My wife is at a quilting class right now. This allows me time to work in
the shop so there is a benefit to both of us. I've been lucky to drag her
to a racetrack a lot more lately - only because she has made friends with
other crafters there!
Dave
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From: BillDentin@aol.com
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 10:24 AM
To: tjwakeman@gmail.com
Cc: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] FOT List Etiquette
In a message dated 02/20/2012 9:44:30 AM Central Standard Time,
tjwakeman@gmail.com writes:
> So you get all the toys you can afford to try and make your life happy
> and she gets, what? Kinda sounds like the relationship I have with my
> dog.
>
Hi Teriann...
Cut the boys some slack. I think you are getting more than a little hairy
chested bravado here. TRIUMPH is famous for its backyard-grass roots racing
efforts, where budget management often requires creative accounting and
outright skullduggery. But when push comes to shove, the racers I've known
are
all beholden to their mates and love them to death. They want to see them
happy. Heck, most of the racing they do is done in hopes of getting a,
"WOW!", from their mate.
Late in life, my wife Shirley became obsessed with a new hobby (Quilting).
No where near like racing cost wise, but far from a cheap hobby. She's
completed 42 quilts in less than seven years. She makes several trips to
the
quilting shops every week, and when she enters the front door, you can hear
them call out, "She's here! She's here! Release the payroll" As you can
imagine, I have never ever questioned these expenditures. I encouraged her
to
get the best equipment she could buy. That actually goes against her
nature, so early on I went with her to make sure she bought what she needed.
It'll take her a century to spend anything close to what I've spent on
racing.
And it pleases me no end to see how happy it makes her.
The relationship with your dog you brought up is a good analogy. Most dogs
provide 'unconditional love' for little or no cost. That strikes me as the
perfect personality trait for a racer's (and/or quilter's) mate.
Bill (Damdinger)
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