Hey all….we have a second blog up and running…
hotrodcowgirl.wordpress.com

This is a blog more about our life together and some
of it is also Marcy’s life growing up.

Between cattle, horses, wheat…hot rods…memories…life.

I am a Hot Rod Cowgirl…and love this Corvette!

I married a Cowboy Hot Rodder…and we are building our dreams together!

So go take a look…

Wild Bill and Hot Rod Cowgirl at the coast.

Hot Rods and Horses!

hotrodcowgirl.wordpress.com

Today Was Parts Delivery Day At Holton Secret Lab…

“Peter” (Graves) Flew The Plane Today With “Tom” (Cruise) As Co-Pilot..

Should You Accept This Mission….You Must

Do So With Utmost Attention To Detail…HSL Policy

Flying Over HSL To Secure The Target To Begin Package Drop

The “Lab” Is Secure

“Annie” Is Waiting For Her Package Pick Up…She May Look Like A Horse…But She Is A Trained Special OPS Agent…Don’t Make Her Mad!

Any “Mission Of Perfection” Takes A Few Fly Overs To Deliver
Packages To “The Secret Lab”

The “Godfather” of HSL Is Waiting For The Drop…

Dialing In The GPS Coordinates…In The “Gray Ghost”

Super Invisible In The Wheat!

Proof That “Holton Secret Lab Does Quality Restorations”

Anything Can Happen On A Summer Night At HSL

It Is “Your Mission” To Come See Us

Bring Your Dream Car Or Your Hot Rod Restoration To Holton Secret Lab And

Your Mission Is Complete….This Brief Will Self Destruct In 5 Minutes

Over and Out
www.holtonsecretlab.com

As you know we have “Horse Power”…”Catahoola Bug’s”…first ride…
that is why I am so serious…

And we have “Horsepower” at HSL

Zoom Zoom “Horsepower”

“Horsepower” or “Horse Power” both ways…note “Horse Power” in background

Horses that know what to do with 100% “Horse Power”

And some riders…”Flame” wondering where and what to do?

HSL “Horsepower” at the Portland Roadster Show

Or just plain “Nitrous Horsepower”

Back to the Juniper T…Curt making a big loop

On a summer’s night with “Horse Power”

“Ba-Boom-Ba-Boom…HSL Horsepower”

Outrageous “Chevelle Horsepower”

Annie will demonstrate how horses take a bath with “Horse Power”.
First of all….as soon as your master brushes you and gets you all pretty….you drop and roll in a dry dusty spot in the pasture

Then you get up and shake

“Chic A Boom Chic A Boom…Shaking the Annie Fanny”

Feels so good…oh yeah

Nice and clean…beautiful

Annie you are a knock out!

“Holton Secret Lab Horsepower”…Zoom Zoom:)

Ah “Flame”….what are you doing???
“Flame” will never forgive me for publishing this picture…WB paid his wife 5 bucks for this picture…truly “Flames” secret love is riding horses with “Horse Power”!

Come see us at HSL and we will develop and fine tune your “Horsepower”

First of all…”Jagged” is more finished and looking extremely cool.

Did I mention that “WB” built this car by hand with his creative mind
and his artistic ability. I am very proud of him!

Wild Bill hanging loose

He is a My Hotrod Cowboy

Who still makes my heart beat fast…either inside the car or out.

Side note on inside the car…ask Richard who owns
the Willy’s…hee-hee…sorry Richard :)

Yep he knows what I live with…and why we have “Oh Sh–” handles
in our Hotrods for me!

Bad to the bone…”Jagged” is one of a kind.

1929 Dodge Coupe with a V-12 Jag engine

Outrageous!

On any given day at HSL you will see…Cool Cars

Cool Dreams

Cool Hotrods

1956 or 2011? At HSL we have time warps all the time!

The Gang…Snarling Snapping Wonders Who Won’t Trust Anyone But Us :) We have a great security system but they are our second security system…go ahead and make their day….they are always hungry…seriously!

Ms. Diva decided to stretch out on her coffee table…
she owns everything and we work for her!

July of 2011 is very unusual that we are having this type of weather…
cool…rainy…windy…harvest is pretty much postponed until August.
Usually we are starting harvest now!

See the wheat field behind Annie?

It should look like this for July ready to harvest with heavy golden heads of wheat. I know this is dated…it was 1987 when we used to harvest our land and run “Holton Restorations”. (We became “Holton Secret Lab” in 2004). Yes it was a bad hair day..my hair was long then and in a ponytail…son on the left was 13 and son on the right was 15…Wild Bill was…very young…really young…and me, well I was a child bride!

This would be a baby combine in 2011 but in 1987 it was top notch…we name
our cars and trucks…first truck is called “Big Bertha” and the little truck behind her
was called “Betsy”. I will do a post on our vehicle names in the future!

This is now and yes we have bigger headers…seriously huge!

We took this picture to show that we have steep ground. Yes that is Wild Bill…For you who do not understand hillside combines they have a leveler that keeps the bulk of the machine level while the header tilts with the ground etc. as does the hydraulics. Being a farm girl and growing up driving truck in harvest…I have seen a leveler break…then the bulker and heavy part of the combine tilts crazy…hang on and say a prayer that it does not roll…jump as soon as you can.

Personally myself being so brave and all…I liked driving our wheat trucks…here are my three kids in back of my truck in the 1980′s. When you are a farm kid it is fun to ride in the back of the truck and make wheat gum…stuff a handful of wheat seeds in your mouth and make gum! Why? I don’t know but it is truly a country kid tradition…they say that some adults yet do this…who….well I don’t know???

The kiddos with their Dad….Wild Bill…in 1979.

Switching gears to harvesting cars instead of wheat…it is way more fun!

Look what we found in our field!

I love love this Ford Pick Up…used to be mine :(

And I love this 1955 Chevy Pick Up

And this Bronco is incredible!

Back to the 1935 Ford Pick Up…my Grandpa owned one of the first Ford dealerships in the Northwest…

I love our Chevy “Bowtie” cars and I LOVE Corvettes…but I appreciate Fords too!

Rural America…hard work…long days…all worth the way of life here.

Another reason we have our incredible shop here instead of a huge city in CA. or Portland or Seattle…We chose to live here as this is our home…and our shop is worth your gas miles to drive to…if you want the best…we are worth a few extra miles…come see us.

I loved “Hobby”…She had a huge heart and was part of mine.

I was born country and that’s what I’ll always be.

I got a hundred years of down home running through my blood. I was born country and this country’s what I love.

Family ties run deep in this land.
And I’m never far from what I am.
My Uncles and cousins…son Greg is the squirmy one.
See if you can pick out “Wild Bill”…hint…cowboy :)

Minnie is giving me the look….I better get back to work!

Melody is really a person in a horse costume and… 

She truly would like to live with us in the house!

Kiah is so pretty with my red PEO flowers…she is keeping
an eye on the camera and me!

Annie is looking down the road at “Jagged”.

See ya on down the country trail

Till next time…hang on tight to your “Oh Sh– handle and smile”

Yes it rained more tonight….still hoping for Summer!

Sing With Me…America The Beautiful

O Beautiful For Spacious Skies

For Amber Waves Of Grain

For Purple Mountain Majesties

Above The Fruited Plain

America America!

God Shed His Grace On Thee

And Crown Thy Good With Brotherhood

From Sea To Shining Sea

God Bless America

Holton Secret Lab Wishes You A Happy 4th Of July

So Does Annie

And Kiah Too

We Pledge Allegiance To The Flag Of The United States Of America And To The Republic For Which It Stands…One Nation Under God, Indivisible With Liberty And Justice for All.

I grew up for the most part without a TV…I was an only child…I learned
early on how to entertain myself with reading and dreaming and goofing and playing
with my dogs and horses and cats…then I also learned as I got older to ride
out on my horse and take incredible pictures of the landscape…and not worry
that the “Boogie Man” was after me.

Heading out on a summers night.

Beautiful huh? No you can not go sit in front of the dang TV in the summer….you will miss this.

This summer I bought a new Auzzie dog to add to the pack…I like having them so that they will bite you and keep you away if you come at off hours…we like having protection that snaps and snarls and bites…so go ahead make their day…we have lots of them…and they have teeth and attitude…OK moving on to country entertainment…..remember out here we have to be inventive for our fun!

Country Entertainment Step One: Get a new Auzzie that is about a year old…
and get her a new toy.

Step Two: Introduce her to your two old filly “Annie” who was like WooHoo I am ready to play!

Step Three: Get your camera ready and watch

Step Four: Focus and enjoy….and no Kiah was not nipping or heeling…it was pure play time.

Step Five: Our new puppy…a very smart girl….and good watch dog already…was trying to play with “her” toy….and “Annie” was looking for fun…in all the wrong places…remember that song?

Step Six: Now Kiah is showing off

You have to put up with me as I am weird…I like to write and take pictures that tell the story…I love music and memories…and well I am kind of silly and goofy. I think it was because my folks made me go to the mountains every year of my life when I was young and I listened to Wolfman Jack at night.

My Dad would tune into Ira Blue…has any one besides me heard of Ira Blue…well we as in me and my Mom and Dad every night fell asleep listening to Ira…the signal would fade in and out on the AM radio….so yeah I am a bit funky weird but extremely entertaining.

Here I am in the mountains saying “What”…it is early…and I am cranky…”Wild Bill” we need to saddle up and ride to go gather the cows in that pasture down by Redbridge”.

“No…not DRIVE the pick up…I said RIDE…you know horseback…and I am getting more cranky…get your yoo hoo hiney on that horse and lets go”.

Ahhh…mountain beauty and solitude…OK…where did the cows go?

Getting ready to find and gather the cows along the river on my horse Lottie…never a dull moment!

Back to today and the rest of the story…Annie is looking at the barn…I wonder what she sees?

“Pat” and “Jack”…our “Lion Cats” of the ranch that are tough stuff…and ferocious.

“What are you looking at sister…I am watching you…girl…get that camera away from us…we know who you are.”

True “Lions”…do not mess with them…I am serious as they will hurt you…I know…I had to take them to the vet to get neutered…it was not pretty at all.

“Wild Bill” made some silly excuse that he was busy and could not take the Lions to town…yeah right…send your little wife off with them in the cab of a pick up by herself…I still quiver…and it has been a few years ago now…I think I have PTSD…but I do love these guys!

But they remember…God help me…I need something to calm my fears of lions, tigers and bears…we have cougars and moose out here too….OK that is enough for now…where is my candy to self medicate my nerves?

As you can tell he was not that busy…well…yeah he gets the “Pendleton Woolen Mills” to do a photo shoot with our cars the day that I have to take “the Lions” to the vet…I say it was a conspiracy.

See…he is yakking to the Woolen Mills man…the one who arranged all of this… the one who contacted us for prop vehicles for the fall collection….actually “The 100th Anniversary Fall Collection”.

This was the photo shoot day for the men’s clothing line and as you see it was a cold day for June. The next day the gals did the photo shoot and while it was still chilly it was at least sunny.

Here he is loading up the Mustang and headed home…smirking about me and the Lions….ha-ha.

OK folks it is almost bedtime here…..Annie says Good Night

The sun has set….so has my brain.

Night Sleepy Head

Night Minnie…Night MJ