Father's Day gift

Beat this- my four year-old, Elizabeth, got me this business card holder for Father's Day. YES the prop spins!
Derek Moran

Not sure if this is a trump or not, as it's not in any way C/L oriented (or even model-related), but my 20-year-old daughter gave her mom and me a surprise 25th-anniversary party yesterday... she even got my parents to fly in from N.C.! So, I didn't get to do any model-related activities this weekend, but had a great time nonetheless... (and got to give my father my Father's Day wishes in person, which is HIGHLY unusual!)...

Tim

I might got ya beat.. got my dad a SkyRay 35

Excellent, Ryan! Get yourself a NIB FP.20 to go with it and you'll be stuntin'.
Derek

I was going to put up my own post until I read this. I too had a great Fathers Day. My 20 year old son and I went to Dallas and had a blast. I the last two weeks he has become my coach and it has made a tremendous differance in my flying. All that aside, I watched my son having pride in me yesterday and he even cleaned my plane after the last flight. Then to top it all off, I introduced him to Bigiron 13 and he gave him a Sterling Ringmaster kit and as I walked away he was getting the "low down" on how to build one right.

It was a great day!

Yes I got a SkyRay 35!!! The boys took care of dad.

Now the basic questions start.

Thanks
Paul

Among my Father's day gifts was a phone call that changed my recent depression. After taking a bad fall and totaling my best flying Twister ever I had sunk into a "blue funk" thinking that as I approach 70 maybe I should just take up stamp collecting. I got a call from Mark Conners with an invitation to go flying with Mack Ryan. After first saying I didn't want to I changed my mind and the wife and I loaded up the van with two new planes I had recently built but had't flown; an ARF Nobler and an All American Sr. Flew both of them twice yesterday and while they are far from being totally adjusted for stunting, it sure was fun to see how they flew with mild attemps at just wingovers etc. Just being out in the Sun with great people sharing laughs and tall tales destroyed my funk and restored my enthusiasm. Thanks Mark, thanks Mac!!
Joe Just

Derek,

Here I've got four grand-urchins and the **best** gift I got yesterday was a crude drawing of a sunflower plant, although having actual sunflower seeds in the center was a neat idea.

It's not all bad I have decided. Gifts like yours are only sold in boutique-type stores, all in my family have been raised with enough sense to stay well away from such retail outlets. I hope for a similar outcome with your four-year-old who at this age cannot be criticized for a lack of good judgement.

Besides, my real gift was sitting in the yard eating fresh stuff from the garden with aforementioned rug rats. How to explain to a three-year-old that the freshly picked shelling peas are virtually unobtainium as we struggle with finding the zipper side of the pod? Or the delicate flavor of kohlrabi, another vegetable which is so rare at the super market?

Glad you're having fun, look forward to results from your super-secret engine development project.

Dan had me stumped and interested so I thought would share what I found.

"Kohlrabi" Means "Cabbage Turnip"
"Kohlrabi" is a German word adopted without change into our language, Kohl meaning cabbage and Rabi meaning turnip. This "cabbage" with a turniplike enlargement of the stem above ground was apparently developed in northern Europe not long before the 16th century. The marrow cabbage from which it probably came is a cold-tender, nonheading plant with a thick succulent stem, while kohlrabi as we know it is a hardy vegetable, evidently developed in a cool climate.

The first description of kohlrabi was by a European botanist in 1554. By the end of the 16th century it was known in Germany, England, Italy, Spain, Tripoli, and the eastern Mediterranean. It is said to have been first grown on a field scale in Ireland in 1734, in England in 1837. In the United States, records of its use go back to 1806.

The plant is easy to grow, is remarkably productive, and an ideal garden vegetable if one does not make the mistake of planting too much of it. Some of my war-gardening friends became literally fed up with it a few years ago when they planted long rows of it in their gardens, all at one planting time, and then at harvest tried to eat it all to keep it from being wasted!
Kohlrabi has never become an important vegetable, but it is one of those things of which most of us would enjoy a limited amount. Some dislike its flavor, which is similar to that of the turnip but milder and sweeter if the vegetable is harvested before it becomes too old and tough.
Two main types are grown in America, white and purple. The "white," actually light green, is much the more popular although the purple variety is most attractive. In Europe, fancy kinds with frilled and deeply cut leaves are sometimes grown for ornament.
Like other members of the species B. oleracea, kohlrabi is a biennial-meaning that it requires parts of two growing seasons, with a cool rest period (wintertime) between, in order to produce seed.

Jaco,

Good job. Now take a shot at ground cherries, another traditional favorite of any of my family's gardens.

Since the writing of your information, kohlrabi has been further developed to hold longer; it is no longer necessary to gooble them all up over a short period of time. And I have learned to plant them in both early spring and late summer, the later crops actually being a little better and certainly longer to hold in the garden.

I plant them rather closely, thinnings are chopped from (above-ground) bulb to tips of stems and leaves, added to stir-fry.

Mainly we slice them thin, eat fresh as one would radishes, either dipping them in some sort of veggie dip or lightly salted. A unique flavor, one which never disappoints dinner guests.

Also quite good chopped up as with carrots and onions, added to a fresh garden salad.

As it has quickly become quite the popular addition to NW CL Stunt contests, and I was able to buy my first Walla Walla sweet onions just two days ago, all are urged to try:

Mrs. Schall's Marinated Onion Rings.

4 large Walla Walla sweet onions, sliced thin.
Break onions into rings. Set aside in a bowl.

1 cup water
2 cups sugar
2 1/4 cups vinegar (I prefer apple cider vinegar)
3 tablespoons salt
3 teaspoons dill weed

Combine all ingredients. Bring to a boil.

Cool.

Pour mix over onion rings. Add sliced cucumber if you like.

Cover with plastic wrap and chill several hours.

Hey Dan, do you have a sugar substitute recipe? (No I haven't suddenly become a wimpazoid, but I have just become diabetic.)Also, I was in Walla Walla today and found WW Sweets @ $9 and change for a 25# bag. Come on over for part of our 4 day event in Sept. and load up fresh from the dirt (Pun really intended)
Joe

>Hey Dan, do you have a sugar substitute recipe? (No I
>haven't suddenly become a wimpazoid, but I have just become
>diabetic.)Also, I was in Walla Walla today and found WW
>Sweets @ $9 and change for a 25# bag. Come on over for part
>of our 4 day event in Sept. and load up fresh from the dirt
>(Pun really intended)
>Joe
>
>
>
>Humor..God's gift to us to keep us from making sausage out
>of each other daily.

Joe,

No, I do not. But someone new to being a diabetic will surely have an answer very soon.

Thanks for the info on $0.36 per pound pricing. I paid $0.79 per pound and didn't even wince, first batch of the year, don't ya know? Kinda like Bing and Rainier sweet cherries at the God-awful prices of early crops. I mean, who really cares? Some things are (nearly) priceless...

Hi Dan,
Secrecy is simply a way to camouflage my progress. I expect to make some after the Palmer contest this weekend.
What's amazing to me about that gift is Elizabeth was deposited in a store full of junk (through no fault of her own) and found something which relates so perfectly to my favorite hobby: collecting business cards.
BTW, you're getting perilously close to a personal attack. Where we live, the closest thing to grazing in the garden is opening a bag of potato chips in the grocery store.
Derek

Lets see,

1) Shirt and shorts combo.
2) Box of chocolate.
3) Cards,..one of which almost had me in tears,..from my daughter of 6yrs of age.
4) Local air show, which included: A three plane grouping of Mk-II Harvards (AT-6's)doing formation aerobatic's, B-17 Memphis Belle flight, Gene Soucy Bipe with wing-walker, Extra-300 Demo, Pitts Special demo, Glider aerobatic's by WWII Fw-190 veteran Oscar Boesch (which never fails to impress me,..he's 80yrs old!!), B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber fly-by, topped off by the RCAF Snowbirds air demo team.
5) Prime rib dinner with all the fix'ens.
6) Three hours of c/l flying in near perfect conditions from 18:30 until the sun dipped behind the trees at 21:30.

A near perfect day made possible by my wife and two kids. Oh yeah, almost forgot,..new work bench magnet art from my daughter.

Tony "Fatherhoods a.o.k." Bagley

I got a rock....

Scott(Charlie Brown)Riese:+

MY father's day gift arrived by mail yesterday. One day late but well worth it. A bottle of Fuel proofer, a tube of CA glue and a book:"Two Stroke Glow Engines" by David Gierke. I woke up early today and did my first run-through of the book. Looks like a terrific source of history and information!
Thanks Son!

All are great, but I think I got the best!!! My daughter, who is pregnant with my first grandaughter, came to Dallas to watch me fly. Gift came later, but having her there was wonderful. Dale McCord

I had a great day, my daughter age 27 agreed to take a ride with me on my Harley RoadKing Classic. I'm 67 and used my paltry SS Check to purchase it two years ago. Been riding a long time but no Harley since HS. We went on a ride on back roads to Umbarger TX, Buffalo Lake, now dry but a wild life refuge. Into Canyon TX from there and back to Amarillo. We stopped at park in Canyon at a park and rested then toured the Square where she works before the return Home. She's been scared to ride and was somewhat anxious, but said she enjoyed the ride. She also attended the local HOG meeting before the ride.
Great time!

I got my oldest son back from Iraq with three medals on his chest. He's home for good, and I can't be more pleased.

>I got my oldest son back from Iraq with three medals on his
>chest. He's home for good, and I can't be more pleased.
>
>Regards,
> John Jolley
>

Nor could I. Give him "Thanks for your service!" from me.

Some of us are actually paying attention to the threat from the head-whackers and their ilk. Brave men like your son are all that separate us from those who want to destroy our society.

The best substitute for sugar is Splenda.

Tastes like sugar and cooks like sugar.

Bigs

" What constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language. For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations."

>>I got my oldest son back from Iraq with three medals on his
>>chest. He's home for good, and I can't be more pleased.
>>
>>Regards,
>> John Jolley
>>
>
>Nor could I. Give him "Thanks for your service!" from me.
>
>Some of us are actually paying attention to the threat from
>the head-whackers and their ilk. Brave men like your son are
>all that separate us from those who want to destroy our
>society.
>
>Dan

Sorry Dan, My son doesn't believe that, nor do I. Nice flag waving though you're good at it. Were you on the "Pep Squad" in High School?
Regards,
John Jolley

I spent my Father's Day doing the intelligent thing. Making my wife happy. I drove her, her horse, her two friends and their horses to a riding clinic, sat around listening to a ball game on the radio then drove them back. While all day in a 1 ton pickup dragging a 4 horse trailer down a winding mountain road may not seem like much fun (it wasn't), the benefits come the next contest are immeasurable.

Cheers

Father's day. Hmmm. My grandson was baptized and we had a family get together and honored our fathers in the family. Then Monday nite at midnight we drove all night to Neah Bay, WA. hopped into the boat and raced out ten miles west of Tatoosh Island at 270 degrees Magnetic and fished "Swisher" at 310 feet for Black Cod, Halibut, and Ling Cod. Two days worth and about 20 halibut later we kept the 6 largest up to 35 lbs, about 15 Black Cod, one Ling Cod and about 16 or so Black Sea Bass. All in all two days of great fishing and we each went home with about 40-45 lbs of fresh fillets. YMMMMMM.

We also saw a humpback whale that the Indians did not harpoon; (they now loudly announce their right to traditionally fish for whales on an annual basis), a very large pod of killer whales (they are not really whales but dolphins) and one lone sea otter keeping his flippers dry floating on his back about two miles west of Tatoosh Island. Hmmmm wonder if he fed the killer whales? We will never know.

Bob Smiley