other dog

From New Alexandria too.

...but this might have been the best looking thing there- oops, wrong picture, I meant this-

You mean you are Jim Moore, or that you got to meet him? Because if you are Jim Moore, I think you met me too. If you were polishing on this truck and some guy came by and said something like "wow, what a hood- i'd run over a four wheeler at every stop light if I had to drive that!" - that would have been me. And if you were the guy wiping on it you said something like "everything on this unit is extended!" But if it wasn't you, it must have been somebody else.

I think this might have been the best looking thing there-

I was there, I saw farmer52, Under dog, Doug Maney, Maint1. MH Fred was there too, but I didn't see him. I didn't think to get pictures, but here's Dave on the ground and me in the truck.

Oh, the "double whammy" huh?..well here-

Yeah, they're good. I've eaten pigs feets and liked them, thought it was delicious in fact. I had been drankin' that day, and I haven't eaten them since. But they were good at the time, I was at a turkey shoot and you could get a pigs foot and two slices of bread for 50 cents. And I used to make my own pickled eggs, just saved pickled beet juice, dill pickle juice, added some hot sauce,fill jar with hard boiled eggs. They were way better than the ones you buy. And fried Spam and eggs- I could eat that every day!

And right back at ya-

I went over to the Winfall produce market to buy a pumpkin. This sales person was so good at her job that I ended up buy all I could fit in the pickup. I'm even going back next weekend to buy another one.

I had a hot dog or two yesterday.

I watched them making that scrapple. Oddly enough, some people still ate it after watching it. They just put leftover parts, everything they swept up off the floor, all the trash out of the parking lot, and whatever was in the dumpster in a big ol' tank and boiled it down for a couple of days. Might have been a week or so, I don't remember. Then they scooped it out of the tank and pressed all the liquid out between two rollers, like in a giant wringer washing machine. Then they put it in the fridge over night and the next morning they put it in a machine that cut it into blocks, kinda like bricks, only it was scrapple. Then everybody tasted it and said "mmmmm, this is good!" so they wrapped the scrapple bricks up and loaded them onto pallets so they could be shipped out to all the scrapple distribution centers in the U.S. At least that's how I remembered it.

more dog-

I did not have time to stop.

I found another picture that shows the tree, but it's hard to compare the size of it because of different distances and angles. But i'm pretty sure it's bigger now!

Happy birthday!

I saw a girl in a car at a red light. And a big loader at a big pile. Some cars and a firetruck. Some trucks in the field. A truck on a stand. Former home of the H.H.Moore Jr. Trucking Co. in Appomattox. The power pole there is the one right behind the cabover KW picture taken around 1984. Too bad you can't see that sycamore tree in the older picture to see how much it's grown. It's one of the biggest sycamore's i've ever seen. I also saw a dog with a ball in the truck stop parking lot. I saw a big yellow dump truck go by when I was stopped in a construction zone.

I hope to be there too, if I don't have to go to Arizona. I wanted to go and it's a really good paying load, but I think i'd rather go to Winchester. Jeff was going to see if one of his other drivers wanted to go, so if he does i'm going to Winchester. If not, I guess i'll go to Arizona.

I was on Rt. 28 south of Manassas.

Don't know what kind of power this one had, but more D860's had 6-71s than 4-71's. He would have had to bring half his sammich with him to get back out before one of those big hosses got by!

Ah-hah! I thought that's what the sleeper part looked like, the IH cab, as I mentioned when I posted it in the pictures of the week. I had never seen or heard of a D860 with a sleeper cab like this, so I thought maybe some guys did it in the back yard while having a few Yuenglings, and they did a fine job.