What a nice surprise!!!! Scott and Denise came by today and brought over a decorated Christmas tree. Mom and I had decided that our house wasn't big enough for a tree and so we put up some lights on the front of the building and we were going to call it good enough for this year. Some people question why mom and I would live in such a small house!!

Two reasons

1. the price is right and we are very comfortable

2. the price is right and we are very comfortable

ok, we are also testing whether we could stand to be this close to each other if and when we go on the bus. So far, so good????

Any way, back to the tree. They decided to put it up next to the house on the outside and it is really cut. So here is a pic.

Merry Christmas to everyone, RAZ and Patsy

Well, I have a minute so here is an update. I started taking the aluminum out of the bus, Big job!!!

I took the aluminum to the recycle shop and got $160.00 for it. That helped. I still have the other overhead luggage rack to take down and the bathroom to remove and then I can stat laying the floor out for things to come. Winter is here now and I probably won't get a lot done until it warms back up again. It was -4 this morning and then it warmed up nut started snowing. I started the bus the other day and check the anti-freeze. Everything looks good. See ya next time. RAZ

Well, money got short so i took a job driving onion truck so the bus project is going slow. I did manage to get the church decals off of the sides. What a difference that makes. Inside I have started to remove the overhead luggage racks. That is a job by itself!!! I have one rack down and now that I know how to get it down (next time I will get my feet out of the way when it drops), I will start the other side. My son Marty is going to come help because he wants some of the aluminum for some work he is doing. I was going to recycle it but if he will help get it out, I will give it to him.

Ok, enough for now, RAZ

Well, as you can see, this is our new home. You might be a redneck if your house has a steering wheel. So far, the work done on the bus is that we have removed the seats and I have taken out the the air conditioning condenser so that I can make room for the generator. I have also started removing the church decals on the sides and back but it is a slow process. The heat gun either makes it to hot or not hot enough, but it is coming. I also having been pricing the alluminum for the skin when I remove some of the windows. Pat has decided that we will leave two windows in the front on both sides and one window in the back on both sides. This will save hundreds of dollars trying to buy rv windows and the work to cut them in.
My next challenge is to figure out how to post this so that other bus nuts might give me some advice on how do build this darn thing into a house. Thats all for now, RAZ

My daughter is trying to help me get this blog up and running. We shall see. RAZ