The Surly Curmudgeon

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Cessna 172 flying over Strom Thurmond Dam

In 1974, shortly after arrival at my first US Air Force “permanent” duty assignment – Eglin AFB, FL – I began taking flight lessons in preparation for certification as a private pilot. After logging a little over ten hours, I made my first solo flight while on leave for Christmas at Holloman AFB, NM. But … Read more

YHWH - Yahweh

I just noticed something very strange that may be a bug in the Gutenberg editor or in my “go-to” browser – Firefox, or in my feeble brain. While editing a new sermon post for next Wednesday, I saw that a multi-word Hebrew quotation taken from Blue Letter Bible was displayed backwards (incorrectly left-to-right) in the … Read more

Swarm trap hanging at the Huppstead

One of our swarm traps has attracted a swarm. I suspect these are actually bees from one of our own swarms that we failed to catch, now returned home.