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"Nasir" "Jim" wrote in message ... More recently, we spent 4-5 years aggressively using our Maule to travel to see friends and recreate *every* weekend. Lot's of flying and lots of fun. Huh? recreate every weekend??!! now THAT is a short gestation period!! I thought our first one popped out early at only 7 1/2 months! I think he meant REcreate (as in recreation), not PROcreate..or did I miss the joke completely? Thank you - that's what I meant. However now that you mention it, unsuccessful procreation is recreation. A worthy Maule mission. re-create requires the hyphen Jim :-) |
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"Jim" wrote in message
lol don't worry... they'll come back... Christmas is coming Here I was thinking you were going to say "they'll come back...right after graduation". I'm thinking of leaving no forwarding address after mine heads off to college... -- John T http://tknowlogy.com/TknoFlyer ____________________ |
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Marco, I went from 150 hours, the year before my first child was born, to 17 the year after he was born. My second child was born a year and a half later. My log book shows 16, 5, 3, 25, 13, 18, 40, 39, 93, 81, and 77 so far this year. The years with 13 and 18 were spent outside the continental USA. As the children got older, the time to go flying became more available. As you can see from the last three years, the hours have gone up as family travel increased. The last three years have been almost exclusively high performance rental ($100+), so as the aircraft speed went up, the travel time went down. My situation is different. I have been MR MOM since my second child was born and I have a spouse that travelled as part of her job, so I was on call 24/7, so to speak. I wouldn't trade my experience for anything, though! When my wife's father died out of state, a friend loaned me his airplane to get my wife to her mother's side. The kids were 4 and 2, it was the second child's first flight. For the trip home, I gave each of the kids a grease pencil and they had fun drawing on the rear windows for and hour and a half. After that trip, every time we drove past the airport, the 2 year old would gleefully ask, "Daddy, are we going flying again?" Music to my ears! |
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Take the kids and go flying. A day flying to some historic or
interesting spot is worth 2 weeks in school. -- Gene Seibel Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html Because I fly, I envy no one. "Marco Leon" mleon(at)optonline.net wrote in message ... Hi all. I've noticed a considerable decrease in flight hours since my son was born a little over a year ago. My wife is also 5 months pregnant with another so flying time may suffer further decline. I'm wondering...what are some of your experiences during the life-changing event of a new family and flying? Did you start flying more often after the kids hit a certain age? What did you do to find more time? I found that I can get *some* more flying in by waking up at 5:30 Saturday morning or flying after 10 PM on other nights. Don't get me wrong, I love my family and thank God for everything but darnit, I love flying too! Thoughts? Regards, Marco Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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LMAO! I've threatened to give mine our house the day the oldest turns
18.... and then RUN! -- Jim Burns III Remove "nospam" to reply "John T" wrote in message ws.com... "Jim" wrote in message lol don't worry... they'll come back... Christmas is coming Here I was thinking you were going to say "they'll come back...right after graduation". I'm thinking of leaving no forwarding address after mine heads off to college... -- John T http://tknowlogy.com/TknoFlyer ____________________ |
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John T wrote: I'm thinking of leaving no forwarding address after mine heads off to college... We're moving to Carolina shortly after my stepson heads to college. George Patterson Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is "Hummmmm... That's interesting...." |
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So where are you planning to park the Maule?
"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ... John T wrote: I'm thinking of leaving no forwarding address after mine heads off to college... We're moving to Carolina shortly after my stepson heads to college. George Patterson Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is "Hummmmm... That's interesting...." |
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Maule Driver wrote: So where are you planning to park the Maule? Dunno yet. We expect to be in the area near Asheville and hope to have a small farm. Most of the flat land around there is vertical, however, so having our own field won't be in it. I may not have it by that time anyway. The savings account keeps shrinking, and my current plans are to get the top of the wings painted in a month or two, get an annual inspection, and sell it. Maybe a job will come through before then, though. George Patterson Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is "Hummmmm... That's interesting...." |
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Beautiful country up there and great people. Good luck.
We'll sweat it out down in the piedmont in the mean time. "G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ... Maule Driver wrote: So where are you planning to park the Maule? Dunno yet. We expect to be in the area near Asheville and hope to have a small farm. Most of the flat land around there is vertical, however, so having our own field won't be in it. I may not have it by that time anyway. The savings account keeps shrinking, and my current plans are to get the top of the wings painted in a month or two, get an annual inspection, and sell it. Maybe a job will come through before then, though. George Patterson Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is "Hummmmm... That's interesting...." |
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Maule Driver wrote: We'll sweat it out down in the piedmont in the mean time. That's also nice territory. My father was from Hickory, and I still have kin in Catawba county. George Patterson Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is "Hummmmm... That's interesting...." |
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