We a had a little snow falling this morning and it sure was pretty coming down. Funny thing is last week it was 80+ degrees and I was wearing shorts but today we get about a half an inch of snow….wish Caleb was here to see it but I think it snowed that 100 miles north also …. hell they may have even been on a delay for school. Anyway here is a little video from the ride to the job site this morning.
Caleb’s birthday is the 31st but since thats not my weekend we had his party with dad this weekend. You already know what he got so I thought I would make a video to share. A friend of my sister made a Scooby Doo cake and also a sheet cake with paw prints. In addition to the turntable and the micro rock crawler he also got a Scooby Doo dvd, 3 little mystery machines with csndy in then and about 40 bucks in cash from birthday cards. Here sre a few pics a a video of the rc.
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Well yesterday was kite day at Caleb’s school. I brought two kites for Caleb incase of loss or failure he would have another. There were about 40-50 dads there. Kites varried in size,color and design….everything from Barbie to box kites. The wind was percect and the sky was clear. Ever seen the cartoon where Mcwolf casts a fishing rod and the line gets all tangled from backlash…well there was a dad there that had the kite string looking that way and I felt really bad for him and his son…they ended up flying with a huge knot in the line. Well between the two kite Caleb had,the kite with the steamie was his favorite hands down. The steamie kite came with 300 feet of line and it took him about ten minutes to let it all out and he continued to fly it that way for the duration of the event. You would have thought Caleb was a master kite flyer with years of knowledge and experience. Well anyway hear are a couple of pictures and videos.
This coming Friday is kite day with dad at Caleb’s school. I looked everywhere trying to find a Scooby Doo kite ….yeah no luck. Then I got the idea to try and find something train related and hit the jackpot…its a steamie engine kite but it alao matches one he has on the railroad….the southern green 4-4-0 ….not identical bit pretty close and I cant wait for him to fly it. I ordered it from ebay and was not sure it would be here on time so I went to Wal-mart and got a transformer “Bumble bee” kite…its a lot smaller than the train kite but its better to have something rather than nothing at all….anyway since the train kite made it on time I took Bumble Bee outside yesterday , now keep in mind I have not flown a kite since I was a kid…and was very suprised at how easy this $1.00 kite from Wal-mart was to fly I mean its just a single line kite…yes they have them that have more than one, but anyway it just flew its self I mean the wind just picked it up and took it away…..Caleb will have a blast. Here are a couple of pictures 
The mall here in town is all but deserted,there are only about 4-5 stores still open, however it makes a great place to safely ride bikes and drive r/cs . So after charging the Herbie truck battery and all the ones for the 2 xmods we were there to drive them. Caleb wanted to drive the Herbie truck first. There is a public entrance … well at least it use to be…where K-mart was, that is now locked all the time in fact you can’t get to those doors from the inside either, so I thought that would be a great place to drive the r/cs cause it has an awning over the wide entrance. so after about 15 min of Herbie racing back and forth Caleb clipped a support pole to the awning and sure enough it broke a control arm for the left front wheel…like I said earlier if it were a Wally World r/c it would be trash at this point but being its a Losi it is repairable , in fact the parts have already been ordered and will arrive in a few days…cost with shipping…$4.86.. and that gets me 2 upper and 2 lower control arms and only 1 upper is broken so we have extra next time it happens…time it takes to replace the broken part…about 20-30 min. So this is a perfect example of what I mean…heres the carnage
I decided to rearrange Caleb’s room a little and build a new clubhouse… 
Here are a few pics of Caleb’s birthday stuff…first is the new roundhouse that has live track inside, after all what good is a roundhouse if you can’t drive in it. Roundhouses were built with lots of windows to help capture more natural light cause it was always dim and smokey inside and locos were driven in forward cause the engine was usually what was being serviced and in case of accidental throttle they would hit the stops at the back or at worst bust out some windows…shifting into reverse takes some deliberate steps and besides it would be very time consuming and difficult to lift an engine from the turntable pit…any idea how much they weight…. and since they were built to line up with incoming track they are kinda V shaped so there is more room and light at the back to work on the engines. Caleb has also wanted a r/c rock crawler like forever and the one I got is the smallest made and keeping with tradition its made by Losi so it is completely serviceable, so if or when something breaks it can be fixed….not like the cheap-o ones from Wally World. I also decided to get the bind and drive for two reasons…1. its a few bucks cheaper 2. he already has a transmitter that will link with it and it keeps from having another one to keep up with. Bind and drive means it does not come with a transmitter. Well anyway here are the pictures and a short video of the roundhouse getting some action. 
I left the roof panels unglued in case anything goes awry. 
The engine on the left in the extended stall is his longest one …for now. 
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