Kate: If the mock orange is anything like the one in my yard, you can't kill
it. Hope that's some consolation. It's the ugliest plant on the property, but
I keep it for the 10 days in June that it blooms. Oh that smell. Glad you're
ok.
Geoff Branch
'74 Meejit "Yellow Peril"
'72 Innocenti 1300 Mini
----- Original Message -----
From "kate & gary" <kgb at clipper.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 12:51 AM
Subject: Guess Who Came to Dinner? BAT, No LBC
> We are at present recovering from a rather exciting evening. I was in
> the kitchen fixing dinner when I heard a loud "crunch". It seems our
> neighbor was just turning into his driveway, when a tractor and set of
> doubles met him. After bouncing off the pickup, he drove straight into
> our front yard, coming to a stop just three feet short of where I was
> standing stirring the vegetables. I am quite used to people dropping in
> unannounced at mealtimes, but I refuse to install a driveup window in my
> house. Fortunately, we had a friend's utility trailer parked in the
> front yard, and that slowed the tractor enough to prevent any serious
> injury to anyone. The only casualties appear to be a new Dodge pickup, a
> White tractor, the utility trailer, and probably the mock orange that I
> started from a bush that my grandmother brought to Idaho with her in
> 1910. I guess we were all fortunate.
> Kate
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