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Quite a while since I've posted anything here on DeviantArt, images or words. Working lots on all three airplanes over the past several months. Now that winter's eminent there'll be decidedly less flying of, and work on, our Grumman (HU-16) Albatross. Not so fun flying north to play on lakes when they're frozen solid. We're going to begin annuals on all the aircraft to get them to a winter maintenance and rework schedule. This should mean steady work at the hangar through the winter and I look forward to that.
I've done a little tattoo work in the past few weeks and will post things as I get them downloaded. Meanwhile am beginning a couple of Halloween themed pieces as well as a painting I owe someone for a bet I lost almost a year ago. Anyway, I'm looking forward to just working on the planes and doing some plain 'ol painting over the next several months.
My Dad's doing entirely better, both mentally and physically. Looks like the hard work and time spent back and forth to Florida was worth it. He's now here in the Twin Cities and enjoying the relative closeness of his loved ones. Even took him up flying a few weeks ago and it's amazing how it all came back to him. He flew backseat in an SNJ (see photo in my dA scrapbook) and as soon as he was strapped in began recalling details about the plane, even though it'd been 63 years since he'd flown one, he was right at home. Asked for the plane as soon as it was off the ground and headed straight up to 3,000 feet, trimmed up the plane and headed west to buzz Lake Minnetonka.
On the horizon...Shrek and I are going to New York City in a couple of weeks. I'm very much anticipating this and it sems like forever since I've been there. Kinda pissed that our Sauvages our locked out and can'r wait until the battle of the millionaires ends so we can watch some hockey. Lots to say about the upcomoimg election but will save that for a seperate posting. Like a good Gemini, I could go on and on but have some fun things to get to this afternoon and evening. Hope everyone is well.
More soon.
I've done a little tattoo work in the past few weeks and will post things as I get them downloaded. Meanwhile am beginning a couple of Halloween themed pieces as well as a painting I owe someone for a bet I lost almost a year ago. Anyway, I'm looking forward to just working on the planes and doing some plain 'ol painting over the next several months.
My Dad's doing entirely better, both mentally and physically. Looks like the hard work and time spent back and forth to Florida was worth it. He's now here in the Twin Cities and enjoying the relative closeness of his loved ones. Even took him up flying a few weeks ago and it's amazing how it all came back to him. He flew backseat in an SNJ (see photo in my dA scrapbook) and as soon as he was strapped in began recalling details about the plane, even though it'd been 63 years since he'd flown one, he was right at home. Asked for the plane as soon as it was off the ground and headed straight up to 3,000 feet, trimmed up the plane and headed west to buzz Lake Minnetonka.
On the horizon...Shrek and I are going to New York City in a couple of weeks. I'm very much anticipating this and it sems like forever since I've been there. Kinda pissed that our Sauvages our locked out and can'r wait until the battle of the millionaires ends so we can watch some hockey. Lots to say about the upcomoimg election but will save that for a seperate posting. Like a good Gemini, I could go on and on but have some fun things to get to this afternoon and evening. Hope everyone is well.
More soon.
Devious Journal Entry
It's rare for such large scale, tragic events such as the recent fire in, and (partial) demise of, the Cathedral of Notre Dame to evoke anything in my heart or mind but disappointment and stark sadness.
For some reason, this event seems alarmingly apropos and somehow fortuitously symbolic.
Let's face it... A good deal of the western world's capacity to appreciate things cultural, spirited, historic or simply of intrinsic value to humankind has been burning and collapsing for some while now.
It is my hope, that during the ensuing evaluation and reconstruction of this storied, sacred place, people might muster a renewed vigor around recogniz
Devious Journal Entry
This holiday season found me doing some store decorations for the local grocery chain(s) of Byerly's & Lunds as well as delivering packages for UPS here in my (new) rural neighborhood. The latter being to stay busy and make a little money while waiting for my new position at Triton Printing to commence, a position for which I interviewed, and accepted prior to Christmas.
For those who are unaware, I recently moved to a small town just west of the Twin Cities, about where silos begin to outnumber cell towers and train whistles narrowly trump jet noise in the prevailing soundscape. It's a mix of small towns, a few of which were in my territ
September
Well as I mentioned, I 'm no longer working at the hangar and after a couple short ventures into other types of work have decided to somehow do artwork again full-time.
With another Minnesota winter bearing down shortly I'm also contemplating a move. Somewhere warmer and kinder.
My little sister has just settled near the Space Coast of Florida and there are a few other vicinities of the country I'm considering. Las Vegas & Nashville (or southern Kentucky) are also in the mix.
In the meanwhile I'm doing a little more painting, a little tattooing for family & close friends and am helping a writer pal with a horror/sci-fi film project.
July 2013
As usual, it's been a while since I've posted here on my dA cache.
This summer's been a mixed bag so far. Work at the hangar has been plodding along. Much less flying than last summer. If I'm to be honest, work on, and around those old warplanes is beginning to become mundane and uninteresting. Never imagined that would actually happen. Maybe it's the fickle Gemini inside or the fact that a good part of my youth was spent around such aircraft. At any rate, the novelty and excitement has waned decidedly. To go from rebuilding engines and fabricating parts with a fair amount of flying in the mix to being a glorified janitor has been disappoint
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