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I got a dollar more when I first went to work in a garage,1974. I made $2.75 an hour, my first raise was to $2.90 an hour. Then in '77 I left to make the big bucks, $4.00 an hour welding. But, in the '60's if you brought home $100 a week, you were rich- that was big money then. My parents would usually spend 20 some dollars at the grocery store a week- and that was for a family of six! Of course we always had a big garden and raised hogs. Ma kept 2 freezers full of meat, fish we caught, and vegetables, plus she canned a lot of vegetables. I used to haul chips from Dillwyn,Va. to Covington,Va. for $30 a load, and you were lucky to get 9 or 10 loads a week- and that was if you stayed out all week and didn't go home. A load to Chicago paid about $170 in the 80's I think, now it's 200+ to go to Pittsburgh, but the difference is that now you can carry $20 worth of groceries out of the store in one hand,you don't even need a bag!

Well...back to the gutter then, if she wasn't the voice of Wilma!

I did not know that, thank you very much!

12 degrees here now, snow still coming down!

Very sorry to hear.

It's snowing like crazy here. I stepped outside a few minutes ago and my next door neighbor yelled at me and asked if i'd come over and help her get her car out so she could go to Winfall. She said if I did I could come in and get warm, and she'd make it worth my while. I told her "f***k off", and came back inside. Sounded like a trick to me.

...and after Pebbles and Bam-bam married and moved to Winfall, it was on like Donkey-kong! Some of their descendants still live there...

It's "puttin' 'er down" here now, couple inches already, road's already covered.

Still here- calling for 6-12 inches here today and tonight, 12-18 inches across W.V. I called headquarters to see what they wanted me to do. Jeff said "you should have left yesterday." That's not what he said yesterday. Well, maybe I should have- then i'd probably be stuck up the road somewhere now. Then Todd got on the phone and said "don't worry about it, that lumber is no big deal, besides I don't know if they can even get a forklift running to unload it, cold as it is- it's that time of year and nothing we can do about it- stay home!" I just checked the weather for Gallipolis today, now they're calling for 5-8 inches. Was 3-5 yesterday.

Thank you very much, i'm gonna see what tomorrow might bring.

Geez, no idea where galapogos is? That's where all those giant terrapins live!..thought eveybody knew that.

That would be nice Mike, i'd love to visit sometime.

Good thinking, thank you very much.

Another ladder idea- hire the hotdog girl to be your assistant and train her to run a knuckle boom, then she can do all the climbing. All you have to do is pretend like you have to hold the ladder while she's climbing.

I'm just sitting here wondering what to do. I've got a load of lumber at the shop going to Gallipolis, Ohio. I checked the weather for Gallipolis on the interweb machine- high tomorrow around 20 with a 90%chance of snow, 3-5 inches. I shouldn't have any problem getting there today, but tomorrow's a different issue. I'll probably have to go a long ways empty to reload anything, that's not an area we usually run. Jeff said he didn't care what I did, leave today or tomorrow. If I wait until tomorrow it might be hard just to get there, nasty weather all over. Before the interweb and the Weather Channel was invented i'd be on the way already...but i'm just sitting here wondering what to do. A load of lumber to Gallipolis Ohio ain't gonna make me or break me...shhhh.....oot.

That's a good one!

That's what I do too. They recommend letting the Paccar engine pull down to 11-1200 rpms, but i've found that it shifts a lot easier and performs a lot better if I shift it around 14-1500.

I agree with that, i've got 2 tool boxes mounted on the frame of the truck, one on the headache rack, and one on the trailer- they're all packed full.

Dang it!..must have been a heck of a fire, that would burn for a few days! Oh well, maybe they have it at the Winfall library. Hey Vin, where've you been so long? Doing OK?

Thank you for the compliment, I never thought it was nearly my best effort though. I don't get enough practice! Freightrain has a great one, and one by "Twin Stick Pappy" is my favorite.

I always liked the sound of a 6-71, probably comes from one of my earliest truck memories. We lived on rt. 13 in Cumberland, Va. at a place called Sunnyside. Most of my family still lives there. About 3 or 4 miles east of there is a place called Tobaccoville, in Powhatan county. Rt. 681 turns off of rt. 13 there and goes to Amelia, Va. There used to be a D860 GMC that passed by the house regularly. We'd be outside playing on summer nights and could hear that truck coming when it started out from the stop sign at the end of 681. We would all run to the front yard and wait to watch it go by, it was our favorite truck and it made lots of noise. I remember Daddy saying it was hauling shavings for chicken houses. Holly Farms was big then- this was early 60's- and a lot of people in the area raised chickens for Holly Farms.

Oh, OK- maybe the place over on the east side of Canton was LTV. We hauled bars and coiled rod out of there too, but most of the bars came from Massillon.

No worries, I have a plan. As soon as Vinny finishes reading this i'm gonna borrow it and read it before I put this plan into action, just so i'll have a full understanding of wimmins- foolproof, eh? And by the time my cassettes get here, I hope to have this read.

BUT, it was too cold for me to get out and help.

I would have called, but figured you were prolly at work. Like the new picture, nice!