1st big weekend of year..bus time

[Iceni John]

I got back yesterday from Buses Gone Wild II, where us Crown and Gillig folk get together over Memorial Day weekend.   Apart from driving through a swarm of bees on I-15 with my door open, no problems at all (unlike last year when my hydraulic hose burst while driving home).   There was also a beautifully converted GMC Buffalo with us, so we could dream about how our buses would eventually look.   I'm already looking forward to BGW III next year!

John

[cody]

Monday (yesterday) we did the normal hit the parades, go and watch the ceremony at the cemetary, always meaningful to me, I've lost relatives in many of the wars over the years since my forefathers (?) ( three fathers? not sure)  became draft dodgers during the french revolution and decided to immigrate to canada rather than loose their heads over something as simple as cake lol.  So today I'm trying to make up for a weekend of slacking by building a flower bed for libby out in the front yard where the lilac from helll used to live, I'm using landscaping timbers and building it log cabin style, I'm cheating tho and instead of scribing and notching the corners I'm butt jointing them and spiking them together with 5 inch spikes, shes got a flowering crab tree to plant (for me to plant) in it and a bunch of flowers, looking at it I'm thinking that even tho the lilac was old, gnarled and ugle it did look better than the house so this is probably the begining of something I don't like lol.  I'm not saying that the lilac was old but it did have an 8 inch stump, everytime I jerked on it with the truck after cutting more roots the house down the street would dip, so it did seem to have a grip on the neighborhood.

[Ed Hackenbruch]

Cody, years ago i "pruned" a clump of lilacs that my wife's grandmother had planted.....I may have gone a little overboard on them.  Ok, they never recovered and for almost 30 years whenever my wife sees a lilac bush i hear about it........and the town where we are at this summer is infested with the damn things!!!!!!

[cody]

I fully understand that Ed, if the bush had any redeeming value I would have kept it, I bought the house for my daughter in 2007 and spent more on that bush than I did on most of their childhood diseases, the more I did for the bush the uglier it got finally I admitted defeat and took it off life support, we said a few words, had a moment of silence and then jerked the little basstard out with it's ever loving roots grasping at every rock and leaf it could grip, I had to pull it almost half a block before it cryed 'uncle' and gave up surrendering with great dignity.  It's now gone to the great brush pile in the sky and has been replaced by a beautiful flowering crab tree that I think is waiting for the next generation to torment.

[JackConrad]

We just continued our visit with friends (and fellow busnuts) Ray & Ann up here in NC. I did some more whitewater kayaking on Saturday, Sunday & Monday (A run each day, totally about 30 miles). Jack

[Busted Knuckle]

It's over...missed you on lake BK..the Nigra Princess was anchored across from us for the nite.Your Boat??now have one truck down and one to finish,bus to work on and on..Next trip in two weeks to Steam & tractor show...life is good

No Bob, I forget the name of the boat we were on but that wasn't it. Also we were only out 5-6 hrs but I did see several others anchored around in different coves.

Justin (our captain) told us he placed 8 boats out on the lake for the weekend. (he takes the boat loaded with the passengers and their food and gear for the weekend to the anchoring spot of their choice, parks it, and returns to the Marina by a "toad" jet ski. Then when they are ready to return he goes and drives the boat back to the Marina for them.)
  BK