Meet “Snortin Bull”

It was raining here again this morning in the desert… can’t believe it!  It never rains here…

Had a big job on my plate today!  Assembly of my new P-47D Thunderbolt! 

Meet Snortin Bull  (aka James Mullin) …   isn’t he a cool looking cat!  I do not have my pilot’s licence, so I had to hire Snortin Bull to fly my plane!  In the 2nd. World War, James A. Mullin was a pilot in one of these P-47’s from the USAAF 404th. fighting group, named Snortin Bull… he was a legend.

The first P 47 was flown in 1941 during WW11 and was the first piston driven aircraft to exceed 500 mhp…and was known as “The Jug”… I hope mine will go that fast!

Here is mine all fully assembled out of the box this morning… took about 2 hours to do… lots of reading and messing around…

All the parts were laid out on the table…  and I was left scratching my head…

Had to install the wheels…

This next picture below, is a picture I took off of my computer screen with my camera of the P 47 in my flight simulator… check it out to the real model in the picture below and you will see how similar they are…

The finished product…  I am still a while away from actually flying it as I build up my nerve and flying time on the computer… stay tuned!

We did work on other things today, Judy did a big re-org of the inside of the motor home. 

Till tomorrow…

Big News in Blog Land tonight…

Our Daughter, Kristina, is soon to be expecting her first child, which will be our 3rd. grand child!  Can’t wait…

She is just over 1/2 way through, and sent us this picture of her “Baby Bump”…

Turns out today, that after a visit to Her Doctor, the word is the baby will be a girl!  The females have been taking over our Family!  

This news immediately put Judy into the shopping mode today, as we headed over to Temecula.  It is a great little Town and has a great Mall that we really liked. 

One of the reasons I wanted to head over to Temecula, was the fact that Hobby Town, USA is located there, and I wanted to take a look at the current stock of airplanes…

Check it out… I picked up a P-47D Thunderbolt.  The same plane that Ben Affleck flew in the movie “Pearl Harbour”… only mine is a bit smaller…

Not to worry, it will be a while before I actually fly the plane, as I have to get used to it on my Spectrum Simulator on the Computer first!  Downloaded the plane tonight! Ready to fly!

When we got back to Desert Hot Springs tonight, we had plans to meet up with Rick and Paulette from   Rick & Paulette's RV Travels and go out to dinner.   Rick had in mind a great Mexican Restaurant on the main street of Palm Springs…

The shot below is taken inside the restaurant… nice spot!  Great dinner!

Thanks for the great evening of fun and entertainment… Judy and I enjoyed! 

Very blurry picture below, but outside the Restaurant, there were horse and buggy rides… well you get the picture…

Just another overall great day, other than a bit of wind in the desert again today… supposed to rain again tomorrow… as Paulette said at dinner tonight, “at least it isn’t snow”…

Till tomorrow…

Just another windy day in the desert…

Nice day temperature wise and you could improve your tan if you can put up with the winds… they know how to blow in the desert…

We simply took life easy today, talking to our Daughter on skype, and enjoying the hot tubs this morning…

Took a trip into Wal-Mart this afternoon for some needed supplies, and then back home to an easy  afternoon. 

Had to prepare myself for the big game this afternoon, as Toronto took on Montreal… and they won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  5 to 4… and guess what… Toronto is only 4 points out of the playoffs with a long way to go yet!  We are back!

Pretty exciting day right???

Till tomorrow…