Dave Downs

I may have told this story before…… 1965, I’m working at the local airport as a line boy on weekends for flying time; mow the lawn, clean the rest rooms and fuel planes. Brand new Beech Bonanza lands and taxies up to the fuel pumps. I go over to the plane and am somewhat surprised that a ‘little old lady’ gets out and asks me to top off the main tanks. I look in the cockpit and notice that there is only one seat, for the pilot, the rest of the interior is filled with fuel tanks with radios strapped to them. The ‘little old lady’ was Louise Sacchi, 340+ solo ocean crossings, both Atlantic and Pacific in single engine and light twin aircraft. She wrote a book - Ocean Flying.

It is still there at the Wings of Freedom museum located on a parcel of land separate from the old Willow Grove Navy Base. A small area of Willow Grove is still active as Biddle Air National Guard Base. They are flying the MQ-9 Reaper drones. The aircraft are not based there but are flown from the facility.

Interesting…..these just showed up behind my shed. Unusual for my area.

First I think I should define ‘chiggers’. In my area they are small red insects, smaller than the average period at the end of a sentence. They burrow under your skin, usually where your clothing is tight, like at your belt line. They itch like crazy. The cure is to paint the affected area with clear nail polish so they suffocate. My young neighbor does small squares for the local ‘horse crowd’ and stores them in my barn. The bales have become infested with chiggers to the point where you can pick up a bale and you will get 3 or 4 crawling on your hands. This is totally new to me, never seen anything like this before. Has anybody here ever had this problem?

First time I saw painted rocks was when I was in the U S Army…..old timers will understand 😀 (if it moves, salute it, if it don’t move, paint it)

Some Chinese money I brought home in 2002. Seems strange to me that some have English on them.

Local scrap yard pays partly with new 2 dollar bills. They give you a weigh ticket with a bar code on it, there is an ATM type machine that reads the code and dispenses money. Sometimes you will get 5 two dollar bills instead of a $10. Don’t know why they do it, maybe just to be different.

YIPPIE!!!!! Many thanks to the Mods!!!!!

This thread must have jinxed me… I haven’t had any close up encounters with stinging insects for years. Went to drag an old lawn tractor out of the shed today, it’s going off to the scrap yard. Dirt floor and the wheels were a little sunk in so I got a digging bar to get some leverage to move it. Jammed the bar in the dirt and started prying on it…….and all h&@& broke loose. About 2 million really angry bees came boiling up out of the ground, 2 of them chased me over 50 feet, both of them finally got me. I happened to have 2 cans of wasp spray, emptied both cans in the direction of the nest. That slowed them down enough to pour some gasoline down the hole which eliminated any further activity.

My area of S. E. Pennsylvania gas is $4.39, my niece went to visit her boyfriend in the Pocono Mountains yesterday (40 miles away) and found a Sunoco station with $3.45 gas. UPDATE! My niece went by the station about an hour later, gas was over $4.00, she thinks maybe somebody got fired for posting the wrong price!!😀😀😀

Mom’s 1951 Chevy, 2 door sedan, manual transmission.

Yep, get in a car with a random stranger you met on the internet……perfectly safe….😀😀😀😀😀

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In the Technical IH Talk forum there is a thread "CX55 or skidsteer for picking rocks in pasture". 'Haystack' has quoted 'HydroTek' and 'stronger800' and in the quoted message there are Chinese characters - -

Why are quotes including Chinese characters!!!?????