Outer Banks Bluegrass

Well, we survived a bazillion miles with a U-haul on the back of the van on account of this reporter measured the van from the floor to the ceiling and not the size of the tailgate, making transportation of Chris and Jen's entertainment center an exciting adventure in and of itself.
Turns out the sucker would not fit on it's side, although it rode pretty nice on it's back. But that left me only 2 seats, and I had two kids to transport, so, with my sainted wife Lynn already gone with Alex and his buddy, I thought perhaps I could dump Aaron off in Bethlehem on the way down and let him catch a ride with brother Frank.

That would have meant letting Pete drive while I sat in a lawn chair inside the entertainment center, which in the bluegrass world is perfectly normal proceedure, but that would have only been to "Bed-lem", only about 35 miles.

That's fine,said the wife. How areyou gonna get all five of you from statesville to the beach?

that stumped me right there, then I thought I could strap the seats on the roof, also an accepted bluegrass practice.

Long story short, Igot me a trailor and became the official wedding present deliverer, dropped the entertainment center off in Durham,Chris's new home and came on down to the shore.

I'll write more when I leave Buxton in afew mintunes. Seems my car's CV joint is bad and tomorrow's trip up to Anapolis warrented me finding a good mechanic down here. I think Jarvis is just the man for it. I don't know his last name yet, but I will before I leave.

I'll close this rant by describing Darrel,a guy they call "the singing cowboy." He rides a bike around Buxton singing songs with lyrics he makes up on the spot, and deserves his own entry, but suffice it to say here that he mixes C&W, biblical and situational references into a stream-0f concsciousness song that's pretty nuts.

I learned he's been that way since his brother was murdered here in Buxton a couple years ago.
"Yep. Kid hid in the bushes and when he came home, he shot him. Then he runned him over."

That's the word from Jarvis on Darrell.

I'll write more in the Ac bar up in Avon--seems my car is done and I am outties.

Beautiful day!