Saturday, December 3, 2005
MORE FROM THE SWAP MEET
These funky little things are called Slingshots. I didn't get a look at the chassis makeup, but they look slightly larger
than a go-kart with a dirt-modified-like body on them.
A lot of tracks down that way and people race just about anything.
That was evident by the wide variety of racing vehicles at the swap meet.
The tollbooth picture from yesterday-That one was in New York state. You can tell from all the snow around. There was
no snow down in Jersey and PA. Glad we don't have those around here.
I still have billboard pictures to put up.
Sunday is the Community Christmas Concert. 2pm at the school. I am doing building coverage. Hope to see you there.
Back a month or so ago, I told you about a split in the National sprint car ranks. How a bunch of top drivers from the
World of Outlaws broke off and started a rival National Sprintcar League. Richard and Kyle Petty were the big name backers
of the new series. At the swap meet, I was hearing rumors that the new NSL was dead. Williams Grove Speedway is down in this
area, and they always host 3 or 4 Outlaw shows. So the split was big news down there.
Last week, the Pettys pulled their support from the NSL, and the news out of Orlando, FLA this weekend at the Performance
Racing convention, is that the NSL is dead. What remains to the be seen, is what happens to the drivers and
car owners that defected. The Outlaws will welcome them back, but already have announced their marquee drivers for next season.
I'll update when I hear more.
If you want to get all the news and rumors on Sprint car racing, check out
www.hoseheads.com, or go to
www.williamsgrove.com and click on the message board. That's where I found out about the NSL being done.
BRRRRRRRRR
Just to let everyone know- I have not started a page for December yet. This month's Pics of the Day are at the bottom
of the November page.
I am trying to delete non-important pictures. That way I can still do the 1 Picture of the Day.
Mark Patterson of Comics Outpost in Barre, where I buy my weekly dose of nerd heroin-they are called comic books to everyone
else-
has an idea on what to call the single digit decade of each century.
He calls them The Oughts-ought-one, ought-two, ought-three, and so on.
I guess that could work.
Any other ideas?
Back this past summer, when is was so hot and humid, to the point where you could just be sitting still and still sweating...I
was this close to complaining about the heat and the humidity. Times like tonight with the snow and the blowing,
remind me not to complain when it is hot outside. Baby, it is cold outside. And this is only the beginning....
Friday, December 2, 2005
END OF THE LINE?
Oh, crappers.........
I have run out of room on my allotted disk space for my website.
I tried to upload the pictures and I couldn't. I had to delete some other pictures that were not on other pages to make
room for these.
I need to re-size probably most of the pictures to smaller megapixles to get everything to fit. In the meantime, I will
need to delete some of the photos from the storage place to make room so I can still do the Picture of the Day. Lately, though,
I've been having 3 Pics every day.
I will scale it back to one.
Think, think, think.
Site may look a little different. May delete a page or two.
Stay tuned.
Thursday, December 1, 2005
DECEMBER
Christmas is later this month.
Did that make you PANIC?
Did me. I haven't started shopping yet. Actually I did. I ordered something online- oops, maybe I shouldn't have said
that. Someone might be reading this.
Consider this......
Next month is 2006. The downside towards 2010.
It's funny to talk about the 1900's. The 50's. the 70's. The 90's.
What will they call this decade? What did they call the decade of 1900-1909?
The Digit Years?
Took some pictures of the high water. I still have a few more from Pennsylvania to post.
Hey, Henry! Someone gave me something for the museum. A thermometer from the 1930's. It was a gift to customers of A.A.
King Garage. Andrew King, that is.
Tell you what. I'll take a couple of pictures of it and post them tomorrow.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
RAINING
Why can't it be nice and warm, and have a gradual cool down without all the rain? We might drown in this stuff. Could
be worse. Could be snow. Probably 2 feet of it.
I tried to time it right while taking pictures on the interstate. I was impressed the way the New Jersey sign came out.
The Pennsylvania one was rather blurry. Rather blurry? Try very blurry....
Gas was dropping the farther south we went. Most of them were 2.02 or 2.03 or 2.09. This was the cheapest.
Stopped at a truckstop to strap down the stuff and get something to drink. I noticed a sign above the door. I thought
I was at the Pearly Gates. It said:
"Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Delivered fresh daily."
YEE-HAW!
THEY ARE GOOOOOOOOOOD!
Squashes Dunkin' Donuts like a grape.
Bought some Saturday around 11 am, had the last one Sunday night, and it was still soft. Mmmmmmmm.......
Wish we could get them up here.
Stay dry.
Monday, November 28, 2005
MORE WACKY WEATHER
Posted for Tuesday 11/29
Got to bed really late, then got the phone call that there was no school at 6:10am. Got dressed and went to work.
Very tired.
The swap meet took place in the lot surrounding Kreitz's Oval Track Parts on one side of the street. Then it took up
the lot in the steel fabricating place across the street and then up and around someone's house above the steel place. I kept
walking around and finding new places people were. Plus, others kept coming in and setting up stuff.
I then went into Kreitz's and looked around. They were having a big sale. Bought a pair of Mechanix gloves for 15 bucks.
Normally they are 20-25 bucks. You wear them in the pits working on the car. You are able to handle hot things without getting
burned. You see all the NASCAR crews wearing them during pit stops.
Snow. Cold. Now mild and lots of rain. 1-3 inches maybe. All the snow melts and goes into the Lamoille River. Flood,
anyone? Then it will freeze up. Giant skating rink.
It's never dull around here.
MY RATHER EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
Left Friday morning at 5am, got home Saturday 6pm. I could have posted some stuff last night, but I crawled into bed
before 11pm for the 3rd night in a row. I got to thinking- with the website, even if I am working days, it is still after
11pm before I go to bed. I want to post tomorrow's stuff as close to or after midnight whenever I can. That way it always
looks current.
Back to the trip. Had a great time. Took a bunch of pictures, which will make their way onto the website in the coming
week. I may interrupt if something fresh and breaking happens.
The picture above was indeed taken at sunrise on Saturday.
The alarm was set for 4:30am, had breakfast at the restaurant at 5, and was at the swap meet at 6am. There were racers
there already with flashlights going over the stuff. Just about all kinds of motorsports were there: sprintcars, modifieds,
stock cars, go karts. mini-sprints, racing lawnmowers, it was there.There had to have been a little over 100 places set up
selling parts, or cars, or....you name it.
Anthony was able to get some parts for his sprintcar and by 8:45am we were done and started heading home.
We stayed at the Days Inn about 5 minutes away. Nice place. Cheap, too. 62 dollars a night for a double room.
Lots of different names for towns down there in Pennsylvania. Kreitz's is in Sinking Springs. The Days Inn was in Shillington.
Saw one called Jucton. Then there was Virginville. I figured if a resident there gets married, they move to Intercourse.
I remember Larry Leach had a coffee cup that said, "I (heart[love]) Intercourse, PA". That's a real place.
Going to be some interesting pictures the next few days. Some taken through the back seat window of Carl's pickup. Came
out OK, most of them. A couple are blurry, but you can tell what they say.
I need to create the scrapbook here soon. My site may be getting too big. The pictures do not always come up. You can
always cick on the "X" or refresh the page.
