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I saw a girl with a shovel in Winfall yesterday.

OK, if you say so...not sure how that's gonna work, but i'm ready!

Hope it hasn't been sold by the time I get back. I was wondering why the pictures weren't real clear. I had the big camera with me today, and I looked at it to see what setting it was on after I put the pictures on the computer. The lens was on manual focus and I didn't even focus it at all.

Good point- I see a lot of stuff sitting up and down the road for sale and don't pay it any mind usually, but that little Dodge really got my attention. Think i'll call the guy tomorrow and take another look. I've got to go right by it again tomorrow anyway.

hmmmmm...you guys are going to talk me into buying a truck I don't need. Maybe it'll be sold by the time I go back and look at it tomorrow- I mean if I were to go look at it tomorrow. Motor might be locked up in it or something. Might have 900,000 miles on it too. I do like the looks of it though.

bring a roll of duct tape, i'll bring the sharpie.

think I should?

on the way home from the eye doctor in Madison Heights. I saw it sitting on rt.24 between Rustburg and Concord on the way home yesterday. Today I mentioned that it was a nice looking truck after we passed by it so Jo grabbed the emergency brake handle and did a 180 in 24 running about 93 mph, like Vin Diesel, to go back and look at it. She told me to buy it, but I don't know- I don't need it. The Ranger still runs good as new. Four wheel drive could come in handy though. I crawled all up under it today, but I don't need it. Looked pretty good though, well taken care of- just a few tears in the driver's side of the seat, but that's to be expected. Had a new starter on it. I couldn't get the hood open to look at the engine, it might open from the inside. They've got $3500 on the windshield- sounds pretty fair, but I don't need it anyway.

That Dodge is just way cool looking! And I googled power giant to see what I could see, and you might have a valuable gem there! http://www.hotrod.com/cars/barn-finds/116-0704-1958-dodge-700-truck/ http://www.faxonautoliterature.com/1969-Dodge-CT900-C1000-Power-Giant-Engine-Original-Repair-Shop-Manual-P16070.aspx

free- added bonus pictures! picked up this rock in Moneta, because it was pretty. We picked up a new bigger bed for Other Dog because he would hang his head out of his old one, the one at the top of the picture...go figure! Trying out my new smoker today, cooking a chicken on a can. ...and Rowdy Rebel thinks he's got it bad- my shoes won't even stay put from one week to the next!

No Randy, I didn't get any "girl in a car" pictures this week, so here's a picture of some Winfall woman with a catfish, from the interweb.

I saw a sleeping- no, wait, his eyes are open...never mind. Saw some new Kenworths- no, wait, one's an International...never mind. Saw a blue truck. Finally- cooling off a little! I saw a train... and a cement mixer ...and something with bright orange hair in McKees Rocks, Pa. Saw a nice R model with an impressive load of logs in West Virginia. Damn, that's a nice load of logs! Nice Autocar in Rupert, W.V. 4wd Chevrolet pickup in Moneta, Va. It either has rear wheel steering or a major problem. A Unimog and a Peterbilt in Canvas, W.V. Both are yellow...very yellow.

Can't argue with that, sure looks like it!

I see she's got the leopard thing going on too- she wears it much better!

Happy birthday!

Hey, that's the job I want! Every time Todd asks me what I want to do I always say "go home and get paid for it." It's never worked so far though.

If i'd seen yours in the bunch I would have express mailed it to you. Only famous person's I saw was David Strickland's.

I don't remember for sure, but I think it was up on 29 somewhere.

I had 11 issues of Double Clutch in the mail box Thursday, tied up in a bundle. I kept mine and Jo took the rest back to the post office. Mine was on the bottom with the address showing so they all came here. One went to Brookneal, with is near here, but most of the others were going to southwest Va. I remember seeing Pearisburg, Dublin, Independence, Cana, so I don't know why they ended up at the Gladys post office anyway.

I didn't see much this week, so once again I only took a few pictures. I didn't even do much this week- went to Chantilly Monday, came back to Lynchburg to get a load of pipes going to Pittsburgh Tuesday but they didn't have the pipes, so I took a load of sheet steel and one coil to Charlotte. Picked up another load of steel in Charlotte and took it to Richmond, then brought a load of pallets back to Lynchburg- the only load all week that I didn't have to tarp, and the heat and humidity has been awful...brutal! I didn't even have to refuel all week, but I was getting nervous about making it back to the shop from Moneta this morning- both low fuel lights were on. Put in 226 gallons at the shop- it only holds 270, and I was afraid it would conk out coming up Oxford Furnace hill. I saw some new units at the shop- Saw lots of traffic headed towards D.C. on 66 Tuesday morning. I saw a girl in a car on 29. I saw a big Mack wrecker, but I missed most of it. I saw a little wrecker in Richmond too. Saw a B.J.and the Bear looking truck in Charlotte. I saw another girl in another car in Charlotte too. And I saw a couple of NASCAR haulers heading up 85 to Richmond. This is Kevin Harvick's hauler- nice Pete!

Yes, I just clicked on the link and the site says "Now we can protect your Mac too".

I'd offer to drive it over, but it doesn't have a steering wheel.

Unfortunately I have to take off to northern Va. sometime today. I've got a load of coils going to Chantilly, up near Dulles Airport. I don't like going to that part of the world any time, I suppose the traffic will be more horrible than usual today.

well if you're going to do all that, I shall put forth more effort to make it next year myself.

Just some computer info that might be helpful to some- When I had a guy in Appomattox work on my old computer he installed a program called malwarebytes. It scans for malware and potentially unwanted programs. I installed it on this computer too, and they have a free version- https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/ I also heard about this on the radio a couple of weeks ago- https://getadblock.com/ It's free too, or payment optional, and it works. It blocks the youtube and facebook ads that annoy the crap out of me!