"Uncle Pat" Hardage

PineWoodDerbyWorkshop began in my garage with my son in 1994, and we made sawdust there till I retired in 2013 and moved to Missouri.   Texas friends asked for support with their Derby cars ...  so I refitted a forty-five foot charter bus into a rolling woodshop.   I think it's the only one of its kind in the country.   I started Cub Scouts as a kid in 1952 back in Amarillo, and I have been a Den Leader, a Cubmaster, and a Scoutmaster.  Now I'm just "Uncle Pat."   I love building PineWoodDerby cars in my woodshop, and I've expand to CO2-powered BLAST CARS and other small shop projects . . . whistles, neckerchief slides, small boxes, birdhouses . . .   I really enjoy watching kids' faces (and their parents') when they figure out a particularly tricky bit.   Life is Good.