ill try to make it up there with my 72 custom.i probally wont have it painted yet. i am from chicago burbs.sounds like it would be fun.what time does it start. BILL
Bill we would love to have ya ! Just minutes from the Illinois border and the 94 !! :laugh: Looks like a great turn out this year . We have 2 acres to park the Buicks in the back yard !! Food and drinks at the house ... Stay tuned for more info. and the starting time !:Smarty: :bglasses: :beer :bglasses:
Iowa?! Dude, Omaha is Nebraska, just like North Platte. Now, am I gonna have to bring along my atlas and do me some schooling?:Smarty: :laugh: Just funnin' ya Bruce!! Still trying to see if we can get my daughter a pass from the group home for a weekend. I told her about this party and she seems excited about it. Told her it was with a bunch of the Buick guys on the internet. She said that if we can laugh like that at the monitor, she wants to see what we are like in person. Quite possible, our sides will hurt for a week afterwards!!!:laugh: I can't guarentee that we will make it, but we are gonna give it one heck of a shot!!:TU: :beer :beer :beer :beer
Not too far off... Incidentally, Bruce. You were not that far off with the Iowa thing. When my great-great grandpa emmigrated from Germany, he settled in Muscatine, Iowa. Set up shop as a wagon maker in the middle 1870's. Ended up homesteading a section of land in SW Nebraska in 1880, in the hills and canyons. Best mule deer hunting around. The homestead is still in the family some 124 years later.
OOP'S ..... I meant Nebraska but go ahead and :spank: me . Hope you all can come and your daughter also . We're working on the new place daily and we're hoping for a large turn out . Also there is a 183 acre county park behind us and there are trails to walk and a play area for the kids . The part about your grandfather is very interesting . And the home is still standing ...... very kool . Hope everyone can go , talk with ya soon .. :bglasses: :beer :bglasses: :TU:
Blame my aunt Sylvia... She was the geneologist in the family. After I posted that, I had to find the book she wrote about the Schmelzer family. Very interesting read, again. Stories of Indians coming to the sod house Great-great granddad built, a 240 foot deep well dug by hand with an enormous cystern and a 1/4 mile long trench to get the water to the house, dug by my great granddad in the early 20's. All dug by hand!! The cystern and trench are still in use today, although it is with the aid of a pump now instead of the windmill. Might make an interesting post someday to realize how well we have it today!!:Smarty: Maybe some day when I have the time, I may post some excerpts from "A Schmelzer Family"? She really went to town with the research and traced the family down to the 1600's in Germany during the Boroque era. Apparently, we are descendants of a composer?o No: She also did some research on my great grandma's side of the family and traced them back to Plymouth, England. The first record of the ancestors in this country was in September of 1643 with the birth of his first child. Very interesting read, at least to me, but, then I am related.
hey bruce's shin dig. anyone need 5- 14" steelie rims from a 70 skylark? they gotta go. I'll bring em with if someone is intrested in them.
Greg that sounds like alot of work to me .:Smarty: :eek2: Nate bring them over someone may buy them......:Brow: :eek2: :TU:
yeap yeah bruce, why don't you just come on up and i'll take you out there to look at that car and you can make the decition on it :Comp: :TU: :3gears:
:Brow: found it. it'll work out. even if your friend keith comes up and looks at it. the car is whole at this time and the yard is hide in the bonnies and hasn't gone anywhere for how long. but you know how that goes. just when you look at it everyone else does to :sleep:
Uhh,...... Eric The party is not this weekend, :laugh: :laugh: , but I'm sure Bruce could use some help around the new house. Beth
OK You got me on that oneou: I meant I have the weekend of the party off. Now just need to figure out which vehicle to drive. The Dakota, good gas milage; The Dually, bad gas milage but more comfortable ride; or the Buick, well because its a Buick, best gas milage of the bunch but no cruise or A/C.o No: o No:
Need A/C? Roll down the windows :laugh: p Liam would love to see the Dually up close, but then again it's NOT a Buick :grin: & well I'll just leave the Dakota alone :Brow: I totally understand the no cruise point. :beer Beth
