Good afternoon GH.  As you can tell from my opening, I just sat down to blog at 3:15 PM.  By the time Mary and I had breakfast, walked Sugar the Weather Dog, and then read the papers, it was time for lunch.  Then, since the day was nothing short of gorgeous, Sugar and I repaired to the deck for some serious cross-wording and bone chewing.  However, since there were also some linemen from the cable company in her backyard, Sugar had to alternate between barking, growling and zealously guarding her bone.  She got so flustered at one point, that she retreated to the weedy area with her bone, but it turned out that it was an old bone that had already been chewed.  Anyway, the current view out the Weather Window is wispy clouds and bright sunshine.  The current temperature on the desktop is 75 delightful degrees, and the weather forecast is for no precipitation until about eight  PM.  So, I should make it to the library and back before the thunderstorms arrive.  Of course, Sugar the Weather Dog won't be happy about the T-storms, but that is something I can't fix.  Mary and I had planned to go to our very local watering hole to listen to a band that is supposed to be good, but I don't know if I can leave Sugar alone in a storm.  Call me crazy, but I get upset when she is being tormented by a storm.  Right before lunch, I vacuumed, and then traveled to the netherworld of the man-cave to repair my desk drawer.  The bottom literally fell out.  Fortunately for me, when Adam put a new top on the workbench, he got a full sheet of hardboard and brought the leftovers home from the big box lumber store.  I used one of those pieces to make a new bottom, and since I didn't have a saw that was adequate to the task, I used an utility knife to score the hardboard and then snapped it off to size.  Worked like a charm. Since I wasn't worried about keeping my drawer original, the end result was perfect.  Sometimes, you can't use the old material when it is too far gone.  Here in my office, I used my Jack and Coke coasters beside the Jack's coaster that Steph and Adam brought one time they were here, to make a nice display.  Unfortunately, that only lasted a couple of hours, before Mary had to use her auxiliary desk, (my end table), to work on her index.  So, now I have to start over.  However, my thanks to Steph for thinking of me and bringing those Jack's coasters.  I'll get them back in order soon.  Otherwise, as I noted earlier, I am off to the library about 4:40 PM for a R.E.A.D. tutoring session and to pick up some books that I had requested.  After that, maybe a little music.  So, until it is once again...Tea time, I'll select some pictures for your enjoyment.

Another view of the Fokker from the Henry Ford

I always liked the early 60s Chevrolets.  My grandmother had a 1960 coupe and my dad had a station wagon.