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Posted on 06/30/2008 10:26:42 PM PDT by JustAmy
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WOW ..... beautiful!
It was a pleasure to post your poem from 2005. I am happy to see others posting beautiful pictures of the Sedona area.
Thank you for your many contributions.
LOL
I’ll join you for a Tequila Sunrise. :)
I’ll watch for a “Clean up your Yard” Day.
Lol! Thanks, Amy, I knew I could count on you. :)
Thank you, Dear Meg, and I Join you in Thanksgiving to our Lord. Your #1656 is So Lovely, and I'm on a Different Laptop than when I Visited the Thread Earlier, and your Fonts beneath your Pic are Beautiful! They Looked Like Print on my Other Laptop, but are Italicized on this One!
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Yorkie, you’re here too? Small world! That tequila sunrise looks mighty good on a hot day like today. Never had one before....thanks for the recipe! Shall I make one for you too? :)
So does the canned version come complete with the potatoes then?
By all means, please do! It's a scorcher up here on the high desert today! Thank you!
Yes it does - here is a picture of a can of Hormel Corned Beef Hash:
Ingredients: Beef and Cooked Corned Beef (Cured with Salt, Sugar, Water, Sodium Nitrite), Rehydrated Potatoes, Water, Salt, Flavoring, Sugar, Sodium Nitrate.
Directions: Range Top: Empty contents of can into skillet. Break apart and fry until crispy, turning with spatula. Microwave Oven: Empty contents of can into microwave-safe container; cover loosely with paper towel. Heat 2.5 minutes or until hot, stirring once halfway through heating. Stir before serving. (All microwave ovens vary. Times given are appropriate.)
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Welll ... I’m back but leaving again. LOL
Marissa has been invited to my friends granddaughters house to spend the night. My friend will be there also. Tomorrow, we will all go to Wild Water Adventures.
Starting on Monday, three mornings of golf lessons.
Oh MY!! ..... Marissa is going to expect us to continue filling her days with interesting stuff planned.
I’ll be back soon.
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Although Earhart's convictions were strong, challenging prejudicial and financial obstacles awaited her. But the former tomboy was no stranger to disapproval or doubt. Defying conventional feminine behavior, the young Earhart climbed trees, “belly-slammed” her sled to start it downhill and hunted rats with a .22 rifle. She also kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about successful women in predominantly male-oriented fields, including film direction and production, law, advertising, management, and mechanical engineering.
After graduating from Hyde Park High School in 1915, Earhart worked as a nurse's aide in a military hospital in Canada during WWI, attended college, and later became a social worker. Earhart took her first flying lesson on January 3, 1921, and in six months managed to save enough money to buy her first plane. The second-hand Kinner Airster was a two-seater biplane painted bright yellow. Earhart named the plane “Canary,” and used it to set her first women's record by rising to an altitude of 14,000 feet.
One afternoon in April 1928, a phone call came for Earhart at work. “I'm too busy to answer just now,” she said. After hearing that it was important, Earhart relented though at first she thought it was a prank. It wasn't until the caller supplied excellent references that she realized the man was serious. “Would you like to fly the Atlantic?” he asked, to which Earhart promptly replied, “Yes!” After an interview in New York with the project coordinators, including book publisher and publicist George P. Putnam, she was asked to join pilot Wilmer “Bill” Stultz and co-pilot/mechanic Louis E. “Slim” Gordon. The team left Trepassey harbor, Newfoundland, in a Fokker F7 named Friendship on June 17, 1928, and arrived at Burry Port, Wales, approximately 21 hours later. Their landmark flight made headlines worldwide, and when the crew returned to the United States they were greeted with a ticker-tape parade in New York and a reception held by President Calvin Coolidge at the White House.
From then on, Earhart's life revolved around flying. She placed third at the Cleveland Women's Air Derby, later nicknamed the “Powder Puff Derby” by Will Rogers. As fate would have it, her life also began to include George Putnam. The two developed a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic crossing and were married February 7, 1931. Intent on retaining her independence, she referred to the marriage as a “partnership” with “dual control.”
Together they worked on secret plans for Earhart to make a solo flight across the Atlantic. On May 20, 1932, she started the trek from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Paris. Strong north winds, icy conditions and mechanical problems plagued the flight and forced her to land in a pasture near Londonderry, Ireland. “After scaring most of the cows in the neighborhood,” she said, “I pulled up in a farmer's back yard.” As word of her flight spread, the media surrounded her, both overseas and in the United States. President Herbert Hoover presented Earhart with a gold medal from the National Geographic Society. Congress awarded her the Distinguished Flying Cross-the first ever given to a woman. At the ceremony, Vice President Charles Curtis praised her courage, saying she displayed “heroic courage and skill as a navigator at the risk of her life.” Earhart felt the flight proved that men and women were equal in “jobs requiring intelligence, coordination, speed, coolness and willpower.”
In the years that followed, Earhart continued to break records. On January 11, 1935, she became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific from Honolulu to Oakland, California. Chilled during the 2,408-mile flight, she unpacked a thermos of hot chocolate. “Indeed,” she said, “that was the most interesting cup of chocolate I have ever had, sitting up eight thousand feet over the middle of the Pacific Ocean, quite alone.” Later that year she was the first to solo from Mexico City to Newark. A large crowd “overflowed the field,” and rushed Earhart's plane. “I was rescued from my plane by husky policemen,” she said, “one of whom in the ensuing melee took possession of my right arm and another of my left leg.” The officers headed for a police car, but chose different routes. “The arm-holder started to go one way, while he who clasped my leg set out in the opposite direction. The result provided the victim with a fleeting taste of the tortures of the rack. But, at that,” she said good-naturedly, “It was fine to be home again.”
In 1937, as Earhart neared her 40th birthday, she was ready for a monumental, and final, challenge. She wanted to be the first woman to fly around the world. Despite a botched attempt in March that severely damaged her plane, a determined Earhart had the twin engine Lockheed Electra rebuilt. “I have a feeling that there is just about one more good flight left in my system, and I hope this trip is it,” she said. On June 1st, Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan departed from Miami and began the 29,000-mile journey. By June 29, when they landed in Lae, New Guinea, all but 7,000 miles had been completed. Frequently inaccurate maps had made navigation difficult for Noonan, and their next hop—to Howland Island—was by far the most challenging. Located 2,556 miles from Lae in the mid-Pacific, Howland Island is a mile and a half long and a half mile wide. Every unessential item was removed from the plane to make room for additional fuel, which gave Earhart approximately 274 extra miles. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca, their radio contact, was stationed just offshore. Three other U.S. ships, ordered to burn every light on board, were positioned along the flight route as markers. “Howland is such a small spot in the Pacific that every aid to locating it must be available,” Earhart said.
At 12:30 p.m. on July 2, the pair took off. Despite favorable weather reports, they flew into overcast skies and intermittent rain showers. This made Noonan’s premier method of tracking, celestial navigation, impossible. As dawn neared, Earhart called chief radioman Leo G. Bellarts and asked for Itasca's location. She failed to report at the next scheduled time, and afterward her radio transmissions, irregular through most of the flight, were faint or interrupted with static. At 7:42 A.M. the Itasca picked up the message, “We must be on you, but we cannot see you. Fuel is running low. Been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet.” The ship tried to reply, but the plane seemed not to hear. At 8:45 Earhart reported, “We are running north and south.” Nothing further was heard from Earhart.
A rescue attempt commenced immediately and became the most extensive air and sea search in naval history thus far. On July 19, after spending $4 million and scouring 250,000 square miles of ocean, the United States government reluctantly called off the operation. In 1938, a lighthouse was constructed on Howland Island in her memory. Today, though many theories exist, there is no proof of her fate. There is no doubt, however, that the world will always remember Amelia Earhart for her courage, vision, and groundbreaking achievements, both in aviation and for women. In a letter to her husband, written in case a dangerous flight proved to be her last, this brave spirit was evident. “Please know I am quite aware of the hazards,” she said. “I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
Records and achievements (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart)
* Woman's world altitude record: 14,000 ft (1928)
* First woman to fly the Atlantic (1928)
* Speed records for 100 km (and with 500 lb (230 kg) cargo) (1931)
* First woman to fly an autogyro (1931)
* Altitude record for autogyros: 15,000 ft (1931)
* First person to cross the U.S. in an autogyro (1932)
* First woman to fly the Atlantic solo (1932)
* First person to fly the Atlantic alone twice (1932)
* First woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross (1932)
* First woman to fly non-stop, coast-to-coast across the U.S. (1933)
* Woman's speed transcontinental record (1933)
* First person to fly solo across the Pacific between Honolulu, Hawaii and Oakland, California (1935)
* First person to fly solo from Los Angeles, California to Mexico City, Mexico (1935)
* First person to fly solo nonstop from Mexico City, Mexico to Newark, New Jersey (1935)
* Speed record for east-to-west flight from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii (1937)
Quotes by Amelia Earhart
“After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the esthetic appeal of flying.”
“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
“Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.”
“Not much more than a month ago I was on the other shore of the Pacific, looking westward. This evening, I looked eastward over the Pacific. In those fast-moving days which have intervened, the whole width of the world has passed behind us -except this broad ocean. I shall be glad when we have the hazards of its navigation behind us.”
— Amelia Earhart, several days before she left for Howland Island and disappeared
“...decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying....”
“I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can oly say that I do it because I want to.”
“Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.”
“The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have I seen so many. I always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but I was sure of it that night.”
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
“My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.”
“One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.”
“The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.” “It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”
“The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair.”
“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
“[Women] must pay for everything.... They do get more glory than men for comparable feats. But, also, women get more notoriety when they crash.”
“...now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done - occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action. Some such consideration was a contributing reason for my wanting to do what I so much wanted to do.”
“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
“Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”
“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
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