Ah Vance and Trent
You are experiencing life. Vance! We have member of our GR club who is
about 16. who was (and is?) my steaming buddie and very good at it. He has
a Cricket and a Roundhouse (haven't seen that one, as it arrived as his
interest waned!) and earlier an Aster C&S Mogul kit almost complete
(spoiled you say!) We never see him now and I believe the kit may be
completed by 2020! He is very active in school too and plays several
instruments--a future Valve and Clack Band member to replace the present
players as they die off.?! You are, I believe facing a break-away stage.
We have four children and two G. childrednpast 16. Not a lot, but enough to
learn by!!
Geoff.
Trent, it's early in the year, but you are certainly in the running for "Small-
>Scale Live Steam Evangelist of the Year".
>
>Good going!
>
>My son, Graham, now 16, has been a fixture at every Diamondhead Steamup
>since the second one. Remember the equipment trust contract when he
>decided he had to have his own engine?
>
>This year, he's not going. I know what we have all been saying -- wait
>until he
>discovers cars and girls, and it's all over. Not so. He's really
>disappointed,
>but he's got too much school work, and there's a big deadline for the
>yearbook (he's assistant editor this year) that falls on the Friday of DH.
>So,
>he and his Cricket will be here while I'm off having fun in Mississippi. And
>he's editor-in-chief of the yearbook next year, so he probably won't be
>able to
>do it in 2002, either. Sigh. It had to come, but it's sad.
>
>But, he did get a call from a girl at 8:15 this morning, and he's going
>out to
>tune up the carburetor on his car this afternoon
><http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass/images/ghia/Gs68Ghia.jpg>. Life goes on....
>
>regards,
> -vance-
>
>Vance Bass
>Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
>Small-scale live steam resources: http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass
