Photos: St Louis Post-Dispatch For those outside the local area who periodically check this blog, here’s a couple of shots of the recent St Louis/Metro East flooding. The photo on the left shows I-44 westbound at Valley Park near MO Hwy 141, while the Spitfire photo may have been taken in Eureka or Pacific; those…

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Hopefully all who read this are getting through the multi-day non-stop round of rain and thunderstorms without any major issues (we’re not, at our home, but so far we’ve managed to keep the basement from completely flooding, primarily through monitoring and mopping every 30 minutes, plus two-hour shifts overnight). If you’ve read the news, Yurp’s…

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As mentioned previously (I think), yr fthfl ed wasn’t able to attend the Christmas party this year – held at the Missouri Athletic Club-West, Friday 4 December – due to my Air Force TDY. From all reports, it was a great gathering with good turnout, a lot of fun and a lot of good food.…

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System was down for a few days, hence no posts over the past two weeks. Fortunately, our ace webmaster was able to debug the system and this blog is back up and running, Expect a couple of posts over the next two days.

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Finished up at Maxwell AFB (Montgomery) earlier today, in the AM I’ll take the cross-country Triumph/LBC search on the road and head in the general direction of Warner Robins, GA (I know, I know, if I hit a large body of water – at least one bigger than the Chattahoochee – I’ve gone too far). …

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Spoke too soon: late-model, crash bumper MGB for sale in Sylacauga, AL, on AL Highway 21.   Didn’t stop to get the details but I wouldn’t be surprised if the car’s on Craigslist.

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First business-related road trip in nearly three years, flew into Atlanta earlier today (always entertaining, working your way through Jackson-Hartsfield International) and drove to Montgomery via the scenic route.  I dumped off the freeway at Anniston, AL, and meandered on south to Alabama’s capital city.  Great begin on the highway again in a different part…

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You gotta love the Midwest: Thanksgiving Day, 25 November, and while we have some serious rain/storms coming in tonight (resulting in a flash flood watch for St Louis County and the surrounding area), I was still able to get the leaves cleaned up front, side and rear of Schloss Morgan AND got the HSD out…twice!  …

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