A day at the race track...

It was an exciting day at the track with numerous race cars, real race times displayed, and a cheering crowd roaring at almost every finish. Ok, maybe roaring is strong verb-age, but I'll settle for it! After all, this is the Pinewood Derby Race for Boy Scout Troop 624. Numerous Dens participated and our Den 1 group did great, even with one of our boys out with an emergency appendectomy in Anchorage. He had his race car ready and another scout from Den 1 raced it for him.








Racing a car one carved, sanded, painted and put together is exciting. Dad of course helped him and so did I, but he did a lot of the work himself.  My son was very proud of his car, the Drag Racer as it was aptly named. He did very well and placed 11th overall and showed great sportsmanship as did the rest of Troop 624. I assisted in being the track photographer for a few of the pictures, but got to enjoy watching the race from start to finish. Being a Den leader along with my hubby is wonderful we enjoy seeing the boys have fun and take pride in being a scout.

Photo finish the "Drag Racer "wins!

My Computer Guru is Awesome!

My hubby went early to the track on race day today and managed to get the computer program running properly and up onto a screen for everyone to see real race times and the names of the kids on deck and racing. He ran it during the race and will print out the overall results so all the Den Leaders can let the boys know what place the captured and their times. It ran swell, thanks honey for all you did before and after the event to make it a success!



 

A break...

Finally, the moment of satisfaction and relief has arrived and I am thrilled! It came when my son was having his tonsils out and we were waiting the required 10 days in Anchorage till the doc cleared him to go home. We had time on our hands and so I busied myself with good old graph paper and a pencil, my choice of design materials. (Cheap, easy and no electricity needed) I etched it out by the squares, decided that it was what I wanted, bought colored pencils, and went to work coloring away. The end result was what I thought the project needed the entire time, a POP of color and the blue was it. Besides, who ever has walked through the forest mushroom hunting and not seen a blue sky anyway? Not I, I assure you. You see, inspiration from a beautiful fall day.

I was asked to design a hat for our local yarn and fiber store, The Net Loft, in Cordova, Ak. The yarn was beautiful and bursting with fall colors like we see here in the Alaskan wilderness. I started designing the hat, knitted it, ripped it out, and started over numerous times! So much in fact I sat the yarn in the corner for a time out so to speak. This was last October, it is now March for peat sake. But alas it is finished except for tucking in the snipped ends and a tassel being made for the top of the hat for good measure. I guess one could call it a fairisle hat with an Alaskan touch of inspiration.

 Thanks sweet girl for letting me borrow your head for this photo op! Love you xoxo