Antique Cars !!!

  Antique Cars !
Everyone knows, I'm wild about antique cars.
This past weekend, Jon and I were invited to Maryland, and the home of dear friends of ours from the H.H. Franklin Car Club.  They were about to share their Franklin car collection with a local chapter of the Lambda Car Club.  We were invited to join in on the activities.

 As the weekend was approaching, we kept an eye on the weather reports.  When the weather was promising to be a lovely weekend, we called Anne and Dan and confirmed we would drive down from Pennsylvania for the event.
 Anne and Dan have been Franklin Car Club members since they were youngsters, and they have a beautiful collection of significant Franklin cars.  They offered to open the garage and host an early spring gathering.  With cars uncovered, coffee brewed, snacks ready and the sun shining brightly, things got underway, right on time at 11:00 am.

A 1912 Franklin known as "The Countess" among Franklin club members.  This car is looks just as it did in vintage photos from the 1950's and 60's

 Our hostess showing off driving fashions of the 1912 era.

                                           1934 Franklin Sedan

                                             1933 Franklin

                                              1930 Franklin speedster

                                            1932 Franklin

 The Lambda Car Club visitors where really impressed with the collection and the beautiful condition of the cars, and of the incredible space our hosts have for storing and working on the cars.

  Jon and I are looking forward to the next time we can get out of our routine and head down to Maryland for some great hospitality and antique car touring.
  Perhaps we will have our own Franklin with us, and do some driving on the lovely back roads and historic sights in the area.

 Cheers for now,

A book review ?

A book review.  Yes, as hard as that is for some of my friends to believe, I've read a book and I want to talk about it.
I feel so strongly about the message in Tess Vigeland's book, I had to take some time and write down my thoughts.

 Tess writes with a style of honesty and humor about a subject very close to all of us, on that treadmill we call a job.
  We might love our job, and could never think of leaving it.  I loved my job, but the job left me! Sort of like being divorced.
  If you have recently left a job for what ever reason.  You took a leap from it. Or you were set free from the job by no reason of your own making, I highly recommend you read Leap !  Leaving a job with no Plan B, to find the career and life you really want.

 The information Tess shares, helped me to understand that this wasn't My Fault. That the feelings of betrayal, and despair were normal.
  I'm rethinking what it means to be "Job Searching" into more of a Job Redefining.  I want to find that place where I belong, and my new found skills from my last employer can be utilized in a way that is more rewarding to Me, while I'm more beneficial to my employer. 
  Who knows... maybe my new vocation will be something I develop completely on my own.

 Wish me luck... Nah, WISH me STRENGTH!  As I embark on the next adventure in my life here in East Run.
 
 Here is a link to Leap... I highly recommend you read it.  Even if you aren't contemplating a job change.  Because, you never know when your job might change away from you.

 https://www.tessvigeland.com/

Cheers,

Time to get Posting !!!

 Wouldn't you just know it... even more time has gone by in the flash of an eye.

It seems like only yesterday, we were making our batches of Salsa, and putting them up on the shelf.  Now, winter is almost ready to start into spring, our salsa stash is just about depleted and the daffodil bulbs are beginning to push up through the cold earth.  The signs of spring are returning to Eastrun!

 Robins are back from their winter hiatus to warmer climates, and the maple trees are going to be running sap soon.

 There are plenty of things happening in 2019, and I'm looking forward to them with anticipation.

My work life has taken a new direction.  At the start of the new year, there was a corporate decision to close down the program I had given a great deal of my energy to developing from a pilot program into a service available to clients on a national level, at all of the company's retail outlets.  

 It was a shock and a sad day, when the news was shared with all my colleagues and myself. 

 How does it go ?  When life hands you lemons, You make a lemon meringue pie! Or something along those lines.   I'm still working on the crust for that pie.  You have to start somewhere.

 So, I'm starting by, brushing off my resume' and sending it out to potential employers.

 I've interviewed two potential employers so far.  They both gave me a good feeling about their company philosophy.  They also are family owned and operated, instead of huge corporate entities, which also made me feel a little "warm and fuzzy" about the possibility of working with them.

 

 Another new adventure for me is:  This is the year I move into the Presidency of The H.H. Franklin Club.  For the next two years, I will be presiding over Board of Directors meetings and hosting four major events for the club.  I will also host a couple of cocktail parties as President.  I'm REALLY looking forward to those!!!  Tee he he.

 The other events are, The Franklin Trek held in the finger lakes of central New York State at the end of July, and the Air Cooled invitational at the H.H. Franklin Museum at The Gilmore in Hickory Corners Michigan, the third weekend in June.   (www.Franklincar.org  for anyone who wants to look up the web site)

 If you've read some of my earlier postings in here, you would have seen my Franklin Sedan out and about on different adventures.  This is something I'm very passionate about, and I'm very happy to be able to give back to this non-profit with my time and energy.

 

 I will be posting to this blog more regularly.  I would encourage you to check back from time to time... Even make it part of your "routine"!  I'm going to be making it part of mine.

 Cheers for now...  and enjoy the two pictures of Farnsworth house at East Run, and the new Car Barn we had built for the expanding antique car collection.