The problem with row 79.

  Lucky puts on his boots, hat, and sunglasses; glugs down as much water a he can, jams the binoculars up into the tool rack, grabs the thermos; all in the fast minute the tower travels down.   After he hooks the tower to the deck's ladder, he hangs by his hands from the floor hatch for a bit, the heat rolls off the deck, he drops down and walks the thorax to the utility hatch in the floor.  Gingerly opens the little hot door and releases a ratchet strap - thump, goes the powered hand tow to the ground.  Stamps down a big a clump of cord grass the hand tow is snarled in;  grabs the handle, pulls the brake and guides it out from under the rig towards row seventy nine.

Excerpt from: A novice's guide to row hog operations.

 The driver usually sat ahead and a little above the front wheels; directly behind the operator was the battery,motor, and hydrostatic pump/transmission that comprised the cab.  Connecting the cab to the thorax is the first hydro ball joint buried under tubes,cables, and wiring; the thorax is where the main body of agro-bots (row hogs) are housed, four rows of twenty stacked two on top of two.  The second joint attaches the tail tower; after the row hogs have been off loaded, inspected and arranged in the start position, the operator rides the unfolding tower seventy five feet up; then performs all the necessary tasks involved in deploying the weed destroying field hogs

New playground equipment.

I ordered some new pieces for the kid's play set, it's gonna be awesome!

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This kid will love this one.


 

The instruction graphic for the picture above, a rather involved set up.


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I  imagine a good swinger could get up to two or three stories,  and if you time it just right - then jump into the hanging sheets. Wheee!

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You Know how kids like to climb ladders.


 

As a bonus, it will exercise the tots depth perception.

Newly unclassified document from space.

In my younger days I was involved in the U.N.'s effort at colonization of Jupiter. 

The nuclear propulsed  Aldebaran, a ship that I have spent time on, and will always have a place in my heart.

My good old space propulsion calculator - very handy for in course corrections - I would have been caught dead without it.

Once on Jupiter the Soviets were responsible for the equipment used, that's a nuclear powered stratospheric zeppelin - a great number of these were lost in the inhospitable Jovian atmosphere.  The artist wasn't told of the operational conditions the zeppelin would encounter, hence  the earth like surroundings in the pamphlet.

One of Von Braun's rockets, I saw one take off  and it was a sight I will never forget.  

This was a postcard handed out to new recruits,  it simplified our space craft as a subway map simplifies the system it seeks to communicate.  For instance, I could say " I'll take the space stick and you can watch the televisor for awhile." and they wouldn't get lost in all the technical jargon. 

 A cut away of the typical Jovian high orbit station,  I have also spent extended time periods aboard these ill designed cans.  I do not recall anything pleasant about that structure, except for the cut-away artwork that was supposed to represent that malfunctioning tub.

The last image is of the Soviet Jupiter shuttle.  Its mission was to transport cargo from the cans, (Jovian orbit space station) to the zeppelins.  The flight consisted of a gradual descent through the upper atmosphere of Jupiter; the frantic hunt  by coordinates for the zeppelin we were looking for (radio communication is bad to non-existent); and then the landing.  If you look closely at the zeppelin you will notice that the landing pad was a little space on top,  hair raising!

   That's all of the unclassified info I have at this time.  Maybe someday soon my entire story can be told.

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