I need to get to Cocoa Beach or thereabouts for one of the launches. Saw a YouTube vid shot from the beach and you could very clearly see the sideboosters land at sea. Incredible!

Cellphone pics!

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Mojarra Dorada for dinner tonight!

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We saw a launch 2 weeks ago on the way to Kennedy Space Center. We pulled over with everyone else. The ground shook and the noise was unreal considering the distance.
It looked like a roman candle streaking across the sky.
I also saw the booster land, it made 2 loud bangs when it landed.

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I'd love to go see a launch some day, it's got to be one of those things words just don't do justice to.
Great photo Brian!

Tuned up a neglected 1966 Robin Hood bicycle for one of my Son's friends, the bike ended up here after his last move out of Seattle a few years back.
Being the last one to move out of a 3 person shared rental is not optimal- lots of stuff left that needed cleared out to at least hope some of the damage deposit got returned. It did.

Our son was here at Thanksgiving and we were going through stuff left here to give away or take to the dump and this bike was in question.

Son says hmmmm, I wonder if Brenna wants this bike since she's living in Seattle and relies on public transit and her own two legs to move about.

Turns out she does. She's a sweetheart and has had a rough go in life at times, so I agreed to go over the bike and get it roadworthy.

2 tubes, 2 tires, 2 set of brake pads, lots of cleaning, disassembling and greasing it's ready to be returned.
I couldn't abide by just dropping it off in the condition it was in.
Much better now!





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Local bike shop was fresh out of John Bull No 25 brake pads
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Had to go with "universals"
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Rally rather a lot of parts in the hub, simple durable design. Only had to replace the loose 3/16' ball bearings, the 2 sets in cages cleaned up well- no rust!
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The stuff for 3 speed hubs. 2 tablespoons in the oil fill hole, seal it up and yer good to go!
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That would be so cool! I've seen Minuteman III launches from Vandenburg AFB but I'm now kind of out of that biz so I'll have to watch launches from off-base rather than from the LCC. I think that they kind of protect the times of those and others with classified payloads (dunno on how they do NOTAMs and marine exclusions) but I recall that for nonsensitive things they do publish schedules pretty far out. It would be super cool to see a "heavy" head off over the pacific one of these days (IIRC they head south-west-ish over the water). I'm guessing that for the Cape it's similar. MM3s are tiny missiles, pea-shooters compared to the big stuff...

Little troca (trocito?) gifted to us from my parents looking over Los Alamos towards Santa Fe and the Sangre de Cristos. 2003 Ranger, fully loaded, was under 40k miles before I drove it back from Michigan...
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Oh wow. Brings back memories. I had a bad habit of over torquing the hub in high gear with my "plow horse" legs. It would shear off those pins with the half round milled into the ends. I recently came across a box of spares.

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Alaska, the before times.
First cruise ship trip, first time to Alaska.
I gotta go back and stay in Denali a few days!

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Just some random snaps of the sky

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Molokai 2021

Heading back in about a month...

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Wow what a fantastic page of pics this is! Great stuff from all!!!

Our old swimming hole in Westport CT. The dam at Nash’s pond.

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I’m driving down the road and thinking that’s a weird sound in the backseat. Turned around to see that something had shifted and the fire foam was spraying everywhere.😂


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Gopher Tortoise I think.

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Wow, that's really fantastic. It looks like the kind of place that might have once had a mill.

Cool! Very protected in FL. Don't touch it or if you feel you have to (because it's in the road), only move it the same direction that it's going and as little as possible. You probably already knew that. My understanding is that if you try to turn them around and move them a different direction, they'll just turn around and head back.

I'm still learning and getting better. This was a good round except for the flyer at the top.
Not quite as impressive as it looks. I think this is normally a 20 yard target, and I'm still shooting at 12 yards.
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^Nice grouping!^

Yosemite, 2005

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Flying a kite off Haystack peak in the NY Adirondacks