From the mailbag:
In addition to communicating with the local Air Traffic Control facility, all aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give the Iranian Air Defense Radar (military) a ten minute ‘heads up’ if they will be transiting Iranian airspace.
This is a common procedure for commercial aircraft and involves giving them your call sign, transponder code, type aircraft, and points of origin and destination.
A guy who overheard this conversation on the VHF Guard (emergency) frequency 121.5 MHz while flying from Europe to Dubai . It is too good not to pass along. (more…)
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Posted on 7 February '10 by tessa, under From the Cornfields. No Comments.
Jan. 20th, 2010…. So…. how was your day??? Mine…. should have tried to stay in bed all day, what can I say.
Mine starts at 4AM, oh yes… I said 4am. Why is you up so early girl?? you say…
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Tags: Des Moines, Iowa, My Mitsu, Storm, weather, whine
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Posted on 22 January '10 by tessa, under From the Kitchen Table. No Comments.
My son comes in my room this morning to wake me up so I can take him to work. As he was walking out of the room grumbling…. dress warm it’s freaking 20 below outside…… (more…)
Tags: Des Moines, weather, whine, winter
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I read a post from Seth’s Blog today that kind of bothered me … It was entitled “Seven years gone” . It bothered me because it made really think about where have I been, all the stuff I’ve been through, and where do I want to be when the next decade rolls around. A funny side note on this which happened to do with the year 2000 turnover….. (more…)
Tags: Life
Posted in From FAT to PHAT, From the Kitchen Table, Good Morning Iowa, Letters To Mom, Taming the Finances | Comments Off
I ran across this on you-tube tonight and wanted to pass it along…
I know there is some creative people in Iowa so make sure you get your videos out there too & support our hometown team!!! For every video submission they get a donation will be made to the USO. I’m embedding the original music contest trailer from the group “The Stunners” & their new hit “Santa Bring My Soldier Home”.
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Tags: Iowa, Troop Tributes
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Well not quite on my birthday but close and the cold temperatures and rain stuck around for it. Hey but I do have pictures to prove we had a record snowfall in Des Moines, Iowa on October 10th, 2009. (more…)
Tags: Des Moines, Iowa, nature, Rain, weather, whine
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Ok.. you post over a month ago about cheeze whiz and flowers then you leave us hanging… What’s up with that????? (more…)
Tags: facebook, Getting Old, Life, twitter
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Ok all, get your mind out of the gutter the cheese whiz was just sitting there but it got your attention didn’t it. (more…)
Tags: cheese, Fun, Landscaping, nature
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At least I hope she didn’t…. (more…)
Tags: Des Moines, Karma, Rant
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As promised my little back roads real life farm-ville adventure. Anyone who knows me knows if I don’t have a map-quest map with me and I say, “yeah, I pretty much know where it is”, knows to bring the official Iowa map with them. (more…)
Tags: Iowa, Life, travel
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