[SixClub] Carollton

[Roger (K8RI)]

I gotta get this mail program fixed so it doesn't go to my default 
address every time. Lets hope this one makes it through.

On 11/21/2010 6:57 PM, Larry Brown wrote:

    Uh.....Roger.!!!!! Let me know the next time you are working in
    Carrollton.  That's only 12 miles or so from my place.  We should
    get together over coffee. 

That'd be great, but I retired in 97. I haven't even been back to visit 
corporate or the home plant since I retired. Not even to my old office 
to reminisce.   They wanted me to come back through a headhunter agency, 
but I told them not a chance.  6 months after I retired I had a call to 
do some consulting out of Toledo on a 3 year contract, but again I 
retired so I didn't have to work those hours. I look back I could have 
used the money, but it gave me a chance to at least play for a while and 
I think that is worth more than money.  OTOH for what it would have paid 
I probablyshould have taken it. <:-))   I stayed in the inn at the state 
park just East of Carrollton. I think it was ... The General Buttler? 
Maybe?

While down there I visited my "old boss" (Dale Atchison(sp?) between 
Carrollton and the plant to the North. He was my boss (and a ham) when I 
hired in as a tech up here way back in 61,  He built a huge and 
beautiful place with the back yard abutting the cliff to the Ohio. I 
think the yard was something like 8 or 10 acres.   The place had a full 
basement about twice the size of the house (and basement) where I live 
now. The poured concrete walls of the basement were the most perfect 
I've ever seen. Straight and not a mark from the forms.

I'm trying to remember the place where we ate one night.  It was a 
small, private restaurant/converted winery with just maybe half a dozen 
tables or so on a balcony overlooking the ancient winery below.  The 
entrance was off a small path through a garden and door set in a stone 
archway.

I don't know what that dinner cost the boss, but I'll bet it wasn't 
cheap<:-)) Then again the owner was a friend of his. That's the boss I 
was working for at the time, not the one I visited. <:-))

IIRC I drove through Bedford a number of times.

BTW where's the nearest airport with at least a 3000' runway?

73

Roger (K8RI)

    Larry
    KG4ZAR
    Bedford Ky