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Hey Speed! Are you allergic to bee stings? I got stung here in the kitchen a couple of weeks ago, wasps made a nest in the vent over the stove and came in when I turned the light on over the stove to make coffee. 5 minutes later I didn't even feel it, but these yellow jacket stings still hurt now, and they stung me hours ago.

Wow, all of that looks good enough to eat!..well, except for the bait fish, not sure about that...maybe if they were battered and deep fried.

Nice looking goat. Nice of the hardware store to do that too, most places nowadays would say "oh no, we can't do that- you might fall and skin your knee, then you would sue us!"

They're persistent bast- uh, creatures too! The one that was stinging me on the ankle, I thought i'd never get that one off of me- stung me through my sock! I've been back out there twice since looking for a nest and haven't seen a thing...except for that one, that crawled up into the hummingbird feeder.

I don't know if i'm lucky or not, but i've been stung 4 times in the last couple of weeks now, and I hadn't been stung 4 times in the last 20 years before.

Not honeybees, definitely yellow jackets- I got a real good look at them. A couple of their bodies are still out there in the yard somewhere. I might have caused the stinger to detach when I smacked it off me. I've been stung by them many times, usually while cutting grass, but this was the first time i've found a stinger stuck in me.

is a yellow jacket's stinger- I pulled it out of my leg after an unprovoked attack by yellow jackets while I was cutting the grass. It doesn't hurt much, but this one still does. Doesn't look like much on my finger, but it's a nasty looking thing up close! I never did see a nest, I was going to pour some gasoline in the hole and follow it with a match...sneaky rascals!

I'm only about 30 or 40 miles from Danville, but i'm lacking the big truck part.

Bobby Moore, from Concord, Va, used to have one. It might be still sitting around down there. I took this picture of him at the antique tractor pull in Stonewall, Va. probably 10 or 12 years ago.

As I was on the way home from the car wash in Winfall today...

meanwhile, I stopped at the car wash in Winfall today...never did get to wash my truck because of some bimbo that was in front of me. I turned on my super-secret video-to audio-to-print super secret spy camera...it's super secret.

We were sitting at a red light when I took the last picture of the Corvair. And yeah, that's Freightrain's wagon, and it might be his girl friend, but i'm not sure about that.

show off...

I did a google image search, this is all I could find-

Well, there just happened to be an ATCA show in Martinsburg, Pa. Just over the hill from Johnstown. It was a good trip, I enjoyed Johnstown, especially seeing the dam site, and the truck show too.

Looks like that girl had a little "chill" going on, even though it was warm and she had the window down.

Old Bill said he was cleaning out his picture collection and sent me 4 discs. Two were videos and I couldn't save the pictures on the computer, so I paused it and took a picture of the screen. Some nice looking rides here!

Camera review- My old Nikon that I dropped was the best camera ever for taking drive-by pictures. The new one works well, it's actually a better all-around camera, but it has a wider angle lens that I don't need because I'm usually shooting for the one truck, or one goat, or one girl in a car. It has a lot more manual settings and features that I don't even know how to use. It has a lot more zoom too, that I don't really need, but it's very impressive for a point-and shoot. It zooms so far that it's hard to hold it still enough to take a clear picture, even resting it on the steering wheel or the window. But i'm pleased with it so far, and it was only $156, factory refurbished by Nikon. My old model S8200 was discontinued, and this S9700 was the closest thing I could find to it. Here's how close it will zoom in. I was backed up to the dock in Chester, W.V. waiting to get unloaded and took these from inside the truck. I reduced the size exactly the same on the computer- no zoom regular zoom and then when you hold the zoom button it gives you even more, I forgot what you call it, zoom-zoom I guess.

I brought a load of dumpsters from Greenville, Pa. back to Lynchburg. Jo called me Monday and told me my new to me refurbished replacement camera came, so I went home Monday night. Unloaded the dumpsters Tuesday morning and went to Moneta to load lumber going to Conneaut Lake, Pa. It was very hot in Moneta. Saw a nice looking cabover KW there. Saw a golden pickup for sale near Meadville. Saw a big green truck in McKees Rocks. I even saw an airplane in the sky. Rock trucks in West Virginia. They're doing a lot of excavating there for something. The goat on Powell Mountain. A girl in a car. The "WTF" of the week- I saw another driver at the shop when I got in yesterday evening. He had loaded something at a "secure" facility, and either they wouldn't load him or they wouldn't let him leave after they loaded him because the Conestoga wasn't "secure" enough to suit them. He said a little skinny security guard came out and looked it over and squeezed up inside the trailer between the curtain and the rub rail. They took pictures of him in the trailer from the shoulders up and sent it to the supervisor. Well, that just wouldn't work, they had to fix that. He said they called some place and they wanted $400 to "secure" it, so him and another driver did this themselves- they put all those grommets in up both sides, and put the cable seal thinga-ma-bobs on it, and all was well. I think he said it took them about an hour and a half, but now no terrorist or anyone with criminal intent can get into that trailer!..unless of course he has a box cutter, pocket knife, piece of broken glass, sharp stick, keys, or any number of things he can use to poke a hole in that thin vinyl side. Once you poke a hole in it big enough to get one finger in you can easily rip a hole in it big enough to drive a bus through.

Well, vacation's over, back to the old grind, I mean work- I left here Sunday going to Erie, Pa. with a load of lumber. Saw three wild animals crossing rt. 20 in W.V. near the coal dump. They were still near the road when I passed by, but they had blurrified themselves. They do that as a means of defense, they blurrify themselves so they're harder to see. Only certain deer in certain parts of W.V. can do this. Since I dropped my favorite camera in Johnstown last week and broke it, I took an old Kodak we had laying around to use for a spare until my replacement camera came, but i'm sure the deer made themselves blurry and it had nothing to do with the camera or the camera operator... A groundhog in Erie. A Corvair near Meadville. Looked like a 1963 model, but i'm not sure. A golden pickup for sale. Apparently it has some kind of trick paint on it to make it appear blurry. A girl in a car. Neat looking old Ford riding with a load of newer units. A new T800 at the yard, beside a T660. If Jeff takes one i'm all over it. These have ISX15 450 Cummins engines, 18 speeds, and 3.55 rears. For the routes I usually run the 18 speed and 3.55's should be a big improvement over the 10 speed and 3.36's I have now. The horsepower's about the same but the engine brake should be a lot stronger too with the 15 liter engine. The Paccar engine brake is about the same as not having one at all, very little difference. I like the stacks in front of the sleeper a lot better too.

Great pictures, great descriptions- very gripping! I need to step it up a notch with my descriptions...no girls in cars?..what a shame.

I saw you pulled over with the hood open, broke down, in Iron Gate yesterday. Sorry I didn't have time to stop.

58FWD was probably involved some kind of way. I think he was spotted traveling south this week too- coincidence?..I think not.

it looked like the deer in the Hartford commercial...helluva rack!

...and I almost got a picture of it, but as usual "you should have seen the one that got away!" I got a picture of the smaller one though. I would rather have gotten just one bad picture of the other one, it had the biggest set of antlers i've ever seen, I do believe.