2008: The Year In Review

My next project for the Year in Review will be Blogstock. My mind doesn't allow me to do this as it should be done. I should be able to make a concise post that includes everything in order. It would include pictures and stories about those pictures. The problem is that I will decide on a picture and that brings so many memories to the top of my scrambled thoughts that it ends up like this. For the following Thought = T

T 1: I need to start with a picture of the Campbells and the Morrow's meeting a few months in advance of Blogstock.

T 2: When was that we met with them and where are the pictures. I'll go to the thousands of pictures on my computer.

T 3: I forgot about the having to put the hay up two days before Blogstock. There's Desiree helping me load big round bales and hauling them for me.

T 4: Rachel was there and helped too. Where is that picture?

T 5: Rachel picked a lot of cherries too.

T 6: Where are the pictures of Rachel Picking Cherries from our tree.

T 7: I shouldn't have capitalized picking and cherries.

T 8: Why won't the i button shut off.

T 9: It's off now and I don't know why. I didn't do it.

T 10: There's a picture of Rachel on horesback. It's a good pic but she's out of focus a bit, but not as bad as the horses head. He must have been shaking his head.

T 11: I'll bet Jamie Dawn would pay me to lose those two pictures.

T 12: Oh yeah, focus, where are the pictures of everyone planning for Blogstock.

T 13: Man I need to visit everyone on my blogroll.

T 14: Wait, I need to write another column for the paper.

T 15: That's a nice picture of Jamie Dawn, the Rev and me. I don't look as under tall in that picture as I do in the others. Those folks were as nice as I expected them to be.

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There you have it my friends. If I try to do this correctly, I'll never get to it. I've decided to just post a picture or two and a couple of lines of copy with them. They won't be in order but they might be a bit more frequent. I guarantee only that they will be fond memories from the Morrow's of a gathering of quality people from around the country.

This is a picture of Desiree helping me load large round bales onto a trailer. I found out that she's had a great deal of experience doing almost everything concerning all kinds of equipment. She's a can do kind of gal.

One of my funniest interactions with her was two days before Blogstock we had already figured out that she was a hustler and she can't stand anything out of place. She was in the kitchen cleaning up after a meal with Rachel and I came through the kitchen with a Morrow Kennel cup half full of iced tea. I was going to refill it. Before I could say anything she grabbed it out of my hand, dumped it in the sink and put it in the dishwasher, pushed two buttons and it was being washed before I could ask if anyone had made more tea.

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Todays Post:

I couldn't find the one of Desiree and the round bales (I will one day soon)but this one is a better starting point as it pre-dates the round bale harvest. (see what I mean about my mind being on scan)

This is a planning session picture of part of the Blogstock Event Staff in the early part of 2008. Marilyn and I are back row left side. Char and Ralph are back row right side. Desiree and Nate and family are the rest. The problem with this pic is that Desiree is taking the picture.

The next picture is a tampered photo in which I just added Desiree into the original photo.

Our farm is about equi-distant between the Campbells in Colorado and the Campbells in Illinois.

That's a good thing for us.

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POSTlude: (get it, post..lude)For a bodyshop, a complete color change on a car is time consuming, meticulous work and much more expensive than most customers would care for. The problem is that the color wraps around every corner so the hood, front clip, windows, window trim, door jam moldings, doors, door trim moldings, bumpers and etc, all need to be removed to do the job right. A customer recently brought a grey or gray Suburban to Morrow Collision Center and the story in pictures can be found on their new blog.

If you can, add them to your regular reading list.