Yesterday after a nice breakfast at the HOG ( Hot Off The Grill ) the grandkids and I visited a local nature park, Shipley Nature Center located in the Huntington Central Park complex. We were later joined by their dad Marci as he swung by to also pick up Aaryn and Marcello for a beach outing rightt after. For more go to http://www.shipleynature.org/ There we experienced an interpretive center, gift shop, Native American history, California flora and fauna, puppets, a wigwam,fossils, skeletons, redwoods and much more. I highly recommend this small park to anyone who visits Huntington Beach.
FLY not yet, 'tis just the hour, When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night,
And maids who love the moon. 'Twas but to bless these hours of shade That beauty and the moon were made; 'Tis then their soft attractions glowing Set the tides and goblets flowing. Oh! stay, — Oh! stay, — Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh, 'tis pain To break its links so soon.
I feel fortunate to have flown for the pioneering Skyknight Program for 25 yrs. I saw and experienced many cool things and made many friends. I retired in 2005 and so my rotors have stopped. I started flying in 1971, at nineteen, with a coupon for a five dollar demo ride in a Cessna 150 and was hooked. Back then I could lease a Cessna 150 for eleven bucks an hour. In 1978 I earned two rotorcraft add-ons which led to employment with Lakewood, Ca. Skyknight in 1980. 17,000 hrs later I retired due to Parkinson's. I was very glad to find out why my right hand had begun to slightly shake at the same frequency as the cyclic and the pedals felt very strange on crosswind approaches in and out of the station helipad. The rotors have stopped turning in the air but are still going strong on the ground.
Visit to Sherman Library and Gardens With My Sister
My sister was here for a week from July 7 through the 11th..She brought her furbutt children, Josie and Dolly..They had fun witth their cousin Katy. http://www.slgardens.org/