Sprint Races

Saturday went and helped Mitch and Amy at the Yakima fairground speedway. I have not been around and helped with the sprint cars so it was alot of fun. Alot different than the late model cars that Rick races, as far as work the crew has to do. I of course didn't do much, but I got pretty good at knocking off the dirt and giving her a good cleaning every time it went out.

Mitch ended up coming in third place in the main event, a huge turnaround from the night before where he crashed (totaled?) his primary car.

Speaking of Totaled cars....... There was a lot of carnage that night. Its hard to tell from the pics but these cars are a mess. The first one is for sure destroyed and to top it off it got burned up. All the drivers walked away OK. The night before, I guess there was a nasty wreck as well with the cars whole top roll cage being ripped away. I don't know if this is common in this series, but there were alot of cars messed up. I really didn't want to walk around and take pictures of others misfortune.

There is always other sights in the race pits no matter where you go. I think plumbers and race crews all have the same problem, "crack". I just missed a perfect example of this by milliseconds. As you can see from the picture I was just a little to late, butt there was crack.

I did bring home a souvenir from the race. Mitch had a rough Friday night as I stated and I ended up taking a section of his top wing to hang in my shop (after he autographed it). I noticed this couple took a damaged complete top wing section and was tying it down on their ford explorer and I knew I had to get a picture of it. Just cant see it very well because its too dark.

Saturday Sod day

Finally front grass is in. Thanks to all that came out and helped lay the green carpet down. We started about 9 am and we were done about 12. Not to bad for 8000 sq ft. It was a rainy day, not great for us but the sod was happy.

Soccer Thursdays

Let's just say its been a BUSY week. That's is why its now Sun. evening and I'm just writing about Thursdays game. Mrs K has a soccer game on thursday as usual. The team played very well again. Kendall had 2 or 3 goals. Once again I'm sure it was due to all the good coaching. I included some pics of him because he deserves some props. Karen was there so she sent me many nice pics, almost to many to choose from. It is nice to have good pics other than ones that come from my phone.

Kevin's Coffee Company

I broke out the espresso machine the other week, I got tired of paying $4.30 everyday. I haven't used it for about 10 years. Karen bought me a huge vat of chocolate with a hand pump and my loving wife (brownie points) went and got me some 24 and 32 oz cups, and some syrup. I made us both one this morning and I think I finally finished mine around 4:00 pm.

Race Day (late model car)

Back at the track again. Last weekend didn't go to well. We were done with a broken part on lap two. So were hoping this evening will be better.

It hasn't started good. During the first practice the tranny broke so took it out and put spare in. I believe it had a "crack" in it. Scott was busy working on something on the right front suspension (sorry Scott).

Everyone was very interested in seeing Ricks rear end for some reason.

The evening ended ok, finished the race and the car felt a lot better for Rick, still far from perfect but better than last weekend.

What's wrong with this picture?

They are in my way. I got to follow this group of "Wild Hogs" or "Mild Hogs" for a few miles (in the left hand lane, which is my #1 pet peeve). I could not pass on the right because there was a car way up there, and its illegal :) . They either didn't hear me driving on the rumble strip for miles or probably didn't care. They might have been too busy waving at all the other bikers on the other side of the freeway. I finally dropped it down into 3rd and went to pass on the right and ended up merging with them in the left lane. I finally got thru all of them and gave a friendly wave to the Ring Leader (the front biker that was going under the speed limit) and continued on my way.