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Eloquent as ever! I wish I had Gary's ability with the English language.

Gary Shreve, I thought you had better manners than this and you need to stop doing that.......it's not polite to bring teary eyes to an aging 70 year old.

Putting Wayne and me in the same sentence and sitting cheek to cheek around the campfire with one of the most honorable men I've every known was a cheap shot.

Dang but how we miss him.


You've been around long enough that you followed the restoration step by step and your words of encouragement and advice kept the fire alive and well all the way through to it's completion.

The only advice of yours I couldn't comply with was creation of the glass, see through cowling you thought I should develop.


Time marches on, my friend and as I scale back to "just" Mighty Mouse, he is no Sierra and never will be but that's okay. He has other attributes that compensate to cover up his warts and flaws and he'll be a fun ride as I continue on my westward trajectory that we're all on.


I think I can honestly say that much like the Boy Scouts where they leave a campsite cleaner and better than when they arrived, any plane I have owned left me cleaner and better than when it had arrived, well, except for the aforementioned Queenie.....poor girl.

But Queenie did provide an education and I learned a lot from that hopeless cause and she did provide a ton of donor parts for other members here so parts of her are flying around the ozone to this very day and that's a good, good thing.


At any rate, I've rambled on way too long here but thank you for your very kind and thoughtful words and like so many other members here, you've proven to be a very good friend that has weathered the test of time.


Quit trying to put your finger on this and let the sadness go. Regardless of whatever the selling price turns out to be, someone is going to end up with a fairly decent plane and if we're lucky, she'll stay within the fold of our little family and that wouldn't be all bad as she sorta belongs here.



Jim & Cindy