A Long Day

Last Friday the Nurse and I picked up my Dad in Findlay and took him on  day trip to the air museum at Wright Patterson AFB.  My son had made arrangements for us to take the behind the scences tour of the restoration work they do at the museum.  The big project they are working on is the Memphis Belle (WWII B-17).  Some of you may remeber this was the play that flew 25(?) missions over Germany.  The plane and crew were famous for this because of the high attrition rate of the B-17's due to lack of fighter escort in the early days of the bombing campaign.  The tour lasted 2 1/2 hours and was really interesting.  The restoration is in the 6th year of a 10 year project.  Everything is done by hand because there are no manufacturing records to work from.  There are really some talented people working on this.  Anyway my Dad was really into the whole thing since he used to fly on a B-26 in the Carribean during the war.  After the tour we went through several of the museum exhibits.  If you never done this you should.  This is a world class museum.  To give an example of what you can view -  a B-52 suspended fom the cieling.  You really can't appreciate that until you see it.  From start to finish the trip took about 15 hours (but well worth it).

Saturday golf was impacted by twoo things.  First I was tired from Friday and out of kilter as evidence by my play and second the SD was on fire ( probably because of his birthday).   The results weren't good.  I'll leave it there.

Yesterday was a TDGA rating day.  We did a little 9 hole course by Payne, OH.  Little did we know we would encounter 3 road closures on the way there.  Our GPS was not much help, and we found out many older farmers don't have any interest in golf.  None that we asked for directions had ever heard ogf Pleasnt Valley Golf Club.  The most interestiong part of the trip was seeing the 50 unit windmill farm that the state has errected.  We were told the farmers love it because of the land leases and the low noise levels.  I'm sure where it cnnects to the power grid but it was an impressive sight.

Finally, how about the final round of the US Open.  It is good to know even the pros can hit a wild shot at the wrong time.

It is going to be hot for the next few days.   Keep hydrated on the course.

CC