[SixClub] Carollton

[Larry Brown]

Roger I sent some local airport info direct to your email.

Larry

On Nov 22, 2010, at 12:46 AM, Roger (K8RI) wrote:

> 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 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________
> SixClub mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/sixclub
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:SixClub at mailman.qth.net
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html