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Monday, December 19th, 2011
How does Santa deliver all those gifts to all the kiddies when there is no snow for Santa’s sleigh?
 Wire photo of a flight I did with friend Art Binley on 12/23/79 from the Empire State Plaza in Albany. We took off next to the State Christmas tree and the State Capitol Building so this shot could be framed by the photographer, Skip Dickstein.. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good Flight!
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
The weather forecast for the rest of the week is not looking the best to get any flying done, at least as of this evening. The weather is starting to transition toward our winter season, and this morning, national news was showing snow from Golden Colorado. Our son Grant was living in Golden back in 2009, now living in Grand Junction on the other side of the mountains. On our visit in early November in 2009 we also experienced snow. We got snowed-on in mid April of that year also when we visited his family in Golden, so early/late snow isn’t unheard of. But, it doesn’t last.
 The view down main street in Golden CO 11/13/09
 This was at the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum up in the hills above Golden on our April visit
 The same April snow in Golden  And the next day, it looks like this on the Front Range in Golden. That's not North East weather. If I don’t get to do my Saturday flights, that will be it for this year for my hot air balloon rides. I will start flying again in the Spring of 2012.
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
The Columbus Holiday Weekend featured the best flying conditions that we have seen all season. Unfortunately, our weather looks to return to it’s wet ways for this week and into the coming weekend. We did a lot of flying over the long holiday weekend, starting with Saturday morning.
 On Saturday morning, I flew Paul and Laura from Broadalbin, celebrating Paul's birthday.  On Saturday afternoon, I flew Keith and Alexandra from Rotterdam. Keith proposed to Alexandra on the flight.
 On Sunday morning, it was Chris and Maria from Ridgewood NY on-board.
 On Sunday afternoon, it was Tim and Todd from New York City, and Jason and Samantha from Clifton Park.  On Monday morning, Bill and Kathy from Hagerstown MD flew. We took the afternoon off.
 Tuesday morning, I flew Peter and Echol from Gloversville, the last of our string of flights. I told you we had good flying conditions for Friday through Tuesday. Now, we rest and plan our trip to Virginia. Cheers everyone!
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Friday, October 7th, 2011
The weather forecast for the Columbus Day Weekend is spectacular, and just in time for fall foliage flying. The weather looks good right through mid week, before we have a chance to see any more rain.
 This is Brenda and Wayne from Galway on our early morning flight.  This is John from Lake George and Jay from Nanuet, also on the morning flight
 Looking south in the valley, with the fog over the Hudson River.
 Our balloon shadow It’s going to be a great weekend to get out and enjoy some fantastic fall weather and sights.
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Our weather forecast for this week improves for the 2nd half of the week, into the coming Columbus Holiday Weekend. Due to the extended wet weather we’ve been experiencing, we’ve gotten over 9 inches of rain last couple of months at the airport, I will not be scheduling any flights until the end of the week to allow our flying area to dry some before we head out to fly.
So, with another wet weekend for the first weekend of October, wifey and I headed north on Sunday to check-out the fall foliage. We took 87 north to exit 29, North Hudson where Frontier Town use to be, and headed west on Boreas Rd, County Hwy 2B, through the Blue Ridge toward Newcomb.
 A view on 84 on the drive toward Newcomb. The foliage is somewhat muted this fall.  At the end of Tahawus Rd, looking toward Adams and Allen Mountain with Mt. Marcy in the clouds.  A deserted beach on Harris Lake.  The view just south of Indian Lake, of Adirondack Lake at a pull-off on Rt. 28.  We stopped for a late lunch in North Creek at Trappers Tavern.  A bowl of stew for me and a smoked chicken salad samich w/fries for wifey, and a good micro brew. All were very tasty.  A lady working on a mural in North Creek. North Creek is a small, unhurried Adirondack Mountain Village, with some interesting things to check-out. Follow the highlighted links for info on the places we visited on this drive – Tahawus, Long Lake, Indian Lake, and Trappers Tavern.
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
The weather hasn’t been the best for flying lately, it’s been rather wet. We did manage to get a couple of flights-in.
 On Sunday evening, I flew Don (standing) from Valatie, and Paul and Carol (seated) from Springfield MA  On Monday evening, I flew Greg and Sonia from Etters PA, and John from Charlton The forecast is rather wet for the next couple of days, and the flying weather according to HPC maps, doesn’t look flyable until next week.
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Sunday, September 11th, 2011
While the weather forecast is looking dryer that the last couple of weeks, it appears we will get some more rain, and another near pass to the east by Hurricane Maria at the end of the week. It’s interesting to notice, that after the hurricane, we generally get decent, dry weather for a couple of days. The storm seems to literally suck all the moisture out with it as it passes bye. This coming Tuesday, Baker and I will be visiting Argyle Central School, to do a balloon demo for the elementary kiddies. Hopefully the weather will cooperate, with a window of opportunity that morning.
 Inflating the balloon for the Elementary kiddies back in '09, we got rained-out last year.
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Monday, September 5th, 2011
There hasn’t been much flying done lately due to the weather. Last week, we got hammered, not as bad as some areas fortunately, by Irene’s rain, and just plain lousy weather for the holiday weekend. The only flight of late was on Friday, when I flew Dale and her mom Dorothy to celebrate Dorothy’s 80th birthday.
 Dorothy and Dale The forecast weather for this week, is not the best for flying until maybe next Friday or the weekend. It’s very wet today for Labor Day and again mid week when we get visited by the remnants of T/S Lee and it’s rain. The area my require some drying before we can get out late in the week to fly again, and then, there is Katia that’s out in the Atlantic. Fortunately, the forecast track keeps Katia out to sea.
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