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My wife and I moved back to our home in Rougemont last Monday. Three pick-up truck loads, and we still have yet to finish the job. Unfortunately the computer will be one of the last things to return, as reflooring the house following our hot water heater dumping it's guts and destroying a quarter of the house last February still has our belongings jumbled up a bit. Because it is home, camping out is no burden, and a once immaculate homestead will eventually be carved out of the overgrowth. Mowing three acres that is knee high is no small chore in and of itself. Read more about We have Moved Back Home But No Computer

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mikey! May it be fun and filled with slot cars! God Bless! Tony mgbbrown

Happy 45th there Gpluslover! May it be a slot car day for you! God Bless! Tony mgbbrown Read more about Happy Birthday Gpluslover!

Whether you are a fan of bluegrass music or not, Earl Scruggs developed the three-finger style of banjo picking, and helped bring the type of Appalachian rooted music to the foreground. Of course this has nothing to do with slot cars, but it is a sad time in the music world. I tip my banjo to you Earl. Those Martha White flour biscuits were good too. What a legacy you have left us. God Bless! Tony mgbbrown Read more about Pick that Banjo in Heaven Earl

HAPPY BIRTHDAY guys! Nice to be able to say this as we all get older and perhaps more set in our ways, stressed by work and the harder economic times. May you enjoy a good dinner and a wonderful time with your families. Sling a slot car around the track too. Read more about Happy Birthday You Two!

Well; You two must be special for me to come out of my imposed MGB restoration hibernation if you will to wish you two a very happy birthday. I can say this because I am eight years older than Ray and a pair older than Donlegs, whom I hope his legs are still holding up nicely, particularly that bilateral articular surface we call the knee. As a nurse I am quite the ground-pounder and struggled over the past month with an irritated right greater femoral epicondyle or that knob on the inner aspect of the knee being quite irritated and quite frankly hurting as Hades must on a cold day. Hopefully your foot struggles are somewhat better Ray after that new pair of updated Roman soldier sandals I directed you to at REI. Saved my hide they did. Read more about You Two Are How Old?

Slot cars have a definite way of changing one's perspective from time to time. Perhaps like the glass is half full or half empty, which I am often told is a matter of choice, something that pretty much negates the situation with the glass altogether. The fact of the matter is that I am not on the run in rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, as my glass would be dry as a bone and I truly would be a man of constant sorrow. Then, Ralph Stanley or the Soggy Bottom Boys never had slot cars either, but then the perspective would change dramatically with a Gibson Mastertone banjo in my hands I recon. Read more about I'm a Man of Constant Sorrow