Shiloh, IL (Hi 49 Lo 29)
Most of you know I'm a weather geek. This week was truly fun following the storms and the storm chasers from both north and south. Tornadoes in the south and snow in the north. I was glued to the TV, PC and phone watching everyone. It was Mother Nature on a rampage with both weather systems at the same time. It can't get any better. Along with the storms, I also keep up with the earthquakes. There's been a lot of swarming in Hawaii in the past couple months and sure enough lava erupted in Mauna Loa, on Monday. I watch all the weather on Youtube. It's been an interesting week.
The whole week I was pretty much a slug watching TV and crocheting. I have several items made for Christmas and still five more orders to go. The two collies are without patterns. I just took the colors from the photos that sent. The only difference was the white or brown spot on the head.
Thursday hospice boss called and said not to come in they were having inspectors and it was a little on the busy side. One of the gals brought me a box of stuff to do and I had it done in an hour so she picked it up on Friday morning. The Medicare rules are you have to have 5% workers as volunteers, so they brought me some of the work I would normally do on my work day.
Friday was very special. Frank (son), asked me to go to the dirt races in the St Louis Dome called Gateway Dirt Nationals. This is for three days, Thursday thru Saturday. The dome is new since I lived here when Jim was in the military. What a fun night!!!! All around the "dome" they had the souvenirs, it was the same as you see at any race selling out of the trucks, but without the trucks. I forgot to take a picture. When you go into the arena, you walk thru black curtains to get your first view. (Click on pictures to enlarge).
This is a 5/8 mile track, in a circle in dirt. Oh my! I thought we'd be really caked in mud, but the dirt was like very thin powder and it settled everywhere but you don't feel it like an outdoor track. I went to Peavy in June for the World of Outlaws dirt racing and we were caked in dirt, but this wasn't that way. They had the lake models and modified cars which altogether were probably 70 cars. Super great racing and a fight broke out. There were cars upside down, sideways and hits that weren't called for. The kind of racing we saw in NASCAR way back in the 60's. Here's a few shots and one video so you can hear how loud it was but not overbearing. The video is from a drone above them. It was fun watching that too the way they maneuvered it around the track.
The good drivers could handle the curves, but the not so good drivers went into each other or spun out.
They would get up each other and up and over they go. No one was hurt.
Dee and Frank
Kenny Wallace, famous NASCAR driver number 36
The dirt made it look like fog. There's a car upside down in this photo.
Several would be pulled out by wrecker.
I love racing of all kinds, motorcycle, NASCAR and Sprints. My favorite is the Sprints and they had a Sprint car showing, so I had Frank take my picture and I also bought a replica.
We got home before 10:00. They waste no time getting the cars on and off the track and clean up wrecks. I'm hoping to do that again. They have races on Friday nights in Alton, IL that we'll go to this summer. I love the dirt tracks in the Midwest.
I'm sorry if I bored those that don't like racing, but I'll be looking back to the blog in the future. I just know it.
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