Greeting loyal airmen. It's been a really terrfic week around Hangar 27 thanks to your enthusiastic response to the release last week of our latest Captain Hazzard adventure – CAVEMEN OF NEW YORK.  I've received so many gracious e-mails from many of you excited about the book's debut and sales kicked off the day we announced it's availability.  Thanks so much to each and everyone one of you for your continued support of this series.  And remember, after you've read the darn thing, drop us a line and give us your reactions.

At the same time we were busy releasing this volume, our publisher, Michael Poll of Cornerstone Book Publishers was also burning the midnight oil in a really fun way.  Michael thought it would be very cool if we could provide all you loyal airmen with some authentic Airship 27 gear and fun items.  Thus he went and opened up a huge on-line merchandising shop simply cram-packed with tee-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs, notebooks etc. etc., all with Airship 27 book logos and cover images.  The idea here was simply this.  If you've purchased any of our books recently, and enjoyed them, we thought you might like wearing something to publicly show your support of Airship 27 Prod.  To help promote this nifty shop, Michael whipped up this new version of our familiar logo.  See above. 

The very cool coffee mug and baseball cap shown above are two of the three items I've already ordered for myself.  So please, go to the Air Fare page on this site, find the new logo image and click on to the link and that will take you to the store.  Believe me there is so much stuff to look at, take your time and browse.  We're betting you'll get a big kick out of what you find there.

Finally, less you think I'm a heartless capitalist, here is a story about nature and its resiliency.  Over the twenty-five years since we've lived in our home, Valerie and I have tried to spruce up the back yard.   Every Spring we plant all kinds of flowers, both perenials and annuals.  My favorite flower has always been the rose and my success rate with them has been dismal at best.  Two years ago I planted sevearl new rose plants by the back fence and hoped for the best.   Not two weeks later, while mowing the lawn, I forgot all about one particular plant and cut it down.   When I realized what I'd done, I was more than a little upset.  But I still had two others intact and concentrated on keeping them alive and healthy.  Both these plants did so-so and then at the end of the season died out over the winter months.  The following Spring, while planting new assorted flowers, I came upon the plant I'd mowed down and lo and behold, its shoots were coming up out of the ground.  Amazed, I carefully nurtured it with plant food and water all last summer and to my utter bewilderment, it actually grew.   Thing was, it only yielded four or five roses, and then stopped blooming altogether.  Now the plant continued to grow and weave itself around our fence, but it would produce no more flowers.  What the heck?   I simply could not figure out this stubborn plant that refused to die, but then again was only giving me new branches and leaves.  I continued to nuture it nonetheless, wondering what a third Spring would bring.

Well the picture above is the answer to that question.  Not only did this plant survive perhaps the coldest, snowiest winter we've had in the last thirty years, but all of a sudden it was growing taller and sprouting blooms everywhere.  Thus far I've counted almost two dozen roses and they keep coming.  It's become the center piece of the yard and looking at it every day simply buoys my spirit.  The plant that simply would not die!  Nature is truly miraculous and always beautiful.  Sometimes when we least expect it, we are rewarded more than we could ever imagine.  The lesson here is that if you give life a chance, then you allow for these kind of wondrous surprises.  Think about that and while you're at it, go plant something.  It will put a smile on your face at the same time making the earth a little greener, and that's always a good thing.

Till next week, Ron, Over & Out.