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12/17/07

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Categories: Half-Butt Postings

SNOW DAY! - Scenes from yesterday...

Before Starting This Post: You may have noticed we've reverted back to the original looking blog... This is NOT because we've had any success... it's because the complaints were a bit thick... so we have changed back. We are STILL begging for help though... and there's THREE buses involved... please click here and read about the three buses... and if you can help in ANY way, please consider it... Thanks...

Toronto and most of Southern Ontario had a wee few sprinkles yesterday... and Saturday night too...

I did say we (Sue and I) weren't going out but... we did. Just a walk not far from the palatial compound that is home to finish Christmas shopping and grab some groceries... again, not a long trip...

Oh, let's face it... we WANTED to experience the snowstorm a little... and this way, if it REALLY sucked, we could be home pronto!

So, with the snowy weather in mind, I'm taking a SNOW DAY here on the blog and giving my muse a long weekend... I'll post something a little more substantial tomorrow... promise!

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HELP US REALISE A DREAM!
HELP US GET RLH 3 - OUR ONE OLD GREEN BUS!

Please, if you have a few minutes...
Click Here to read about the dream itself and why it's so important...

...or...

Click Here to read about how this is more than one person's dream... but a whole family's...

...or...

Click Here for one of our ideas to help raise money for our dream...

...or...

Click Here for another idea to help us raise the funds for our dream...

...or...

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Please help us make this dream a reality and save a piece of history!

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This blog was started in April of 2006... its original itent was really twofold. One was to be a "sounding board" for it's author... and the other... well...

At the time we started this, your humble author was unemployed and going through the usual crisis situations that arise from being jobless.

We (my wife, stepdaughter, and I,) used to "amuse" ourselves (read: Take our minds off our troubles) by more-or-less fantasizing as a family about what we'd do when things "turned around". Along this route, we discussed going to England on a vacation... and in that, alighted on "double-decker buses".

We kind of adopted one bus... Regent Low Height 3... as Our Bus... and we used to talk about what we'd do with "our bus" if we got it... from fixing it up to the trips we'd take on it.

Along the way, we became students of the history of this bus which HONESTLY seemd it was truly for us... trouble was, we couldn't afford the bus and weren't in a position to work towards the bus... so we had a couple of options...

Since the bus' position was sketchy (there's a chance she might be sold for scrap or "carved up" in other ways,) we could forget about her and pretend she didn't exist...

...or we could TRY... ask for help... put our dream of owning and saving "One Old Green Bus" into the universe and see what happens...

As of February, 2008, we knew that there was a perspective buyer for the bus (not us, obviously,) and made some difficult decisions... The first was that we wouldn't "beg" for help anymore and give the little money we received to a few different charities both online and off... and the second was simply hope that either we find a corporate sponsor (for an "ad" idea we have, click here to about read that,) or even a patron who see's the value in a silly family's dream...

But, if the bus is about to be purchased by someone who's planning on restoring it and they "get there first", we wish them well and are glad that at least Our One Old Green Bus is in a safe place being looked after.

For now, though, we are still hoping WE might be the ones to get our One Old Green Bus and see a family dream come true...

Regardless, this blog WILL continue... and we will still "go for" a bus of our own... but this blog will ALWAYS be dedicated to our own One Old Green Bus.

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