New View

I posted this in 2008, I guess the view isn't always the same.

New Mold

An older and wiser DIYer finally fixed this eyesore with the help of his Dad, the right tools, and some actual crown molding. And it was good. (Still needs to be painted to cover the seams and nail holes.)

Old Mold

In 1999 a young and inexperienced DIYer wanted to put up crown molding in the living room. So he bought this stuff, which is actually baseboard and slapped it up with terrible corner cuts he then filled with spackle. It was not good, but it was lived with for many years.

Bye Bye Blackbird

I copied the following from another source:

The SR-71 wasn’t like other planes. It didn’t retire like them either.

On this day in 1990, SR-71 #972 took its final flight for the U.S. Military and was officially retired. It ran from Los Angeles to Washington, headed to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. In typical Blackbird fashion, it set four speed records on the way.

Pilot Lt Col Ed Yielding and Reconnaissance Systems Officer Lt Col Joseph Vida took off at Palmdale, California and landed at Washington-Dulles a scant hour, four minutes, and 20 seconds later. This was enough to set records from the West Coast to the East Coast, from Los Angeles to Washington, from Kansas City to Washington, and from St. Louis to Cincinnati.

The average speed (just the average!) was 2,145 mph, and you can see the route they took above.

Flying Lizards

We got another fly over by the Blue Angels this morning, as a precursor to the Great Tennessee Air Show starting this weekend. I didn't get a picture of them, but I did get a picture of the next group to fly by, the GEICO Skytypers in their SNJ-2 version of the classic North American Aviation T-6 Texan. I'd never heard of them before, apparently they do some nifty kind of "dot matrix" skywriting.

WOTM

June bakes it's way in.