Letter to Cinnie from Kodiak

Re: It's cold up here...Brrr

Glad you are on top of the allergy thing. So Joe is 69 too. 1942 was a very good year! Only trouble is next year we'll be 70. Now that's pretty serious stuff.
  
We now know why they paint that carefree Alaskan on the tail of their planes. That's the necessary attitude for landing at the Kodiak airport. Water with rocky crags on three sides and a mountain at the end of the runway. Cloud cover at 200 ft. So we're in this 737 flaps down ... Can't see the end of the wing. Then water and rocks. Pilot guns the engines and up at 45 degrees. "Well we missed that one ..." from the flight deck. We fly around and try again. Then flaps down clouds rocks and water. End of runway in view. Engines gunned and we cheat death once again...blasted mountain! We'll come in on the north runway this time. It's a little short but water at both ends... no mountains. We'll land her this time. She's a little hot rod. Sure enough. Clouds,trees, runway, we're down. Applause. Captain Jack is our hero. No wonder we pay extra for this ... The crew gets hazard pay.
  
Stay well.
Dave