All Ford Powered Car & Truck Show-n-Shine

The Nature Coast Mustang Club held it's first car show on the 25th of September, and I've been procrastinating an update. I got up bright and early to go meet Vic for breakfast, as we were the only two from our club to go. I am sure that if Jim had not been at a previously arranged event, he to would have been in attendance as well. Personally, I thought it important that members of the MFMC show support for a neighbor club's first ever car show. Nature Coast Mustang Club did an amazing job with their first time out, it had all the stuff you'd expect at a car show. There were a good amount of Mustangs and other ford cars as well in attendance. It was a beautiful day, and a very enjoyable day for a car show...

Adventures in Car Kitchen Remodelling Enthusiasm

Summer months in Central Florida are pretty slow in the car show/cruise in world, seeing as how it's so hot around here. I have gone to a couple of cruise ins, but have reported on those same events in earlier months. Aside from taking a road trip in the wife's Flex up to Michigan, our time has been filled with tearing out and rebuilding our kitchen.

Our house was built in the middle of the last century, and had (as far as we could tell) the original kitchen. It was in serious need of repair, or better yet replaced. The oven was non-functioning, the stove only had 2 burners that worked on high, cupboards were falling apart, and the floor was half ripped up and gross. It was all started with talk of getting a dishwasher installed. why put a new dishwasher in old cabinets, why put new cabinets on a shitty floor? It was a domino effect that led to canceling plans for a month long road trip and deciding on a $10,000 budget for a brand new kitchen top to bottom. The wife and I are doing all the work ourselves, saving quite a bit of money, and causing a couple arguments along the way. We're not quite done, but it is a functioning kitchen again.

We started by tearing out the old cabinets:



The walls came down next:



Then we moved around and installed some power points:



Putting up the drywall was certainly our favorite step:



We arrived at the painting and installing new fixtures, and we could see the light at the end of the tunnel:



The floor going down made it look like a crisp new room:



The sink side of the kitchen cabinets were first so we could stop eating out:



We have a few things left on the to do list: Finish the floor, install and paint molding, stove side cabinets installed, and install the hood...

Photo Op August 12, 2010.

The other day when I took pictures of my car I neglected to do some with the top down, so today I thought I would seek out another spot suitable for snapping some shots. Also, I wanted some good shots to enter into a contest put on by American Muscle. I went back over to downtown Winter Park to drive around. Right by the country club over there I found this great old house on the edge of the golf course. I thought it was the perfect setting for some dusk photos. You be the judge...