Catching Up

Maybe the best way to begin to catch up on posts is a picture of yet another bicycle tire repair. I try to keep this kind of repair to a minimum, but I seem to find a lot of road debris. And, for me, there's nothing like a new tire to home right in on sharp stuff. A fragment of rusty knife blade did this. So a "boot" that will keep things together while I get used to time to retire early. Dammit.



Somewhere in all of it, I continue to be amused by airplanes. Well, amazed is probably a better word. My little foam radio control airplane keeps taking hard landings. I'm getting better at controlling my descent into terrain, but only by degrees. Meanwhile, in Melbourne, El Ambia has a new piece of aircraft debris. Looks like the front end from an IAI Westwind. I had intended to have lunch there after visiting Larsen Motorsports open house in early December. Got to El Ambia a bit before 11:00. Only to find that on Saturday they don't open until noon. So I came home and we had homemade. Weeks later I'm still savoring almost having a pan con ropa vieja (it's the shoestring fries).



Larsen runs jet cars. From the looks of their shop they buy a few used GE J-85 motors with high time. And, I'm guessing, that they don't overhaul them much. Mostly they use them up. Someone we met at WFIT radio station drives for them. Kat said her best is around 260 mph. Others have broken 300. I had noticed that most of their drivers are women and considered, first, why not. And second that women probably represent a weight savings where ounces count. - Once everything lights up, these cars are probably burning out about half a gallon per second.






Play your cards right, you might get a train on a railroad trestle near El Ambia. Not everyone is as pleased by this as I am.



Ellen embroiders. Lili hangs out with Ellen. Yesterday Lili got a trip to the Sexton ranch. Ellen was doing an interview for VB 32963 newspaper where she reports on arts. Lili got to hang out in the great outdoors and race around with a smaller ranch dog. She showed little interest in cows.






And winding up with enough for now. Raw Space Gallery has a show of and about women. Niurka Barroso doing portraits of local women using a random walk (kinda) of association to select the women by not selecting. She took photos of a few women and asked them to tell their friends. Pass it on. See where it goes. 

Niurka from Cuba. Later traveling the world, still doing a lot of this, doing photo reporting for international press. She one of the people allowed within a few feet of Fidel Castro. Also she who collected photographs abandoned in Cuba during the Revolution. Pictures now part of a national archive. 

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