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Above far left: Left to right: 8:40 AM Taking A Break Our newest Steam Team apprentice ten years old Nicholas Foraker, Travis Durst and John Alling. They have already been at it for hours and are only moments away from operating their steam traction engines, leaving the barn for the day. Above left: left to right John Alling again, Eric McConnon and Scott Higgins. Above right, left to right: Jim MacEntire, Dean Alling and Nick Rose. Above far right: Channing Horton, left, Grandpa Guy Horton right. Below far left, almost 9 o'clock and here is David Denny looking wide awake and well. Below left: Virgil White working on his mill. Below right: Today's power for said mill. Below far right: perhaps you recall seeing Virgil's tractor last Saturday in our parade? Not operated by Virgil.

Above far left and left: 9 AM Virgil White, left, with his greatgrandaughter Skylar McHargue, who will be age 9 in September. An every morning chore when operating Virgil takes apart his mill while Skylar cleans. Virgil remarked that he MAY be getting too old to lift off that end much anymore. Below right: a WW II US Army Air Corp Sextant that Virgil happened upon. Above far left and left: Mens Restroom in our new Assembly Building. Above right: nearly 9:30 AM Summergrass Camping Coordinator Jerry Hass finishes his breakfast. He has been on duty since 5:30 AM helping prepare then serve said breakfast. As has Trustee George Bohn above far right and Trustee/Vice President Bob Morley below far left. Below left and right Irene Rogers a newish volunteer. Below far right: Movie Studio Two. These Cats are famous for the opening credits for the HBO Series Carnivale Above and below Carnivale Cats. Compare the blade above right, far right, below far left and left with the blade below right and far right. Note that the above blade is an original stout steel while the one below is a Studio Blade built of plywood and sheet metal. Detail below far right. Above far left and left: Studio blade, "welds" are silicone beads. Above right, far right and below far left this gas Cat 60 engine was replaced with a Diesel Cat 50 engine. Below left and right: Studio Three, Blacksmith Shop. Below far right: interesting assembled vehicle

Above far left and left: more interesting assembled vehicle. Above right and far right and below: Motor Vehicle Clubs. Above left, right and far right: I do not recall seeing something like this before? Which is no great shakes since I have not been around all that much of this stuff before. The shiny steering wheel glinting in the sun caught my eye. Below far left: set up for cutting wood powered by a steam traction engine. Below left: Heritage Village Below right and far right: Vendors Area. Above and below our 99 years old Vilter Corliss Steam powered Ammonia Refrigeration Compressor. That is the single cylinder steam engine on the left and the compressor on the right. Our members removed it from the Italian Vineyard Company / Brookside Winery, Guasti, California. And reassembled it at our place. 10:30 AM Kent Graham and Eric McConnon drain water out of steam lines and fill lubricators prior to operating engine. Above Studio Five, Steam Dragline. Besides operating (on compressed air versus steam) for Houdini, this dragline has a famous history. It worked around the Los Angeles Basin for decades through different owners. A friend of Virgil White, Al Holten, owned it for awhile, he put it on a barge and worked a Breakwater with it. I asked Virgil Sunday if this crane would run if the boiler was fixed and he told me yes. That is the boiler lying on the ground on its side parallel to the boom in the above far right picture. Below far left and left: The Corvettes performed on our Entertainment Stage from 10 AM to noon Saturday. Below far right: Studio Eight, Gas Engine Row Above left and right: Paul and Bertha Haddan relax on our SOB Patio. They restored and own and always bring to our shows their Power Horse below left, right and far right. Above far right: Nitro Express played on our Entertainment Stage from 2 to 4 PM. Below far left: Boozefighters Motorcycle Club. All of these guys are of the tall huge persuasion and while I wondered if'n these guys were for or against Boozing and Fighting, I did not ask. Instead at home I looked on the Internet. Founded in 1946 by some returning from the second world war military veterans, who found life now really really dull. They are proponents of boozing and fighting and their website says that it was they that got into an altercation with the residents of Hollister California Riot July 4 - 6, 1947. Above far left, left and right: putting a load on our Holt 120 six cylinder gas engine, with our Baker fan. Virgil told me that this engine was owned by and used to power a portable generator during Los Angleles Department of Water and Power electric power outages. Above far right, below far left and left: Once again as they have for our past few shows Kubota had a utility vehicles display. Below right and far right: womens restroom in our new Assembly Building.
Above left, right and far right. 5:15 PM, The Bosses Fooling Around. President Jeanette Stevens putting bright color necklaces on Vice President Bob Morley. Trustee Cheeseburger Jack Lester joins from the left, while Mike, Mr Jeanette Stevens, looks on from the right. I BELIEVE the kid is Blacksmith Prodigy Dylan Koppenhoefer from Las Vegas. Below far left 5:16 PM the Bayou Brothers Band Arrives. Below left: Jack Lesters tasty Baked Beans. Above far left: Jack Lester checks serving temperature with his pocket instant electronic gauge. Above right and below left: Chuck and Marion Goebel. 5:30 PM. Pot luck preparations: 6:10 PM Below feeding begins. Seems every time we have this dinner we try something new, to help organize and get people fed quickly. Always takes a long time to feed 250 people with only one food line. Tonight we tried numbered tables. People were called by table numbers. I did not detect any feeding speed increase? Below far right, overflow crowd set up out doors. Above far right, a cool-ish breeze wafting in the open door caught my attention, so I went outside and took some pictures. These are the wheels our members and friends arrived operating, a quite diverse pack. Below far left and left, a portion of our electic golf cart fleet. Above far right, below far left. Our Boss Director Rod Groenewold on the left, HIS Boss Becky, Mrs Rod on the right.