“Ralph, I found a photograph of an old mill pond full of old growth logs… the logs look huge… I think I found the location on Google Earth… it still exists… let’s go see if we can find it.” Ralph Anderson is a big tree guy… he spent his working …
Are you kidding me? The Big Red Rooster? No one I knew was likely to call General Doolittle by his nickname. We preferred to call him: “General” We are talking about General Gordon Doolittle… Commander of the Oregon Air National Guard… not General Jimmy Doolittle… famous aviation pioneer. Recently I …
“Let’s restore Grandpa’s jeep,” said my son. He had fond memories of riding around the farm with Grandpa driving the jeep… “That jeep could go anywhere… Grandpa called it a goat. It could do anything except stop. The brakes were terrible… non-existent… Sometimes he had to run it into a …
“There are old pilots, there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.” Sage advice from the elders. Pay attention to my words young fighter pilots… lend me your ears and I will tell you a tale. I flew the first supersonic jet fighter. The F 102 Delta …
“Ralph, I found the Sumac tree again… let’s go measure it.” I found the tree several years ago and then lost it… Ralph and I looked for it in vain. I didn’t want to repeat the failure this time. I noted several landmarks and included an odometer measurement. I was …