My life has been very busy the last few months. The RD Blog here shows a new grand child (yea!) and a new economy hot rod car. Significant advancement into the hardware stage of HB2 and some really cool CNC projects have come out of the work shop. 100 degree weather has hit Dallas and the grass is green and growing. The real job is doing well and the web store is busy enough. The kids and spouse...
Continue reading...Volkswagen GTI MkV
40 Years after my first red VW I purchased another. Here is my new GTI MkV. It is a Rabbit (or Golf) on steroids. It is a performance hatchback with a 200 HP Turbo 2 Liter engine and amazing handling. It also has impressive gas mileage at 20/30 mpg.
Continue reading...Tessa Danielle Kautz
Here is the latest addition to the Kautz family. I present Tessa Danielle Kautz, 1.5 hours old, 7lb. 9oz., 20 inches, born 5:57 PM May 27th.. As you can see, grandmas, mother, father and Tessa are doing fine. Grandpa Dan is OK enough to take pictures. Thanks to Aunt Shelly for pix of me and of Tessa’s hand!
Continue reading...Dilemma
I have been posting a lot of stuff here in Ramblin’ Dan about my many hobbies and especially about my machine shop. That’s what a personal blog is about… anything I want! Ha! 😆 But I have had questions from some readers about where they are supposed to look for new writings on hobby activities. I have the same thought problem too. Where should I put stuff I want to share; web site, the forum (TEDEX),...
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