guess whos birthday today

Killdeer · August 08, 2007, 04:38:00 PM

Happy Birfday, Jeffster! I see you have a yen for southern US vittles...I will pick you up a box of instant grits. Happy Birfday!

What are the arrival and departure dates? (So I know when to visit my left coast sister.) :p

Killdeer

sticshooter · August 08, 2007, 05:14:00 PM

Happy 65th Birthday Wolfman :eek:

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lost lake · August 08, 2007, 05:37:00 PM

happy birthday

yellow bow · August 08, 2007, 06:18:00 PM

happy birthday,and many more.

JEFF B · August 08, 2007, 08:44:00 PM

killie i arrive on the 28th of sept and leave on the 14th of oct. hell i may never leave.

hey frank i am 55 not your age. LOL!!!! mind you by the time i get there i may look 70.LOL!!!!

C2@TheLibrary · August 08, 2007, 08:48:00 PM

Happy Birthday

Landshark160 · August 08, 2007, 08:54:00 PM

Happy Birthday, man!

BlkDog · August 08, 2007, 09:17:00 PM

Happy Birthday! Have a great one!

rawshaft · August 08, 2007, 09:19:00 PM

Happy Birthday bud!!!!!!

Izzy · August 09, 2007, 01:55:00 AM

Happy B day.

drewsbow · August 09, 2007, 06:01:00 AM

Happy birthday Bro :0)

OzarkRamblr · August 09, 2007, 06:05:00 AM

Happy Birthday Jeff, a trips not a bad present at'all

TimZeigler · August 09, 2007, 06:48:00 AM

Happy Birthday my friend!

ber643 · August 09, 2007, 08:20:00 AM

Happy (Belated) Birthday (ya "cheeky bugger", you - :D )

PaPaFrank · August 09, 2007, 09:51:00 AM

Happy Birthday Brother! Hope it was a good one...

jake jr. trickshot · August 09, 2007, 10:52:00 AM

congrats and happy birthday!!!!!

jake

Flatshooter · August 10, 2007, 06:45:00 PM

Hey Jeff, You and I share the same date! Happy Birthday to you.

Got2strum · August 10, 2007, 09:24:00 PM

Jeff, I wish I had known this when I talked to you !! Happy Birthday !!!
Oh yeah,Don't worry about the flight. I hear you are more likely to walk into a sharp broadhead just lying around than have trouble on a plane. :p
Good trick to distract your mind : Pick a high number, lets say at least three digits. Now count backward by three's. Makes you concentrate and takes your mind off of whatever.... Might help anyway

Ga.boy · August 10, 2007, 10:21:00 PM

Happy belated birthday Jeff, and you too Flatshooter!

Killdeer · August 10, 2007, 10:52:00 PM

Dang, Jeffster, I love to fly. I haven't flown commercially for almost thirty years, but I love to fly. Don't want to now, with all the weeny-ization of the experience due to many factors.

In the old days, I remember the airlines giving out complimentary small duffels (we called any small bag a "McKenzie bag" for all our growing-up years). We walked over steamy tarmac, with its rich creosote/kerosene smell to the plane. The ladder was tall, silvery aluminum and led to a smallish hatch and a smiling stewardess. You saw the relative smallness of the rounded fusilage, wondered at how so many and their luggage would fit, your ears took in the thundrous roar of the planes, the ground thrummed beneath your feet with the beat of the motors, the whining din of jets.

It was adventure!

Wide-eyed, I fought for the window seat. Settled in, I thrilled to the speed, racing down the runway, fast eough? Pushed back in my seat, my heart soared as we left the Earth, and joined the ranks of eagles. I never tired of watching the tiny doings on the ground, or the upper surfaces of clouds. This was a view that only birds and God had of my planet.

And returning to a new Earth, the same yet different, with new experiences ahead, was just as cool. Closer we came, things became recognizeable, oh so close! I felt I could wave at that man in the car...how is the landing? three point? No, two and one...and we are slowing down, turbines roaring, turning, dang, it's over. I step down the stairs, bless the ship and its crew for the safe ride, and marvel at the engineering, the crafting, the ship, the amazingness of something so heavy lifting into the air and traversing the globe. Flight is a wonderful amalgam of intelligence and miracle. I love it.

Killdeer