Stirrings from the empty nest

Where's Bob? He's in Moorhead, Minnesota, eye-to-eye with the Red River. Meet my new friends .

Son, Patrick, sent this picture along today. Apparently it was picture day. This isn't the "official" picture, but I'm thi...

There aren't a lot of things I'd do differently as a child; only one, really. I'd have paid more attention to the piano. I am n...

I was working out at the hangar today when my hangar neighbor, Rey Hurdt, asked me if I wanted to go flying with him to try to warm up the o...

My dad died five years ago today at 84, almost 85. So up in Maine, my older sister made a snowman in his memory. It think it came out pretty...

I've enjoyed this winter, as I've written about before, but it gets to be around the middle of February, and when the equipment truc...

The last time I got a speeding ticket, was around 1975. I was zipping along through a speed trap in Holden, Massachusetts. I got a ticket, b...

Carolie and I had an idea a few months ago to build an ice castle with ice candles from a mold I bought. The weather since December has been...

I'm having the most enjoyable winter since I was a kid. I don't mean things are going well and it happens to be winter -- we all kno...

Season's Greetings from Minnesota! I am the last person standing. Carolie has gone to bed and the boys have gone back to their respectiv...

A Christmas present to ourselves and a curiosity have led me to invent a new game -- Six Degrees of Mary Lucia . The 4th Season of Rescue Me...

No, not the miracle you think. I am legend in my family for many attempts at projects that collapsed. I was known as the "Scotch Tape ...

I've put 7 -- almost 8 -- years of work into the RV-7A project and I intend to continue working on it, but I have to prepare for the ob...

I'd love to tell you that one of the first things they teach us in flight school is "don't hit the cows." But it's not...

Today was the annual Christmas shopping trip for Carolie and me. We both take the day off and head to the Mall of America for people-watchin...

It was a bittersweet day in my "career." I live-blogged the end of The Morning Show on Minnesota Public Radio. I dare say there wa...

I've been having a problem with my neck. I think. My neck itself doesn't hurt but the neckbone is connected to the legbone -- OK, it...

I come from a long line of squirrel haters. If a scientific study were to come out tomorrow that global warming is making squirrels extinct,...

Carolie and I don't dine out a great deal but I'd still have to say the Bayport Cookery, along the St. Croix River just south of Sti...

Carolie's Dad, Don Thurston, was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He's in bigger "halls" -- the ...