Bill,
I assume that you rewarded the dog for his positive influence on
your career?
At 11:16 PM 5/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>At 03:27 PM 5/8/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>My kid got a new puppy. I was against it but I got overruled by the wife.
>>
>>In the past the dog has jumped onto my work bench in the garage. She's chewed
>>up several things including my slope climbing cleats and several rolls of
>>tape. Annoying but tolerable. Today, however, she did it again and got
>hold of
>>the nose cone to my Poquito HLG! I found it in small pieces on the lawn! ACK!
>>#$%@#$*&^%#@!!~+=#@%$#
>>
>>Bill Swingle
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Pleasanton, CA
>
>Since your wife overruled you on the dog, this should be a good excuse to
>get a new model. That happened to me a little over 35 years ago. Back
>then, I was fresh out of college and had very little money for models. I
>had a cute little .02 powered model that was just ready for the first
>flight except that the kit built receiver wouldn't work. My wife's basset
>hound mistook it for a dog bone and left nothing except balsa toothpicks
>and a well chewed Kraft KV3K receiver, and an escapement. The only part of
>the model that was salvageable was the top hatch with the bubble canopy.
>My wife insisted that I replace the damaged equipment which I promptly did
>and got a working receiver out of the deal. I later used the hatch and
>bubble canopy on a powerpod glider that was eventually published in RCM and
>named the Tern by Don Dewey. And that's how I got into sailplanes.
>
>Chuck Anderson
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