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Last week I received a very official looking letter about registering our airplane. It was a 100% scam, but very official looking, but a $125 fee is a total waste of money.
Yesterday I received a simple one page letter that was 100% legit. It was from the FAA, and looks pretty casual. Every three years we have to renew the tail number aircraft registration. It cost us a whopping $5. Phew.
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03-12-2021, 08:57 AM
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Federal government bureaucracy, airplanes, and still only $5?
Wow, that's impressive. Regulation must be leftover from the Kitty Hawk days?
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03-12-2021, 10:46 AM
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There is no federal tax on the aircraft. They do issue the tail number, and keep track of who owns it.
The 5 bucks is just the filing fee due every three years. The state collects the registration fees. The first year, we just bend over and try to apply lube first. After that it is not so bad.
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03-12-2021, 11:53 AM
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Amazing. Today is my 29th wedding anniversary. It seems like just a few years ago I made the best decision of my life.
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03-14-2021, 07:08 AM
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Happy Anniversary Glen.
Well spring didn't last long.......plowed, salted, and sanded this morning
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03-14-2021, 08:49 AM
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Mourning all. Happy 29th Glen, Times fly's its hard to believe that this year will be 32 for me.
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03-15-2021, 06:43 AM
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Yea, and now she is gonna make me go outside and "help" in the garden. Likely gonna be digging holes and cutting back dead plant parts.
I have lots of internet browsing to catch up with, and I will get delayed. I even have some work to do!
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yeah but if she complains to the boss there goes the beer and Porsche.
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Congrats on your anniversary. 32 David? You must be OLD!
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03-15-2021, 07:54 AM
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Today was fairly easy. Just prune back a large and very thorny rose bush. It had some freeze damage but it is overall healthy.
I was informed that "we" are putting in yet another flower bed around the new tree in the front yard. I will be having fun with that later in the spring.
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Oh joy, now it is pea sized sleet coming down instead of snow.
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03-15-2021, 08:30 AM
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My nephew lives outside of Boulder, CO. They are expecting 5 FEET of snow. He and a buddy were out playing in the snow on their snowmobiles. He went into an area where both of them sank to the point only the handle bars were showing. I asked how in the world do you get out of that?
He said it a move called a tornado. You have to get back on, lean to one side real hard, and just keep moving in a tight circle until you get enough speed up to climb out of the giant hole you just made. Hard pass for me. It sounds like zero fun and something I do not ever want to experience.
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Snowmobiles are fun, right up to the point where the skied go under the ice crossing the creek but the struts don't and your head goes through the windshield and your knee goes through the hood but the handlebars are still in your hip joint.
Our snow is too dense to let you sink like the snow out there.
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Well we all know Glen is ancient.
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Hey its spitting snow here. I did not order this crap.
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The way it is blowing here, it is probably ours.
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Well I demand that you come get it.
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03-15-2021, 09:26 AM
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As soon as the roads clear up I will take care of it.
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