You think we got it bad..?

We were over in Fairborn last night around 9:00 o'clock. They were doing touch-and-goes at Wright-Patt with something large and noisy. It was dark and overcast, so we couldn't see the aircraft very well, but it sounded much louder than the cargo planes that ususally fly over Yellow Springs from the base, even louder than the F-16's from Springfield - like ten limes louder. If they were cargo planes, maybe it was just that they were a lot lower over in Fairborn. It apparently went on for quite some time as I could still hear them in the distance after we came home.

A lady with a drink in her hand wandered over in the dark from a house across the street from our daughter's place on South Pleasant Street as we were unpacking some of the booty from our Chicago trip.

"This is the first time it's ever been this bad," she said, "and I've lived here ten years."

We keep talking about getting the Air National Guard to cut down on the noise. Imagine telling the Air Force, "Hey, cut that out!"