[solvegas]

An LC-130 training in Camp Raven in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, training for snow and harsh winter conditions.

[MaxBigfoot]

I dunno if he was making a drink, or rocket fuel!   

[BacE]

They don't call it a Nutri-bullet for nothing.
Or is it because he used manGo.

[MaxBigfoot]

So two people can faceplant into each other at the same time.   

[rtpoe]

HAPPY TIMES!

Christian Liden was a "rockhound" (rock collector) from an early age. When he was in the eighth grade, he made a vow that when he decided to get married, his engagement ring would be one where he collected all the materials himself - the gold and the stones.

Over the years, the Poulsbo WA resident managed to pan enough gold flakes to make a suitable ring. He also met Desirae Klokkevold. After five years of being together, and talking marriage, it was time for Christian to take the next step.

Telling Desirae he was going on a camping trip to Yellowstone with his friend, he and his buddy Josh instead went to Montana to find a few small sapphires. Then it was on to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, the only place in the US (and one of the few in the world) where the public can hunt for diamonds.

After three days of digging and poking and sifting, Christian spotted a 2.2 carat yellow diamond! Only about 1 in 10,000 visitors are lucky enough to find a diamond of more than one carat, according to the park.

When he got back to Poulsbo, he and Desirae went on a mushroom hunting trip. He told her where he really went, and popped The Question - showing her the diamond he found.

Naturally, she said yes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/06/22/diamond-carat-found-arkansas-park/

Top: The happy couple. Bottom: Christian's finger pointing to the triangular diamond.

[MaxBigfoot]

HAPPY TIMES!

Christian Liden was a "rockhound" (rock collector) from an early age. When he was in the eighth grade, he made a vow that when he decided to get married, his engagement ring would be one where he collected all the materials himself - the gold and the stones.

Over the years, the Poulsbo WA resident managed to pan enough gold flakes to make a suitable ring. He also met Desirae Klokkevold. After five years of being together, and talking marriage, it was time for Christian to take the next step.

Telling Desirae he was going on a camping trip to Yellowstone with his friend, he and his buddy Josh instead went to Montana to find a few small sapphires. Then it was on to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, the only place in the US (and one of the few in the world) where the public can hunt for diamonds.

After three days of digging and poking and sifting, Christian spotted a 2.2 carat yellow diamond! Only about 1 in 10,000 visitors are lucky enough to find a diamond of more than one carat, according to the park.

When he got back to Poulsbo, he and Desirae went on a mushroom hunting trip. He told her where he really went, and popped The Question - showing her the diamond he found.

Naturally, she said yes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/06/22/diamond-carat-found-arkansas-park/

Top: The happy couple. Bottom: Christian's finger pointing to the triangular diamond.

That's a really sweet and cool story.  I wish them the best for a long lasting stable marriage.

[solvegas]

USS Sterett ( DDG-104 ) fires it Mark 45, 5 inch gun in a live fire exercise. If you look closely you can see the shell flying out to its target. 

[MaxBigfoot]

Honesty in advertising.   

[MaxBigfoot]

Something to keep in mind...

[MaxBigfoot]

 

[solvegas]

Driving by Braille. I've been driving about 49 years now since I got my learner's license at age 15 in Houston, Texas, and the way some drivers out there drive, I'm not surprised they are very likely blind. 

[solvegas]

One of the most dangerous work environments on Earth, the flight deck of an Aircraft Carrier, in this case the USS Ronald Reagan ( CVN-76 ) and you see three sailors doing maintenance on the the arresting wire cable which stops aircraft weighing up to 50 tons in a distance of about 200 feet approaching at about 175 miles per hour. If the cable fails and breaks, not only can you lose a $80 million aircraft but the tensional force is such that as it whips around it can slice through other aircraft in the flight deck and any personnel in its path. I remember seeing an old film about such an event onboard a carrier from the early 60's and it was gruesome the way three aircraft and seven sailors were just sliced and killed. 

[solvegas]

USS Charlotte ( SSN-766 ) being undocked from a drydock at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. When I was stationed in Pearl Harbor back from 1979 to 1983, the shipyard was called the Navy's No Ka Oi, Hawaiian for excellent, shipyard but we sailors called it the No Can Do because in those days it was not unusual for a ship going there to end up in Bremerton Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington to get fixed. Again.  Forty years later I wonder if things have changed. Probably not. Strategic location and politics is the only reason it is kept open, really. 

[MaxBigfoot]

 

[rtpoe]

^ Russian saying:

The church is near, but the way is icy.
The tavern is far; I will walk carefully.