A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....09-21-05....Celebrate Autumn at the Finest!

Mama_Bear

[Mama_Bear]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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Even though it probably still feels like summer, fall is upon us - for tomorrow is the first day of Autumn. September 22nd marks the 2005 autumnal equinox, when night and day are of equal length.

Ready or not, the sun will be setting earlier and the days will become shorter. Sadly for some of us and happily for others, it's time to say goodbye to summer. Crisp mornings, autumn leaves, and frosty pumpkins are right around the corner.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
- Edwin Way Teale




And, for sports fans, it's time for...

06-28-05 ~ Hall of Fame #12

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 09-19-05 Military Monday 09-20-05 Welcome ~ and 'fess up!

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

[mrstank]

I'll try, but that's 11 my time, and I've got a big weekend ahead. This is the first weekend of public services for a church plant that I've been a part of since January. I'm in charge of the nursery and need to make sure things go as smoothly as possible!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

I always forget about the time difference here on FR.LOL.

Maybe some other time.

If you ever need to talk FReepmail me.

I am a former military wife and know how lonely it can get when your husband is deployed or stationed away from you.

Keeping you and your hubby in my prayers.

[Mama_Bear]

Oh, thank you. That is beautiful!

I found this one on google, hopefully it will show up. It was taken at Grafton Notch State Park.

If you can, take some pictures on you bike trips and share them with us. We love picures here. :-)

[mrstank]

That one is pretty too! I'll be sure to take my camera! :)

[lonestar]

Local TV is saying if the thing comes in around Galveston, we could have 40-50 sustained winds for 20-30 hours.

Walmart is sold out of everything. Our hotels are full of LA evacuees and people from our coast are having to keep going North.

My brother lives in College Station and we decided to both stay put because the chances are it will come over only one of us if we both stay home.

[Mama_Bear]

Leave them be, for Heaven's sake
They're made to decompose and fill your life with strife
A russet carpet above the soil
Replenishes it naturally, without sweat and toil


I agree!

Another great poem. Thanks for helping us celebrate autumn, Jack. :-)

[Mama_Bear]

Local TV is saying if the thing comes in around Galveston, we could have 40-50 sustained winds for 20-30 hours.

Oh my goodness!! And I just now turned on FOX and heard that it is a catagory 5 storm now. Please be safe, lonestar. I am worried about you.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

050705-N-0000X-010 Arabian Sea (July 5, 2005) – An aircraft director signals for an F/A-18 Hornet to taxi forward during night flight operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is currently deployed to the 5th Fleet area of operations. Vinson will end her deployment with a homeport shift to Norfolk, Va., and commence a three-year refuel and complex overhaul. U.S. Navy photo (RELEASED)

050919-N-2541H-001 Atlantic Ocean (Sept. 19 2005) - An Aviation Boatswain Mate signals to an F/A-18E Super Hornet, assigned to the “Pukin’ Dogs” of Strike Fighter Squadron One Four Three (VFA-143), that they are clear for launch during night flight operations aboard the conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67). Kennedy is conducting carrier qualifications in the Atlantic Ocean. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class William Heimbuch (RELEASED)

050729-N-0716S-031 Pacific Ocean (July 29, 2005) - A Landing Signal Enlisted (LSE) Sailor prepares a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter for lift-off on the flight deck aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa (LHA 1). Tarawa is the flagship for Expeditionary Strike Group One (ESG-1), currently on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment in support of the global war on terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class James Spiker (RELEASED)

[Mama_Bear]

I am worried about you and lonestar. Please do whatever you need to do to stay safe. This one sounds really bad.

[Mama_Bear]

Thanks, EMB, for your awesome military photos. I look forward to these.

FOX is now reporting on a Jet Blue plane that needs to make an emergency landing at Burbank airport. Landing gear problems. This is scary. I can't imagine what those 145 passengers are going through, not to mention the pilots and air traffic controllers!

Dear God, please bring them safely down.

[MEG33]

Thank you, Mama Bear. We may take off tomorrow evening..I have a home in Waco.. I just read Waco is going to get tree toppling winds ..(so much for a complete escape!). The highways look like a parking lot right now..Many, many evacuees are coming from the coast and flood prone areas..to escape to safer environs..

This is my first hurricane...and it is a big one. Twelve hours in a closet isn't my idea of how to ride it out. I prefer going into an area farther away.

[Mama_Bear]

I prefer going into an area farther away.

I think that is an excellent idea! Keep us posted as long as you can.

I have been through a hurricane when I was a little kid, on Guam (technically it was a "typhoon"). We had to evacuate to higher ground, but to us kids it was just a big adventure. I'm sure my parents saw it as something much more than an adventure, though. LOL

[tuliptree76]

Good evening, Lori. I'm looking forward to the cooler weather!

[tuliptree76]

Thank you for the poem, Jack.

[Mama_Bear]

I'm looking forward to the cooler weather!

I am too. But, after autumn we could go directly to spring, as far as I am concerned. :-)

But, there is a reason for every season and I need to just gracefully accept the fact that winter is going to follow autumn, no matter how much I gripe about it. LOL.

Hope you have a beautiful autumn, tulip.

[tuliptree76]

Hope you have a beautiful autumn, tulip.

I hope you do, too. Actually, I haven't seen a whole lot of snow since I moved to southern IL. I miss measuring snowfall in feet. :-)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I watched it on TV. Glad they're OK.

[Mama_Bear]

That was sure a beautiful, textbook perfect landing. I have experienced a few *normal* landings much rougher than that one. Of course, the three hours those poor passengers were in the air anticipating the emergency landing must have seemed like an eternity. I can't imagine what it must have been like for them. All kinds of horrible outcomes were probably going through their heads.

Yes, thank God, everyone is okay.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yep, that was perfect!

[dutchess]

Just getting back here. WOW...watching the landing... I think the cable networks made more out of it than needed to be BUT as a passenger I would have been freaking...I'm impressed with the calm of the pilots and the airline AND...AS someone who FINALLY solo'd... the bluejets pilots rocked!!! WHAT a great perfect flair....left rudder...dip the left wing so the nose ends right up in the middle!!!! TOO COOL!!!! ( ah hem...I'm repeating much of what my more experienced pilot husband said...but makes me sound knowledable doesn't it????)