12/31/2019

Well we totally got rained out today, forming a new plan for tomorrow.👍

12/30/2019

Let's just come right out and say it! Hand sifting rocks out of dirt sucks

Unfortunately, there is a lot of that in the near future.

11/7/2019

A quick notice to all our local friends. We will be out on location for the next two days doing the Prince of Peace Holiday Bazaar in Lakewood with our best selection of paracord too date. 

Everyone is invited to come by and grab some stocking stuffers for the holidays, and play bumper cars for the fun of it.

11/4/2019

We had to wake Tiffany up today and get her to help remove the two nasty trees, or what ever they were in the front yard. It's really fun to see what 30,000 thousand pounds of attitude can do with no effort at all.

She really helped move things along and then went back to sleep.

10/25/2019

Just a heads up to all our friends! Tomorrow we will be doing a be safe Halloween event at the Buckley Market. Don't hesitate to come and hang out with us and the kids

9/28/2019

So, after a week of tying knots like hamsters on crack, we thought we were ready for a day of massive non stop football.

Turned out that the weather was not as favorable as it could have been and we got a bit of everything. Clouds, rain, wind, and some sun breaks, but the kids played their hearts out through it all! The Junior Vikings crew was really fun to work with, and this could be something really, really big next year. 

We did get to play with all the toys: Tanks, rock crawlers, and hover bumpers! Weather or not, some really good times!  

9/21/2019

Today was the grand finale of the outside events at the new Buckley Market. We had an awesome day!

Set out the new inventory we have been producing for the last week and the retrofitted racks held everything with room to spare. we also got to play some good bumper cars, tank battles, and even real time rock crawling in the parking islands.

Had a blast. thanks Dave & Dave!
 

9/10/2019

So, this afternoon we went back out to Buckley to hang with the two Daves. It was a very quiet night. School being back in session and the pending rain, folks just went home. As it works out sometimes, you just don't know how cool things will pan out in the end. In today's case we had the privilege of meeting an awesome lady who we will refer to in the future as Miss B. She is the wife of one of Americas most unsung heroes, those that are not afraid to be under the sea for months at a time. What a Lady! She has a very sleek and stylish booth with intoxicating products. Overall, a fun mellow evening. Just a bunch of BSing. Is that a word??? LOL
 

9/07/2019

So, with the display racks retro fitted we went out to the old reliable GO to set up the display for what we hope will be close to the last layout. Lots of people came by to visit so, it took longer than expected but it was fun!

9/6/2019

Got the rack retro fit done today so we can set up and label up our last version of the paracord display. from this point forward everything will be on the truck period. Soldier A also got a few of the new bottle lanyards done as well. Two new sizes so the larger can be used on bigger bottles.


See everyone at the Grocery Outlet in Bonney Lake Tomorrow!

9/5/2019

So, stepping back from the Ark completion again, we worked on the final retrofit of the paracord display racks. We have been asked not to give up on the paracord. So, we won't! That being said however, it needs to get much simpler as far as set up and breakdown are concerned. Ran out of paint for the first section back on it tomorrow.

9/2/2019

Sometimes you just need to take a step back from chasing the beast and do a good old home town weekend event. That is exactly what this weekend turned out to be.

As everyone knows Saturday was all about setup, nothing really thrilling. Saturday was a nice warmup for today.

We got on location extra early, being that it wasn't that far from our AO. An awesome neighbor and growing friend was coming up to watch the parade and hang out for a bit. He had no idea what he was going to end up getting into, and he loved it at the end of the day!

We all played all day long! Gotta say kids can really wear you out! 

Reconnected with a lot of old pals not to mention the epic tank wars in the process!

8/31/2019

Got up to Black Diamond a bit early today and glad we did. The field was mostly empty and that always makes putting Tiffany in place much easier. Once the Dragon Wagon Too trailer was dropped and Tiff parked we set up the tents for the tank battlefield and bumper cars.

 

After everything was set in place it was time to go back to the motor pool for chow and some r&r.

8/28/2019

Well, as fate would have it, today did not go well. We got a real late start due to other scheduling and the epoxy flashed faster than we could work it, mainly because of the heat, and we lost the entire section we were trying to lay on. No photos... Soldier A was pissed.

All we could do is roll on a few new coats of epoxy and get ready for touch up paint. Gotta get her dolled up for the Labor Day events!

8/27/2019

For the last two days Soldier A has been sanding the patio cover over

hang to put the last 2 coats of fiberglass on so we can install the DOT lights. It's amazing how hard the resin gets after it has had a year to fully cure out! Two days for half of it.

But one section at a time, right???

8/23/2019

Got the new tires switched over to the Dragon Wagon Too trailer in order to be ready to go out and play at Grocery Outlet tomorrow!

Wow! Those things are heavy!

8/20/2019

Soldier A did something new this afternoon. He took the production out to Buckley to the Buckley Public Market which is owned and operated by our buddies known as the two Dave's.

This turned out to be a really fun evening and a few of the munchkins almost wore Soldier A out on the bumper car track!

Check our schedule page to see when he is going back out their events. 

8/19/2019

Tomorrow we are going to do something new in our season, so there was no point in unloading anything from the rigs. So, soldier A went back to work in the back yard area where we are going to build the monster tank battlefield. Can't wait to get that up and running! 

8/18/2019

Back to Grocery Outlet today! We just love hanging out with the crew there. Feels like playing with family!

8/17/2019

As always, we are months behind in our postings. So many things have happened since the bomb that was dropped on us at Christmas last year, the world just seems to be spinning like a wild ride on a tilt-a-whirl! 

However, we are now slowly, very slowly, starting to get some form of stability and focus again. It's our own motor pool now.

So, today we went out to the Grocery Outlet to hang with our friends and let Soldier A get some good old fashioned fresh air. We also wanted to take another opportunity to let people see and play with the new hover bumper cars even though the track is not finished. Doesn't matter, they are still really fun!

Being that we haven't been in the field for a while, we met a lot of new people that didn't know anything about us, so it was quite refreshing. Of course, the Dragon Wagon got all of the attention. Tiffany just can't help but do her rock star thing everywhere she goes!

Many thanks to everyone that stopped by and made this a great day!

8/16/2019

Recovery and reload day today. Going out for more fun tomorrow!

8/15/2019

Our first time at the Rainier School Summer Fest. What a BLAST! 

Hope nobody gets a swelled head from this post but, this was a super little event. The coordinator and crew that run this event are spot on.

High quality vendors, good food, and a really good live band all day! Tiffany and Matilda were big hits as always, and so were the bumper cars and tanks. If they will have us back we will rock this event again in 2020! 

By then, the rock crawlers should be in operation as well!
 

3/21/2019

Put the last layer of body fill on the bed yesterday and sanded it down today. Seems like it will yield a fairly flat floor but, we are out of time and have to go with it at this point. Really wish the property owner wasn't such a douche. also got to start cutting in the floor insulation.

3/17/2019

More layers of body filler on the back half of the bed today. This is really starting to drag out but, as said before it has to be done.

3/16/2019

We can't believe this property buying BS is actually turning into this kind of nightmare! But, Soldier A says we have the worst real estate agent he has ever dealt with.

So, today was mostly about packing and organizing how we are going to move depending on how this whole thing goes down. Expecting a knock on the doo from the health department any day now. 

Despite all this crap we managed to get some more air file work done and lay in some more body filler on the worst are of the back floor.

3/10/2019

Think we got the last touch up layer of body filler down today. A heavy run over with the air file should tell the tale tomorrow.

2/28/2019

Threw down the first layer of body filler aka floor leveler lol. Then the needle scaling continued. Scaling is an amazingly noisy and boring task.

2/27/2019

This needle scaling seems like it will never end! Reality is it's gotta get done. So, that was the day. Oh, and the last switch got installed.

2/26/2019

Started the day with a trip to get more electrical parts. Then it was back to needle scaling while B the electrician built out some of the things he needed to before installing.

The scaling stopped and sanding started as B began to work his magic!

It was a long day but, buy the end the ARK was fired up and running off of shore power. This is a huge milestone for us.