177 feet and falling fast

The Falcon Heavy Launch was big news last week. This shot of a booster landing gave me the first real sense of the size of the damn thing, which is about 177 feet according to something I quickly looked up.

Our Puppy is Fat, but…

We’ve been making our dog’s peanut butter dog treats at home and saved so much! from Frugal
Need to see if Dearest Daughter would like to help make some.

A Real American Hero

Here’s another retelling of the G.I. Joe origin story, paying proper respect to Larry Hama.   I just happened to re-read the first fifty issues or so the other week, and they were as just as good as I remembered them.

Yes, the point was to sell toys. But Hama has a great mind for storytelling and realism.  I still have memories of reading issue #50 for the first time–the Battle of Springfield, which claimed YourTownUSA Springfield for Cobra long before the Simpsons moved in.

There was a scene where a Cobra family–career terrorist and his children–burn their documents and put down the family dog before boarding the airlift out. That haunted 10 year old me.