In 2008, we attended the Spridget 50th birthday party at Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. We all had a great time and one of the organizers was a fellow named Jim Johnson. Fast forward and Jim is now finishing up a 3 year restoration on his 1968 MG Midget. He put out a request for help with the final assembly and about 5-6 people will be descending on Dodge City, Kansas this weekend to, hopefully, get the car finished and fire it up.
The volunteers belong to a loose knit group called the Organization of Spridget Handymen In Transit (OSHIT). We have not been to Kansas before, so I asked Kathy if she would like to go to Kansas and she said, "yes". Then I said, "in the Midget?" Again, the response was a "yes"! She remembered Jim, his wife and their two dogs they had with them and thought it would be a fun trip. This will be my initiation as a "Handyman"!
Today, we took our dog to be boarded and rather than leave tomorrow as planned, we decided to get a headstart and leave today and go as far as Huntsville, AL. After storms the past two days, it was a beautiful day today - blue sky with some wispy clouds and just cool enough to have the heat on with the top down. We stopped in Mentone, AL for a late lunch at the Wildflower Cafe.
After lunch, we headed on into Huntsville. All day we had run into road construction and paving and when we got to the hotel, I pulled the car around to the rear where the dumpsters were and they had a hose so I used it to wash the bugs and dirt off. Its then I discovered all the tar that had been thrown onto the car! It was a real mess, and the hotel provided some rags to use to clean it up. Finally got it pretty clean and we went to eat dinner at Saigon Vietnamese restaurant.
Tomorrow we'll continue the trip. We were going to take a ferry across the Mississippi River, but due to the flooding, the river is too high for the ferry to run, so we will be taking an alternate route.
OSHIT = awesome. Wildflower Café also looks awesome.
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