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Yes it is! I'm tempted to jump on some of that myself. I ordered a dozen cans of King Oscar sardines from Amazon last year, because they make it too easy to "buy now with one click". I still have most of them. 🤣Amazon is like that auto parts commercial that used to be on TV, I forgot who it was for now, but they said something like "if we don't got it, you don't need it!"

Well,

I just looked at the website, it comes in 15 different flavors now. Made with pork shoulders and ham, no lips, snouts, or ears! 🤣 That's good to know, I like the lips and ears but I'm not too fond of those snouts 🤢

I like that Underwood Deviled Ham too, it was in the stash of emergency snacks that I carried in the truck. You never knew when you'd be stuck somewhere waiting to get loaded, or unloaded, or just not be near any place to get something to eat, so I kept some of that kind of stuff, and beany weenies, and crackers in the truck.

I don't know of course, but that would be my guess about Richmond Dragway. It was near the airport in Richmond, but kind of back behind it. It was in Seven Pines, which was just east of Sandston, which was actually pretty much a rural area in the 70's. But you know how that goes, being that close to Richmond and being 50 years ago it's probably surrounded by houses by now, and if it's not the land would be much more valuable for homes or binnesses than having a drag strip on it. Or more profitable for whoever owns it I should say. And now they have the Dinwiddie Motorsports Park just down the road a bit, near Petersburg. They have big time national events there all the time, so it probably made a lot of sense from a financial standpoint to sell the Richmond track.

I just looked at Natural Bridge Speedway on Google maps, and apparently it has reopened, along with Natural Bridge Dragway. Liberty University bought the New London Dragway a few years ago, after it had been closed for several years. A lot of people were hoping it would reopen but it doesn't look like they have any plans for that. I just looked on Google maps and it looks like Liberty still uses the airport. The dragstrip was the airport runway. They give flight lessons there every day too, in case anybody wants to learn how to drive a plane.

I like fried Spam with mustard sammiches. I fried some of the bacon flavored and had it with eggs and it was delicious.

I've, uh, never been to Longhorn either. One just opened in Lynchburg though, maybe we'll give it a try. We usually go to the Texas Roadhouse if we're going for steak.

I've never been to Outback. Zina finds it hard to believe I've never been to Olive Garden. Just never got around to it.

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I used to cook a lot of London Broil on the grill. I would slice it real thin and marinate it in a mixture of Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, onion flakes, and garlic powder. It only needed to marinate a few minutes and I'd put it on the grill. By the time I finished I'd go back and flip them over, then go back and take them off, because it was done. It was always a crowd favorite too.

Zina just sent this from Kroger. Prime rib roasts are looking pretty expensive.

Natural Bridge Speedway was like that, they had a dirt track and a 1/8 mile drag strip. I never even went there, but a lot of people from around here did. Once I started driving a truck I'd be gone all week every week- for the most part anyway. If you got in on Friday you were leaving Sunday. If you left on Thursday you didn't get home until late Friday or or Saturday, so you just didn't have much time to do anything.

Suffolk was another one in VA. that's closed, that's where they had the national events, NHRA sanctioned races. The others, even Richmond, were pretty much the locals, "run what you brung" type of tracks. I went to Suffolk a couple of times and saw some great racing. Saw a couple of Chevy II's there running in the 11's with 6 cylinder engines. Not a big deal now I guess, but this was in the 70's. And a solid black Corvette with the "big 6" GMC truck motor in it. When it left the front wheels came up about 6 inches, same thing when he hit second, third, and fourth gear. And ran arrow straight, and turned consistent 10.00's. Might run a 9.99 or a 10.01, but it was a very impressive car, to me anyway.

YES! Same thing at Richmond Dragway! Like "SUNDAY, SUNDAY,SUNDAY at Richmond Dragway! Match race madness, come see Larry in Battlestar Galactic vs. Gary in the Wisecarver Brothers Chevy II- It's Ford against Chevy, Sunday at Richmond Dragway -BE THERE!

I have no idea, but I do know a lot of local drag strips have closed. Gary Wisecarver told me years ago that insurance was one reason, it was getting more and more expensiver all the time. The drag strip I used to go to a lot when I was a teenager, Richmond Dragway, just closed in the last few years. New London Dragway, just out of Lynchburg, also closed. I think Waynesboro and Natural Bridge are closed too, but I'm not sure.

One of my favorites was Did you hear about the Big R driver that left his wife?..yeah, he came home and found her sitting on a trash can eating a corn flake with a pie in each hand. I'll see myself out...

You probably know the story on the red one, it's sitting down at P.L. Duncan's in Columbia, VA. The first time I looked at it was in 2009, looked pretty much roadworthy then. The last time I saw it was just a year or two ago and it had really gone downhill- a lot! Just from sitting, which is about the worst thing for a vehicle.

They were pretty big at one time. I kept these pictures that I saved at some point just because. The names that are no longer around bring back a lot of memories. Some of the names were impressive to me, just the name itself. I don't know why but I always liked Garrett Freight Lines, Western Gillette, East Texas Motor Freight, and others.

Cives Steel in Winchester, VA. used to have one. I had several International Scouts over the years. I remember when there was one "parked out back" up at Powell's Truck and Equipment in Lynchburg, the International truck dealership. Somebody bought it for the transmission or transfer case or something, didn't give much for it, seems to me it was a couple hundred bucks. Got whatever he needed then sold the 345 engine for more than he paid for the Scout to start with. A company in Lynchburg called Mrs. Giles bought the engine. They made coleslaw, potato salad, that type of stuff, and they had a fleet of Loadstars with 345's in them and one of them needed an engine.

A Conco maybe? Here's a Garrett model.

This is almost as bad as when I watch "Blackhawk Down". Every time I would watch that movie I would wish I was king, so I could blow somalia right off the map. This only makes me want to put elon omar and the rest of the idiotic and corrupt somali politicians on a bus and send it towards somalia.

Oh, so your parents took you most of the time? 🤣

It's 12:02 here, go for it!