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Neat looking truck!

Sorry for your loss Bob.

Time for this again-

Nice work Bob!

I thought i'd roast a giant rack for Christmas, but I might have to roast a turkey instead since I haven't found any giant racks. I will not be smoking a turkey, that's for sure. However, the thought did cross my mind to experiment by cutting my turkey in half, and cooking one half in the oven and the other half on the grill.

Winter wonderland pictures- these are on rt. 219 in W.V. Load of sheets I took to Charlotte- I saw an airplane too. Reloaded in Spartanburg- it was much warmer in Spartanburg than it was on rt. 219 in W.V. Be careful out there- when my shed burned up it made me realize just how quickly things can happen. This is just up the road from here- Merry Christmas everyone!

I took a load of pipes to Mountain Lake Park, Md. and when I got unloaded Monday morning I noticed that the pipe unloader people were out of New Alexandria, Pa. I saw a couple of big Mack trucks there too. I got unloaded right behind Sisler Lumber, and the R model log truck looked like it was probably the sharpest looking log truck in the United States at one time. Superliner, chained up and ready to go! I saw a dangerous mountain... Nice view from the top- I think you can see Green dash's house from here. There was even a big Mack truck coming up the hill. Blowing snow on the ski slopes north of Oakland, near Deep Creek Lake.

You're right Bob, they were great trucks. That one on the right with the stripes and straight pipe in the last picture reminds me of the orange and white one I used to drive. Back then, 70's and 80's I mean, there were more F models around here than anything else except maybe Internationals.

Hmmmm...that gives me an ideer. I'm on my laptop in ...dang, I don't remember where i'm at....something Lake Park, near Oakland, Md. Getting free wi-fi from Fitzwater/Guest. Anyhow- I can't photochop with the laptop,I don't have a mouse, but when I get home I can fix you up with a Detroit Diesel T shirt- you're welcome!

I went to Lynchburg and looked at a red '66 Ford myself Bob, back in the 80's. It wasn't a stepside though. I would have bought it, that's my favorite Ford body style, but it was too nice. I needed a truck that I could take in the woods to get firewood, that scratching it up wouldn't matter, and I couldn't have taken that one in the woods. I ended up buying a '69 F100 that was already scratched up to haul firewood with.

I know it, and I get the biggun- the 16 oz. size!

Thanks, I don't add any salt to anything, but there's a lot in a lot of stuff we don't think about much, like bread- loaded with salt!. And I do like a potato chip periodically, washed down with a Red Bull. I don't drink a lot of coffee except when i'm at home, but I suck up a lot of Red Bull!

No doubt about that, I just hope there's no ice on the hill. There was ice and upside down cars all over Lynchburg yesterday morning, then it warmed up to almost sixty degrees later- exactly what the weather man said it was going to do on the TV Friday evening. I hauled a lot of lumber to Lowes in Oakland. Good place to go, i'd park around back, unstrap the lumber, enjoy the Lowe's free wi-fi, and they would be unloading me about 5 or 6 am, then i'd head north up 219, 40, and 51 about a hunnert miles to Pittsburgh- unless there was snow and ice, then it was 200 miles- and get a load of coils coming back to Lynchburg. I had just delivered at the Lowes store and pulled out front to put my wood away when a car came up at a high rate of speed on the ice, lost control, and plowed into the red truck. He hit the step, then the front wheel, taking out the nut covers and the hub caps. I thought there might be bail money involved before this was over, but a young boy got out of the car crying. He had worked all night, then dropped his wife off at Lowes for work. So I got his insurance information, took pictures of the damage- and his license plate- and told him "stuff happens, it's not so bad." I put a duct tape hub cap on it for the time being, and stopped at Truck Enterprises in Harrisonburg on the way back and got a new caps, the chrome outer one, and the inside one that was broken all to pieces too, and new nut covers. They never did get the step fixed, it was still sitting at Truck Enterprises in Lynchburg a few months ago and it still had a bent-up step.

I ordered the "Super Beets" that I saw advertised on Facebook and on TV. It's just powdered beet root crystals that you mix with water and drink, and it's supposed to improve circulation and lower your blood pressure. Two times in a row they checked mine at the eye doctor and it was 160 over 90. After I took the beets for just 4 days it was at 140 over 88, then a few weeks later I checked it with a little tester you put on your wrist and it checked 120 over 74, so I thought "hey, this Super Beet stuff must really work!" So now i'm not too sure.

Larry, I think she should give you a little cut because of you selling all these T shirts for them!

Ordered mine!

OK, thanks!

the first part of this is hilarious...

no, but I probably would if I knew where to get one...

I went to the physical getting place in Lynchburg this morning because my DOT physical expired yesterday. I passed another one, but it gets harder every time...passing the physical that is. I went into an examination room with a smoking hot twenty something nurse practitioner named Alexandria. She checked my blood pressure and it was 158 over 88, I think. So she told me to lay on the table on my left side and she'd come back in 15 minutes to check it again. She came back and checked it again while I was still laying down, in my right arm this time- and it was higher than the first time. So she said we'll wait 15 more minutes. The next time the door opened it was an older, and not near as hot, nurse who came in and said "let's try it again- think about being at the beach...take a deep breath...ok, you're good. You were only two points high at first, so you're ok." The BP is the main thing that had me worried, it had been a little high the last couple of times i'd been to the eye doctor. But, i'm good for 2 more years now. I've got a load of pipes at the yard going to somewhere on rt. 135 just east of Oakland, Md. for Monday. I delivered that van load that I picked up in Columbus to Slocum Adhesives in Lynchburg Monday morning. Pretty tight spot up in there... Picture from Afton Mountain, looking to the south. I did a google image search for "old fart" and this came up first- I was passing through Colonial Heights the other day on the way to Petersburg from Milton and thought I saw a C model Mack. I also got a new shed. It's bigger than the old shed. Cooled off some too. Nice pickup!

Yes, that's a good store too- I was thinking of what I was going to get to eat from the deli all the way up there, the food is great. When I got to Keystone I slogged across the wet alfalfa field in the pouring rain over to the store. My feet were soaking wet, even in my "waterproof" boots, and I was just soaked from the waist down. And the store was closed. They had a sign on the door saying they closed at 5 that day so they could have their Christmas banquet. So, I slogged back across the field in the pouring rain and had beany-weenys.

Hard to read, but I just noticed the fine print at the bottom-

...After I unloaded in Schaefferstown and went to Wellsville and got the load of aluminum logs that I unloaded in Prince George, Va. I saw this nice looking Ford truck in Crewe, Va. I didn't even see the voting booth there until I put the pictures on the computer. Then I took a van load to Chester, W.V. Had to go all the way to Columbus to get a return load, coming right back to Lynchburg. I-70 was shut down around the 2-hunnert mile marker because of an accident, so I got off on rt.40 to go around. I knew 40 was all good, because i'd delivered some wooden crane mats over there a couple of years ago...except that now the ramp was closed where you got back on I-70 because of construction. The guys at the construction site said to "turn left, go down to a crossroad where you can turn left, right, or keep straight, and turn left and it'll take you back to rt. 40." So I did, and found myself behind two other trucks. And when we made that left at the crossroads we were on a dirt road. There was a Deka truck, a Keen truck with the loader, and me- with a 53' 13-6 van- on a snow covered dirt road, trying to get back to the big road. We finally got back to rt.40, then went back to I-70, and got in line about an hour or so behind where we were to begin with, and sat there for another hour. The only good part about it was that Dolly Parton happened to be right beside me. These folks were behind me- ...and since seat cover season is pretty much over unless you're in sunny south Florida, here's a girl in a car picture from the interweb- and here's another girl in a car picture from the interweb- And here's a big Mack truck I used to drive, I scanned the picture from a photo album- digital cameras and the interweb hadn't been invented then. another big Mack truck I used to drive- And a bike I used to have, A 750 Kawasaki. Pretty bike,eh? I traded it in on an LTD1000 Kawasaki, which was just an awesome machine.

I've been working on cleaning up where my shed used to be, so I can start on getting a replacement shed- I borrowed this magnet on wheels from work, it's got a super-strong magnet on it, i've been rolling it to and fro trying to pick up as many screws, nails, wrenches, sockets, etc. as possible. So, I get to the shop last Sunday and some jackass had dropped a trailer right in front of my truck, in the middle of everywhere. No problems though, plenty of room to get out- Saw this mud bogger in S.C. somewhere. Saw this BJ and the Bear looking truck in Charlotte, N.C. I took a load of steel to Columbia, S.C. then went to Earhardt,S.C. and got a load of posts going to Schaefferstown, Pa.

fine then...