THE FAILED TAKEOFF

            Good week! There… got that taken care of for the whole week…(J)

           

            Hope you had a good weekend and weren’t too disappointed we didn’t have a LOT of sleet and freezing rain and all the things I know you love so well here in the borderlands of the Carolinas and Georgia.  Actually, I recall in those pre-global warming days when we could ice-skate in the city park pond… well… we didn’t start this early… Or if we did we invariably fell through the ice testing it. [And I know some of you listening DID get snow and sleet and some “Z” as the wx bureau abbreviates it.]

 

            Normally, we had to have at *least* three days of temperatures well below freezing before we could begin to trust the pond ice to hold us up.  Fortunately I don’t think the pond was more than knee deep over most of it’s area… and just down near the spillway would the ice be really thin… even so we got dunked more than one would wish.  You only had to walk home once or twice like that to decide Ice-skating was not a career to be followed… at least not until the following year when maybe you’d learned a lot more.

 

            People who grow up only skating on artificial ice… in frozen rinks… well, they don’t know what they’re missing!  And if they did they’d be very happy about it. (J) Oops… now I’ve made my New England and Canadian friends unhappy.

 

            Today’s program details an accident that hasn’t (at least at this writing) made the news yet.  I hope there were no deaths or serious injuries involved in what must have been a $200 million dollar accident.  A news blackout, imposed in France because it would be embarrassing to a national group is why I’m uncertain.  Possibly it gives us in America some idea of what can happen when we recklessly let our grip slip on America’s precious and dear freedoms won at great cost.

 

            It’s a bit early for my sermon today – and since I’m not a preacher, you wouldn’t likely want to stick around anyway – but I don’t generally try to compete with the news sources… still sometimes we come across things that don’t make it into the Main Stream Media without a bit of prodding…  In general I’m for that.  People who get power over information that the general population ought to have, generally abuse it.  I don’t like that at all… nor do I imagine, do you.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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