Archive for July, 2008

Tank’s tour started off with a bang in Lexington this week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.  While not the volume we’ve done in the past on weekends, a good outing.  Oddly, our funnel cake sales were down but lemonade went thru the roof.  Since he’s squeezing to order, I think his hands got worn out.
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The sun shown bright.  The temperature: a balmy 96 degrees.  The track temperature over 130 degrees.  A nice crowd.  They were playing the national anthem just before the feature races started.  I was sitting on the inside pole, a gift and the only advantage I was given as I’d never done this before.
It took three [...]

So I got to bitching at Jason about having photo galleries on the website and he dove in Sunday and fixed me up nice. See the pictures below for my trip to Kentucky.
However, and as you can tell, the look of the blog has changed quite a bit. Apparently the old design he originally set [...]

I finally got to go see my new grandaughter, Katie, my grandson, Grant and Nancy and Jason.  It was a terrific trip, only much too short.  I hope to go again between now and the start of football season, maybe while my friend Kent (from Thailand) is visiting his folks in Kentucky during August.
Katie, who [...]

This has not been the best year for Big Red.  Lots of reasons:  the economy and the price of gas,  my counting on the new folks at RIR and losing a bunch of really good shows and the races, the weather,  and some questionable scheduling on my part trying to cover for the whole health [...]