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realtors sponsored a community car show in my mom’s neighborhood yesterday. her neighbor is part of a group of enthusiasts, not an official club, so she asked me to go take pics of his cars.

the neighbor’s cars are the edsel and the fairlane (for sale btw).

since mom is willing to watch my dawg when i want to go to some bigger car shows in the future, i agreed.

i got up early, walked my doglette for a couple of miles before breakfast, dropped her with my mom, and walked over to take some pics.

my sister showed up soon after. she likes to talk to everyone, and enjoys cars as well.

it was about what i expected in her neighborhood: a few classics, hot rods, muscle cars, and some random stuff. only about twenty cars parked along the curb by the park. if it wasn’t so close to mom’s house, i wouldn’t have bothered, but being car show starved lately, i’ll take what i can get. i’ll add a few more…but i have to go walk the dog again…

trailer of dreams

holidays coming, my least favorite time of the year. but maybe i’ll find time to post a few more images more often.

helped the better half sift through storage this morning, to pull out the boxes of xmas decorations—from the back of the storage unit—of course. jammed my thumb helping to shove the perinnial, ancient xmas tree into my back seat. bent the nail back a bit, and now have an aching bruise going on the end under the nail. so adding that to my list of why i don’t want to bother with holidays.

makes my better half feel happy to decorate, but the pain involved wrapping the five- to ten-thousand lights on the damn thing sucks. guess he plans on the toy story theme this year, so it will also be covered with toys.

it does look good when it’s done, but the process makes me want to find some way to be able to throw it as is in a box every year. no way we could, though…the lights make it too heavy to even move. i’d consider just leaving it up year round, but our front room is too small here.

anyway, my mind is drifting to past and future trips. i think i’ve officially attained burn out at work yet again, but with the holidays, the work load is expected to be light through to january.

saw this truck full of project cars in october, out in seligman, arizona. the driver, who was across the street, spotted me shooting pics of his rig. he walked up and noticed i had a “real” camera. he was cool. said he and his brother—who had another rig full of these cars around the corner—were heading to southern california, delivering project cars to eager owners.

hope to see some of these at shows someday, but i’d never recognize them, probably.

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