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Wow Krisanne! That is a very nice compliment! Somehow I feel all warm or something thinking about that.

Happy Birthday Grue! Hope you had a rockin day!

Oh.... OK, Never mind. (blonde roots go deep!)

I hate ironing! I agree with the TV though. TV's an extreme sport isn't it? Plus anyone who thinks skydiving is stupid is probably more into TV and watching other people live their lives than into living their own life. I think you should tell them to watch TV. "Extreme Reality TV" for the people that have no life of their own.

I am appalled that any skydiver would find this practice acceptable! We put a lot of trust in each other when we jump. I think that by doing a “fruit loop” to someone like that is in gross violation of that trust. I don’t find it funny or cute. We have only two chances to get a good canopy and land safely. You are taking away one of those chances when you do that to a person. By having to use your reserve you are on your very last chance. Why would you want to do that to a person for the fun of it?! Not only that but the person is going to have to pay to have their reserve repacked after that and may not be able to jump for the rest of the day or weekend. That’s not cool either! This just strikes me as so wrong on so many different levels. I guess this is where--> you choose who to jump with a little more carefully from now on

40 something?! How'd I get to be 40 sometime?! Holy Cow what happened to the years?! Actually just turned 40 a month ago. I wont be 40 something until next year. But Thanks! You are sweet for saying all that. Awe Shucks! I'm actually the luckiest woman on the planet because I'm married to the absolute best man in the world bar NON! And my kids are amazingly wonderful too considering they are teen-agers. (We have to make allowances for that.) I DIDN'T pay for the embroidery or anything. I did the embroidery myself. I do the embroidery for Velocity (Infinity rigs). But if I were to pay for it.... it would have cost $300 extra.

no - the cool kids study genetics. Hey! I was told that fishing is the most extreme thing you could do! And if it's rainy try bowling.

Hey Cliff! The suit helps a bit to make my fall rate faster. I still have to arch like heck most of the time. You're right, when I was about 7 months pregnant I fell like a rock! Those were the good days. Kelly put some weigh pockets in my new rig as well but I've yet to get some lead shot and fill them up. I have about $300 extra dollars worth of embroidery on my rig. Worth every penny too! Although of course I didn't pay myself for it.

Wow Krisanne! Everyone loves you! Forget the "like" thing. You are a wonderful person and I'm amazed that you ever had feelings like that. You are an amazing person! I look in the mirror and see myself when I was taking 1,000mgs of Prednisone everyday for months. I was so huge I could hardly move. Our own mental pictures aren't always acurate I suppose.

Well, I guess everyone who clicks on it will look at it because that is what this thread is about --> seeing what everyone's rig looks like isn't it? That is why I posted the other pics of it. Kelly didn't even like that first picture. It's kind of dumb I guess. Sorry. By the way, that was your 69th post. Did you post your Infinity? I didn't see it.

Chicken! Happy Birthday Grandpa! Hope you are having a GREAT BIRTHDAY and here's wishing you many more! You should make LisaM take you skydiving! Take Care!

What is his email addy?

Don't look at me when you say that! I'm not going to do it! OK, I will but I'm not taking a picture of it! You'll have to use your imagination. {{{{Flashing}}}}} There! Happy?!

Dang! I didn't know about this thread! My rig is a few months old now but these pictures were taken when it was new. The first one was taken in my living room by a friend who just happened to stop by. I was asking him if he could see the cool embroidery that I did on it when he snapped the pic. Can you see it? It's, OK, probably not the best picture but I think it's kind of funny. The next one is just the rig. It's so hot! The next picture is of the inset laterals that really hug the rig to your body. It is so comfortable! I love it! Nothing gets between me and my Infinity! Except... well, my jumpsuit.

Happy Birthday big boy! When you go to class today learn to spell. My daughter, Ryan, is going to college there in Boston. If you see her over there tell her "HI" for me!

. Some day, I'll let ya know. He's not kidding! We have a big "toy box" full of stuff. You should come over for dinner one night and see! Jumpsuits, helmets, jumpsuits, rigs, jumpsuits, parachutes, jumpsuits and a few more jumpsuits. We could get you back in the air again!

That is a landing IN story! I've got one of those too! On my 11th jump back in '83 under a PC, I decided I wanted to land in close. There was nothing but plowed fields all around as far as the eye could see, only 3 tiny little hangers where we operated from. I didn't want to walk through the plowed fields because I'd torn a ligament in my ankle during a gymnastic meet not long before. So I steered my canopy really close in so I would have to walk too far. Then I remembered that you were supposed to look between your toes to see where you were going to land. I looked between my toes and there was an AIRPLANE! OMG! I pulled down HARD on the toggle and did a fast 180 and went down wind right on top of one of those hangers! My feet prints are probably still on the metal roof of that building. I hit the top and then bounced up and fell to the ground. My canopy draped over the top of the building. I'm laying on the ground flat on my back with the wind knocked out of me and John (my then boyfriend/instructor---now my husband) comes running out of the outhouse doing up his pants. The outhouse was right up against the building I'd just hit and he thought a car had run into it! He comes around the building to see me laying on the ground making weird noises and everyone standing around me looking at me. That was a bad IN landing!

It looks like it's spurting out full grown women that don't want to leave it. She's hanging on for dear life! Amazing!

I love that movie but I've only watched it in the MST3K series. It's hilarious with those guys making fun of it!

My kids are pretty much stone deaf. They don't hear a thing I tell them. Hope you get to the bottom of it!

You would think that with all the time he spent arund skydivers to this point in his life he would have picked up geeking the camera better then he showed there. Though I have to admit he was better at it then Melissa who was focused a good part of the jump on "Mom" and watching her fly around.. Scott C. Yeah, you would have thought he'd be a camera geek wouldn't you! Maybe next time. I'll give him a little sudafed to keep the ears clear just to be on the safe side. Thanks again for the great pictures! ~~~~~~~~~~ Quote Thanks, everyone, for this thread - I really needed to re-read it this morning because my employer is currently making me feel like a rock. Quote Come on over Krisanne. I'll make you a blackberry/apple pie and scoop some vanilla ice cream on top while it's still warm from the oven. Sorry your having a bad day! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quote Ahhh, fuck you and the Porter you rode in on!! Quote Hey Jaye! I'm the only one that gets to fuck him! No dissing the Porter now! You can't diss something that you've never jumped out of. If you had, you would love it just like everyone else. That plane is awesome!

I was jumping by myself one slightly cloudy day and the pilot dropped the load a long way from the DZ. I landed by myself in a field across from a gas station out in the middle of NOWHERE. I climbed over the fence and waited for someone to find me over at the gas station. HOWEVER there were several red-neck hicks (full, long beards, plaid flannel shirts, dirty overalls...) that looked like they didn't get out much, staring at me. I'm wearing this tight pink jumpsuit with my parachute and everything. They probably thought I was an alien from outer space. Luckily John and the kids came racing down the road just as one of them was starting to come over and investigate me. I got picked up just in time!

Back in 1983 we had a pumpkin bombing contest. Two groups two passes in the Cessna, 200 feet up at 90 mph, with the pumpkins. We parked an old van out in the fields beyond the club house and whoever got the closest to hitting the van won. John and I went first. I made John crawl out there on the step with the pumpkin and no rig on. I wasn't that stupid but I watch him from the open door. He dropped it and it came REALLY close to hitting the van. We figured we had it all sewn up. We landed and walked over to the van and watch as the next group went up. We watched as they dropped the pumpkin from the plane.... We saw the pumpkin getting bigger and bigger and OMG! it's getting BIG! I ran to the other side of the van and leaned up against it and the pumpkin hit square on the other side and the van rocked over on two wheels and I thought it was going to tip over and smash me flat! Needless to say we lost. I think we had to buy beer but I can't remember. I was just glad I didn't get squashed by the van after the pumpkin hit it.

It WAS an awesome shot! Too bad little Brett's ears were clogged and he was trying to clear them at the time! Thanks again for the GREAT and WONDERFUL photos of the kids tandems Scott! You Rock too!!