Wow! Jim and Jayne! What a beautiful setting for a get together with amazing food and great company! I was especially honored by your inclusion of family, friends, and neighbors to the Wrenchfest, they treated us all like more family and friends and it felt great!
One long day was not long enough but it gave me a little chance to do some catching up and to remedy a problem that incurred on Hambone's overdrive transmission. Thanks to all for following along as Hambone extracted the rear overdrive housing using my hard won 'gallon pail system' (too technical to go into much detail, haha). Hambone actually brought two Muncie 319 overdrive transmissions, one to remedy a problem and the other for the overdrive inspection of parts and electrical components.
We had a beautiful ride in the verdant central Virginia countryside to a friend of Jim and Jaynes that has a beautiful collection of early thirties Model A Fords, a 1 1/2 ton truck, '65 Mustang, '68 Camaro all housed in a truly impressive workspace. Mikey decided to willy nilly stop his truck on the way back and cause a back up of traffic for miles, but, well, he really should tell the story himself.
To describe the evening repast, the incredible feast orchestrated by Jim and Jayne would be folly by this unworthy hand, suffice it to say that the complete barnyard and forest sacrificed their lives for our appetites. I for one have never had more delicious turkey (wild and tame), pork, or venison than I have had by Jim and Jaynes skills in the kitchen. The highlight of the evening was the awards ceremony where two worthy recipients were honored with THE NED, a high honor indeed to those brothers who have helped others along their paths, Mikey and Jim! Congratulations!
Great to catch up with friends old and new. Praise for the long distance travelers...Nick, Carl, Jethro, Hambone, Mikey, Billy, Victor, George. Everyone came quite a ways with the exception of Sweet and I who are almost neighbors to Jim and Jayne.
Sorry to miss John and Pat. Pat, I scored one of your outstanding WRENCHFEST 2023 insulated cups! It is so well made I think I may drink coffee out of it as it is vacuum insulated!
See y'all down the road!
