Club Touring & Activities Information for 2005

Bring your Products that Work to share with members at the meeting. They do not need to be automotive related. These are items, which you would recommend to fellow members. These are products that you like to use or which achieve desired results. Perhaps an item that can be used for a certain task or fills an unusual requirement. These are just a few potential examples of the types of Products that Work that you will have the opportunity to talk about with others.

The Barkers request your attendance at the Puget Sound Region VCCA Annual Christmas Potluck at their house on December 11th.  Attendees are encouraged to bring a salad, side dish, or dessert. Your hosts will provide a baked ham and all beverages. 

As usual the annual gift exchange/swap will be held with a suggested $10 value gift.  (Bring new items or gifts of appropriate value.  No white elephants, please.)  Gifts should be labeled "man" or "woman".  (Please don't use "either".)  This is entirely voluntary and you don't have to participate in order to share in the laughter.

Everyone is welcome to arrive any time after 12 noon.  Park as far forward as you can so everyone will fit into the driveway area.   Once he figures out what it is, Bill will be offering a surprise tour or workshop around 1:30 pm.  We will begin eating promptly at 3 pm.  The gift exchange will follow the meal.

Directions to Bill and Sis' house in Issaquah will be handed out at the November club meeting.  You can call them any time at home.

(Mercer Island Bridge, cont. from p. 6) Within this lake lies Mercer Island, seven miles long and with an extreme width of two and one half miles. Yet much of this lake and all of the island lie within ten miles of the business center of Seattle, one-half the area of the island being within little more than half that distance. In some cities comparable to Seattle in size, this would almost be considered a "downtown" park
BEAUTIFUL ISLAND
Set in the middle of the United States, Lake Washington and Mercer Island would attract throngs so large that standing room would lie at a premium. The lake, with its mountain setting, would not be the least notable if set along the lakes of Switzerland.  The island, set in the Aegean, would inspire poetry for its exaltation and international wars for its possession. Looking at Mercer Island from any point on the surrounding mainland, flanked by the serrated Cascades,  sentineled at the south by Mount Rainier, floating on the blue surface of the lake, its tree-plumed slopes painted in delicate shades by soft sunshine, Byron's lines press forward in the mind,                       (cont. on p.10)

NOTE: Please submit Tappet Clatter contributions before the 5th of the month. Thanks.