FINALLY we get to see a race

Well mother nature finally let us see the race. it was a great race and Robbie got to see it too.



Here is Lani and Robbie getting ready for the race to start.


you can barely see it, but ESPN was doing live feeds from pit road before the race started.


Here is Jeff Gordon #24 (my favorite driver) leading the race. it took me about 15 trys to get this picture. he didn't win the race.:(


It was a great race and i will somehow post some videos i made from the race.

we will be going back home tomorrow so will probably talk to you all then.

another rainy day at the race

Well the race was rained out again for yet another day, so we will try again tomorrow. so we went walking around again.


this is a picture of the tunnels that are used to enter the infield of the track.


this is a picture of Lani from the top of the stands. Can you find her?



this is a picture of the Official Pace Car of NASCAR. the Chevy Impalla SS.








this is a panoramic view of the track from the top of the grandstands.




hopefully i will have more for you tomorrow. the weather is supposed to be better .

Rainy day at NASCAR Race

hey again all

Well went to the race track early this morning to sit around and get wet. the race was postponed till Monday at noon, so will be going back to hopefully see a race. still had a good time and got to see some things that i never got to see before like visiting pit road. that was really cool and pit road is where the teams will change 4 tires and add 18 gallons of fuel in under 14 seconds.

then i caught a picture of the official pace car for the race being driven by NASCAR president Mike Helton, while he was out checking the condition of the track from all the rain that was coming down

here are a couple of pictures of Lani and I standing at the finish line. usually at this point there would be sayings and such all over it but due to the rain our sharpies would not work.

and finally here is a picture of me and my wonderful friend and wife Lani with me at Victory lane where the winner is awarded the race trophy and such, plus gets to celebrate with his crew.

I will be getting more pictures tomorrow so stay tuned to this same blog channel, different blog time.

the start of a great weekend

well I'm now in the lower peninsula of Michigan. Lani bought me tickets to the NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway. So tomorrow we will be spending all day at the race track (pray for no rain). its about a 10 hour trip to get to Ricks house from ours in New York. MIS is one of the few race tracks that i haven't been too yet. its even better that my favorite driver (Jeff Gordon) won the pole for the race.

another day closer to a great weekend

well i got a story to tell. a few days ago i was working in one of the dairy barns replacing a cow watering tub. i was ankle deep in cow poop and next thing i know a cow pooped on my foot, and another tried to pee on me. case you didn't know cows are literally dumb animals, but sure are curious. i was doing the plumbing work and two other guys were fending off the cows that were coming over to help me. seemed like they all wanted to get into it a little. especially the one cow that started licking the back of my arm and then grabbed my shirt and tried to pull me out of the way. i am including pics of the barn we finished building today and will be cleaning up tomorrow for cows arrival probably by Monday. this barn is going to be the "new" maternity barn and day care for calves. the calves will stay in this barn from the time they are weened till they are 2 years old and then can be bred and milked. they milk the cows for up to 300 days till the cows need to be bred again. these pictures are of the barn we built. actually have the pics backwards.the left pic belongs on the Right side and vice-versa. the little black truck you see in the left picture is my truck and I'm sitting on the pad that's used to feed the cows. there are 2 rows of 18 x18 inch tile to protect the cows tongues. to the left of the right pics is a feed corn field that covers about 500 acres. just one of many. they also grow their own hay, alfalfa, and a few acres of sweet corn for personal use. everything the grow (except the sweet corn) is to feed the cows. they have a patented feed formula that helps to let them get 3 milkings a day instead of the usual 2. don't ask me i don't know. this is my first time around a dairy setting. these cows never leave the barns unless they somehow sneak out. I'm used to free range cattle. well guess that was quite a day so talk to you again so.

start of a new era

hi all. I decided to start posting my daily and weekly happenings.



First off, in case you don't know, i started a new job about 3 weeks ago. I'm back to working in the construction field. I'm working for a company does specializes in dairy farm construction work. the pictures are of a concrete "poop chute" that's used to push all the cow poop out of the barn into the poop lagoon, which is then used to fertilize the field of feed corn, hay, alfalfa, and sweet corn.

The first picture is looking out from the barn to the lagoon. and the second picture is a side view. the reason for the chute is that the barn has a special attachment to their skid-steer that pushes the poop to the lagoon. The poles you see spaced out will have a top rail attached in the near future to prevent the c ow from getting out if the somehow get into the chute. This is my first project with the company that i did mostly on my own. i will take pictures of the barn we built and show those next time. Everything is going great and i really like this job as its with a small company with just a few people. i only work 4 days a week but sometime i do work 5 if i want to. so i get to spend more time with my family and get to relax more. guess that's all for now. Till next time