Got to get up close with an eagle today

Going back and looking at inflation (not the furry kind), that $37 ring would be the equivalent of paying $693.21 in 2025. And that $38.75 watch would be roughly $726 today.

Far too many dipshits seem to have forgotten the meaning of “don’t tread on me”. I’m sick of these bootlickers using that flag and symbolism and twisting it for their bigoted views

Convinced half the reason I’m a smartass the way I am is because I grew up on reruns of M*A*S*H*

Got an old small town Illinois newspaper from 1943 and I love seeing the prices for things. Like a diamond ring for $37

Insane Godzilla lore. The original Godzilla suit actor was at the funeral for the admiral that planned the Pearl Harbor attack

God I want a Mitsubishi J59 Jeep so bad just so I can be a nerd and paint it up like one from the old Godzilla movies

We put plants, spices/herbs, and dead animals in a cauldron and follow possibly century old directions written in a book; convince me that soup isn’t witchcraft.

What the actual fuck is the point of going for Venezuela? Oil? The old war mongers in Washington grew tired of the sandbox and yearned for another 15 year jungle war? This administration is a fucking joke

Here’s the full collection so far. Now to track down one of the gold lapel pins

Starting 2026 with some antiquing and y’all I found another pin for the Soviet McDonald’s collection

Happy new year everyone. Let’s home 2026 goes better than 25 did

If I could go just one week without being made to feel like the family disappointment that’d be great

Struck gold again. This time at the thrift store

It’s been a day for me so if you’re a friend and I didn’t message you merry Christmas please know I meant to, I’m just feeling very drained today

Y’all, look at the little carved bear ornament my mom got me. I love him

You think once they enter combat, any of the Skyraider II pilots are gonna go full on ‘North by Northwest’ on insurgents?

Not a mouse chewing it’s way into my box of whiskey chocolates. Little bastard probably drunk as hell

Friend text me today saying he knows three furs moving to the area that might want to join our museum. The furry crew grows, more fuzzy souls for the airport gods

Incredible finds happening today in the used bin at the record store

Never quite understood the pool toy thing but I seen art of a hunky bear as a pool toy the other day and I literally was like this

Going through old pics and I’d forgot about when the US Air Force put our aircrew up in a hotel and I got the funny furry number

If I wasn’t supposed to be wanting a sugar daddy when I got older then why the hell is there a whole holiday based around an older man giving me gifts when I’m good?

Another story transcript found in the archives. Oh to have gotten blackout drunk then go fly P-38s the next day

I love digging through archives and finding interviews with veterans after they’re out of the service cause half just have the most ridiculous stories like this

My color film came back finally too. Had more turn out better this time than the black & white

On upside despite Covid, my roll of black & white 620 film came back finally. Camera I used doesn’t have an exposure setting so not all are great but I actually like these from the reenactment in October. Now just to get a photo scanner

Well I thought it was just really bad con crud kicking my butt after MFF but took a Covid test just in case

Got myself a new collar as a treat to celebrate my birthday tomorrow

Thank you to all the furs that added more stickers to my B-25 stabilizer tip today at the Aviation Furs panel! Also might be out and about with it tomorrow. If so and you’re at MFF and want to add to the collection, feel free!

Someone is playing Dancing Queen by Abba on a portable speaker in main lobby and it’s the only time I’ve heard a furry play good music on one of those

The bear has arrived

Gonna do a Catch-22 kit for reenacting but it’s just me wearing my crusher cap with the Air Medal walking naked around camp

Little project I’ve been working on. Making reproductions of period film boxes. Here’s one next to a new one. Fingers crossed my 620 film gets here tomorrow before I leave for MFF so I can put it in them. Even was able to make a reproduction of a period German 620 film box too

Something depressing about looking at a picture you’re in and realizing that of the five people in it, you’re one of only two still alive

One of the old guys at the museum gave me some patches and among them was service stripes for my USMC service alphas to mark my 12 years with the museum

The USAAF operated the SBD Dauntless as the A-24. I’d always assumed they were retired at the end of the war until I found this; an A-24A (redesigned as F-24A) with the USAF in 1950. Sadly I can’t find any information on why they’d still have one at that point

Cleaned up an old oxidized pair of my jump wings. Compared to another oxidized pair after

Tried putting on my WW1 uniform yesterday to see if it still fit and I think my waistline took the term “doughboy” too literally. Granted my cavalry jodhpurs were a bit snug in the hips even when I was slimmer- but it’d be nice to fit back in them again. Like, look at me here. I was looking good

My absolute favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone are the ones with no moral or lesson, it just cuts to Rod Serling like:

Bf has never seen Good Morning Vietnam so now we’re having movie night

Got my 1/48 Spitfire Mk. XIVe model almost done; just need to attach the cannons. Here it is next to the 1/48 P-51D I finished recently

There’s few things that annoy me more than someone talking on the phone while I’m trying to watch a show and they just refuse to go in the other room

Finally got to see pics from the Veterans Day parade from last weekend

We found a bunch of old stuff at the museum and I got to keep this old checklist from ‘91. This one was retired cause the old n-number on it was replaced by the current one

So was at a bonfire and we found gasoline

Recreated more after action reports; this time for a January 9th mission flown by the 501st Bomb Squadron

Thanks to 3D printing, I can finally put together a Kelly’s Heroes impression and keep “gold” in the back of the Willys. Gonna make a small crate to keep it in with the Reichsbank insignia painted over and “finders keepers” over top of it