Pix of Oshkosh this week

Here are a few pix I snapped as we flew over OSH at 8500 feet, on our way
back from Mackinac Island.

Looks like their already bustling, although no one was in the North 40 yet.

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http://alexisparkinn.com/photogaller...In2%207-05.jpg

http://alexisparkinn.com/photogaller...In3%207-05.jpg

And here's one of storied Lambeau Field, in Green Bay, as we passed over,
just for the heckuva it:

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--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

They just got done with a big country music festival at OSH, so all the
porta potties are in place, fences are up, and the grass is already beat to
a pulp. It's definately summer in Wisconsin!

Jim

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:gFFCe.183852$xm3.75852@attbi_s21...
Here are a few pix I snapped as we flew over OSH at 8500 feet, on our way
back from Mackinac Island.

Looks like their already bustling, although no one was in the North 40
yet.


http://alexisparkinn.com/photogaller...-In%207-05.jpg


http://alexisparkinn.com/photogaller...In2%207-05.jpg


http://alexisparkinn.com/photogaller...In3%207-05.jpg

And here's one of storied Lambeau Field, in Green Bay, as we passed over,
just for the heckuva it:


http://alexisparkinn.com/photogaller...ld2%207-05.jpg
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

("Jim Burns" wrote)(
They just got done with a big country music festival at OSH, so all the
porta potties are in place, fences are up, and the grass is already beat
to
a pulp. It's definately summer in Wisconsin!


Twin Cities = 10 straight days in the mid 90's (first time since the BIG
drought year of 1988).

We had a small sprinkle of rain today, maybe more tonight. Slightly cooler
weather coming behind this front will last a day or two - we'll send it on
over. Then it's back up to the 90's later in the week.


Montblack

Twin Cities = 10 straight days in the mid 90's (first time since the BIG
drought year of 1988).

Yeah, that was an amazing year, 1988. We had just bought our first house,
the summer before, and knew that we'd have to paint it the following year.

To our astonishment, it didn't rain at all, all summer. We were able to
paint outside every day after work, and -- since we were entirely shaded by
21 full-grown oak trees, and were less than a mile from Lake Michigan -- the
heat wasn't bad at all.

Farmers will hate me for saying it, but that year -- and this year -- are as
close to "perfect" summers as I've seen. VFR every day, sunny and warm.
THAT is summer, gentlemen!

:-)

Now if only it cools down a tad before OSH, it really WILL have been a
perfect summer!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Ah, I don't hate you for saying it.... we irrigate everything and have a
saying that we'd rather have a drought than a flood because we haven't
figure out a way to stop a flood, but we sure know how to irrigate.... we
just wish somebody would pay the electric bills!

So far, here at least, 1988 was worse, but we won't know until it's over.

Jim

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Twin Cities = 10 straight days in the mid 90's (first time since the BIG
drought year of 1988).

Yeah, that was an amazing year, 1988. We had just bought our first house,
the summer before, and knew that we'd have to paint it the following year.

To our astonishment, it didn't rain at all, all summer. We were able to
paint outside every day after work, and -- since we were entirely shaded
by
21 full-grown oak trees, and were less than a mile from Lake Michigan --
the
heat wasn't bad at all.

Farmers will hate me for saying it, but that year -- and this year -- are
as
close to "perfect" summers as I've seen. VFR every day, sunny and warm.
THAT is summer, gentlemen!

:-)

Now if only it cools down a tad before OSH, it really WILL have been a
perfect summer!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Most of us in the hills on the Left Coast don't air condition. For the
three or four days of 90 degrees we get a summer, it just isn't worth it.
For those few days, we just have a nonstop pool party and be done with it.

It was 98d in the bedroom last night when I went to bed at 10 and it dropped
all the way to 87 this morning at 6. It has just been flat MISERABLE out
here for almost two weeks now. The forecast is that it will drop back into
the low 80s during the day this Friday ... just in time for us to leave for
Oshkosh.

Somebody said that the grass at OSH was burned brown. From Jay's pictures,
it looks like a mix of green and light brown. And, the progs show one hell
of a storm system moving across the area today and tonight. Can anybody
update the group with current sky/grass conditions at Oshkosh?

Jim



"Jim Burns" wrote in message
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Ah, I don't hate you for saying it.... we irrigate everything and have a
saying that we'd rather have a drought than a flood

Jay Honeck wrote:
Yeah, that was an amazing year, 1988. We had just bought our first house,
the summer before, and knew that we'd have to paint it the following year.
Typical summer in the CA central valley...*maybe* one shower in August.
Never mind the week long 100 degree plus days (that we're in right
now)...it's a dry heat! Ya, right. Toasty unless you're doing air work
over a lake where the OAT was a comfy 69 degrees a couple weeks back.

Now if only it cools down a tad before OSH, it really WILL have been a
perfect summer!
If it's any easier to turn down the humidity-o-meter, request that Jay!
Heck, 85-90 degrees would be a nice change for me right now. :-)

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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Jay Honeck wrote:


Farmers will hate me for saying it, but that year -- and this year -- are as
close to "perfect" summers as I've seen. VFR every day, sunny and warm.
THAT is summer, gentlemen!

That is every day all summer long in Montana. Every year. And you
willingly live there in the midwest.

OK, good...looks like nobody's in MY spot in camp scholler yet!

John

WOW!!!
No haze, no clouds.