SHADE TREE TAKES DOWN THEIR "NO GUNS ALLOWED" SIGN AND I CONTEMPLATE BECOMING "EASY RIDER II" 

      I drove by Shade Tree today out on Rt. 87 between Burton and Middlefield and lo and behold THEIR "NO GUNS ALLOWED" SIGN WAS GONE!  Only a few pieces of tape remained where it once hung...  This is really GREAT NEWS!  I'm sure that their business will go up.  Very responsive and classy move!  I fully applaud it!  I'm going to have to buy a motorcycle (gasp!) just so I can buy some accessories from them!  (Just what I need ANOTHER expensive hobby full of danger...  Let's take a look at the last count:  Stopping charging cape buffalo and lion in Africa, driving a Ferrari at 150 mph, climbing mountains, dating dangerous women...  when will it stop?)

     Not only will Shade Tree enjoy MORE BUSINESS (and who doesn't need more of that in this climate?), but their employees will be safer without that damn sign.  

     Now where can I buy a BMW 850 Adventure Bike?  I guess I'd better get into the fold and start wearing a dew cap, let my beard grow out, let my hair grow to my shoulders, grow some Elvis sideburns, get a leather jacket, some Jim Morrison leather pants, some big old shit kickin' boots, get a busty blonde with long flowing hair for the back seat (already got one of those hanging around...), then cruise up to Shade Tree and get me a leather rhinestone studded rifle scabbard (think "Then Came Bronson" here or better yet, "Billy Jack") for my AR-15 on the front handle bars, some "Easy Rider" handlebars for my Beamer, get a buckskin fringed jacket, some fancy goggles, full blown header pipes, a "Sissy Bar" for the girlfriend, then a big screen TV screen for the handlebars and big stereo.  Open road here I come!  I ain't never gonna come home!