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[desert_sailing]

Red Tails were an all black flying squadron in WWII.  They had an impressive legacy escorting the B-17 bombers over Germany.

hmmm..

not such a diverse squadron. OFC i understand the way things were back then socially...

I just hope they didn't use that as any  kind of inspiration for the potential name change given today's climate.

That whole goose gander thing.

 

[B and C]

They were identified in the air by their rudders being painted red. They flew P-51 Mustangs.

Forgot to add that they were also known as the Tuskegee Airmen out of Tuskegee Alabama.

 

[VanFan]

Wait...what? Are you sayin the Chicks lost their DIX?

Backing up a little here...  Normally, I don't like to encourage this kind of thing, but, that is just too funny!

 

[desert_sailing]

They were identified in the air by their rudders being painted red.  They flew P-51 Mustangs.

Forgot to add that they were also known as the Tuskegee Airmen out of Tuskegee Alabama.

Are those the same citizens/veterans that our govt tested long term effects of syphilis on after deliberately infecting them??

Isn't it interesting how doctors are among the most cruel and inhumane persons in World history.

The ethics of Doc Baker on Little House on the Prairie are long long gone....well...unless your somebody that matters.

 

[B and C]

To also bring out the bad, yep.

 

[Qxxx]

Tonight's news, the newly reborn Redtails are being accused of years of sexual harassment by a group of former women employees.

 

[maki2]

I guess I had better figure out where I will go to camp when I need to leave Seattle. Trying to find something in a state park will be difficult at this time of year. Especially since so many of them are still closed due to Covid 19. I just loaded onto my phone a few apps to help locate free or low cost sites. I still need to get a signal booster system.

I purchased a Honda i1000 generator, used, a few years back but have not been running it. I might need to try to tune it up myself or take it in for a tuneup. That will solve my problems of 110v for occasional power needs that the solar can't handle. But I don't yet have a box to keep it in on the tongue. Another issue to get done in the near future. I need the gen set to keep my Etsy store up and running for now until I transition away from physical products into digital download designs.

One day at a time....right!

 

[Qxxx]

Strange post. Sounds like it was late Friday night and someone got into the gypsy-juice.



come on people we need a detailed description of what you are linking us to. now I had to use my limited data to watch that stupid version of the song "they're coming to take me away"

 

[Qxxx]

good morning HDR, my bad.

 

[highdesertranger]

yes I was a little terse, that was BC when I posted that. BC = Before Coffee

highdesertranger

 

[Qxxx]

Yeah, and notice how clever I was in knowing immediately who had edited my post without declaring themselves. Let's hope there is never a time in Mike-Camp when the coffee has run out for 3 days, lol.

 

[Qxxx]

Ha, after last night, good to see yer up and around ... by 2 PM.

 

[wayne49]

"Little House on the Prairie" was fiction.

However, back in the day, for profit corporations had not completely taken over the sick care industry.

 

[maki2]

Heating back up today will be warm for Seattle through Tuesday, then hopefully the clouds will return.

Going to take my generator in for a tuneup at the Honda dealer early Monday morning. I need a spare ignition key for my car and unfortunately they are the only place that can program it. So hopefully I can do both of those errands at the same time.

This afternoon my workshop mate and myself will get started with creating the cross bars that mount to the roof of the trailer to support the solar panel. Its a bit of custom work as tapered shims are needed under the hold down bolts since the roof is slightly higher in the middle that at the outside edges. The bars need to secure at those outside edges as that is where the fiberglass roof has the most strength. Backer blocks on the interior of course and plates against the roof on the exterior to distribute the loads across a wider surface area. Don't want to tear out the fiberglass doing single point load hold downs. The solar panel will be hinged onto the front bar so that eventually I can set it up with adjustable, angled bars for tilting it for optimal winter sun input. Something I can fabricate later while on the road, not needed immediately.

 

[VanFan]

This afternoon my workshop mate and myself will get started with creating the cross bars that mount to the roof of the trailer to support the solar panel.

Sounds like progress to me!  (It's been cooler here, too.  Currently only 92, low of 74 expected.  I can sleep well as high as 80 at night, but no more.)

 

[travelaround]

"Little House on the Prairie" was fiction.

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! I can't take it... no way. Of course it is considered historical fiction but it was very much based on the author's life, albeit told in third person. I loved the Little House books.

 

[travelaround]

I didn't have a Doc Baker but I did have a Doctor Renoir. This was my pediatrician in Richmond, California at the Kaiser hospital there. My mother finally got up the courage to ask him if he was related to the famous artist, and he said that Renoir, the artist, was his uncle.

 

[desert_sailing]

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! I can't take it... no way. Of course it is considered historical fiction but it was very much based on the author's life, albeit told in third person. I loved the Little House books.

In these chaotic angry times, I find much comfort in the simple entertainment Little House on the Prairie provides without the constant violence and smut thrown about casually on today's TV screens.

 I am not a Purtian nor some other hardcore religionist. But I watched an episode of Little House and the very first 3 words said were "Thank You Lord."...I was taken aback and so profoundly longed for the simpler days when people were indeed thankful.

if you need a little warmth.

Its my most watched and favorite tv show. I could give two hoots as to what degree it is dramatized.

A show about simple, thankful living. Seems like that is what Bob Wells is promoting.

I hope those going into van life are wanting that as well.

 

[tx2sturgis]

Little Van on the Prairie.

 

[maki2]

"Little House on the Prairie" was fiction.

However, back in the day, for profit corporations had not completely taken over the sick care industry.

not fiction mostly autobiographical but no doubt with some enhancement of events and characters with name changes.

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prarie series of children's books, published between 1932 and 1943, which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.

The TV show is far more fictional writing than the books. Films based on books often take a huge fictional leap because it just makes for better entertainment in the eyes of the writers and producers. Plus they add new characters that were never in the original stories.