It is getting close to the start of the auto racing season. The 24 Hours of Daytona is coming and I always watch as much of the 24 Hours as possible. It is amazing to me the guys who take the middle of the night stint and how fast they run and how little they can see. Throw a little rain in there for a little more challenge. Something awesome about endurance racing.
IndyCar is doing its testing with the brand new chassis for 2012 and three new engines from Chevy, Honda and Lotus. And turbo chargers! Then I see an article that Rubens Barrichello (Formula 1 driver) is set to test the Chevy powered KV Racing car. That would be sweet to see Tony Kaanan and Rubens as teammates.
The wife and I saw a very young Rubens when we watch the documentary “Senna“. A very good documentary and makes you hate F1 politics even more and despise the French just a bit more (look at you Prost). Ayrton Senna was killed in a crash in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix one day after Roland Ratzenberger was killed qualifying for the same race. Good move I recommend watching it even if you are not an auto racing fan.
Already looking towards May and making a trip to Indy to watch the new IndyCars run around IMS with my Dad and Brother.
We are still new to this fireplace idea and learning what not to do by, first doing that thing.
Today we learned that you really do not want to start a fire in the fireplace before you have looked at the top of the chimney. You need to check the chimney to see if in the single digit temps of the previous night that the top of chimney has iced over. Because if it has, and you build a fire in the fireplace, there is no place for the smoke to go other than into your house.
I was watching this documentary on PBS last night. I thought this scientist got a little too excited about a certain aspect of the whale. What do you think?
It took a long time to get here, but we finally have some snow for this season! It really sucks to have winter with no snow.
What we got was some very soft fluffy snow and almost no wind here in the woods so we have a lot of really neat looking scenes of the snow resting on limbs and pine needle puffs. While I was walking through the woods taking pictures I scared some deer out who had been laying for a while. In the pine section of the woods you can see the melt areas or where they dug down to the earth and had been hiding out under the smaller pine, trying to keep the snow off them. I have a new place to put my trail cam now to see if I can get some pictures of deer at rest.
It was very peaceful in the woods. I couldn’t hear any snow blowers running which is usually the norm around here when a flake falls to the ground. I just stood in the woods for a while listening. Really neat. Then my right hand got too cold from not having a glove on it so I could take these pictures, and I tramped my way back up to the house.
We got home from church this afternoon and at the bottom of the hill it appears every fire truck in the township is sitting in the road. Pulling out the scanner I bought for the Indy 500 last year and then a quick Google search I find the frequency for the township fire department and plug it in. Now we are listening to what is happening in our neighbor’s house. Apparently they had a chimney fire and at this point the fire department is removing walls and ceiling trying to find any lingering hot spots.
Scary stuff. I can’t even imagine how devastating it must be to have your house on fire.
