Connie's Corner

Holy Moly!

I got home a little while ago from my dermatologist, another mole bites the dust. I don't know why I get so up tight before I have these procedures, but I do. I can't even blog beforehand because that is all I can think about. Considering the amount of moles I have, there will never be an end to these surgeries so somehow I must learn how to chill out about it . I am due for another removal on July 2nd, eeck. All advice welcome .

My WWII transcription continues to go well. If you ever watched the movie Patton, did you wonder how all that equipment got there? For anyone familiar with C5As (huge cargo planes), they were not around for WWII. According to my guy, the tanks, etc., were hauled over by boat. After the D-Day landing, engineers actually built man-made harbors from old ships, whatever was available, and then constructed something called the Mulberry Project, pontoon type bridges for off-loading. Here is the best link I could find, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbour, for anyone interested. There was one built on Omaha Beach (U.S forces landed on Omaha and Utah Beaches), but it was only usable for around two weeks because of a terrible storm that wrecked most of it. All of them were mammoth feats of engineering. My guy traveled from Falmouth on a gunboat and says D-Day was originally set for June 5th, but the weather stopped it from happening on that day. You just wonder what everyone was thinking while they waited out the storm. He said he wasn't scared. He didn't know what was coming.

until next time...c