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Sorry for your loss, Doug. If you're like our family you'll always look at Sophie's favorite spots around the house and see her there just from your memories.
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It is amazing to me how attached we get to our furry family members. I spent more on my last one than I have on some of my kids just to try and keep him around for another 6 months. In the end I had to make the same decision you did. That was 2 yrs ago and I am still not ready to try and replace him.
Sophie was a great looking pup Doug, sorry for you loss.
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Very sorry to hear the sad news. I will miss throwing the ball over, and over, and over again. Hope to see you and yours soon. Russ.
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So sorry for your loss, Doug. The loss of a family member is very tough.
We lost our Sophie in 2011. She had been my moms and came to live with us when my mom passed in 2009. She was 17 years old. http://theav8rweb.com/sophie.htm
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We are a dog loving family, always have been, because our pets seem to love us more than they love themselves. They are always up for anything, whether it’s some outside time on a sunny afternoon or curling up on a night in. They are always content just to spend time close to us. They become such a part of our family it's hard to lose one.
Tough as it is, as loving stewards we have an unspoken covenant with our pets that we will euthanize, if it is necessary. In the final analysis, only the owner can really understand when the time is right. And even then, emotions still make it so difficult. This is the ultimate loving act for our beloved companion animals. It is for them, regardless of the effects on us, that we must do this and the decision is made. Only nine years young but it was time.
We get so much love and delight from our beloved pets in life, and we grieve deeply for them when they die. Because of the unique enhancement they give to our lives they become a treasured part of us, forever. When a dear pet's life ends, more dies than just a cherished friend and companion. Since we make them into living symbols of our own innocence and purest feelings, a treasured secret part of each of us also dies. This can be reborn as we slowly pick up our shattered emotional pieces and move on. Our dear pets bless us, just as we do them, and they enrich and prepare us for our moving on in life. The loving memories become a permanent part of who we are, and they live on, in our hearts.Thanks for everything Sophie baby, R.I.P. You got dealt a bad hand but played it magnificently and lived like no other. Do they play 'Cheetos On a String' in Doggie Heaven? Tell Lucy and Millie we love them, we sure do miss you guys! Charlie doesn't quite know what to do with himself now.
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Joey, didn't know it was your birthday. Thanks for stopping by, hope you had a nice time. Come back anytime. There use to be a lot of Avids go to the Father's Day Fly in at Columbia. I'm going to try to make it this year, hope to see others there.
Jim
"Living the Dream"
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Here is a couple. I can dig up a few more if you want them but this is all I have on my work computer.
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Thanks everyone! Put 3.1 on the Hobbs Saturday and landed 3 new spots. Had a nice BBQ with friends afterwards.
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Hello,
i´m looking for some pictures for my german avidflyer homepage.
And here are nice pictures, but i don´t want to copy a picture,
before the owner of this picture say to me.. hey...copy my picture, it is ok for me.
( with your name below the picture).
I have a avidflyer homepage in germany, because i´m the german importer
for avidflyers since three month.
Certainly there is a link to the avidfoxflyers homepage.
When i can use some pictures from you, please give me a message.
And now i´m waiting for better wind conditions for fly training ... and landing.
my side in germany is www.avidflyeraircraft.de.rs
...ok..give me your improvement suggestions (no word about my overweight !)
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Sounds like a great trip, Larry. I hope you can post a link when your photog puts up her photos.
Next time, let me know if you're heading East. You flew right by my home base on the way out.
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Cool trip! Visiting Kitty Hawk is on my Bucket list and, like AirVenure at OSH, flying there in your own homebuilt just seems so right. I sure do look forward to the time when I can take a few week long (or longer
) flying adventures each year.And yes, I read sigs!
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Belated Best Joey, hope the next year brings joy and accomplishment for you. And lotsa blue skies too!
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I like it! A buddy found some that he uses on his Pacer and he swears by it, but he found it for experimentals someplace not the spendy cub crafters stuff. As you said the gap in the Avids are alot less than piper so that stuff does not fit our planes.
Is it a foam rubber? any more info on the actual type of foam used? Any desire to make sell some? The tape on my elevator gaps are toast and I need to replace them, and I like this idea much better.
Thanks
I'm gonna have to fly with it a bit and fine tune the dimensions and methodology of cutting the stuff to size and grooving geodetics. It called marine foam.Very dense and light.Got it at the local apoulstry shop not cheap but it doesn't take on water.They did a boat and told me they bought the last 2 4x8 sheets in Canada. How dense and rigid is the cub crafters stuff?gonna have to do some testing see how it behaves iron out the kinks so to speak.There may be a more suitable foam than what I am using, but I haven't come accross it yet.
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Our throng included:
1 - C85 powered Champ (Crew 2)
1 - Allegro (1)
1 - Rans S7 (1)
2 - Rans S6 (2, 2)
2 - Kitfox IV-1050 (1,1)
1 - Avid Mk IV (1)
1 - Avid/Kitfox Hybrid aka Sputzee (1)
This is the route we took:
Saturday 4-20
KRRL - My home
KSTE - Picked up the rest of the flock
C29 - Picked up the last pilot and rearanged some seats - First broken exhaust pipe welded (Sputzee)
1C1 - Gas Stop
7I2 - Gas Stop - I got into the mud with my plane and made it dirty like a plane should be...
)I17 - Stop for the night - Rental cars there - spent Sunday at the Dayton Air Force Museum - Found the second broken pipe (Allegro) so we had to stay to Monday AM to get it welded.
Monday 4-22
KGAS - Gas Stop - Pre Mountains
KMKJ - Gas Stop - Mid Mountains
JNX - Alternate stop due to strong crosswind at the primary airport. We had a few low time pilots with us and didn't want any wrecks. - Spent an overnight here.
Tuesday 4-23
W17 - Originally planned stop for Gas - Did Bojangles Chicken for Lunch. Good stuff. Fixed the brakes on the Allegro.
KONX - Overnight stop - Found cracks in Allegro pipe again.
Wednesday 4-24
KFFA - First Flight Airport - Destination and Objective of the trip.
W17 - Gas and Overnight Stop - This is where they threw us a BBQ party, just because. Welded the Allegro pipe again, fixed a blown brake line on the S7. Super nice people!! I would travel to this place as a destination again.
Thursday 4-25
COX - This is the private airfield owned by Bobby Cox. We didn't stop, but we all did a pass down his runway and wave.
KMKJ - Gas Stop. This is another beautiful airport with a great staff. They gave us a ride to the local diner for lunch.
KGAS - Gas Stop and decision point on where we wanted to overnight again. There was a weather system going through so we chose to go a different way from here.
0I8 - Overnight stop. My first Avgas of the trip. Nice little airport and friendly staff. Found new cracks in the Allegro exhaust (see the pattern?)
Friday 4-26
4I7 - Unscheduled potty stop. Threw some gas at the Champ.
1C1 - Gas Stop
KRYV - Unscheduled weather stop. Had lunch and waited out the weather.
KRRL - Back home.
20.0 hours total time.
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Do they even proof read this crap before the publish it?
There's a laundry list if inaccuracies.
I thought this was a good technical, accurate source.
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The Pope went on vacation for a few days to visit the rugged mountains of Alaska .
He was cruising along the campground in the Pope-Mobile when he heard a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods. He found a helpless man wearing shorts, sandals, a 'Vote for Obama' hat and a 'Save the Trees' shirt. The man was screaming and struggling frantically, thrashing all about, and trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10-foot grizzly bear.
As the Pope watched in horror, a group of loggers wearing 'Go Sarah' shirts came racing up. One quickly fired a 44 magnum slug right into the bear's chest. The two other men pulled the semi-conscious man from the bear's grasp. Then using baseball bats, the three loggers finished off the bear. Two of the men dragged the dead grizzly onto the bed of their pick-up truck while the other tenderly placed the injured man in the back seat.
As they began to leave, the Pope summoned all of the men over to him. "I give you my blessing for your brave actions!" he proudly proclaimed... "I have heard there was bitter hatred between loggers and environmental activists but now I've seen with my own eyes that this is not true."
As the Pope drove off, one logger asked his buddies, "Who the heck was that guy?"
Dude, that was the Pope," another replied. "He's in direct contact with Heaven and has access to all wisdom."
Well," the logger said, "he may have access to all wisdom but he doesn't know squat about bear hunting! By the way, is the bait still alive or do we need to go back to California and get another one?"