...staaaaart your engines!!

...HELLO

anyone out there????

I've been away for two weeks and feel like I've missed a whole year in blog land!!

I so miss reading all of your inspiring posts

...

and just as soon as I unpack our bags from our whirlwind Ohio visit

(I'm thinking that I'll leave the actual house unpacking for later...

much later!!

unless of course, I need to find something)

ha!!

and

 dear readers,

I have so many things to share with you...

sooooo many cottage farmhouse pretty pictures to show you

but for today,

I wanted to show you just a very small clip of the

NHRA RACE!!!

now, I must warn you ~

this isn't like one of my regular posts,

full of pretties

nope...

notta` one pretty!!

but instead I would like to share ~

thrill and excitement!!

well...

just look for yourselves!!

and see if it just doesn't bring a twinge of excitement

if only for a moment!!

...ladies...

start your engines!!

no,

this isn't "my love" ~

but one of my favorite NHRA racers!!

Anton Brown

and I actually got to meet him

yah,  ~ I know right?!!

wow-we-wow-wow-wow!!!

(and yes, it WAS a thrill!!) 

here is Jim and I with

Tim Wilkerson (in the middle)

(which by the way, he won!! and when he jumped out of the car, he actually hugged and thanked Jim and called Jim his good luck charm!!!)

 How awesome was that?!!

pretty darn awesome, I say!!

The weekend was abuzz with excitement, high octane energy

and  f-i-l-l-e-d with meeting these NHRA racers

and, 

hold on dear ones ~

we got to go down onto the track

yep ~

I swear!! right

ONTO THE TRACK!!

I could hardly believe it myself  ~ but we got to stand

 right smack down the center starting line

and

watch these mighty machines from a viewpoint that only the pit crew usually sees!

 

smell the burn?!

one super-de-duper fast car

and let me tell you

this is a complete out of body experience

that blows you off your feet!!!

literally

no joke!!!

The energy and force behind these machines is mighty indeed!!

see all these people?

notice how they are holding their ears ~

with earplugs in??!!!

Well...

that is because when these cars take off the will blow your eyebrows clean off!!!!!!!!!

and you will walk away weak kneed

covered in rubber

smiling ear to ear

and changed forever!! 

and if you don't believe me

just ask any one of these fans!!

I truely don't think Jim and I will forget this rush for as long as we live

It blows your soul out and just as your soul floats back down to you, it does it again!!

...like the beautiful mighty sea and her powerful beckoning waves

or a breeze blowing through clean sheets on a clothes line...

it was nothing short of pure energy!

pure enegry I tell ya`!

I get why they call it full throttle now!!!

Jim with the top fuel winners of the day :)

smiles on everyone!!!

well, that's my life ~

 for today

thanks for visiting

~

stay tuned for the farm cottage romance pictures 

missed you all :)

and in closing ~

 it was fun to be VIP's and live this exciting adventure

but

it's soooooo good to be home!!

hug,hug!!!