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Same old story in Va.- Northern Va, the tidewater area, and Richmond, Roanoke and a few other cities control the entire state. Especially northern VA, and most of them came here from somewhere else and work in D.C.

Looks like big Mike's doing a package check 🤣

Pretty much the same thing 🤣

I just got around to opening the letter. I was a bit disappointed to discover that it was actually a form letter instead of a letter to me personally. He's trying to raise money for the mid term elections next year, because he said there's too many pigs at the trough in Washington. He does have a way with words! 🤣

Hey neat, I got a letter from John Kennedy. I'm happy that he doesn't think I'm stupid, if he did he wouldn't have sent me this nice letter 🤣

You can use any of my pictures you want Brocky. All those pictures are still on my camera, full size, uncropped. Let me know if you want me to send them to you via e-mail, any or all. These are all the pictures I took, and they're all on the computer just like the Flickr pictures, cropped and resized, but won't have the Flickr watermark on them. I usually just smallerize them down so they fit my computer monitor.

I was drinking this, but then one day I just decided that I should switch to Jim Beam. No particular reason.

Here's the rest of the pictures that I took at the Colfax show. Nice turnout, and beautiful weather too.

That's the truth!

Wow, a V12 Detroit powered R model!

Oh, and speaking of YouTube, I watched a really good one again yesterday, it was on the related videos of another one I watched. The "steepest road in Canada" part caught my attention. It was about the "Bella Coola Hill", rt. 20 out of Bella Coola, in British Columbia. I love this stuff, the road- well, the hill- is 12 miles and a 15% grade, with parts of it at 18%. And it's a dirt road! I was wondering if trucks were even allowed on it, and yes they are. Another video of it showed a couple of tankers coming down and they were spraying a water and calcium chloride mixture to keep dust down. The guy on the motorcycle that was making the video said he preferred the dust, because it was very slick after they sprayed it. This is not the one with the trucks...I don't think. It might be, but there's other shorter videos of it so it's not too hard to find.

Jim Beam is my usual too. A lot of real bourbon drinkers don't like the flavored stuff, but I really like the Jim Beam Red Stag, because it's such a good mixer. When Zina goes to Lynchburg to Sam's, Kohl's, Ross, Target, Western Auto, Sears, Piggly Wiggly and JC Penney I sit in the car with the dogs and a huge "Vicki drink" with Red Stag.

Funny thing, not funny "ha-ha" but funny weird, as popular as Jack Daniels is I've never tasted it. Makes me want to go get a bottle of it now. That's why I don't get Crown Royal too often, it's way too smooth and goes down way too easy, then the next thing you know you don't know nuthin'.

OK, we'll all be there.

Whatever, what about the prime rib?

Oh

Hmmm, Black Bush- interesting 🤔

Yeah, that's probably where it'll end up, collecting dust on a shelf. I still have a fifth of Makers Mark that someone gave me about 10 years ago that I've never opened. I've opened many bottles of Jim Beam and Crown Royal, but not the Makers Mark.

My son, daughter in law, and grandson dropped by today. My daughter in law had visited Scotland recently and she brought me a bottle of 12 year old Scotch. Very nice. It wasn't like a huge bottle or anything, but I'm not much of a liquor drinker anyway. And a bottle of mead... whatever mead is. I tasted mead before, our UPS guy is a bee keeper and he gave us a taste of some of his blueberry mead, it wasn't bad stuff.

We had a joe dog at H.H. Moore's, I was hooked to it here bringing a girder out of Banker Steel in Lynchburg. A lot of times the beams were so heavy the permit required us to have a minimum of 7 axles on the ground. The girder was resting on the joe dog, not the truck, so when you made a turn you had to be very careful of all the overhang on the front, you could tear up some stuff with it if you weren't paying attention.

Yes they were. One of many things that annoy me on Facebook is when somebody posts a picture of an old truck and somebody will always comment "makes my back hurt just looking at it". They probably never even drove one, but they gotta criticize it anyway. I expected a truck to ride like a truck, because it was a truck, and it never bothered me.

I always order a steak medium, and the one I had was good. It was the smallest ribeye on the menu at 12 oz. I have cooked a few steaks in my time that were perfectly done, and I'll be the first to say that it was completely by accident. More often than not it would be under cooked or overcooked. Under cooked ain't bad, you can always put it back on the grill, but you can't undo overcooking it. And, again, when I put one back on the grill because it was undercooked I usually end up over cooking it.

Yeah, my little ribeye was excellent, but I agree on the prime rib. They say that's the only way to eat it, but I like my meat cooked a little more than that. It might be done, but it just doesn't look right🤣. However, I do know a prime rib expert, so let's ask his opinion. 1958FWD, take the floor-