Sun N Fun Pix -- Better Late than Never!

Kinda like that Richard Prior saying, "Fire is a great motivator...
cause when you're on fire, you're motivated to put it out!"

For sure.

I'm always amazed at what adrenaline can do. A recent example: I was
wrestling with my 13 year old son, not long ago, when he accidentally hit me
in, shall we politely say, the "nether" parts.

We were pretty riled up already, really going at it, and -- since we've both
been lifting weights together now every day for the last five months --
we're both in pretty good shape. In my moment of agony and despair, I
grabbed him with one hand by the shoulder, and THREW him completely across
the room.

Now this kid is no lightweight -- he wrestles in the 150 pound class.
Luckily he landed on his head, where no harm could come to him...

Afterward, over a cold pop, both he and I were amazed that this was
physically possible. Under normal circumstances, that move would have put
ME in traction...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Hell, it's *zero* away from me!

I'm mortally insulted.

Sorry, Stan. If I had been thinking ahead, I'd have bought you lunch!

BTW: We ate lunch at a GREAT little diner down the road, whose name escapes
me. It's a cutesy little name, like "Pansies" or something.

(We always ask for the privately owned, non-franchise restaurants -- and
this one was fabulous!)

The waitress was a kick, too. She started every, single, sentence, the
entire time we were there, with "Y'all" -- my kids couldn't stop laughing!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

She started every, single, sentence, the
entire time we were there, with "Y'all" -- my kids couldn't stop laughing!

Boy, you just keep digging that hole deeper, dontcha?

George Patterson
If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said.

She started every, single, sentence, the
entire time we were there, with "Y'all" -- my kids couldn't stop
laughing!

Boy, you just keep digging that hole deeper, dontcha?

What, you don't think starting every sentence with "y'all" is funny?

I mean, we're talking EVERY sentence. As in "Y'all, how is everything?" and
"Y'all, would y'all like some dessert?"

*I* thought it was endearingly funny. She was cute as a button, too.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Fri, 07 May 2004 03:14:25 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:


I don't think we blasted a Med-Flight hangar. The guy on my wing said it
was the "maintenance hangar" -- and I don't recall any big "H" our front.
But I suppose that would explain why there were there on a Saturday
afternoon.


You're right, it wasn't Med-Flight. It was just the maintenance
hangar. No problem. Sorry.

Yeah, it's kind of funny, but we absolutely could NOT believe that the big,
brand new building was the "real" FBO for little folks like us! At every
other airport of Huntsville's size that we've visited, the big, beautiful,
new building out front is always the terminal for commuter airline
service -- NOT the FBO for Spam Cans.


Nice, isn't it. It took a long time, but we're proud of the the whole
place.

In the absence of any answers to our inquiries on Unicom, we pulled in front
of what LOOKED like the FBO, trying to find the gas pumps -- which was the
older brick building with the sign out front. (I'll bet that used to be the
FBO, right? It looks like every other FBO in the country.)


It was, and I guess I can see what you're saying. We have a sort of
"Leave it to Beaver" airport now and it is a little disconcerting to
see the first time.

When the lady inside the "real" FBO finally answered, we taxied over to the
gorgeous new building -- which is VERY impressive, I must say. At some
point along the way we must've blasted the poor guy inside the open
maintenance hangar -- although, as I said, neither of us thought we were
close enough to have done such a thing.

Still, after over three hours in the air, "road head" can make you goofy.
I apologized profusely, and we moved on.

Please come back. I was way too harsh on you with your red-neck
comments. Us red-necks have some pretty thick skin. I think you know
what I mean.

Mike Weller

OK, I reckon we will forgive y'all this time, Jay, but next time you better
email ahead. Fisher can *drive* over in his low-wheeled auto and we can
find a place to eat. Or maybe we can just fly over there.

Y'all come, now, y' hear?

:-)

Stan


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:FaVmc.48613$Ik.3466381@attbi_s53...
Hell, it's *zero* away from me!

I'm mortally insulted.

Sorry, Stan. If I had been thinking ahead, I'd have bought you lunch!

BTW: We ate lunch at a GREAT little diner down the road, whose name
escapes
me. It's a cutesy little name, like "Pansies" or something.

(We always ask for the privately owned, non-franchise restaurants -- and
this one was fabulous!)

The waitress was a kick, too. She started every, single, sentence, the
entire time we were there, with "Y'all" -- my kids couldn't stop laughing!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article FaVmc.48613$Ik.3466381@attbi_s53, Jay Honeck
wrote:

The waitress was a kick, too. She started every, single, sentence, the
entire time we were there, with "Y'all" -- my kids couldn't stop laughing!

There were four of you, correct?
She should have used the plural, "All y'all..."
(She must have just been addressing you, Jay.)

Jay Honeck wrote:

What, you don't think starting every sentence with "y'all" is funny?

I don't care much for people who laugh at the way other people talk. For any reason.

George Patterson
If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said.

What, you don't think starting every sentence with "y'all" is funny?

I don't care much for people who laugh at the way other people talk. For
any reason.

Geez, George, relax. I'm sure she thought *we* talked funny, too.

Hell, for the first two days Paul was staying with us, none of us could
understand a word he was saying. That British accent (and the occasional
unfamiliar phraseology) had us asking him to "say again" virtually
everything -- until he finally learned to slow down his speech patterns for
us dim-witted Iowans.

Personally, I thought the "y'all" chick was hilarious, and you probably
would have, too. And, like I said, she was damned cute.

Of course, being a New Yorker, you probably sound goofy, too.

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

Of course, being a New Yorker, you probably sound goofy, too.

I'm from East Tennessee.

George Patterson
If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said.