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The contents of the “Weekly Feature” page are provided to you for your entertainment, amusement, and perhaps information. Here you may find articles of interest, pictures, historical information on the Club, or whatever shuffles to the top of the pile on our desk. The only defined characteristic of this space is that we will make every effort to change/replace it around the middle of each week. Thank you for visiting, and please stop by again. Click on any photo to see it larger in a separate window.

Breaking the Ice

Yes, the MMOGTA Publishing Complex is running a little behind. You’ve heard of “fuzzy logic” in the tech world, we sometimes employ “fuzzy scheduling” here at the Complex. It’s a small comfort, but after 37 years of time clocks, it’s one of the few rewards afforded to us.

There, having resolved that issue, and since the previous feature dealt with electricity, thus covering “current” events, we are free to move on to the business of the day, week, whatever.

The first official outdoor event of the 2009 MMOGTA season is now history, and as such, worthy of a little review. Test-N-Tune Day is always a bit of fun, always some new hardware, some new faces, etc., but most of the fun is in seeing all the friendly folks returning for another season. It’s always amazing to see how much the kids have grown, who added a few grey hairs, (sometimes those two can be connected) who got a new truck, tractor, tires, and so forth, it’s almost like going to a class reunion. Of interest this year, it seems a significant percentage of the staff in the announcer’s booth ended up pregnant, a not uncommon consequence of long, cold winters. That alone will add an air of anticipation to the season. We intend to remain in full compliance with the Family Leave Act, of course, as long as it doesn’t mean too much more work for us. Over the years, we have watched a long list of kids grow up on the showgrounds, and we are proud to count many of them among our productive fellow members and friends today. That is a big part of what keeps ours a vital and growing organization.

Maybe we enjoy Test-N-Tune Day because it’s sort of like a metaphor for Spring. You never quite know what’s going to burst forth from the freshly thawed fields and flower beds, or from all the local barns and shops, but the warming sun always brings a few surprises. Surprises are the stuff of life. If we knew it all ahead of time, there’d be no reason to show up for each new day, each new season. Sure, it takes us all a moment to remember what we have to do to make it all work, Frank has to remember where to hook the red wire, Damon has to remember to call Doug, Fran and Michelle have to remember how long to cook the fries, Freddy has to remember he’s not in Florida anymore, Jim has to remember which engine he put in which tractor, Amber has to remember her name, Carla and Rebekah have to remember who all those people are, Bill has to remember where all his tractors are, Garber has to remember to bring the motor home, Al has to remember to bring new spark plugs, and we all have to remember not to take this all too seriously. At this stage of the season, it’s still all hope and promise. Next Sunday the reckoning begins.

Don’t forget to check the Tractor Pulling page of the website for further review of Test-N-Tune Day, as well as the schedules and info on upcoming pulls.

Just one quick snapshot to remember the day: (click individual photos to enlarge)


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