April 19, 2015 AsktheBuilder Sunday Special

This is an unusual Sunday eblast. I wanted to share with you some of the excitement I experienced the past three days.

I was fortunate to be surrounded by these three wonderful women for just about twenty-four hours.

You're looking left to right at Emily, Kailey, photo-bomber man with mustache, and Carissa.

These woman are true pros and work for Briggs & Stratton.

I was lucky to be invited by them, and their direct boss Rick Zeckmeister, for a private event where I got to see some of Briggs latest and innovative products.

Mother Nature served up an ideal day and I got to do hands-on testing of all of the amazing products powered by Briggs & Stratton engines out in back of their world headquarters on a giant grass field and parking lot.

I intend to share a video with you on opens in a new windowTuesday that shows lots of what I was doing. Kailey was kind enough to tape most of it. She's a contractor PR person that works for a top Wisconsin PR firm Lindsay, Stone and Briggs.

At the end of a busy day, we ended up in the amazing Briggs & Stratton museum. Oh my is there a ton of history there.

I'm building a page at my website with a boatload of the photos I took there, but here's one for you.

What seven-year-old girl or boy wouldn't have thought they died and went to Heaven if they had one of these Doodle Bugs!

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When I first arrived at the Briggs & Stratton giant world headquarters and factory, Dave was the first employee I met.

I wanted to tape a cool open to my video with the giant Briggs logo in the background.

Dave, after he determined I wasn't a spy for Honda, was happy to tape the open. Dave, it came out great! Thanks!

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No, Dave is NOT standing on an apple box. He's tall and I'm SHORT!

After the museum tour I had a few hours to do some outdoor ham radio. The day before after arriving in Milwaukee I was also able to get on the air.

If you want to read a pretty cool story about this, opens in a new windowCLICK HERE. You'll not believe where I was sitting on Day One!

The day ended with a trademark Ask the Builder meet up. I had a great time with Jen, her husband Wayne and Chris.

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We ate at the Cheesecake Factory across from my hotel.

The conversation ranged from problems they had at their houses, how to install a toilet, frozen downspout drain pipes and how to prevent pipe splits to *missing* emails of certain prominent people.

If eBay knows that my daughter Meghan now lives in California, then you can bet that each and every email ever sent still exists in a log file or two or three somewhere. But I digress.

I always enjoy my meet ups and feel blessed to have subscribers like you that are willing to come out to discover I'm really not an axe murderer.

Speaking of eBay, two of the things I'm purging from my massive office clean up are going to SELL today.

If you want to bid on these two things, you BETTER ACT NOW:

opens in a new windowGreat Digital Camera

opens in a new window1975 Cincinnati Reds World Series Pepsi Bottle -UNOPENED

Here are four other things I listed on Wednesday before going out of town:

opens in a new windowAutographed NFL Football - Boomer Esiason - You MUST READ the description!!!

opens in a new windowOld Hauck Brewery Beer Bottle

opens in a new windowOld Hudephol Beer Bottle

opens in a new windowBrand New Johnson Laser Level

Many, many things are being sold. I'm in this giant PURGE mode at my house and office.

Okay, I'll have a REAL newsletter for you on Tuesday.