Tricking out my den room

Sorry for taking away from you thread Bob, but just thought I would share a brief short history of the events of the B-17 found online.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigler_incident

Cars are going to look good up there in the museum , Nice history too something to enjoy all the time !

reading - every day.

when my son was born, my now ex and I decided we would read to him evey night, no matter what - to instill a love of books, reading and vocabulary. we started with picture books, then 'kids' books, Dr. Suess evolved to longer books..... and so on.

When he got past 'children's books" we would do a chapter or two a night.
She would read him "modern" stuff - I would read him "vintage" stuff

Of course he is a voracious reader, and perfectly capable, but it was a nighttime ritual. Wash face, brush teeth, get in pajamas, lie in bed with alternating parents, read book, say prayers, lights out.

She read him Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, etc
I read him Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, Bomba the Jungle Boy - etc

we learned, anything recently published or re-published has been heavily edited and dumbed down. So we read the old, the first editions, the second hand bookshop finds....

then it happened, about mid-last-year. 14. and he said. "dad, I love you and mom reading to me, but I think I am too old for that now. We wll change the night ritual, and I will read to myself for 30 minutes"

I was heartboken, but thrilled at the same time. Our reading was a success, he devours books.

Lately, he has been "sneaking" around to stay under the covers with a flashlight reading AFTER the designated lights out. And? he has not figured out who makes sure there are alwasy fresh batteries in the flashlight!!



it goes fast, enjoy it

Absolutely love that ”fresh batteries” bit. Genius

Too funny about the book there. Always seems to be the last place you look, or find it when not looking for it. I am sure it would be a very good book, but I can honestly say I have not read a book since I was in school unfortunately. I did have intentions of picking up a book a few times in the past, but had just never done so. Even now, I keep thinking it would be a lot better than sitting on my tablet till I go to sleep.

But a question on the book. Is it a story, such as a novel, or is it more or less a biography detailing the events of the aircrewmen involved?

Lots of good reading there Bob!  Another great airplane related read is "Fate is the Hunter" by Ernest K Gann. One of the forum flyers was talking about a recent crash of a model and refered to it as a "ground loving bitch" I responded with I'm gonna name my next plane that! He said he could't take credit for the nick name as it came from Gann in his book:

https://books.google.com/books?id=PmFvJkDPhxwC&pg=PA215&lpg=PA215&dq=she+was+a+ground+loving+bitch&source=bl&ots=4W1ipOACpS&sig=ACfU3U0DKGjZUcz1DrzGXCfcBX5EpkJi4Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwij9abNtIv0AhUolmoFHZSqBWoQ6AF6BAgNEAM#v=onepage&q=she%20was%20a%20ground%20loving%20bitch&f=false

Thanks Bob. I did find a couple pages of it on Amazon. It does appear very interesting, and may spark an interest in reading. The part about having a 'Get out of jail free card' by the doctor gave me a little chuckle. I saw them on Amazon here and my better half just asked what I wanted for Christmas.... Now I have an idea for her! Thanks for the help. The paperbacks are about $17 here, and will be fine with that. Problem is though, I will have to wait now.....

AND I forgot to mention

GREAT DEN!

We need more dens, with books
and less (@^ "man caves" with artifically purchased 'experences'


Dens inspre youth. (even some of us OLD youth)
Man Caves are just a crappy place with beer posters to pretend we were cool once.


BOOKS! PLANES! Engneering!
gosh I am a dork

Now that cstatman mentioned it near the end of his post....  Besides the amazing books and toys (if we can call them that), your rooms remind me of a movie with an actor gone way too early. John Candy. That movie was Planes, Trains, And Automobiles.....

On a 'Candy' note. He came here to Winnipeg on occasionally to a local restaurant, Alicia's, for perogies. As well, he had them shipped to his filming locations as well. Just a funny side note.

John Candy And Alicia's