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I didn't see a lot this week, because I wasn't paying attention...but I did see this big Mack truck in Sophia, N.C. And this scraper machine- Another older Chevrolet truck on 29 between Altavista and Lynchburg. And there was an accident on the Pa. Turnpike this week between Breezewood and Bedford, caused when one truck tried to pass another truck and lost control and wrecked both of them, according to the Pittsburgh news. The turnpike was closed from New Stanton to Breezewood on the eastbound side. It looked surreal, seeing absolutely nothing on the east side for miles and miles... ...and once again the Florida correspondent reported in with this photo of a Winfall Wimmen getting gas in Florida-

Right Vlad, absolutely!

Not many pictures lately, but what can you do? Some old Macks around McKees Rocks, Pa. Here's the apple trees north of Winchester. They used to be several feet taller but the weight of all those apples caused them to sink into the ground. A flag sticking out of the hood of a General Motors Truck. 60's flashback...saw this Chevrolet with a load of pulpwood on rt. 20 between Dillwyn and Scottsville.

The one in the middle with the high-beams on has very noice melons!

Another view of James Madison University.

Franchise are available all over the country!..no, wait a minute...sorry, seems someone from Moscow has bought up all the rights to all "Winfall Wimmens and all Winfall Wimmens related activities"...you're just a little too late.

I saw a tree- there's a B-61 Mack up in there somewhere. There it is... Some cats at the dumpster in Gladys... I thought it was my lucky day when I spotted all this great furniture there, but the mattresses blew off the roof of the car on the way home, and by the time I got back with the truck all my furniture was gone too... Some trees- Some trucks... A scraper... ...and last but certainly not least- how about this?!! The beautiful redheaded correspondent from the Florida department of Winfall Wimmens sent this in-

This week I saw an American flag on top of a crane boom at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. But that's not all- I saw a man on a lawn mower riding down rt.148 in McKeesport, Pa. And a combine turning into the driveway at the shop, to harvest that corn field there. And a girl in a car- Saw this Conestoga in Charlotte. I didn't get to my camera in time, but the fork lift had just taken two lifts of sheets off the top. He had sheets stacked 6 lifts high, with two straps over them. I never go over 4 high, but if I had to I would have had two straps over the first three, and chains and straps on the whole stack. Anyhow, this is the old NASCAR track at North Wilkesboro, N.C. This is Winston Salem. I saw a box of Bojangles Chicken too.

I saw a black bear run across rt. 29 just south of Wood's Mill a few weeks ago. And speaking of apples, looks like it's gonna be a good year for them around here. The trees in the orchards on 522 north of Winchester are just loaded.

I knew a guy like that just down the road a half mile from where I grew up. He had a farm, and he was also an auctioneer. The auction company that he worked for did a lot of farm auctions and he bought a lot of cars, trucks, tractors, and equipment for himself. When something broke down or was just worn out he would "park it in the field" and get another one of whatever it was. Field was lined up with stuff, and there was no need to even ask if anything, or even a part, was for sale because that wouldn't happen.

Apparently some do. They had a trucking , construction, and excavating business as well as the farm there. There was probably a half dozen or more bulldozers there. I just thought i'd post the pictures, I didn't interview anybody as to why anything was parked in the field but I guess they can do whatever they want with their stuff.

I stopped and asked if it was ok before I just started walking around taking pictures.

It's a farm, and I think they still do some excavation work, these are just trucks they don't use any more. They had a lot of chip trailers parked in a field too that have been there for years. So i'm thinking they might have used the Cruiseliner and Peterbilt to haul chips, and instead of selling or getting rid of anything when they didn't need it any more they just parked it?..I don't know.

I went over to Appomattox today, and took the back roads all the way. I stopped on the way back and asked if I could take pictures of some trucks i'd seen along the way before, and the nice lady said of course. There was an F model, R models, a Cruiseliner, and a B model that I took pictures of many years ago. now- and then-

Yes, you could. It's the last covered bridge in Va. that is still open to traffic.

http://www.rt11.com/ I like the sweet potato chips best, they'll be available soon. You can only get them in sweet potato season, starting some time in October.

Off of exit 269 on I-81. It's on a road that goes from the potato chip factory over to rt. 11.

https://www.facebook.com/william.t.blackwell/videos/10213409448206701/

The original emblems are like gold nowadays. There's a Facebook page devoted entirely to vintage gear shift knobs. Hard to believe, but true. As I have often said, if I had only known then what I know now I would have bought a pickup truck load of gear shift knobs and extensions and put them in the deep freeze. I could retire...

That's why she shipped a big box of them to Florida- you really didn't get yours?..perhaps they got lost in the mail. I'll tell her you didn't get them.

I used the get the Canadian antique truck magazine, from the Great Lakes Antique Truck Club, but I never even got a renewal notice. I really liked it too, it's a great magazine with good articles. Probably cost too much to ship it to Gladys though.

I saw a girl in a car one day. And on the way back from Winchester we stopped at the Rt. 11 Potato Chip factory. You can't get Rt. 11 Potato Chips in Florida, so Zina got some to ship to the folks at home. The nice lady there, who's also the owner of the business, told us about a covered bridge that was nearby so we went to take a look. And we saw a bald eagle while we were there. It's sitting in that tree on the right side of the soybean field. I didn't even know what it was until I zoomed the camera in on it. I saw a big Mack truck today too. I saw a big Mack truck last week too.

Wow, that's pretty cool!