Blairgowrie

All this talk of HUGE erections got me thinking about blow jobs. BG

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Some pics of pond 4 which we use for swimming because of the clear water and cool springs. It is about 8ft deep but you can see the bottom clearly. BG

Do you mean like these? BG

They just came and tweaked it and it is now 13,500 down and 13,600 up. Just by moving the dish 1 degree they picked up another 1,600 down. I won't be able to sleep tonight

Just got my Internet connection upgraded today. Fookin thing really smokes now! BG

Some great pics there Dave. And a friggin Bearcat! If I remember they had a Spit 21 on display. They don't get any later than that except maybe a Spiteful.

Assume the start times above are quoted as EST? BG

I know some of you are already using Quick Mission Tuner but I have found it invaluable for game hosting. I am using it in two ways. First I spend about 10 minutes looking at all the aircraft in each mission and make a selection of missions I want to host. If I want to add more planes or change the plansets it takes seconds to do this withing having to go into Full Mission Builder. I write all the missions down and then just select them one after another. I also leave QMT running and can quickly tab out to it and make changes on the fly and then back to game. It really is an amzing utility. It is simple to use and if you need some help I can do that on TS with you. You don't have to be a game hoster to use it either. Works great when you want to vary a mission. You can get QMT here: http://www.jumpintojapan.com/quick-miss ... orial.html BG

Welcome back m8. We missed you. Hope to fly with you this aft.

Thanks for the kind comments guys. I thought you might find it interesting. I have learned a lot about building ponds those last few years but there is so much more to it than I will ever fathom. The dark soil is very rich Kelly. I just had a sample chemically analyzed ($20 at the local farmers fertilizer depot) and all that is missing is nitrogen and potash. I thought it would be very acidic but the ph factor is 7.5 which is neutral. I have talked to a guy with a big screener and he will come in and screen it for me. I get what I need for free and he takes the rest. The whole swamp is full of it. I keep thinking I am going to unearth something. Maybe a crashed aircraft or an old car. But nothing so far. Not even a bone. Never a dull moment around here Rog.

Rgr Painless. That is a big Clarke growing there.

Today LET THE BIG DIG BEGIN BG

As some of you know I really enjoy ponds. We have the perfect property for them with gravel hills and some swamp land where the water from the gravel hills flows. There are lots of natural springs. So far, we have 5 ponds; four of which were dug by me using a Case 590 Turbo back hoe. Right now, I am working on the 6th pond which looks like it may turn out to be the mother of all ponds. For those of you who are interested, I thought I would post some pictures of my pond digging and periodically update the thread with progress reports and pictures on pond 6 (still to be named). If there is one thing I have found out in digging ponds, they never quite turn out the way you plan them. You just have to take advantage of the terrain and the limitations of the equipment. The first picture is a pond I dug last year. This is how the pond looks now once it filled with water. The next pictures are a couple of shots where the new pond will be dug. This a very swampy area and I had to construct roads through the swamp using material I took out of pond 5. The material around pond 5 was clay but this new site consists of rich black material that goes down 7 ft. It has the consistency of jelly and if I tried to drive the hoe over it, the hoe would sink quickly. But if I lay 4ft of clay over the top, it will support the weight of the back hoe....... I think! My plan is to leave an island in the middle of the pond for wildlife to nest on etc. The material that comes out of the pond will be used to form a berm perhaps 7ft high around the area. Hopefully I can dig down 7 or 8 ft and get 14 ft of water when the pond fills. That's the plan but as I said before..........? Note the roads have been expanded in the next phot taken a couple of weeks ago. And of course you have to burn as you go! This is part of water source for the new pond. It is the overflow from pond 2 which is fed by springs. There are also many springs where I am digging now on pond 6. I did all the stonework building steps down past the outlet. I'll update with more pictures in the next few days. BG

I like the Tuesday idea Pooka and I think we would get a good turnout. We should try one more Saturday and see who shows. Maybe Redeye and Canon will give us a look. I think 5 is the minimum we need for coops.

On reflection, I guess we could go back to the old method of having a roll call Saturday morning and if enough pilots respond affirmatively, we could continue flying Saturdays.

With attendance falling away off during the summer, it might be a good idea to suspend Saturday night flying for a while. When there is enough interest we can resume.

Great site Chaplain. Lots of interesting information about everything.

I was surprised that some of the 1943 had aircraft with the invasion stripes painted on them.

They do look similar but there is really no connection. The Whirlwind was designed around the Rolls Royce Pelegrine engine which turned out to be underpowered. If they had used Merlins instead it would have meant a complete wing design and probably tail section as well because the Merlins were much larger. Up to 15,000 ft the Whirlwind was faster than an early mark Spit. It could have been one of the great aircraft of WW2 but sadly they only built 114 of them. Four 20mm Hispanos in the nose.

I saw this link at UBI Zoo General Discussion. What do you think of these pictures? http://www.flightglobal.com/ImageArchiv ... 8168s.aspx

I would definitely recommend Norton Ghost version 10 and an external HD Pook. One of the better decisions I made this year. Once you get Norton Ghost installed you just tell it to back up your C drive every couple of days. Nothing to it.

Dazza lad. I may send it off to Cold_Gambler to let him test it out to make sure it is not the camera that is wonky. It might tempt him to come back and fly with us.

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

That's my final price Dazza. If you argue any more I will lower it further I still have your home address so will ship shortly if you like.