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Dammit! I've been under surveillance by aliens all this time and was too stupid to realize it! I'm gonna get the ax and chop it down tomorrow...first i'll throw a piece of tin foil over it tonight, so I can sneak up on it.

Here's another old store. It's facing rt. 60 in Mount Rush, Va. Never open that I remember, but I remember my wife saying she had been in it when she was little. I saw this odd shaped mushroom in the yard last weekend. By the time I got home today it had turned from a mushroom head to a saucerhead. Just who comes up with these road names anyway? Trucks in the field. Truck by the road. Pretty neat looking little unit. I tried to get another picture of the car for sale in Canvas, W.V. but I accidently hit the button before I was close enough. There's Wooly Booger in front of me with another load of lumber. A girl in a car. Saw a big Mack truck with a load of pulpwood. Saw another big Mack truck with another load of pulpwood. But this Ford had them both beat- now that's a load of wood! Saw some big bad machines. And some big yellow machines way over there. And a Marmon, I saw a Marmon.

Todd and Jeff Moore drove all the way to Evans City to go to court, I parked the truck at a rest area on 79 and rode with them. Long story short, after the main defense argument failed, Todd told them he was looking for any leniency he could get, and they reduced the fine from $6,357.00 to $1,800 and something. So it was well worth a 400 mile drive in the Navigator to save $4,000.

Neat pictures, i've never seen the inside of a livestock trailer before. I've been taking some pictures of old stores myself whenever I see them. They're just old buildings to most, but you can tell it used to be a store. I wonder about how it used to be- maybe like French's store, with a big round wheel of cheese in a wooden box on the counter. They would guess at a pound then cut a slab off with a knife. Boloney came in a whole big roll, not in a plastic container and already sliced like now. They'd slice that with a knife for you too, then wrap it in white paper. That's what we did for lunch when I was growing up, if we didn't get home we'd go to the store and get a pound of baloney and a loaf of bread. And the old stores all had penny candy, which probably costs a quarter now. F.LM. got more Prostars, but after the first two Maxxforce engines stayed in the shop more than they did on the road they went back to the Cummins ISX engines.

It was a local township cop that wrote me that $6,000 overweight ticket in Pa. Just sitting there on that short section of road that had a ten ton weight limit. Had the portables with him too. It's all about the money. Had a state DOT ociffer pull me over in Bedford,Va. last week. He checked my paperwork and didn't find any violations, but he had that a-hole attitude like "I know you're a criminal,because you're driving this truck- I just don't know what you're guilty of yet". It's all about the money- they see a truck, they see dollar signs.

Maybe that's what they were thinking to come up with this mirror design...

...and no duct tape was involved in this fix-it project. But- "Besides the new pipe will just rub a hole in it any way." If you put a new pipe on it you could wrap some duct tape around it where it was rubbing.

Yes, I just took that picture Friday but I couldn't see around back because some trucks were parked in front.

If you get back by there, see if they have a sister model to that one, if it's in my price range Jo's out the door. owh!...dammit!..owh!..uh, never mind...ouch...damn, that hurt!

Country stores have about everything you need. Didn't know you could get a wife there though...probably just a Vermont thing. I like the girl in the car...i'm still thinking about it.

This Conestoga was parked beside me at the shop when I left Sunday. I thought maybe somebody backed into it, but I heard later he was making a turn and a telephone pole got in the way. Then before I got to Bedford I saw this fellow in some trouble. Looks like he just didn't swing wide enough to make the turn. It looks like he could have gotten farther to the left and pulled farther into 460 before starting his turn, but once that knuckleboom was in the ditch it was all over until the wrecker gets there. . Speaking of trouble, I saw a state trooper with this truck pulled over in Concord Thursday. Might be some height issues here.

The Barnyard BBQ in West Virginia with smoke rolling out of all the stacks. The football fields mystery might be solved- I saw a sign down there that said "Saints Personnel Only", so perhaps it's the Saints new practice facility. Car for sale. I didn't see the groundhog, so I walked over and looked in the hole... There it is! Good looking tires. I saw a big Mack truck in the mirror. And a girl in a car- no leg showing, but nice boobage. Later,that same day...I saw another girl in another car. She had some nice boobage too. Some pickups in Crewe, Va. Good looking tanker out of Iowa with all LED's, pulled by a sharp looking Peterbilt. Endless Caverns, near New Market, Va. Metals USA in Ambridge, Pa. A big Mack truck. Brand new gloves- strapped and tarped one load of Kyanite, and they're coming apart. A girl in a car with nice legs and little boobage.

Yeah, I went that way. It's a little tight making the left turn onto Navarre, but I had the whole road. It's a whole lot easier going the new way instead of turning around the old way.

Uniontown, Pa. There were two Diamond T's or Reo's parked in back, a cabover and a conventional, still hooked to trailers. Been there for years.

No, I saw it sitting in a lot in Roanoke. It's on Industrial Drive, just off rt. 11.

They did indeed. The guy I worked for claimed to be a direct descendent of Fred Flintstone.

That's about all I know, but it's true about the clean part. I worked at a place that made aluminum trailers, and one advantage was that the aluminum was new, but we still cleaned everything before welding. We used wire brushes with stainless steel bristles on them, and put the grinder to anything that was old or really dirty before welding. Best I remember we used argon gas, had Hobart welders. I worked there from '77 to '79, so it's been a while...

Happy birthday.

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They cut the steel beams to length down at Gerdau-Ameristeel in Petersburg.

Don't have much this week, but as usual others have posted outstanding pictures, like the kodiakatronomy of the week award winner Leversole. I did see some mountains in the sunlight and others in the shade as I started up Afton Mountain the other day... I saw a yellow boid. and a dove- Went to Metals USA in Ambridge, Pa. The P&S truck was broke down in the driveway- his airlines caught on the beams when he made the turn and broke them off. I went around him on the same side the service truck is sitting on-took this pic in the mirror. Still got their U model... Saw a groundhog in McKees Rocks- "No, wait, don't use that one- this is my best side"! Fine then... White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia- the Burns driver was right. Looks like a football practice facility all right. There's two complete fields there side by side, and another down below to the far left in the picture. Saw blades I took to Canton. Thank you Freightrain. Saw blades I brought back from Canton. Saw this in Charleston W.V. on the way back- haven't seen that name in years. Is this the original TIME-DC? Saw a chip truck too. He's fully loaded.

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Keep us posted, I hope Suzie is doing well. If y'all are planning on Winchester, i'll try to make that one. Might even see farmer and fix'em there.

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