What would a birthday be without cake? Peg totally out did herself for my 44th Birthday. She had Teri Hooks of Teri’s “Cake Creations” create a wonderful Bubba themed cake. The wheel and tire is a replica of what’s on my ‘48 Ford Tudor street rod. The chimp tasted like a tootsie roll. Toss around a couple of oily rags and you have Bubba’s birthday cake!
Monkeying Around
At the garage, we are crazy about all things chimp and monkey. So, I was thrilled to open up a package from my good friend Cherry to discover she had taken the time to knit me this fabulous monkey. This little fella, an early birthday gift, had me smiling all day. Thanks, Cherry!
Rain on the Mountain
Well Mother Nature tried real hard yesterday to wash the mountain away. It was a scary couple of hours as logs and stumps floated down the main road by the garage. We spent a couple of cold and wet hours clearing debris and unplugging drain pipes in the raging waters. The runoff rose to within a foot of the garage but luckily we had built it with drainage in mind. After I surveyed the damage this morning, I felt we were lucky. We lost about a foot of road at the garage entrance and I’ll be fixing the damage in the yard from the erosion for a long time. But, the buildings look okay and the sun is out now. The flowers of spring are popping proving that the mountain survived.
2011 Northeast Rod and Custom Car Show
Last weekend we were off to another car show assignment for MyRideisMe. The promoters for the Northeast Rod and Custom Car Show provided Peg and me media passes for our coverage. This show was a bit of a haul and it took us 3 1/2 hours to drive to the Expo Center in Oaks, PA. There were several high end vehicles that we had not seen before but many of the cars were the same ones we had seen at other PA shows. We need to get to some other states soon.
It was a nice show and we will probably do it again in the future.
The winner of the Northeast Cup was Tammy Ray. Tammy recognized Peg by her MyRideisMe T-shirt and came over to chat as we photographed her wonderful car. The car is named “Gold Digger” and has gold nugget details on the engine and wheels. Tammy is one of the nicest people you could ever meet.
I took almost 400 photos but it was tough going. It was relatively dark and my Nikon D300 set at ISO 800 was very noisy. I had to do a lot of noise reduction in Photoshop to even get halfway decent results.
Check out MyRideisMe for more photos and show coverage.
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