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Friday June 15, 2007 Friday June 22, 2007 Blacksmiths Shop

Saturday June 16, 2007 Saturday June 23, 2007 Saturday Potluck Dinner

Sunday June 17, 2007 Sunday June 24, 2007 Heritage Village

Above, despite being dated 2005 this is an older Sat View of our 55 acre Museum. I include it since today we are going to go for a ride leading our parade. You can see I have marked our Parade Route. Also our Indian Mound, but more about that later. We climb aboard our tractor towed red 24 passenger hay wagon, parked alongside our Farmhouse at the red star.

Above left: We are headed southwest towards our Blacksmiths Shop  Above right and below left: now we are running west. While some people may perceive these vehicles on our left as junk, mechanically most are close to 100%. These vehicles are known as wearing their work clothes. In the cosmetic condition they were when we received them, after working thirty, forty, fifty years. Below right: our VAA. Volunteer Accommodation Area.

Above left: Members who live more than thirty miles away and agree to work at least 32 hours monthly -- most live in the Los Angeles area -- our Museum provides a VAA RV space with electricity, water and sewer, telephone available, for a nominal annual fee. Members provide their own RV. Above right: our recycling containers. We load them all on a trailer and haul to a San Marcos Recycling Center. Below: we call this area The Hill. Below left: This is Steam Engine Row's area. All of our inventory of yet to be rebuilt steam engines used to live here. Now they are neatly grouped adjacent to Steam Engine Row. We are cleaning up our act on The Hill, since the steep hill to the south of us soon will sprout a gated community of pricey mini mansions. A bulldozer has made a couple of roads and test holes have been drilled. Below right: Discarded Tires. Despite four times a year we cut all these tires into six to twelve pieces and haul thirty miles to a Hazardous Waste Recycling Center. Despite imploring our members to not discard tires here. This pile rarely diminishes.

Above left: You can see this ninety degree turn, from west to north, on our above Sat View. This is looking back where we just passed. In the center you can see the following yellow and green tractor towing our green hay wagon. We have a dozen of these hay wagons painted different colors. Above right: the west side of our fenced Indian Mound. So named since in 1845 a tribe of Native American Laborers lived here, while they built in Spanish Hacianda style, a 7,000 square foot, two story, twenty eight room Wedding Present named Rancho Guajome Adobe. Guajome translates to frog pond. These Indians left behind some pictures on sides of rocks and smooth man made depresions not unlike bowls in the tops. We are told the Indians made these bowls to grind grains. This is one of five Native American Historical sites in our area. Below: free dry camping for our out-of-town Volunteers who usually come only for Show and do not have displays. In March and July, American Civil War battles are re-enacted here.

Above: We are just turning onto the north end of our Parade Route. Show Displays on both sides of the road. Most Exhibitors park their RV's and personal vehicles within their display areas. Below left: The Frazer Family's Hoo-Dee-Hoo Laundry Churns Fresh Butter daily in a vintage Maytag Washing Machine with the Butter Churn option. Below right: These three people standing in the road, wearing Bicycling Clothes, are part of a group of twelve really fit Encinitas couples, who bicycled about twenty mostly uphill miles, to come to our Sunday Show.

Above left: Displays. You can see our fold down gate in the left side of our wagons. We field eight of our Volunteer driven tractor drawn wagons ten weeks each February to May at the Carlsbad Flower Fields, where we have raised docking stations; so people on wheels can just roll right on. Above right: Looking back you can see our following wagon and where we just passed. The fella with the WIDE brim hat and overalls, back there at the cross roads, is Trustee Safety Officer Steve Stipp, in his Parade Traffic Cop role. Below left. We are stopped and this is a telephoto shot of our orange wagon parked in front of our announcers stand. Aboard our wagon the Riverside Concert Band plays our National Anthem. They then went to our Entertainment Stage and played until 3:00PM. Below right: We raffle one of these childs John Deere tractors each show, meaning one in June another in October. We run an annual raffle for the John Deere riding tractor, the winner drawn at our 3rd Saturday in January Annual Membership Meeting.

Above left: Bleachers. Above right: Announcers Stand. That is decades long Volunteer Larry Thompson, who announces our parades, holding the orange microphone. When Larry spotted me he announced "I see we have a Tourist today, who is observing our parade from the inside out." The dude wearing his authentic circa 1950's Firemans Duds is our Sound Man Extraordinary Dave Casey from Del Rio Texas. The previous Sunday Dave wearing his Fathers Day Assistant Cub Scout Den Father uniform tops the page. June 30 Update: after Dave read the above from home he emailed me: "I am actuality the Cub Master and semi grand Pooh-Bah of Pack 272 Del Rio Texas. Janet is a den mother extrodinar and runs the wolf den." Below left: I took this close up of Dave later, but insert it here. Over time Dave has installed our property wide Super Sound System. By flipping switches we can choose different areas to hear announcements. Dave is constantly updating sound hardware and brings 800 expensive pounds of sound amplification gear with him from Texas. Bottom left: Nearly back to where we boarded, alongside our Farmhouse   Bottom right: opposite our Farmhouse our School of Times Past

Friday June 15, 2007 Friday June 22, 2007 Blacksmiths Shop

Saturday June 16, 2007 Saturday June 23, 2007 Saturday Potluck Dinner

Sunday June 17, 2007 Sunday June 24, 2007 Heritage Village