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Well it was finally that time again, the Lakeside Car Meeting was held last Sunday, and of course I was there. This year it was jam packed with ppl and cars. It was great!! Here are some pictures for you guys to enjoy.

Here are some pictures of the our Christmas Lights for 2011. Not much changed since last year. Not so many pictures since I am still waiting for some snow as it looks much better then. Also there are some pictures of our Christmas Tree in our Living room. I hope you enjoy 🙂

Well as promised here is the Video I made. I hope you enjoy 🙂

Well it finally snowed nicely last night, 7 cm (2.8inches). So it was time to grab the camera and camcorder to take some pics and a video. I sorted out the pics and they are bellow, I still have to transfer the video so bare with me. Enjoy!

Well for this years Christmas Season I upped my light count a bit. Last year I had roughly 5500 Lights running, this year I have 9100. There are 8200 Multi-Colored Incandescent lights up and around the yard. 900 Clear Incandescent Icicle lights are also installed. I started working on the frames for the windows in July already. It took me 5 days to get all the lights up and all the extension cord laid out. I should be up to about 150m of extension cord running around the yard. Also new for this year are 6 more Noel Blowmolds. The pictures don’t do it justice it looks awesome. But here are a few I just made yesterday and this morning as we got a little bit of snow. I’m hoping to get more snow as I want to enter a lighting contest so snow makes it look even nicer. Enjoy 🙂

Well it was time for me to do some more wood working. This time the project was  a nice bird house. I built it myself because I don’t like the ones you can buy as their roofs are always too short which allows the snow to cover up the food. All the material except for the little bars the birds can sit on I already had. So the house itself cost me 2$ in materials 🙂

Well it was finally nice enough weather for me to go out and finish welding shut the GFX holes. I also fiber glassed all of them shut to make sure no water can get through. I’ll have to sand everything flush some time but now it’s pouring again. I also got around to mounting my D80 Spoiler and got my cowl induction hood mounted. I had to weld supports into it because it was bending, you can see the tack welding I did on the sheet metal, I’m going to fiberglass it all shut later on so you can’t see it anymore. Next up is fixing the metal  frame around the rear hatch glass, as you can see it came loose, then once that is done I need to align the hatch, gaps are enormous. I also cleaned up the garage and re-organized some things.

I went to the US Car Meeting, was nice to see all the American machines there. Was awesome, a lot of nice cars, a lot of stangs, Camaros and TAs. Was awesome, here are some pics 🙂

Well weather was nice so I’m almost at the point where I can drive the TA again. I put the new fenders on, they align perfectly and are straight as an arrow. I also finished welding up the holes on the passenger side of the vehicle, so now I only have 23 more to go on the passenger side. I also put in the new CD Player it’s from  ’99 Chevy Blazer and has an auxiliary port in it. So all I need to do to enjoy the sound is get new speakers and then I’ll be good to go.

Well I’m expanding my blog a bit since I can only work on the TA when the weather is nice I’ll just be adding other stuff also. On Thursday was a Holiday over here, so since it was raining I figured it was time to build a second chair for the balcony, while I was at it I also made two foot rests and a small table. It’s just pine wood stained with a teak stain. Since the balcony is covered and the furniture isn’t in the elements it’s good enough. So here are the pics