Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

[T2x]

Sorry that I,m going to miss you guys but we are building a new house here in IL where my wife & I are the guardians for our 6 year old grandson. I did buy a place in Haines City & plan to be back down after the 1st of the year, but will really miss you guys at OFF. Have a great time as I'm sure you all will.

John: That's a shame...we were looking forward to seeing you as well.... I spoke to Lostumbo and he sends his regards...

Jackie: According to Lassie...He's not coming either. Seems like the OMC guys are bailing on us this year.....and I even went to the trouble of adding an Evinrude/Moli to my stable. Do you know if the Geico guys are coming?

In any event we are leaving this evening (Doreen has a dog show in Ocala on Wednesday). See you folks on Thursday for golf and chow.....

Travel safely my friend.

[jackiewilson]

John: That's a shame...we were looking forward to seeing you as well.... I spoke to Lostumbo and he sends his regards...

Jackie: According to Lassie...He's not coming either. Seems like the OMC guys are bailing on us this year.....and I even went to the trouble of adding an Evinrude/Moli to my stable. Do you know if the Geico guys are coming?

In any event we are leaving this evening (Doreen has a dog show in Ocala on Wednesday). See you folks on Thursday for golf and chow.....

Travel safely my friend.

Pity Lassie won't be there Rich, I'll miss him, but it's his bad luck.
No R/J, no WILLABEE,no Schubert,-----look at this way Rich,----it leaves us more time to talk to the others!
Thought you were gonna keep the "Rude under Wraps".
Tell Doreen she won't win any rosettes if she's got you on the rostrum, a, you don't trot well, and b,the white goatee went out two years ago!
Leave crack-o-sparrow Wednesday, safe journey you two, see you Thursday .

[jackiewilson]

We're in countdown mode for the trekto tavares.
Meanwhile Seebold has decided enough is enough, he has carried me far enough in the old farts tourney, so him and Mike have decided to join forces in a serious attempt to win some silverware .
Good news is Betty and Bill have decided on Fillet Mignon for the Barbie-----I promise you do not want to miss the golf tourney.

I am well and truly pissed at S&F ------started this soliloquy before dinner and kept going back to it, had an A4 sheet size post----hit the post button and it printed just the above mini paragraph,hope there's somebody in Tavares I can take a pop at. They still lost 1500 + posts I sent from France------I could have been a contender with 3,000, might have made me a " PEEPIN FREEKIN SCREEMIN DEEKON".

Got the eebie-jeebies from sitting around marking time-----not my style at all, so I started fernagling with a piece of acacia into a sail boat with 3/8" plexiglass sails made out of a surplus IKEA dining chair mounted it on a 6" x 3/4" circular glass base from the Hospice Charity shop-----stitched it all together, but it never quite made the grade, so, I carved another bigger sailboat out of Mahogony -----slotted a futuristic stainless sail onto it -----waxed it-----cut a matching mahogany base----and the rest will have to wait 'till after Tavares .

Jilly's birthday tomorrow, so taking her and a few family and her close friends for a swanky lunch at
the "HORSE GUARDS AT TILLINGTON" should cop a few brownie points for that!

Rich, I could not tell you how many of the GEICO team are coming, Craig is a definite, Gary cried off the golf tourney -----believe it's his wedding anniversary ----Louise does not take prisoners.

Rambled enough to save you all from a Shaggy dog tale, so all that's left is for me to wish you all a very pleasant evening and MAY YOUR GOD GO WITH YOU, J.

[jackiewilson]

These are the sailboats I cobbled together this week, any resemblance between my bits and a real sailboat doesn't even come into the accidental category----they are nothing more than "concepts".


Took jilly and friends out for a "posh nosh" lunch--------got carried away in the shop from 8.30 am------suddenly my sister appears and says-----you in deep ka ka sunshine----it's 11.30 and you should not be out here----roll your R's -----get a wriggle on-----chop chop.
I never argue with my sister, she only speaks when it's absolutely necessary and I comply!
Was trying to put the two sailboats together in a hurry before "shutdown". Didn't quite make it, as you can see from the piccies.
Seems like only yesterday since I was saying two months to Tavares , and here we are nine hours before we leave for Gatwick----typical example of the mad dash that is LIFE. THRU LIFE.
Taking the iPad with me so I can keep in touch------if anyone is fool enough to want to do a FaceTime or email me , this is where you can get me------jackwilson@macace.net.
Too exited for sleep (can only be the thought of business class travel instead of "cattle class") but I have to put my head down so God bless all my very valuable friends (and Seebold) and MYGGWY.J.

[CNC_Guy]

Have a smooth flight over Jackie. Can't wait to hear of your exploits over here!
Dave

[jackiewilson]

Have a smooth flight over Jackie. Can't wait to hear of your exploits over here!
Dave

5am Dave-----slept well until 3 am, then got the fidgets, dawn's an hour yet, but minds been in overdrive for the last 2hours. Bags packed and Lexus is fuelled, have to be at SAMs house for 7.30 ---she's driving to Gatwick . Full of sleep sweat, stink like a baker on nights, better get showered and scented up, you meet a better class of knob head on BA First. See you tomorrow.J

[jackiewilson]

Everybody should do this at least once in their life-------go past 2 Nd. -----third and cattle class, continue to Posh, hold nose as high as possible, look down left nostril , raise right hand and order Tattinger ------sip slowly from crystal flu, realize it's the real Mcoy. And swallow the rest in on gulp----then belch loudly------hells teeth, it's still only 8 30 am .

[jackiewilson]

Morning old peeps and the rest of the world.
a beautiful Florida morning-----this is 6.30 am today watching the sun come up.
Time to stop the BULLSH- t today's the day of the the old farts golf tournament at Zellwood Station.
Bill and Betty got the food, Barbie and beer all ready for afterwards.
I get to meet mr. Fun and a bunch of my old buddies as well. Trophies arrived in many pieces, all of them broken, but a mornings work later----you won't hardly notice the difference.
Will post you tonight and tell you what a great success it all was, may you all have the sort of day me and my friends are going to have. J.

[jackiewilson]

Well, it's over, at least my part of the Tavares weekend. After all the worry, it all ran like clockwork thanks to Bill and Betty.
Was a perfect day for golf, great company , and steaks to die for. Was turned 11pm before the last guests went home when I hit the sack and slept for the first time in a week. Just heading off to Tavares for breakfast with my son Mark and Vicky, grand kids Simon and Craig,daughter Sam and Clive, and the icing on the cake -----we whipped Seebolds asse -----big time-----even with Timmy as the secret weapon------he is in debt to me for the rest of his days. Gotta go , more later.
All that I have to do now is cough up $350 which is still short from the entry fee, so will auction off the model offshore boat at the " do" tonight------that should cover it!!!

[jackiewilson]

Well bugger me if Odell didn't buy the model offshore boat for $500, all the costs for the bits and pieces I made including the cartage got covered. Now I know what people seem to like I can start on next years prizes for the 2015 OFF golf tournament.
Master of ceremonies was of course "Stavros Seeroy Sirois"------did a splendid job of the awards as usual.
Can tell you now, our friend "MR Fun" has a name--------Keith-----I was told his surname, but in true OFF tradition ------I forgot ------,he did fit right in there with the rest of us and I'm sure we'll see and hear lots more of him over the coming years.
Got to talk a little with "THE PREACHER MAN" for the first time ever------was enlightening and humbling to hear of the great job he does in the racing community. Like most racers, I don't do a lot of God bothering until I really need him, like at the start of a race I would always say a silent prayer that he look after me and keep me safe. At night-----again I say silent prayers for the well being of family and friends. I have cursed God for taking my daughter out of sequence with life, I still don't understand it nearly 20 years later and yes it still bloody well hurts, preacher man tries to help people like me-------thank you preacher------and just maybe, I helped preacher a little along the way,
isn't it great to just wander around Tavares and see the past at every turn-----to recognise a friend and walk up and get a handshake and a hug -----to instantly recall the past with a ------DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN WE ----------------etc------Does it get any better than this?...
The amount of effort ( and money) required must be enormous ---so thank you Geri and co, and the CBA for including the OFF in your event,
time to get up and greet another beautiful day in Tavares -----enjoy it peeps-----I'm going to.

[jackiewilson]

Back in Stuart trying to take it all in------the event, the happenings, those that were there, those that weren't , the joy, and then the sadness, then the excitement ------it may seem like I'm rambling again , so I will try and put in print the wonderful weekend that is still happening so as to make you understand I have not lost the plot or all my marbles.
Stevie Pinson and me have been mates, buddies, competitors, call it what you will, just like an itch or a Molinari elbow------always there----so you tend to always take them for granted----comfortable,
years go by and you don't see each other then when you do it's like there was never a gap between, you just carry on the conversation where you left off years before, Anne has been married to Steve since for ever-----Dezi and Lucy, Adam and Eve, Steve and Anne, you know what I mean,I knew she had been poorly, that's why he couldn't make OFF last year, there he was standing by the tent when we said hi and he told me Anne had passed away last summer. Kick in the guts don't begin to describe it, you go through the motions, ------sorry------Mark was standing there and took over, I couldn't really take it all in-----I was just filled with sadness. So Steve, I wasn't ignoring you , or being rude, I just didn't know what the hell to say matey-----I am so sorry!

Three Wukin Switzer Fings going round together ------that hasn't been seen for the last forty years, how good is that! Thanks to Rich and Roger it happened in Tavares.
Have you noticed that the instructions for no hard running------plenty of distance between boats-----only 70% power?? Goes out the window when you get four or five of them coming up to the last lap-------let's get it on ------------nuff said..
If they ask me----I could write a book------about a few days in Tavares, with Off and the CBA, will put digit to keyboard over the coming weeks and tell you about the two new commissions I got-------the very first Mercury V6 EVER I bought along with a history of lakeX, so watch this space----I ain't never going to run out of ammo after this weekend.

[ron54]

Jackie,,,, try and take lots of snaps it would be nice to put faces to the names. Good to hear its all going well..Phill.

[seeroy]

Back in Stuart trying to take it all in------the event, the happenings, those that were there, those that weren't , the joy, and then the sadness, then the excitement ------it may seem like I'm rambling again , so I will try and put in print the wonderful weekend that is still happening so as to make you understand I have not lost the plot or all my marbles.
Stevie Pinson and me have been mates, buddies, competitors, call it what you will, just like an itch or a Molinari elbow------always there----so you tend to always take them for granted----comfortable,
years go by and you don't see each other then when you do it's like there was never a gap between, you just carry on the conversation where you left off years before, Anne has been married to Steve since for ever-----Dezi and Lucy, Adam and Eve, Steve and Anne, you know what I mean,I knew she had been poorly, that's why he couldn't make OFF last year, there he was standing by the tent when we said hi and he told me Anne had passed away last summer. Kick in the guts don't begin to describe it, you go through the motions, ------sorry------Mark was standing there and took over, I couldn't really take it all in-----I was just filled with sadness. So Steve, I wasn't ignoring you , or being rude, I just didn't know what the hell to say matey-----I am so sorry!

Three Wukin Switzer Fings going round together ------that hasn't been seen for the last forty years, how good is that! Thanks to Rich and Roger it happened in Tavares.
Have you noticed that the instructions for no hard running------plenty of distance between boats-----only 70% power?? Goes out the window when you get four or five of them coming up to the last lap-------let's get it on ------------nuff said..
If they ask me----I could write a book------about a few days in Tavares, with Off and the CBA, will put digit to keyboard over the coming weeks and tell you about the two new commissions I got-------the very first Mercury V6 EVER I bought along with a history of lakeX, so watch this space----I ain't never going to run out of ammo after this weekend.

Jackie - Did you contact or get my note about how to contact John L. ? Check your PM (notifications) - Seeroy

[jackiewilson]

Jackie - Did you contact or get my note about how to contact John L. ? Check your PM (notifications) - Seeroy

Stevo, there is nothing in the notifications------don't have the number for John L. Forgot you had it------but I don't have your number. If you could tell John I will call in to St Cloud on the way back Wednesday and pay him cash for the motor and Lake X test papers, or deposit it in the bank.
just send me his number and I will do the rest. 7722878755 That's Wilson Custom Marine-----,will be there tomorrow------mark is there in the daytime most days.
Would like to have your number Stavros-----something I need to tell you----urgent!!!

[seeroy]

Stevo, there is nothing in the notifications------don't have the number for John L. Forgot you had it------but I don't have your number. If you could tell John I will call in to St Cloud on the way back Wednesday and pay him cash for the motor and Lake X test papers, or deposit it in the bank.
just send me his number and I will do the rest. 7722878755 That's Wilson Custom Marine-----,will be there tomorrow------mark is there in the daytime most days.
Would like to have your number Stavros-----something I need to tell you----urgent!!!

Jackie - I just tried to call WCM but got no answer. A bit too early to expect anyone to be there. I will keep trying every hour. I will give Mark my number. I would post it here, but prefer not to do so in an open Forum. - Seeroy