It’s the grand opening for the new airport management, Fulltron Aviation. The event is 9a-5p. Free BBQ at noon.

www.fulltronaviation.com

At the least there will be folks with airplanes talking about airplanes. ( If the weather isn’t great)

If the weather is good there should be some folks from the EAA (experimental aircraft association) flying in, and probably flying around.

I’m planning to go after I’m done with my shift at the flight school at KSGF.

There’s a BBQ and fly-in going on Saturday at the downtown airport if you like planes and aviation, or think you might like planes and aviation.

Just a heads up, Macy is temporarily helping out at our Republic location, but you can absolutely hit her up or Ms. Annie at the Sunset location

Oddly enough I was a Missouri native transplanted to southern OK at the time and I felt like Superman.

We got hammered and it was a month before we had power at our place, and we were stuck out of work and with little to no town infrastructure up and running for at least two weeks.

I pushed people out of flat sections of road (because in OK you apparently can get stuck just trying to move forward at a stoplight) with my Ford Taurus on mud tires and we kept the house warm with fish fryers in the living room and blankets stapled to the living room doorways.

We drank ice cold beer we kept on the porch and I literally cooked a few squirrels, because “well we’re supposed to be in survival mode, right?” My wife was less than enthused… and ate spaghetti and meatballs she cooked on the fish fryer…

Now I know why everyone looks at me weird when I love days like today…

Well, it takes so long to get up to speed they’re just anticipating that they won’t make the green light.. lol

I like this take - this is a really constructive way to look at it.

Agreed! On all points!

I mean, my father-in-law used to train Malinois for police work and SAR... are they inherently aggressive? No? Are they inherently able to be made aggressive with a higher propensity than some other breeds? Yes.

A lot of it has to do with activity drive. But most dog owners don't have time for that - and if you leave a dog with high activity drive to its own devices, it's going to find things to do - and those will be dog-centric and dog-oriented things... and funnily enough, that doesn't always line up with the kinds of behavior we humans want from our furry companions!

It's not always irresponsible owners, either. I had to euthanize a corgi several years ago because despite being kind, loving, and cuddly - because when our neighbors dog had puppies, anytime she came anywhere near our yard and my wife or kids were also present, my Corgi would go into full defensive mode.

Neighbors dog was a loving, cuddling Lab mix. Great with everyone and constantly full of tail wags.

About a week into trying to keep them separated; I got a phone call one afternoon on my drive home. Our corgi had lit into the neighbors Lab and my wife couldn't calm them down.

I arrived to my Corgi, death-latched onto the labs neck and ear, blood everywhere, all over my children, all over both dogs, all over the yards - The lab is standing there whimpering; crouching down to keep her head low, and my Corgi is doing that thing little dogs do with toys, where they shake their heads back and forth.

Kicking, scolding, commanding (and she was well trained) and even spraying with water didn't work...I had to choke hold my Corgi to unconsciousness to get her to release.

After cleaning them off, all the blood was from the Lab, my dog was unscathed.

My kids were traumatized, I was worried what would happen if my 90lb wife was home alone the next time this occurred....

Neighbor said they felt guilty because it must've been their dogs fault for heading into our yard to see my kids. I told them heck no - the fault was all mine for not keeping my dog away and not figuring out how to get her trained to leave the Lab alone, or some-such avoidance of the inevitable....

That said - if you have a dog you know is capable of damage - you have to be responsible with it.... even if they're nice, and cuddly, and warm - and OBVIOUSLY this owner was not, at least in this instance.... I took my consequences and had to lose a best friend, because I was dumb... it won't happen again - but I care about my dogs like their my kids.... Imagine what happens to any dog when they aren't treated that way/marginalized/not socialized and/or they're actively treated worse.

I don't often chime in on these kinds of posts - but I second this. If your vehicle doesn't have an electronic parking brake - it's pretty easy (even if it does need a special tool for the rear brakes, of some sort) and it's quite worth the money to learn.

Nice. Didn't know you before - know I do at least digitally.

Had no clue who you were until this made me Google you. Nice job being a (seems like) decent and intelligent human being - and I for one welcome our AR advertising/informational overlords :)

Just be glad it wasn't about tree-fiddy.