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My wife often, when purchasing with cash, will give pennies or a nickel with the paper dollars so the change back will be even. I am amazed at the dumfounded looks of the young cashiers not knowing how to deal with the math. As my friend often says, "Like a cow looking at a new gate."

Fellow forum members may find a tab in the ruslet site about soviet and Chinese aircraft in the USA interesting.

Good enough for me, but finished now. Coffee and chocolate chip cookies (biscuits over there), not tough enough for a beer. An antihistamine perhaps. Learned from doctors in 1955 I have a severe allergy to newly cut grass, however, my father overruled five specialists.

Bout to begin cutting grass, unless something urgent happens. Please!

I have never seen a jacket drinking, but I have seen some wet with spillage.

There is a rush to get out!

Is LV-ZIX the French version of the Fi 156, a Criquet?

You mean, like the B-29 and her engines?

Would make a great workshop or a country home - excellent access for large stuff through front doors.

Finding empty .50 caliber shells in fresh gravel was a fun thing for me. On occasion a spent round was found, which could be pressed into an empty shell & polished for an impressive bookshelf ornament. Years later when I began reloading, I realised these old empty .50 cases were reloaded at...

Successfully moved a heavy bookcase from my sister's empty house to my (our) computer room at home while the War Dept is away for two days. Preparing for aftershocks tomorrow.

I would add my favorites, Bell YFM-1 & YFM-1A. The USAAC can not be out done by the French!

The metal tag, left edge center, has GXC-7A and near bottom of tag, Navy Department USMC

Just a brief real life observation from 1957. Our Civil Air Patrol Cadet squadron was participating with our Senior members in some long forgotten exercise. I was an observer in the back seat of an L-16 and the Senior member piloting was tasked with finding the truckload of cadets in the truck...

The real question is who is the westerner on the tail of the Japanese capture?