!!!

We froze them in batches to make more pies later... we froze twelve bags of cherries, made two pies, and saved 5 pounds to make jelly. Of course I am in the middle of a kitchen remodel so I can only dream of making cherry pie... good thing my mom bakes .

 

[sorseress]

And a good thing that your mom lives close enough so that you can eatwhat your mom bakes!

 

[cuttlegirl]

That's why I left sunny California!

 

[sorseress]

It's really nice to have a grandma close by too.