Greetings Loyal Airmen.  Airships have fascinated the Air Chief as long as we can remember.  There is something stately and majestic about them.  Truly they are the Clippers of the Air. Thus many years ago when it came time to choose an internet I.D., there was no doubt we would choose Airship as part of our tag.  As 27 is a lucky number for the Air Chief, our internet home, e-mail and eventually our pulp producing outfit were all given the Airship designation.   And this week, we added one more such to our family.

        
                        Our  New  Colorado Specialty Plates  AIR-SHP!!!
Shortly after moving here to Fort Collins, CO, Valerie suggested when registering our car that we might get Specialty Plates.  (Back in New Hampshire they were called Vanity Plates)  When we asked her what she had in mind, she smiled and said, “How about Airship?”  Of course there are never any guarantees the name you want will be available, still we gave it a go and were given a form by the Department of Motor Vehicles in which we had to list six variations of the word Airship we would accept.  The second AIR-SHP was found to be available and earlier this week they arrived.  Val and the Air Chief hurried over to the DMV offices to pick them up and get them on.  We think they look fantastic and the Air Chief is thrilled, as if you couldn't tell by the picture above.  Ha.

        
                                        Our Lovely Granddaughter, Ms. Kristi Leclerc
Another cause of much joy this past week was the news that our oldest granddaughter, Kristi, now a freshmen at the University of New Hampshire, having completed her first semester, made the Dean's List with Highest Honors.  Val and the Air Chief couldn't be any prouder.  She is truly an amazing, wonderful young lady who is going to great things with her life.  Way to go, Kristi!  Mem & Pep Love You Dearly!!

Baseball's Spring Training has started and down in Ft. Myers, Florida, this week and the 2011 reloaded Red Sox have arrived and will soon be playing exhibition games.  We are really excited about the new acquisitions to the team and hoping for a much more successful season than the one past. The injuries that riddled the Sox last year were non-stop and eventually kept them from making the play-offs for the first time in six years.  So, fingers crossed, with sustained good health, the Red Sox will get back to their winning ways and take Red Sox Nation all the way this year.  We can't wait for the magic words to echo across the land, THE PLAY BALL!!

      
                       Art by Jesus Marquez
Finally, the Air Chief has been writing a lot of short horror comic scripts lately.  Many of these will be published in comics from Twilight Star Studios during the course of the year to include our own title, which we've spoken of here on these flight logs, “Ron Fortier's Tales of the Macabre.”  We recently penned another of these short, spooky tales. This one is called “The Scarecrow Scares” and illustrating it is a talented young cartoonist named Jesus Marquez.  This is the first time we've worked together and after reading through our script, Jesus sent along the above rough sketches of the characters that appear in the story. We thought you'd get a kick out of seeing them.  We'll let you know when the story is published and how to get a copy.

And that Loyal Airmen is our Flight Log for this week.  Thanks as ever for stopping by and come back next week to see what other fun stuff we've got on the Flight Line.
Ron – Over & Out!