July 2010 - Argghhh!

…and sometimes the Ladies likes us right back. For some strange, arcane reason, I seem to draw Lady Lurkers (and you *know* who you are) out from behind the draperies to comment.I still remember the first shy, fragile creature who ventured hesitantly forth to join in a comment party once upon a long ago…Lex took back the plane after the kill and I tried to tell myself I was just a little dizzy and overwhelmed.Ummmmmm – okay, so she’s become a lot *less* fragile since then...

News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.

My kinda email! John, speaking of M5 Stuarts I ran across this the other day at Bernard Zee's sight. Mr Zee likes to take pics of airplanes and other things http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1b/home.html The Chino Airshow has WW-II re-enactors at the event and thought you might enjoy a small diversion from your daily toils. http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1b/Chino10/Reenactors/Reenactors.html I thing the 40mm would look good next to the mountain howitzer, just in case the zombies learn to fly. Aw what...

...another hole in a family's heart. And another marble flower blooms in the garden of stone. Comes an email from Castle reader and history addict John McKay : I buried one of my former students today, PFC Jacob Dennis of the 4/23 Strikers, but wanted to pass along to you that one of your "redlegs" did him righteous - BG Larry Dudney, the CO of the 48th BCT & TF Phoenix in Afghanistan, gave the military eulogy and did a right fine job. Jacob was a mortarman, and BG Dudney mentioned...

The real caption reads: First Lady Michelle Obama christens the USCGC Stratton with a bottle of champagne, during a ceremony at the Port of Pascagoula, in Pascagoula, Miss., July 23, 2010. White House photo by Samantha Appleton. But what are they really saying? Boq

Come to me, my pretties! Okay - to wrap up the old whatziss that has Casey all concerned - it was, indeed, a Boys anti-tank gun armor piercing round. I think Neffi got there first, along with Seza. All right - on to the new one. You may commence. Yes, this all you get. Somehow, I'm reminded of a Christmas song... Yeah, I might explain that. If I remember....

So, my buddy Mike sets a challenge: "$50.00 to the first of you that asks your wife and answers this question from somewhere other than the “doghouse”!!!!!!" Here be the question: