Hello again

I'll just write to get in touch with the world, since its sorta been a while.  Anyway, I've been recovering from the black plague, thanks for asking, and I'm on my way toward infecting the rest of the house, starting with the dog that is conveniently laying right next to me.  What else....oh yea. I've been taking Driver's Ed, I've done about 5 classes so far, but a pro at driving like me, doesn't really need to take all 15, but anyway.  I've also got an Eagle Project in the works.  Yeah. *applause* Hopefully I'll be getting approvals by the town and by the council soon and we can get the ball rolling on this.  I've been doing research on what I'm going to construct which is: (Drum roll please) A trail staircase.  But that's a whole other story.  Anywho...I'll throw in some pictures of Chester Airport.

The Chester Airport cat.  Because no airport would be complete without a black cat running a muck.

The one, the only, N9603Q taking off. (Pop's plane)

NOT N9603Q.  This would be the training plane that they use to train young pilots

This is 1200 horses of pure Pratt and Whitney power.  It is a 24 cylinder aircraft engine that the organization "Connecticut Corsair" will put in their...you guessed it...Corsair.  The Corsair was a WWII fighter plane.  It's the blue one with fold-able wings that was on the aircraft carriers.  You know what I'm talking about.  So this organization is currently building one here at Chester.  It's still in many pieces across the country, but at least the engine is here.  Fun fact: The Corsair was built in Bridgeport.

N9603Q

Just thought this was cool

This is inside the shop where all the parts for the previously mentioned Corsair are stored.   Some of the parts, at least.

The hangar is full of old WWII stuff.

It's been a while (A BB, Bonus Blog)

It's been a while since my last blog post, huh?  Well, here's one now, depicting the adventurous times BSA troop 494 had at Pico Mountain skiing and snowboarding last weekend.  Everyone had a blast, and I know I had a lot of fun.

We drove up Friday night to Killington VT (Pico and Killington are pretty much on the same mountain.  Pico's just way smaller of a resort)  and we stayed at the Turn Of The River Lodge the whole weekend.  That place is pretty nice, if you ever go up there, I suggest you stay there.  (There aren't any temperature regulators on the showers, so if you wanna mess with someone in the shower, flush a toilet a couple times.  That entertained us for a little while)

A picture's worth a thousand words, so heres 7000 words

THIS is actually a picture from last year when we went to Pico.  And because I'm sure the ladies were wondering, that is in fact me.

The rest of the pictures are from this past weekend

Unfortunately, it was raining for the duration of the ski day.  Fortunately, the rain barely affected the conditions (Which were excellent, by the way)

Here we are at the restaurant  (That's James and Ethan)

So, there was a fundraiser going on this weekend to find a cure for cancer (American Cancer Society maybe?)  Anyway, there were promotional things where you donate money and you get to spin this wheel and win something.  This is Casey, who broke the wheel.  Fortunately, I already won a one day lift pass, which I soon after scalped out in front of the resort.

And here's all three of them on a lift with me.

WOAH!!!!
This is a BB, a Bonus Blog! (That's bonkers!) This means I'm too lazy to make another post, to your benefit.

Here goes that crazy, wild, bonus part of the blog:

I finally was able to encounter a day that wasn't frigidly cold, nor rainy, nor cloudy, and was actually relatively decent the other day.  So, I went out for a little hike round behind my house, and took some quick little pictures of the babbling brook which I figured would be overflowing after the two strait days of rain along with the melting of two feet of snow.  Here's another 8000 words to feast your eyes on:

This is the trail head.  Building stone steps to the street may just be my Eagle project.

Here's a really old road, probably dating back to the 1800s.

The river

The falls

I've got about a thousand pictures of this stream.