Greetings and  Happy Easter to all.  Do have a peaceful and enjoyable Easter with your family and friends.  My dogwood trees are not ready to bloom at Easter this year as they normally do, but when they do arrive it will be nice as the flowers of the tree are pretty and have that very appropriate Cross pattern in the petals.

Chad and I took a trip to Frontline on Saturday and had a good visit with Christian and his team at the store.  They had coffee and – of course – donuts waiting for us.  We gladly took advantage of that.  The highlight for me was getting the Meng 1/48 F-14B Bombcat, which Christian had ordered from his distributor for me.  Chad got a bunch of small stuff (it’s Chad remember!) for under $30.  Christian gave some deep discounts for the both of us.  Afterwards, we both munched on street tacos at the nearby Mexican restaurant and visited a gaming store about a block away.  All in all it was a good trip to Staunton on a rather nice day.

Good news all.  We have crossed the $2000 barrier for our chapter account balance.  It took us just about 1 year to do so but we made that goal I had set out.   Thanks to Ross, Chad and Scot ahead of time on giving a primer on decal placement and setting for this month’s talk.  FYI to all, our honorary member John will be officially handing over one of his superb fire engines to a fire hall in Pennsylvania and graciously offered to do so on behalf of the Shenandoah Valley Modelers chapter.  John and I will work on doing a write up of the event for an upcoming issue of the IPMS magazine. 

In closing, having a great Easter.  Put the sprue down and spend time with those close to you today. 

– Chris