Bill's Photos

Jean Raber  Nice garden set up! Mine has dwindled to a kitchen herb garden and lots of plants in containers, but it feels SO good to dig in dirt, even if it's only a little patch.

Clare Auten  My kids would love something like that. Unfortunately, I am not talented at building things and mine would probably lean one way or the other. Good work.

John Jones  The golden spiral. If anyone is recovering and can't do much physical labor yet, it is worth your time to explore the Fibonacci numbers as it pertains to nature. I'm a simple person so I find it pretty amazing.

Terrie Syvertsen  Hello Bill. Lovely photo. Looks like your daughter has inherited Dad's green thumb. Love her working space/land. Hope she is enjoying all the work! I just finally got some seeds to bloom up as with the drought I am either making things soggy making sure they get enough water or they are drying out too fast. It is worth the effort. I have one "Snake Vine" that made it so far and several nasturtiums which will be scarlet colored if they make it through the week, ha? I think I also have a pumpkin plant coming up but don't know if it will make it with the new puppy and his great investigative NOSE for anything in dirt! HA HA HA. love these puppy stages!
Love the photos you are posting!!!

Jean Raber  Lovely! I love sunflowers, the way they move to follow the sun. I feel my blood pressure going down already. And, yes, those Fibonacci numbers are fascinating! Thanks, fellas, for those notes!

Jean Raber  Lovely! Made me happy to see this. Used to be a farm near us that had sunflowers, but not this year. I sold some in seedling form at the Farmers Market back in May, but didn't have any left for us!

John Jones  Actually, it's much nicer than nice. Are you selling prints of this one and the one with the wind mill in it? They make a nice pair

Tammy Pilcher  Bill, beautiful photo! My favorite, though, is still the one you posted with the huge field of sunflowers all facing the sunrise. That one was spiritual! Thanks for sharing!

Terrie Syvertsen  Bill- Nice work out area. Needs a big potted sunflower sitting below the t.v. though! How are your sunflowers doing? I agree with Bob M. "You the man". I especially like the flooring you chose as it also would serve as a great place to sit and use some stretch tubing resistance! No rug burns!

Bob M  Amen. Have you ever seen photos of Vince Lombardi on the sidelines while he was coaching his football teams. Notice that sometimes, his left hand is in his pants pocket ... And in his pocket is a rosary. God bless and rise up!

Tammy Pilcher  Hey Christine, I ordered it when someone posted a link to a website last month. I think it was probably the same one Bill ordered from. I looked up my order and this is the address: teespring.com/new-back-by-popular-demand. The campaign we ordered from is closed, but it had a place to click if you still want one and it had a place to leave your email to reserve one. It said if 16 more are reserved, they will print more. See if this works and if it doesn't I'll see if I can find out some more information. Hope this helps, Tammy

Clare Auten  Good for you. I completed a "freedom four miler" in St Louis this morning. Not sure of the elevation but the humidity, heat and hills made it hard.

Bill Cherry  Leadville is famous for many reasons, my favorite is it is North America's highest airport in elevation at 9,927 feet. Try taking off in your plane on a hot day there. :)

Linda Crawford  Hi Bill, as a fellow gardener, I know what you mean. I planted over 100 bulbs this fall. My garden is ready to go too. They say that anyone who plants a garden is an optimist by nature and I think that is true. Our valve stories are very similar. You are just going to be a few days ahead of me. Here's to being able to dig and plant for a lot more years.

Jim Kelly-Evans  Great photo, Bill. I enjoy gardening too. We have a small garden at our summer cottage. Wishing you the best outcome and a smooth recovery. I'll be following you in a little while myself.

D. Carol Moore  Love your garden, Bill especially the sunflowers... they are bowing to you! My husband, an avid gardener, has turned part of our backyard into an "Oasis of fruit trees" + two gardens and a mini blueberry orchard. He, along w/me, enjoys gardening which is good therapy for the mind and body.

D. Carol Moore  Being a resident of Alabama I can attest to the hot, humid heat but we are survivors in all aspects of life.

Bill Cherry  Sorry about the cleavage Barry. I thought twice about posting the photo, but thought it was the least concern for us heart people.

Wiliam Height  Yeah, I felt that was the most uncomfortable part--felt trapped and wanted to get everything off me at one point, especially 2nd night and trying to sleep. Now I know why there are no bathrooms in ICU.

Bill Cherry  Whoops, did not mean to scare anyone. It really was not bad. My daughter took the photo when I was in recovery.

Ginger Murphy  no its just reality of the situation thats setting in....not your fault i need to know what to expect.....

Daniel Spurgeon  I was off the vent about 20 seconds after waking up, then went back to sleep. I didn't realize I had a catheter in my neck until the end of the second post op day. I am confident that I'm not the only person who didn't go through the tube-o-Rama phase, or was asleep through it. My connections didn't bother me unless I turned my head to the right, and then the swan catheter entry point in my neck felt sore.

Bill Cherry  I think they removed my vent fairly fast too because I have very little memory of it. I was still zonked here. :)

Pat Bluemel  Yah there is a pic of me like this but it's short lived. There's a pretty set agenda to get the tubes and wires out ASAP. Like Daniel, I didn't realize I had a neck cath or other lines until 2 or 3 days later and learned about them as they were removing them.

Ginger Murphy  good sounds great to me.....i can deal with what happens....but worried bout my kids...my son at his young age watched 2 ppl on a vent die....thankfully i was with him both times.... kinda hard to be strong for him if i am the one on the vent....

Lila Robinson  Ginger, once I became more concerned about "my kids", it took away the fear I had for ME. That "mom" zone kicked in and I just knew I had to do it and to bounce back quickly so I wouldn't scare them, etc.! It was amazing as turn in the preplanning fears!

  ADAM. YOU NEED TO SERIOUSLY POST THIS SOMEWHERE., WITH A REALLY GOOD CAPTION TO GO WITH IT. I STILL LAUGH SO HARD I START TO CRY!!!

Judith Collins  I didn't know that you had to have your brain waves checked too!! ha,ha I love your sense of humor.

Bill Cherry  I posted it (secretly) at Cardiac Rehab on April 1st. They got a kick out of it. At the early morning session, the nurses play a joke on the class by telling them rehab was cancelled and everyone was going over for a breakfast burrito.

Pat Bluemel  Congrats! The graduations from our class are strangely emotional, you get to know the people quickly. Have fun w/ Phase III!

Nancy D  Very good!! did you get a tshirt too?? I got the certificate AND the tshirt! Either way --Good going!!!

Bill Cherry  Yes, I got a T shirt and a weird flexible tension band called a "resistance Band". Emotions ran high, I made some really good friends.

Pat Bluemel  Yes of course, I have family south of you, I'll be interested to see if I breathe better when I come back to visit this winter.

Bill Cherry  It is a photograph being shared on social media. Notice that all the sunflower heads are facing the sun rise. I've seen fields like this in Colorado.

Healing fine, coming up on 5 months post op. AVR.

Bill Cherry  "During growth, sunflowers tilt during the day to face the sun, but stop once they begin blooming. This tracking of the sun in young sunflower heads is called heliotropism. By the time they are mature, sunflowers generally face east."

Ray Lockhart  Bill, That's a great testimonial for your new valve! I get nauseous just looking at the picture. Whats with the yagi? Are you a ham operator?

Bill Cherry  The yagi is part of my network (internet). It is aimed toward the top of my hangar about 5 miles SE at the airport. Gives me internet access at the hangar. Plus I have a camera there to keep an eye on things.

Ray Lockhart  Do you have a plane in that hanger? What kind? What are the hoops to get your airman's physical renewed?

Larry Beck  I even know what a YAGI is! My dad was a big amateur radio operator back in the day, glad to here everything is OK.

Bill Cherry  Ray, I have an RV-6A and am working on an RV-6 (experimental, Vans Aircraft). For the medical, unless somethings happens rapidly on the 3rd class medical, I will need to go to special issuance. You have to be at least 6 months post op. with no problems, jump through a bunch of hoops with the main one being the Bruce Protocol on treadmill, first 3 phases. It probably won't be a problem for me just an irritant, usual government BS.

Larry, I"M IMPRESSED that you knew what a yagi is. I have to use 900 MHz to/from the airport as I have to 'burn' through a few tree tops.

Ray Lockhart  Good Luck on the medical. I had a V35B but sold it several years ago because of the hassle of the continuous special issuances. Do you know Jim Douglas? He may be at your airport, has built several aircraft and lives in Loveland? If so, maybe we can take the conversation somewhere else since it is not of general interest to this board.

Bill Cherry  For aviation related stuff, I am bc0 (at) cherryfarm (dot) com. (spammers, don't bother - it is an alias that I will change 5 seconds after it is compromised. :) )

Bill Cherry  And to put the post back on topic - I know it is hard to face surgery and some of you don't want to hear it'll be OK, but my feedback is "pat yourself on the back" It'll be better than OK, it is essentially new life. Right before operation, I could not climb this tower, now after operation, up & down twice and could have done it several more times.

Barry Van Gemert  A testimony on your new valve. Glad Duane wasn't up there helping with the installation the other day.

Tammy Pilcher  Perfect Bill! Okay Duane, we're ready to hear some good news from you! We know you can do it, heart brother!

Terrie Syvertsen  Ha Ha Bill. I spoke of your beautiful sunflowers up above in a post before I saw the sunflower photo below it. Once again. Beautiful photo of your sunflowers and looking forward to many more throughout the summer!