Mid-Atlantic Gardening: ...tuppence a bag, 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
Saturday was the Pinewood Derby. The scout and his family make a small wood car to race. Although you get a lot of different designs each car starts out from a kit so every scout has the same wood and wheels and they must all be the same length and not more than a certain weight. One of the cars was a police car painted black and white with a red plastic bubble light on top, one was a shark car painted gray with a tail fin. The winner of the best design is a bit hard to describe but it was a dragon tank, it ran pretty good for a bulky design. Some of the cars were pretty fancy and some where just that block of wood painted but everyone had a real good time and were proud of their cars. They gave out trophies for 1st,2nd,3rd place, best design and then the turtle trophy to the scout that had the slowest car. Yep you guessed it JR came home with the turtle trophy. LOL He is so proud of his trophy and I don't think he gets what the turtle trophy is. Although his car never was the fastest it would always go father down the track than the other cars. So every time he would pick it up he said I won because it went the farthest. All he knows is he came home with a trophy and is happy as a clam. LOL
BWT, the carved neckerchief slide was carved by Ric for our son Jamie, JR's Dad.