February: Art, Racing and Gardening all in one month! Oh yeah! And Chris had a birthday.

Top of the hill.

This month has been relatively busy, Weekend before last we went to the Mt. Dora Arts festival.



Some of the amazing glass sculptures we saw.

It was a lot of fun. We got to see all kinds of artist and art. After ward we went back to Aunt Patty's and had fancy arty foods.



Fancy foods.

Than Last weekend we went to the Bud Shoot Out in Daytona. It was a lot of fun too!

Some of the gang in front of the sign.







When we first arrived we were very impressed by the track itself. The ARCA race started and the roaring of the cars going around the track vibrated every bone in your body.

It was great!





Dale Jr.s car for the shoot out getting inspected.



The extra money we spent to get the fan zone tickets was well worth it.

 

Dale Jr. garage. This car got wrecked at a practice.

We got to see the cars being inspected and we got to look in all the drivers garages. We got personal access to the track and we got to get right up front for the concert before the race. 


We also got to be among the first people to sign the start finish line. Chis thinks that the wear of the tires will take off the permanent marker that we wrote our names with. But we didn't go back down to check.

Me signing the start finish line.

We ran all around the infield saw the concert and the driver introductions. It was great!



Chris getting a closer look at the track.

Once the Shoot Out started we found some really great seats up in the grand stands. The cars would go around and you would feel that vibration of the cars going 200 or more miles an hour and then a strong gust of wind would fallow freezing us to the bone.

Kurt Busch was the winner and did a great burn out.



He jumped out of the car and gave a wave to the crowd.



And now we are working hard at getting our garden started. It's going to be a long process as our ground is mostly sand and you dig a grub up in just about every shovel. I'll have pictures in a later post. This is going to be gardening from scratch. Well, from nothing. First thing we are going to do is dig out the grass, till up the sand and grubs, add garden soil, figure out how to kill those grubs, safely and then find a less expensive way to keep the soil high quality. Maybe we will try our hand at composting again. Last time we failed miserably and ended up with a trash can full of weeds that didn't rot at all.


All this and I forgot to mention Valentines day and the Super Bowl.