A Productive and.....
Well the weekend started off with me completing one set of 3 card swaps that I am in on Splitcoast Stampers. I spent Friday afternoon in the trailer at the track completing this card. The stamp set is Winged Things and the wheel that I used for the background is Wings & Things. Inks are Basic Black and Certainly Celery. Cardstock is Almost Amethyst and Certainly Celery. Certainly Celery grosgrain ribbon is attached with a paperclip. I watercolored the dragonfly and the used Micro Pearl Pearl-Ex mixed with Future floor polish on the dragonfly's wings. Hope you all like it. Friday evening Bob and I went to Karen's to pick up my SU order. To my surprise Joe has an old antique tractor that Bob started drooling over. I had a hard time to separate him and Joe so we cold get back to the track to get a fire going and some washer toss games started. Joe and Bob made plans to get together and start restoring the old metal monster. I guess maybe Karen and I will have to make plans to stamp or scrapbook.Saturday we had our race and we did very well with a 2nd place in our heat, a 1st place in the Dash, and a 2nd place podium finish in the feature. What a great night for Brian!!
......Destructive Weekend
Sunday, Bob had to go to work but Brian decided to race at Riverglade Speedway in Salisbury. So I jumped in the truck with a couple of friends and away we went. The races began at 2pm and we had hopes of being back to Geary by 8pm and then we would have a quick BBQ supper before we packed up to head home. You should never make plans to do anything, because Mother Nature can sure ruin them. We had 2 down pours of rain which held racing up close to 2 hours. Brian had a good run in the time trials placing 5th out of 28 cars. He then went on to Victory Lane by winning his heat. The feature race did not start till close to 6:30pm and
approx. 30 laps into the race car #41 driven by Mike Rodgers blew his motor and dumped fluid all over the track causing a 6 car pile up....and I mean a pile up as you can see in the photo. Brian was involved but his damage was minimal compared to 3 other cars which are now basically junk. The car in the middle of the pile driven by Ronnie Lane caught fire and things got pretty tense....all drivers got out of their cars and all were fine. The top car in the pile was driven by Mike Kyle and the bottom car was Billy Sommerville. Brian's car is just behind them. He missed adding to the pile but he hit the cement wall with a good force. The 2 other cars are in front of the pile.
Above is a picture of the damage Brian received to his right wheel and unfortunately it put him out of the race.
The top 3 finishers in the race were Josh Jaillait, Gary Hicks and Lonnie Sommerville. Lonnie drove an impressive race. The race got over about 10:30 pm and we arrived back at the track in Geary about 11:45 pm. It was good to get into my bed and relieve the excitement of the weekend.
Until the next race!!
This is the result of my polished stone technique card that I, somewhat, cased off of SCS.
Well the weekend started off with me completing one set of 3 card swaps that I am in on Splitcoast Stampers. I spent Friday afternoon in the trailer at the track completing this card. The stamp set is Winged Things and the wheel that I used for the background is Wings & Things. Inks are Basic Black and Certainly Celery. Cardstock is Almost Amethyst and Certainly Celery. Certainly Celery grosgrain ribbon is attached with a paperclip. I watercolored the dragonfly and the used Micro Pearl Pearl-Ex mixed with Future floor polish on the dragonfly's wings. Hope you all like it. Friday evening Bob and I went to Karen's to pick up my SU order. To my surprise Joe has an old antique tractor that Bob started drooling over. I had a hard time to separate him and Joe so we cold get back to the track to get a fire going and some washer toss games started. Joe and Bob made plans to get together and start restoring the old metal monster. I guess maybe Karen and I will have to make plans to stamp or scrapbook.
