Danno

Great color. What is it?

Is that a shovel-ready job?

Don't forget seeing saguaros wearing Santa hats! And ~ speaking of Showgurlz! Saw the ACA Awards Show last night. Danica Patrick in a Showgurlz act. Nice! Has nothing to do with Christmas, but it was a pleasant little present.

Good job.

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Very nice!

Neat.

To see Christmas spelled out always makes it feel more like Christmas for me.

Excellent, John!

Sweet!

Hey, Jesse! Phoenix isn't that far from you. C'mon over! There are four great contest/shows every year: GoodGuys Spring Nationals in early March. Desert Scale Classic in April. Modelzona in early November. GoodGuys Southwest Nationals in mid-November. Quite a few Southern Cal builders make the trek and have a great time. If things are dwindling in your back yard, you may need to broaden your horizons a little and check us out!

Much the same weather and road report here in Phoenix as G has in Lost Wages. We're at about 1300-1500 ft altitude, though. Been here 17 years and have seen snow three times ~ falling snow didn't last for more than 1/2 hour and "accumulation" didn't last more than 3-4 hours at most. No, there are no snow plows in the Phoenix fleet or the metro area suburbs. However, just 10 miles north of here the altitude rises dramatically to the "mountains" of central and northern Arizona, so the AZ DOT has snowplows stationed only 15-20 miles from here. Having said that, I had my share of snow, ice, and cold before moving here. I used to say it took 3 years of living in the Valley of the Sun before the marrow in my bones fully defrosted! I well remember years and years of digging out frozen fire scenes in sub-zero temperatures with howling winds. I'll never forget my first trip to Fargo. Dead of winter. Rental car agency handed me a set of keys and an extension cord. Even though I came from cold country, I had not previously experienced COLD country. They gently explained that the motels had plug-ins for the block heater in the rental car, but an extension cord was usually required. A fire scene I worked near Yellowstone was so encased in thick ice (the fire department's "surround and drown" strategy had finally extinguished a large fire in frigid temperatures, then everything froze solid) that I had to rent a half-dozen salamander heaters to melt all the ice. Then there were all those years of responding to emergencies ~ fires, traffic accidents, plane crashes, power lines down, ice storms, blizzard rescues, stranded motorists/hunters/hikers/campers, . . . well, you get the idea. So, yeah. I don't miss the weather you guys are dealing with in the cold climates. I do, however, miss the "snow days." Those days when schools and workplaces shut down and everybody is snowed out for the day. We don't get any unscheduled vacation days in the Valley. They never shut everything down for a "sun day" because there's too much sunshine!

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Kewl idea!

Excellent!!

Sweet!!

That's very nice!

Still nice after all these years!

Very nice.

Nice job, Rich. Now you just have to lose the CA Highway Patrol/Emergency Vehicle license plate.

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