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I am a retired English teacher and department head, the mother of three grand mother of four, and have been married to the same man for 53 years, two years after we met at college. I taught in both middle and high schools as I really love teens and in-betweens. I was also a certified Lamaze instructor, and for a short time a volunteer chaplain at Howard County General Hospital. I am a two-time cancer survivor, ovarian (2003), and breast (2019) I was born in South Philadelphia and grew up in the 'burbs with great parents, in a bilingual household. I love soft pretzels and cheesesteaks, the Phillies, the Eagles, the Orioles, and sometimes the Ravens. I love being Mom, Aunt Kathy, Nona Kathy (Kath), and Teacher. I spend a lot of time in my gardens in the spring and summer, and in the winter I plan what I'm going to plant. I also am an avid reader, cook, photographer, lover of languages, music, and four-footed furries.

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Showing posts with label Solomon's Island. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Rockfish and Flying Tigers

There are three things I must add in reference to the last post:

1. Daughter is exceedingly fit, but the muscle you see in that right arm is due to her holding up her end of the palate on which all those fish rest.

2. I don't eat rock fish. Sorry, just don't like it. I prefer 'thin' filets like sole, tilapia, flounder, and salmon that's been butterflied for me.

3. All of that fish, split evenly among the group, gets eaten. Friends 'line up' to get their fresh filets.
                                                                                                               

It rained for three of the days we spent in San Diego. So on one of them, we visted the Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park. Fittingly, this museum is directly under the approach path for the airport and we snapped a few pics of arriving flights.  We love planes!


Inside we found quite a surprise.  Oftentimes, little attention is given to the Army Air Corps' theater in China Burma, where my dad was stationed during WWII.  He was a radio operator on C-47's.  So when we saw this display, I felt like I was visiting with my dad.

 Incidentally, the day my dad died, on June 1 in 1998, our youngest brother, Jay, was in Florida.  He would fly to Philadelphia  to join us the next day.  Jay, when he learned of my dad's death, walked down to the beach for a couple of minutes of solitude.  As he sat there he thought he heard the engines of a prop plane.   He looked up and right above him flew a C-47.  One last mission...