Got up really early yesterday so I slept in until 11:00 today. Then headed off to the Welding Rodeo as well as stopping in to see my Dad.
Today was amateurs day for the rodeo -- students from some community colleges and high schools.
They form teams, there is an 8:00am mad dash for the steel scrap pile and there is a theme for the year -- this year it was "Space".
There were a couple of booths there too -- a local blacksmith was making railroad spike tomahawks. The event was at the new quarters for the welding school -- a vast improvement over the old place where I took some classes five years ago. I took a lot of pictures and will post them soon.
Tomorrow promises to be a full day as well -- the house I looked at here is scheduled to be used by the local fire department for training and will ultimately be burned to the ground. The fire department will stage several scenarios for training (some falling asleep in bed with a cigarette, kitchen fire, etc...) and the firemen will have the chance to learn best how to put them out.
Later that afternoon, a reader of this blog will be stopping by -- he is traveling around the USA on business and is in Seattle for a few weeks. He has posted comments and we have struck up a lively conversation via email -- it will be fun to match an online person with a real human.
