Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, we don’t have to mow from November until March or April depending on when spring arrives. Trees drop their leaves in the fall and grow new leaves in spring.

[GH85Carrera]

The grass in my yard is Bermuda grass. It is a really tough grass. It has small leaves, and loves 100 degree days and lots of sun. It is very drought resistant and if it is watered enough and has lots of heat and sunshine it will grow like a weed. In fact the joke is if you really want a good stand of Bermuda grass, but a flower bed in, and try to keep it out. It makes seeds if it is getting a little dry or needs some fertilizer. It has runners that grow like bamboo shoots and can climb across concrete or flower bed edges, and make itself at home. Killing it is hard if it is in full sun. It does not much like shade. Overall is it a perfect grass for the area. It goes dormant all winter, and starts growing once it warms up.



It looks like there is little more than a chain link fence between the yards. Likely they just like color roofs, and are friendly neighbors.

Many cities like us to fly their city in the winter to get a leaf off view, They can see into back yards and see if new storage buildings or pools have been installed and "need" to have a property taxes increased. They can see through the dormant trees. In summer the photo looks a lot prettier, but the trees hide what is under them.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. 29 and cold here. I think we missed the next snow event.

[GH85Carrera]

Our high temp for the day was at midnight. Dang Kansas and Nebraska are sending down some cold air to share with us. It was in the 60s yesterday. Gonna be cold all week from what the forecaster say.

[Porsche-poor]

the weather gods are out to get us!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

the weather gods are out to get us!

Naaa, it is February. The worst month of winter. Just crappy winter weather.

[Porsche-poor]

ok that to but I want to blame someone and the forecasters can't be trusted.

[Jim Richards]

Foggy here on the SoCal coast. Matches my noggin.

[flipper35]

Mornin' all.

We still have thick sheets of ice on some roads after the inch of rain and single digit temps immediately after. A lot f the fields look like ice rinks with all the frozen flooding. When this stuff thaws it aint going to be fun for a lot of people.

[GH85Carrera]

One of my wife's friends is flying to Savannah. She said flying over the Mississippi river area there was lots of flooding everywhere. I guess it is pretty normal for the people that live next to a river. All rivers flood, and the mighty Mississippi flood almost every year. They just pump out the water, clean up and rebuild right in the same spot ready for the next flood.

[flipper35]

'93 was a bad year for big muddy to flood. Swept a lot of houses downstream that were not next to the river originally.

[GH85Carrera]

It is amazing to see how much a river moves around. The Red River separates Oklahoma from Baja Oklahoma AKA Texas. The Oklahoma border is the water line on the south side of the river. I have done some historical imagery from the 30s and every decade to current of one section of land. It started in Oklahoma, the river moved and it became part of Texas, and the river moved again and it is back in Oklahoma. I always wondered how they paid property taxes. When it was mostly part of the river it is federal property, when it is one state or the other that taxes still have to be paid. It was not my property, so it really does not matter to me.

[flipper35]

For you David!

https://www.flitetest.com/articles/ft-corsair-release

[RKDinOKC]

My yard looks a lot like dirt...



This year it has had leaves covering it providing a nice warm insulation for all the lawn bugs.

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by flipper35

For you David!

https://www.flitetest.com/articles/ft-corsair-release

That's cool. but first I'd have to learn to fly a cheap one.

[flipper35]

That is a cheap(er) one and should be easy to fix. You could put the SAFE receiver in it and press the "oh crap I screwed up" button when it isn't flying in your favor.

[Porsche-poor]

which would be about every two seconds. LOL

[RKDinOKC]

Took a really cheap square box fuselage 40 size Sukhoi kit and made it look like an real one. The only round parts of the kit was the Cowl, Canopy and the arched landing gear.



Shaved and cut down all the wood in the kit and soaked super thin superglue into the wood to make it much lighter and stronger than the original kit. Then built up and covered the fuselage with really thin balsa to make the square bits round. Finished it looked fantastic, ended up lighter than the kit, and flew fantastic too. Building was almost as fun as flying.

As with most all R/C, crashed and repaired it. But never got it to fly as well so sold it. The guy thought it flew great, but. He didn't fly aerobatics, and hadn't flown it before the crash.

Would also car little pilot busts to go into the planes with semi-cockpits that looked like crash dummies. Cause if you flew them enough they were going to eventually crash.

Really enjoyed R/C when we had a great local flying field and group. Discovered Autocross just as they were getting ready to close the field to put in a new highway.

Found out one of the guys in the club was a ham radio operator and his Dad and my Dad were CB radio friends back when you had to have a license to talk CB.

[GH85Carrera]

Man, the bosses wife normally eats lunch with one of her girlfriends. Her friend is out of town this week, so she came with me to meet up with Richard. She made me buy her lunch and then she made me go by a local plant and tree center on the way home. With her there we couldn't have the Swedish bikini team buy us lunch and sit with us like normal.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

which would be about every two seconds. LOL

Nah, they aren't that bad and the newer transmitters can connect to your computer to practice crashing on the sim.