My wife is at the beach with the kids… So it is a Guy Weekend here at the Lane house.
So, here is a little bit of Jackie Chan…
Of course, 300 is another great movie that I could watch (if I had it around here… but these are hilarious…
I hope you had a little fun…
And get out in the garage and melt some steel.
Saturday, May 10th was the GBR 4WD Club’s annual Mud 4 Blood event in conjunction with LifeSouth and other Atlanta area 4WD clubs.
We had a great event this year, and here are a couple of video clips from the event.
This first clip is the Georgia Rock Rods setting up one of their several parking set-ups. Through-out the day, they re-arranged their rigs in different stacking combinations. The crowd seemed to enjoy the setting up as much as the vehicles once they were in formation.
One of the fans of the stacked Jeeps was my son Garrett. He thought it was terribly cool. He was asking why we didn’t have our minivan parked on top of the dually and project Commando at home…
There will be a video compilation of the sights of Mud 4 Blood coming soon… And save a day in early May for next year’s event.
If you are a blood donor in the Atlanta area… or if you want to be, the GBR 4WD Club is hosting its 5th Annual Mud 4 Blood Drive on May 10th at Bass Pro Shops. M4B has worked its way up to being one of LifeSouth‘s biggest one day drives of the year, and this year will be no exception.
The GBR hosts this event each year in conjunction with almost all of the 4WD clubs in the Atlanta area. In addition to the blood drive, the event features a GIANT raffle. Area restaurants donate food certificates and 4WD vendors donate all sorts of cool products. In 2007, the raffle and donor goodie bags delivered $4000 in prizes and thank you’s. This year’s event looks to eclipse that. Pit Bull Tires is giving away a set of 37″ tires, 4WD Parts/Performance is giving away a winch. Sonic Drive-Ins is giving away 90 hamburgers. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Here is a fairly complete list.
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here is also a silent auction of cool prizes and parts. This year’s silent auction will be benefiting Rescue Tellico. In previous years there has been ferocious bidding for some incredible cheesecakes… Don’t miss those.
Of course, there are kid’s games and plenty to see. New this year is a live band. Serene will be playing throughout the day.
And then there is the truck show. No polishing cloths. Not a wax mitt in sight. These are hardcore trail rigs. Mud and chunks can come off. Some look like a little league team took batting practice on them, others are incredibly stock looking, but with owners that seem oblivious to the damage they could do to their vehicles.
Of course there are sponsor and crowd favorite awards given out, but the ones everyone waits for are the “unique” awards. They happen on the fly, and could be for things like “The Most Interesting Use of a Windshield Wiper Arm.”
So, come out to Bass Pro Shops at Discover Mills in Gwinnett County, On Sugarloaf Parkway at I-85. The event will run from 9:00 to 5:00, and the truck show will be from 10:00 to 3:00. For more information, feel free to visit Mud4Blood.org.
GarageHomesUSA is a sponsor, and I will be on-site all day long. Any of the GBR folks will know where to find me. They will be in blue GBR T-shirts for the event. Stop by, say hello… give some blood.
Some of you might know that our oldest son (soon to be 4 years old), Garrett, has been taking skating lessons for about 3 1/2 months. He wants to play hockey… and be a Goalie.
Today, my mother bought him his first pair of hockey skates. He will also be getting some player gloves (as opposed to a goalie blocking.catching set) for lessons. His birthday is later this month, but we needed him for the sizing… so, he knows they are coming.
In celebration, I have a couple of videos. First up is one from Garrett’s skating class. He is the one in the white Thrasher’s jersey.
The next video is pulled from YouTube. It is a 10 year old Goalie’s highlight reel. As of right now, this is what my son wants to do.
He has a ball skating, and that is the important part of it. Each time we go for the lessons, we have to hang out and watch the kids that practice hockey when we are done. He loves it… almost as much as watching the Zamboni.
We hit the Decatur Fire Department this afternoon… not on purpose, but not a b ad thing, either. WE had dropped by Decatur high School to drop off some electronics at a recycling drive. They have this event twice a year, and we had some stuff that needed to be recycled as opposed to polluting a landfill.
On the way through downtown Decatur, the Ladder Truck had pulled up behind us at a light. Of course, being an “almost 4 year old”, Garrett was enthralled.
After hitting the recycling drive, we thought we would swing by for a closer look. One of the Firefighters invited us in so that Garrett could get a closer look. And then sit in the “big seat.” He even ran upstairs to slide down the pole for Garrett (yes, this station has a pole).
But, it was something he mentioned that gave me the thought. He mentioned that they often have tours for birthday parties. And, that many Fire Stations are happy to do the same thing for their local residents.
So, if you are getting ready to host a bunch of small kids (and they love the fire trucks) it might be a good alternative. Dads also tend to like the yards of polished aluminum diamond plate.