Greeting Loyal Airmen, on this day after Christmas 2008.  We certainly hope and pray all of you had a truly fun filled day spent with the people you love the most.  To all our Loyal Airmen in uniform protecting our country overseas, please know that on Christmas eve, while attending a beautiful church here in Ft.Collins, Colorado, Valerie and the Air Chief offered our heartfelt prayers for your continued safety and swift return home.  We never ever forget any of you.

Well Santa was certainly generous to our grand kids, despite these hard economics times.  Logan back in Conn. now has a Lightning McQueen (from the Disney movie CARS) scooter and red new winter boots while his older sister Taryn has a brand new, big-girl bike.  Chelsea in Maine has a digital camera and can now text on her cell phone.  Talk about children of the digital age.  Whereas, Kristi, our oldest of this new generation will soon have a stereo set up in that Toyota pick-up truck of hers.  Remind me to tell you that story some day.  Out here in sunny Colorado, Cora found herself the new owner of an electronic keyboard; she has a real talent for music and entertained us all later with a few tunes. Brother Alex now has X-Box 360 which came with the popular action game HALO….and the biggest treat of all, Guitar Hero.   He, Cora and our their dad, Alan, all took turns on it during the course of the day, really providing us with lots of good-natured laughs.  All in all it was another wonderful family Christmas to be added to our expanding memory files.

And less you think ye old Air Chief was left out of the toy grab-bag, rest assured he was not.  We now own a truly awesome Lone Ranger & Tonto coffee mug and a marvelous Captain America action figure!  Among other very cool things, like the shirt pictured below.

This was a gift from Val to help the Air Chief look super cool at the next Windy City Paper & Pulp Con being held in May 09.  You too can find all kinds of very cool Airship 27 clothing and swag at our on-line Cafe Press shop.  To find it, merely click on to the dirigible logo to the left of this column.  That will bring you to our on-line book store where all our Airship 27 Prod. are always available.  Scroll to the bottom of that page and you'll find the link to our Airship 27 store.  Remember our standing offer.  Anyone coming to a show wearing any of our cool shirts, hats, whatever, will be entitled to purchasing any one item from our table of goodies for fifty percent off.  Our way of saying thanks for your support.

And if the logo our outfit on my baseball shirt wasn't big enough for you, check this absolutely gorgeous stand up banner Rob (the smiling dude) Davis had made up.  We love it!  It will also be making its debut in Chicago at Windy City.  This will be our third trip to this super pulp show and we really hope to see lots of you Loyal Airmen there.  As you can see, what with shirts and banners, we are really excited about 2009 and the new pulp and comics we've got coming your way.  Stay tuned.

Finally, befoe signing out, we want to steer all of you to a great book.  In the course of this past year we have read many, many books for our Pulp Fiction Review blog.  In looking back on all those titles, the one that clearly was our favorite was the above pictured, FLYGIRL by Sherri L.Smith.  It's a World War II story about a group of truly brave American women that totally mesmerized me.  I hope you'll check it out.

And that wraps up our Log Entries for 2008.  Thanks for sticking with us and making it, with your support, another positive year.  We sincerely wish all our Loyal Airmen and their loved ones a truly Happy New Year.
See you back at the Hangar 27 in 09.
Ron – Over & Out!