A different kind of Sunday

About 6 weeks ago, MJ found out that the Engineering group at work had a team building experience last year where each engineer built a Boy Scout Pinewood Derby car and raced them against each other. This year they invited MJ's bosses to participate. The bosses explained their dilemma to MJ who being the good soldier that she is, volunteered to get their cars built for them.

First we asked my staff to build them and they thought it was a wonderful idea, about 3 weeks past and they (my staff) said NO, we don't have time.

So then we asked a neighbor down the street if he would do it, and he agreed but said he was really busy, but would try to fit them in. Last night we called him and he said they were ready but not really racable as he didn't have much time to work on them.

We were disgusted with ourselves for not getting involved right away and found a hobby shop online last night. We went there right after church today. As luck would have it, hobby shops now sell complete kits, ready to assemble with the proper weight, racing wheels and complete instructions. All you have to do is assemble, paint and put on decals.

So guess what we did this Sunday afternoon, you got it, we built 2 Pinewood Derby cars for MJ's bosses for racing tomorrow (Monday). Now do you know where Carrie gets her procrastinating?



Painting, reading instructions, sanding, painting, putting on decals, what an afternoon.

Very hard at work, painting and sanding the cars.

This is a side by side comparison of the ones we ordered and what the finished product looked like, we were very pleased with our handy work on such short notice.

Mary Jo did a wonderful job with the painting and decals, I think they look really good.


This is how they looked when finished, we were very happy with the end result, now it would really be neat if they won a prize.