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Friday liftoff cancelled due to cold front finishing moving East of Natchez. Saturday morning before finished coffee, heard burners firing over our home. First race began in old kcs lumber yard, four hundred yard North of our yards! Got several decent pics and close up of Natural High experienced by one pilot. Winds picked up and shifted SSE, scanner chatter increased. One pilot landed on one of the small islands in the Mississippi river, south of the bridges. Two pilots had to land in the game reserve, well south of the intended landing zone, all recovered safely due to efforts of local chase crews finding creative entrance paths with cell

Now have a dependable digital camcorder with acceptable zoom lens, and new download program installed on old Dell desktop. All my life, birds, snakes, dogs and cats have approached me in a trusting manner. Need to capture the most recent critters that are getting close. New pair of small finch size birds(black backs, dark blue belly, swept back wings like a swift, yellow beak) that hover like hummingbirds.  One flew up to me at eye level, and hovered at three feet distance for two seconds, then flew right fifteen feet swooping up and then reversed to left(thirty feet right to left in our front yard) four times before landing on front part o

One of my hobbies is Ancestry search for online photos of our paternal and maternal family members. Some have been collected in local newpapers involved with Fraternal Groups, most are original late 1800 to early 1900 private family collections. Our first grandchild, Caitlyn, looks like her dad. Comparing my children to myself, and now my dad and his dad, all have the same pattern of eye nose ears measurements. Helps to see their world and understand the challenges faced daily required knowledge of Nature, and how to adapt to her violent weather events, survive and store those memories in DNA for the next generation. Now it is our turn to a