Post Day 1

Tomorrows the day! 
We leave for Seattle! 
Today is filled with how much stuff are we forgetting about ...so the shop can run smoothly while we are gone. Nadine and Greg will continue to put in a hard days work, so everything will be fine! 
Matthews schedule is wrote down so we don't have any surprised while we are gone, both my parents and in-laws are helping with the load of getting him to daycare, school, sunday school, and Princess Bailey has to get pampered in there also! Nadine and Karla are on top of that. 
Matthew gets to stay home on this Peiffers Head West trip!  Chris and I haven't been away from him this long EVER! 
We will be gone Sept 23-Oct 2. This our first business trip together. I came home to work with him in the shop May 2017 and I must say what a ride we have had together!
This Peiffer Heads West trip is for the Rottler Open House! Rottler is a company that specializes in machinery for every type of engine builder. Chris and I are interested in learning more about their 5 axis CNC machine. So he can produce more heads a year, But still have that Peiffer* technique. It takes Chris over 40hrs to port and assemble ONE cylinder head for pulling. With a machine like this it would save his arms and wear and tear on his whole body!
Chris learned his tricks for the one and only Joe Mondello back in 2007. Back then Joe offered a class that you could come out to Tennessee for a week and he would teach you the proper way to port cylinder heads. Joe hadn't done much with diesels, so most likely anything you read in a engine building magazine and Joe touched on diesels, the pictures was the heads Chris brought down to him so they could port on and learn things. Joe was full of some much information and knowledge I truly think Chris soaked in every minute of it! 

If you want to stay up on Peiffers Go West! Check out my daily journal.

Lastly,we just thank god for giving us the opportunity to go and enjoy our week together! We pray for all the people dealing with the fires, hurricanes and earthquakes this past month and hope they are waking up every morning with I am grateful for another day, just as we are!

-BP