Miniposts- AirVenture edition

Margaret Ringenberg passed away while attending OskKosh
obit, Ft. Wayne article
Girls Can Fly- Margaret Ringenberg’s site
WhiteKnightTwo debuted at AirVenture
NASA exhibit at OshKosh

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Love

After a frustrating day at work*, there’s nothing like having a nice glass of local wine, while having a light dinner** while sitting at the patio table***, and then enjoying some easy-to-make, non-bagged microwave popcorn. Seriously. I love this popcorn maker.
*the file/course I was working on got corrupted three times, causing lots of rework to [...]

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More accomplished

And by 1 today…

Cooked: Breakfast
Watched: Tour de France
Planted: Backyard garden
Tied up: Tomatoes and peppers
War waged against: White flies on tomatoes
Started: Chili for dinner

It’s awfully hot out, so I think I’m going to chill inside for the heat of today, maybe do some laundry and read.

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Accomplished

We certainly earned our beers tonight! Today, I pruned the butterfly bush, fennel, porch tomato, blooming tree, roses, daylilies, mint, bee balm, bamboo, unnamed bushed around the peppers, near-the-front-stairs bush, and in-the-butterfly-bush roses. Then I fertilized the veggies and roses, and moved to the backyard, where I dug up the area for a new veggie [...]

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New friend

I have a spider in my car! I find little spider-trails in the morning when I drive to work, and we talk as I’m stuck in traffic. Well, I talk more and Spid listens. Over the last couple weeks, I’ve really enjoyed our conversations and it’s nice to know that I’m never really alone in [...]

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Continued.

Boil Water Order Continues in DeKalb County
I’m so glad we knew about it before? I guess we aren’t one (or two) of the “Thousands of DeKalb county residents being advised…”, so I wonder how we get on the “advise of of boil notices!” list. The comments on the belated warning story are great.

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Meh

Not much to report after the appointment today. The guy’s clearly a surgeon, and agreed that there’s not much room in my nose to breathe. We’re taking a stepped approach- corticosteroids to see if that improves breathing, and another appointment in 3 weeks when they don’t.

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