'49 clipper: A little flavour of the past

Saturday, August 13, 2016

A little flavour of the past

At Jeff's last AVA beach volleyball tournament I got talking to one of Jeff's buddy's grandfather, who incidentally, is a bus guy. We started chatting and the next thing you know he was telling me about working for Brewsters bus line here in Alberta driving the sightseer coaches. We had a great talk and shortly after he sent a picture of a buddy of his with one of the buses. They talk about degrees of separation, and there wasn't a whole lot of distance between making a connection between his world and mine.

The tournament ended Saturday, which meant Sunday was a bus day! On my list of things to do was to finally get to installing the turning cameras. First I played with location, but in the end it was exactly where I thought it would go in the first place. Top right corner of the first window behind the driver.

I have to admit....THIS was a hard thing to do...drill into the beautiful side......ARRRRRRRG!!!

In the end it all worked out. Now I just need to get the electronics working.....add it to the list.

Call me a little sentimental, or maybe it's just dramatic, but I like to incorporate a little special connection with some of the pieces in the work I do. In our house we have leaded glass saved by Verna from a house being torn down in the 70's, our kitchen table is made from wood reclaimed from a factory from the west coast sourced from my childhood friend Cam. Today I decided that the 'end table' top was going to be made from some beautiful clear Fir that Ron and I salvaged years ago from his fathers farm. The wood if I remember correctly was salvaged years before from a church floor from the area. Weather it's knowing where something came from or that it's something that has a special connection to you.....it's kind of like salt....you don't NEEEEEEED it....but just a little here and there makes the dish that much more memorable.