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I'm planning on going to Winchester, unless something unexpected gets in my way.

I'm gonna fold- your girl in a car is way better than mine!

That's it in a nutshell. Makes you wonder what people are thinking, if anything- if Michael Brown had just gotten out of the street like the officer told him to instead of resisting he wouldn't have been shot... if Kevin Ward hadn't gotten out of his car and walked down the track in a dark firesuit while under the influence of marijuana and tried to tackle Tony Stewart's car...his family wouldn't have anything to sue Tony over.

Big lift with a scrap scoop at Pennex Aluminum in Greenville, Pa. Load of big Mack trucks at the Sheetz in Du Bois, Pa. Looking to the west from I-99, somewhere around Roaring Spring, Pa. I saw lots of wildlife this week too- I saw a goat, a deer, a frog down there in that hole, a groundhog out there in that field, a big praying mantis on this Freightliner dump truck, a big tobacco worm eating my tomatoes, and a girl in a car.

Holy mackerel, when it rains it pours! Sounds like y'all could use about 4'' of rain about now too.

It was looking like this Monday morning It seems to be healing, it doesn't hurt, and looks like this now- There's one of the little bas-, uh, creatures now, on that hummingbird feeder.

The place on my ankle was infected looking this morning- I don't know if it was stinging me or biting me there, it was on the outside of my sock. I put some dollar-store equivalent of neosporin on it before I left. Still looks nasty, but it doesn't hurt any more.All last night it felt about like holding a lit cigarette on my ankle. Never had a wasp or bee sting do that before. And I didn't even gain any super-powers!

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.