Archive for January, 2009



No Geese to be seen

Published on January 31, 2009

Helloooooo! I’m back. The Hudson river looked great, from the air and on the runway. Get this. My flight only took 90 minutes. I spent two hours on the tarmack in New York because the portable ramp used for deplaning was frozen. We finally got off using some other [...]


Heading for the Hudson

Published on January 23, 2009

Here we are in the final week of January. While most who can, head south and south west, I am drawn to the east. I got another great deal on airfair and couldn’t pass it up. One small catch…I will be landing and taking off at the same airport where the pilot [...]


That’s not me

Published on January 17, 2009

They say the longer you live with someone, the more you take on their characteristics, mannerisms, speech and so forth. I must confess to laughing at pictures of older couples, because they smile the same way, pose the same way and use the same vocabulary. Now that’s alright if what they say and [...]


Some ice is good.

Published on January 02, 2009

I prefer ice in my beverages, on a hockey rink, hanging from a Christmas tree, but that’s about all. There are places ice is not welcome. On walkways, on my windshield, in frozen water bottles or highways. We left for Missouri this past Friday. We made it seven miles down the [...]