I take it all back about the next post. I went to Granite Falls today with Marlo Treit and Dick Milne to pick up the
Urban Concept car that will run at WOS this week.
Lets get the verbage and the concept correct. This is not a race car. It is a performance vehicle but the goal is MPG
not MPH. It looks like a race car, it demands time like a race car, it's never finished on time, like a race car and it
goes in the trailer unfinished just like a race car.
"We will finish it down there." Ever heard that before? Several small things were left undone as it rolled up the
loading ramps into the trailer. Once the rear door was closed I am certain that Michael Werner, the teacher and project
director had to turn his thoughts to the large amount of supplies, suitcases, miscellaneous untitled items and a bus load
of students for whom he will be responsible on their first trip to the Land of Oz.
A severely malfunctioning Dzuz button had to be fixed. An adjustment to the chain that required extra spacers and new
longer bolts all on a Saturday afternoon that was sliding off toward evening. Bless Ace Hardware and an open account for the
school project. The bolts were there in a blink blink and the engine was secured with the proper chain adjustment.
The foto shoot was done as fast as possible. Get the images before any unexpected happenings occur that scratch the
stickies off. Roll it in the trailer, after the needed boards were located so that extended tail doesn't drag.
Boxes and boxes of supplies, too much tongue weight but "we gotta go" dictated the next step.
Two blasts on the horn was the signal on the railroad that the train was leaving. Dickie was too busy to honk the horn.
The dream of the Manufacturing Class was out of their sight for the first time this school year but they don't leave Sea Tac until
early Tuesday morning for a scheduled arrival around noon Tuesday.
I just hope Lynda is the one to greet them. Lynda, if you are the greeter, get them out of the van, ask them which one has the camera
and do a foto of them before the bottom of their shoes get white. Just remember, many of the fotos at a wedding are done before the
ceremony and this is as important to them since none of them are married. Debbie Werner will be in that van. Ask for her and she will make
certain that it will be "done at Lands End as it would be in heaven."
I have misty eyes knowing that I won't be there to see our new group of members taken in to the Church of The Salt.
I wish them the best. I know it will be an experience unlike anything they have ever known.
Doris, just get me some Kleenex.
old FREUD