Happy New Year from our Shop to Yours!
Well, we saw the end of 2006 while working in the shop on the Beetle. At least in New York...we were back in the house by midnight here.
Here we are, having our New Year's Eve party. The fare consisted of several different noshes that my brother-in-law sent us for Christmas. He does this every year...sends us a great box of goodies, which we save (for the most part) for our New Year's Eve party. He lives in California, so it's always a bit of adventure opening his gift...you never know what goodies are packed inside!
It's fancier stuff than we normally snack on, so I haul out my fine wedding crystal (which likely came from K-Mart...but that's ok) and we all drink ginger-ale out of champagne flutes.
It's the only time they boys are allowed to drink out of the nice glasses...so it really makes the evening special for them.
We also watched the movie "Cars"...Joshua got it for a Christmas present and now everything is "Cars" related. He loves that movie!
Matthew most enjoyed the basil-infused oil...he likes dipping french bread in it and eating it that way...
I think any minute Steve is gonna attack him for that bread...heh heh!
It was a great party. I know Steve and I look terrible, but we had been working on the Beetle all day. Having my family out in the shop, celebrating the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007 right next to my Beetle was just the best. Although Time's Square looks fun, there's no place I'd rather celebrate than in my shop with my family.
Now...back to the topic...
Steve got that major hole fixed. He welded the patch into place, then went under the car and welded a reinforcement into place as well. Right there where the body sits down on the rear chassis support beam was a bit weak. So the reinforcement will help stabilize it.
Here's the patch...clamped into place and also held into place with some powerful magnets I got out of our broken microwave's magnetron.
After he welded it into place, he took the grinder to it...
Finally, he put a layer of seam sealer on the welded part and this is what it looks like now! No more big hole back there! It's solid!
Watching that Cars movie got me to thinking about how nice it would be to get this old Beetle fixed up and get on Route 66 and drive west...all the way from Tulsa to California. Take the Mother Road to Bakersfield. We could go visit Steve's brother and sit around eating noshes with him!
Might be just a pipe dream...but I've had pipe dreams come true before. It could happen!
Here we are, having our New Year's Eve party. The fare consisted of several different noshes that my brother-in-law sent us for Christmas. He does this every year...sends us a great box of goodies, which we save (for the most part) for our New Year's Eve party. He lives in California, so it's always a bit of adventure opening his gift...you never know what goodies are packed inside!
It's fancier stuff than we normally snack on, so I haul out my fine wedding crystal (which likely came from K-Mart...but that's ok) and we all drink ginger-ale out of champagne flutes.
It's the only time they boys are allowed to drink out of the nice glasses...so it really makes the evening special for them.
We also watched the movie "Cars"...Joshua got it for a Christmas present and now everything is "Cars" related. He loves that movie!
Matthew most enjoyed the basil-infused oil...he likes dipping french bread in it and eating it that way...
I think any minute Steve is gonna attack him for that bread...heh heh!
It was a great party. I know Steve and I look terrible, but we had been working on the Beetle all day. Having my family out in the shop, celebrating the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007 right next to my Beetle was just the best. Although Time's Square looks fun, there's no place I'd rather celebrate than in my shop with my family.
Now...back to the topic...
Steve got that major hole fixed. He welded the patch into place, then went under the car and welded a reinforcement into place as well. Right there where the body sits down on the rear chassis support beam was a bit weak. So the reinforcement will help stabilize it.
Here's the patch...clamped into place and also held into place with some powerful magnets I got out of our broken microwave's magnetron.
After he welded it into place, he took the grinder to it...
Finally, he put a layer of seam sealer on the welded part and this is what it looks like now! No more big hole back there! It's solid!
Watching that Cars movie got me to thinking about how nice it would be to get this old Beetle fixed up and get on Route 66 and drive west...all the way from Tulsa to California. Take the Mother Road to Bakersfield. We could go visit Steve's brother and sit around eating noshes with him!
Might be just a pipe dream...but I've had pipe dreams come true before. It could happen!
posted by Kim In Tulsa at
10:17 AM
2 Comments:
Sounds like a good time was had by all! We had some friends over (Scott, Wendy and Stefan) and played Phase 10 (a card game) and toasted with sparkling grape juice in Tupperware! :-) Ah....the simple things in life.
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Anonymous, at 10:38 AM
Happy New Year Kim
Just back from the UK, and busy catching up on all your new posts. Must get organised enough to post something on mine!
You've done laods of great work since I've been away, and I just know you'll hit all those targets you've set yourself!
Go girl!
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Big Blogger, at 3:44 AM
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