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Wow nice cars! I'd miss the Monte Carlo the most too, that's one fine looking ride!

It was actually super-clean, you can sort of tell in the mirror picture. My windshield was dirty and the sun was shining in in the second picture. My appointment was for 2pm, so it was about that time.

Stopped in Winfall on the way home to congratulate the Winfall Wimmens softball team. They went 0-19 this season but they looked good doing it. l. to r. - left fielder, center fielder,right fielder.

A little closer look. This was parked a long ways away from me so I couldn't get a better picture.

Holt hamburgers! Where is this at? I hit snow on the way in from Sharon,Pa. Thursday night. I went across 422 to 22 to 99 and 422 was shut down for a while between Belsano and Ebensburg until they could get a salt truck out there. I spun all the way up the hill from Belsano with 2 23,000+lb. coils on and when I saw a Smith truck pulled over in front of an old business in a good size lot I pulled in beside him. I hadn't had any trouble until I got to there, but there was one more hill that is really steep before you get to 219. I walked out onto the road while I was there and it was too slick to go for it. Then the state police and local firemen showed up and stopped everything until the salt truck got there, about 2 hours later.

I'm gonna liquify some hot peppers and bottle it.

I went to Chester, Va. to unload a load of steel Monday morning. Saw these two big rigs heading west on 460 in Appomattox. I was wandering around while I was waiting to get unloaded and spotted this GMC and a couple of Dodge pickups across the fence. I saw something green in an old shed back there too and I first thought it was a stationary GMC engine, but it was too far away to tell for sure. I zoomed the camera in to the max, and now on the big screen I can tell that it's a machine of some sort, but not a Detroit Diesel engine. Then I went to the steel mill in Petersburg to load for Savannah, Ga. I was waiting to get on the scales when I saw Green Dash in the mirror. He bypassed the scales and went straight in to get his load of beams. He's always there for you. Wait to get in...wait to get out. I was wandering around while they were unloading one beam at a time in Savannah and saw this around behind a stack of beams- two stationary Detroit Diesels! I must have conjured them up in Chester. It was hot sitting there too, but everybody was dressed like this- Meanwhile, I was sweating in a T shirt. Then I went to Allendale S.C. and picked up this tremendous load of boards. Saw this big Mack truck at the lumber getting place. Later, that same day, I saw a cotton field. Looking north on rt. 321, that's Columbia,S.C. ahead. When I got home I found I'd gotten a delivery myself- a big box full of packing peanuts. I took these two smaller boxes out of the big box, and it's still full of packing peanuts! There was a dozen new 12 oz. bottles in each box- nice! Then I went to Akron with a dropdeck trailer to this job site where they're building a substation. I saw a dump truck there. I saw a cement mixer truck there. Sat here in the road about an hour before I could back in to get unloaded. Had to blindside in off the road, between the two piles of rock, an air compressor behind the pickup, around the bend, the other bend, and the truck to get back to the crane. I pulled up twice coming off the road to get lined up between the gravel piles, and then no more all the way back to the crane. Didn't take any video though. It was a little chilly in Akron... This used to be the home of Summit Racing Equipment This is the home of Summit Racing Equipment now. Saw three bears on the way home today.

Happy birthday!..geez, only 41?..i'd have thought- I meant, wow, how can someone be so wise to be only 41 years old?

Sorry to hear the sad news Mark, glad you're OK. That was indeed a great friend, and you to him for doing what you did.

No, you can't do that- you can't walk outside down there without seeing killer spiders and snakes...and maybe man-eating crocodiles.

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Good luck with the new job, I hope everything works out well for you.

His was good, mine's better of course...my uncle Buck used to say "there's no such thing as a bad stew, some is just better than others". I was doing the same thing in every picture-

That's the way snakes look just before they get pulverized by a Superliner,eh?

Mine was pretty good- I went to Cumberland, my brother had a stew today for his birthday. I saw ma and them, brothers, sister, nieces, and the stew wasn't too bad- I had three bowls of it, plus sweet potato pie my mother made. On the way home we saw a big black bear and three small bears cross the road in front of us. I was yelling "bear- get the camera!" and pointing at them, but my cameraman/assistant was so tardy getting her camera out they had disappeared into the woods by the time she finally did.

Actually this was at the scenic overlook in Winfall, I was on the way home in the pickup. I wanted to get home in time to watch Gold Rush.

I stopped at the scenic overlook by the lake to kick my tires and heard this girl yelling. She said she lost her shoes and wanted me to help her get back up the hill. I told her I didn't help her get down there and I didn't have time to help her get back up, I had to go.

...with absolutely gripping descriptions and thrilling stories! I took a van load of kryptonite kyanite down to Chester, S.C. Monday. Unloaded at Marathon Abrasives, just across the tracks from the cotton field. Then I went to Moneta, Va. and picked up a load of lumber. I dropped the van first, and loaded it on a flatbed. I saw this old store, a metal spider, a metal scorpion, and a GMC truck for sale in Moneta. Had a two stop load, Coconut Lake and New Castle, Pa. Saw this just north of Pittsburgh on I-79. This was on 79 too- front drives were raised, very short wheelbase tractor. There was a roll-over accident on 79 so they detoured all the northbound traffic off at Zelienople and over to rt. 19. Saw some old units on 19. A big Mack truck on rt. 422. Going downhill... Old trailer in the weeds at the shop. They used to haul the bulldozer on it, but it doesn't have parking brakes. Hasn't been used to my knowledge in the 10 years i've been working there. It was hard to get a good picture of it last night, it's got crap piled up on it, behind it, both sides of it, and in front of it.

Holy mackerel!..uh...nuthin' much.

So, a hunnert car bananner train in Mississippi where it's all flat would mean the engineer spotted Marcel from about a mile away...sounds legit to me.

That's the Midas touch!

Congratulations! I once took a friend who bought a truck over to the wood yard that I hauled chips from on a weekend when the yard was closed, and he had plenty of room to drive around and practice. He would back onto the scales to practice backing up, no one was around to bother him, he could take all the time he needed. After a while you just do it without even thinking about it, maybe you could find a place like that to practice with a trailer.

Well, there it is- my entire pepper crop. Got the freezer stuffed with them. I ordered 2 dozen new bottles today, and i've got some glass bottles saved that i'm going to re-use when I grind them up and make hot sauce. I've got hot bananner peppers, 2 different kinds of cayennes, jalapenos, and tabascos. I'm just gonna mix them all together. I'll probably add a bottle of "store bought" Louisiana hot sauce to make it red, since most of these are green. I like my hot sauce to be red.

I'm right there with you, Jim- #+^k spiders and snakes!