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GentlewoodFarms
June 7, 2012

Gear Heads

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This photo of my husband (in the blue shirt) and his brothers with their paternal grandfather was taken sometime around 1969. Tom is not 100% sure of the year, but I know that the shirt is the same one that he wore for school photos in 1969, so I'm going with the anecdotal evidence and calling it good enough.

When I showed this project to Tom, I told him, "This needs a title. What do you think?" He took one look at it and promptly said, "Gear Heads." Which, when you think about it really is perfect.

A gear head is a person who is into all things motorized. This can be cars, motorcycles, machines, planes, or boats, but specifically relating to the engine and power delivery. Grandpa Gent owned a machine shop, and he passed his love of all things machine, gears, and cars on to all his boys - sons and grandsons alike. Tom enjoys tinkering, even today, on an old Gravely riding lawn tractor that doesn't even run.

I met Grandpa Gent shortly after our younger daughter was born on a road trip we took to Cleveland. He died not long after our visit, so I'm really glad that we made the effort to go and he was able to see that Tom had a nice family.

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I had planned to enter this in the Leftovers Layout Challenge, but when I showed it to my friend Sarah (sarahmagnificent) at work, she asked, "how can you use it in the leftovers challenge if you used a fresh sheet of cardstock for the back?" DUH. It's my own challenge and I screwed it up! I felt like an idiot. LOL

Still, it's an acceptable entry for :

Round Robin - Group 5, Week 1
ABC Challenge - Asparagus (color), Boys, Calendar
Scrap By Color Challenge - Triadic
Boys Boys Boys Challenge


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