Greetings Loyal Airmen, and welcome to another end of the week Flight Log.  We hope all of you enjoyed the Labor Day holiday and are getting all set as the Fall season comes swooping down upon us.  After an extremely hot summer here in Colorado, we are all ready to welcome cooler, more seasonal climates. It's a wonderful time of year what with Halloween just around the corner.  Let's all enjoy it to the max.

                          
Speaking of enjoying one's self, Valerie and the Air Chief went to see a charming comedy-drama movie the other day called HOPE SPRINGS with Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones & Steve Carell.  With a cast of great like that you can pretty much expect to be entertained.  And as shocking as it may seem, the Air Chief occasionally enjoys a movie without any gun fights or explosions.  This wonderful little flick is about a couple married over thirty-one years and the wife, played by Streep, wakes up one morning to the sad realization that the romance has gone out of their lives.  So she proceeds to coerce her grumpy, non-nonsense husband, Jones, to fly with her to Great Hope Springs, a small town along the coast of Maine and see a marriage therapist played by a totally understated Steve Carrell; perhaps his most sensitive performance ever.

There are plenty of laughs…and tears in this movie, as the realities of life, responsibilities, faithfulness and loyalty all come to the surface in such truly funny and poignant scenes.  HOPE SPRINGS isn't for everyone and the Air Chief doubts most couples under thirty would “get” it.  But those of you who have been around past your fifties and are still married to that special guy or gal, might want easily see a great deal of yourselves in this touching story of two souls rediscovering their love.   Major thumbs up, Loyal Airmen, from both the Air Chief and Val.

               
         BROTHER BONES by Joe Arnold

Finally, we wanted to share a truly wonderful piece of art with all of you.  Joe Arnold is a former Army soldier recently returned to civilian life and now residing here in Colorado.  He and the Air Chief met at the Fort Collins Comics Coffee Clutch Crew get together that is held at a local coffee shop every first Sat of each month.  Joe was invited by one of our gang and when the rest of us got a glimpse of his portfolio, we happily welcomed him into the crew.  At the last such get together, the Air Chief mentioned his pulp character, Brother Bones – The Undead Avenger and Joe was intrigued.  One thing led to another and as of now Joe is going to be drawing an eight page Brother Bones comic strip for us…which we've got to get busy writing.  In the meanwhile he did up this super sketch of the character for our approval.  Needless to say we were delighted.  Going to be much fun working with this talented young man.

And there you have it, Loyal Airmen, for another week here at Hangar 27 HQ.  Take care, doing good things and be sure to come back next Friday.

Ron – Over & Out!