Outside My Windows III - Around the Campfire

[R9SCarry]

Well ahead of me Richard - just got crocusses out now and they are complaining cos it's gotten all cold again!!

[tracker]

I'm just trying to contain the begonias, camelias, gardenias,
impatiens, and geraniums that have fluorished this winter
in Houston without a freeze; look out for August, though.
-----might have to spend that month in Ruidoso.

[theirishguard]

tracker, roger on spending the summer in Ruidoso.
Tom

[Richard S]

Since this is a "feel-good and driftable" thread, something happened today which I thought I would never see and which makes me feel very good indeed.

In 1992, my work took me to Liberia in West Africa in the midst of a four-way civil war.  The warring factions at the time were: (1) an interim national government headed by President Amos Sawyerr; (2) the National Patriotic Liberation Front (NPLF) under Charles Taylor; (3) the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (INPFL) under Prince Yormie Johnson (who had captured and executed former President Samuel Doe); and (4) the forces of the Economic Community of West Africa Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) under the command of Nigerian General Ishaya Bakut.  The country was in total chaos, there was carnage in the streets, and foreign embassy personnel were being evacuated by helicipter.  

Today, Her Excellency Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's newly elected President (and, to my knowledge, the first woman to be democratically elected as president of any country on the continent of Africa), addressed a joint session of the United States Congress.  She expressed her gratitude to the United States for its role in helping end the civil war that engulfed her country just a few short years ago.  

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060315/pl_afp/usliberiasirleaf_060315200607

If I had been asked in 1992 if such an event could happen in my lifetime, I would have denied the possibility.  

There is hope!

[MountainMan]

Richard

I can tell that you are proud to have had a part - I'm proud to know someone that did -  things that go on behind the scenes that we never hear about and the press never reports.

[MountainMan]

What is all this talk about summer ...

[MountainMan]

Richard

Ever get shot at on one of your foreign adventures - or is that classified.

[Richard S]

Dave:

With such a lovely lady around, who needs either Spring or Summer?  

[Richard S]

Richard

Ever get shot at on one of your foreign adventures - or is that classified.

Yes, and otherwise abused and mistreated.  But, fortunately,  I'm still here with most of the important parts still intact.  

[MountainMan]

Richard

Hopefully I'll never experience the, whatever the feeling is when it occurs,  of being shot at --  and as you say abused.

I'm sure your lovely wife is glad you're mostly intact.

Dave

[MountainMan]

It is spooky "outside my windows" tonight.

[R9SCarry]

Just danged windy here Dave - waiting for some calm after high winds.  If the moon's up there it ain't gonna say Hi tonight!

I can post what it should look like tho!!  May have posted this one before.

[MountainMan]

Nice Chris - I didn't feel like doing a tripod so mine is not near the quality of yours.  A little shake makes it look spookier.

[Michigunner]

Dave,

You could superimpose that one scary picture of your dog along with the scary moon picture.  The new picture would be double scary.  

I tried to merge them, but it was snowing too much that night the dog picture was taken.

Bill

[RJ HEDLEY]

 Ok Mountainman, I would like to know about the Red Airplane.  With the length of that nose, I would say, there must be quite an engine in there.