Just put it down next to mom's suicide note..

It's been running an average temperature of 104-107.5 degrees
 from noon to 1830 hrs here...
We have been putting out a can, filled with ice, 

next to the mailbox on our front porch.

In the can surrounded by the ice,
we put a small carton of coconut water for our Mail Carrier...

Our Bungalow, which was built in 1903, is in the historic district of town so the
Mail Carrier has to walk the entire district and up to each individual house. 
 There are no curbside or communal mailboxes allowed.

This makes our particular neighborhood exhausting duty 
for the mail carrier in brutally hot weather.
The offering of chilled Coconut water is
 just our way of trying to help out a bit... 
and saying
 Thanks for the mail.

The incident at this link is pretty terrible but the worst thing about it is that I'm sure

90 million other bloggers across the world are without a doubt----envious---!

Envious that somebody actually read & paid attention to these guy's blogs???

Blogger hacked to death
Other bloggers be like--
"I wish i could get hacked to death, proving people read and take my blog seriously!!!"

I speak often of working on our Bungalow.

The work we have done can be difficult to describe

however these before and after photographs may help?

This is the back yard taken from the rear of the house..

On moving in:

Today:

The front of the Bungalow on moving in:

The front of the Bungalow today:

Ten years and the work still goes on--we enjoy working on it!

I have made considerable progress on my 1/72
TU-95 Bear model project.

Retirement has made me a much, much better modeler.
I now consider my kit building obsession a form of art?
I have become much more detail orientated, and accepting of the fact
that specific techniques take time to obtain.
 TU-95 Kit progress photographs:

I try to stay as realistic as possible including the application
of a 'Soviet baby-shit-green' colored cabin interiors?

Wings, cockpit,engine nacelles, and fuselage assembled and ready for
sanding, detailing then paint....
As you can observe from the length of the fuselage this is a BIG
kit even in 1/72 scale.
This is a little bit each afternoon project with a great deal of detailing, masking,
and painting since there are multiple shadings all over the 
aircraft's metal surfaces..
I did order several accessory items to use in the future display of the TU-95
and to increase the kit's accuracy.
I obtained Verlinden 1/72 scale concrete runway sheets:

and Verlinden's 1/72nd Airfield Accessories kit for use on the
display base with the aircraft when the kit is completed.

I really wanted a tanker truck for the TU-95 display base, as a tool to 

represent the true size of these aircraft.

Searching the net for such a kit i discovered  

what appeared to be very bizarre pricing structure.

 Kits of any 1/72 Soviet airfield tanker trucks were listed for $20-$25 while

a Chinese Air Force 1/72nd tanker truck--which is a Soviet truck--

(the Russians supplied these trucks to the Chinese)

was $7.00?

I, of course, ordered the $7.00 truck and I am simply

planning on painting it Yellow and using the red star decals while omitting the

Chinese Characters.

This will make it Russian again?

WTF, you know?

Last but not least I located and obtained a ICM air to surface Soviet

Missile set.

The TU-95 Bear over the years of modification has become

a cruise missile carrier, much like the US B-52.

My intent is to wing pylon mount two KH-59 Kazoo

air to surface missiles on my TU-95 since they are a 

wicked looking item, although technically obsolete for this aircraft.

I hope that at the conclusion of the construction process

I will have a unique aircraft model to enjoy displaying for a long time.

On streaming:

Le P'tit Quinquin is a French--well--part detective/mystery
and part I have no fucking idea what?...It's great tho.
Think Salvador Dali creating a mystery TV show.
I guess there's a plot--we're still not really sure--but---
In a small French village on the English Channel,
someone is killing, dismembering, and shoving the body
parts of villagers into the assholes of live cows.. 

Yes, yes you read that correctly, and no I am not going to
explain this any further...but it happens to several victims.
The two detectives investigating are just as unique as the crime--

One has a incredibly bad twitch and the other 
almost no teeth---
One fires off his pistol into the air often, and says "lets roll" all the time?
The other dreams of driving the police car on two wheels only?
The show is 3 hours long, yes three hours....and starts off slowly,
and is the only detective show that ends without a solution, that i know of?
but
Le P'tit QuinQuin is bizarrely absurdly awesome!
I (of course) highly highly recommend!!!!

Funny

Doc Martin--funny

Dire Straits:
Ride across the River