If you are reading this it a miracle because no one ever reads what I have written. It is raining, close our eyes and envision the World. Day by day, hour by hour minute by minute venture back through life and capture as many as possible of the moments that you have skipped over up until now. Use those every day memories of life as anchors and fill in the minutes and seconds between them with colors and sounds of a life that stretches six decades from an off-white hospital room at birth to the desert rain and thunder of this moment. Feel the sun, the touch of a hand, the water on your face for the first time, the thrill of self-propulsion, the heart break of love lost, and the heart beat of love won. The dying of each Autumn and the birth of each Spring. The heat of each Summer and the unrelenting cold of each Winter. Then hold in your minds eye the Heavens above filled with uncountable stars beyond stars stretched against a blackness so deep and wide your eyes strain to open enough to
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Working over the short term disabilities of my hernia surgery I finally derived the method to drive solid rivets for the wing spars. After viewing Builders Workshop videos on EAA and the standard procedure of bucking bar and rivet gun I devised two jigs to hold the wing spar and riveted horizontally instead of vertically. The use of the bucking bar gave me a much greater "feel" for the driving process and avoid over-driven and side-wise driven rivets.