My potential master builders partner is gone

 I wanted to be on fox's master builders competition but you need a partner.

My partner would have been my beloved "chunky monkey" kitty.  Yesterday however she passed away.  So I wanted to say goodbye and celebrate the lego times we had together

Finding a place for a hairball (above)

(below) inspired the scene from jurassic park 3 from you tube

Fortunately chunky never attacked any planes on this runway

ANOTHER THOUGHT:

This makes the runway a "cat 1" ILS approach

From the site below

No one is getting past the guard kitties

Dimensions...have I ever got dimensions (note the manual writing by her tail)

No if, ands or butts

Hard work made her sleepy

Sitting on the job (above and below)

Pondering what she'll make (above)

Blocking my building material doesn't sit well with me like it did her

Sleeping like a brick...I would have gotten a pillow

Her face looked so "piece full" when sleeping...dreaming of

If she didn't want to work there were 2 others pouncing to take her place

Having her unboxing the sets never went over well

Just a cute picture...had to put in

Bored and gave up building for a nap

Stepped on a lego...Heck of a meOWWW

She could never read the instructions well

And not good at putting our toys away

In spite of her shortcomings,

Well...good bye chunky monkey...

You are the little missing piece of my heart....

TECHNICally i asked for a JOINT in 1984

 Ok, as a kid in the 70s and 80s, the technic lines symbolized being smart, being older and wiser and buying more expensive sets.  I've mentioned before how they were always at the back of the catalog and always out of reach except at Christmas maybe...

Yes I put a later chassis version in here

But when I put together my only technic set I built, I was fascinated by the rack and pinion steering made possible by the universal joints.  I think that part symbolized being so smart if you could figure out how to make a car with it...so I had built my only technic model

When I built that truck, I thought I was the smartest, so I thought I'd move on to the big stuff, the universal joint....and the only place I knew I could get that at an affordable price...the lego mail order service!!!

 

A little piece of lego history!

And then via the mail it came, my own real universal joint...the reality is I was never smart enough to hook it to some rods and move it around...I'll be smart enough some day...

Ironically 2 years ago someone made an artificial knee with universal joints as a main component...the person asked me if I knew what a universal joint was and I had to chuckle...yeah I know but could I make or use something with it...heck no!

Tribute to 9/11 victims and survivors

 I was remembering going up on the world trade towers in 1994.  I remember feeling my palms sweat just looking over the edge and seeing the umbrellas at the picnic tables  at the base of the towers.  I remember wanting to eat at windows on the world someday and look out at the city lights.  I never got to do this.  .

I had 2 lego sterilite "towers" when I started my lego room.  One day, by random chance I placed A minifig on the one tower...I had. Non lego part, but the minifig fit tobscale.to scale.

This pic just gave me such a sense of sadness thinking how terrified people had to be looking down fron the towers

I love lego planes and airports.  There is another backdrop that always makes me think of 911...an eerie picture that makes me remember watching that 2nd plane hitb and realizing it was purposely done

And everything i see the backdrop with a lego plane i get chills and think of these pics above 

I'd forgotten all this til recently seeing a lego masters commercial where a building was blown up

And it took my mind to

So I just want to pay respects to the people who perished on 911 and hope people never forget that day....I know I never will and pray for anyone that was in it.

Https://t2t.org. Tunnel to towers foundation