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Nice pictures! When I don't have many pictures you always get good ones. And almost everybody likes "girls in cars" pictures. I don't run to the New England area any more- not that I mind, since I have to go around or through D.C, Baltimore,Philly,N.Y, and Boston to get there.

Thanks, those are great pictures- you got a lot that nobody else did, liking that B model mixer!

Thanks Vlad, great story and pictures.

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Great pictures, that grocery truck reminded me of one that used to come by about once a week when I was only about 5 or 6 years old. All I remember was it was a man named Dan. It was a Ford truck I believe, but it was set up similar, had the scales, he even had fish on ice on the truck. I always looked at the fish, it was fascinating to see all the stuff Dan had on the truck at the time. I hadn't thought of Dan for years, thanks for the pictures.

OK, here's what i've got- no offense to anyone, no disrespect intended, I don't know any of these people, never seen or heard of any of them before, , know nothing about them...

I rode down to Cumberland today to see Mom and Dad. Daddy mentioned that they were married in 1951...wow! Ma's still doing pretty good, Dad's slowed down a good bit in the last couple of years. Took a few pictures along the way of course- stopped and looked at this 400 Farmall in Appomattox. My brother's Farmalls, a C and an H. He used to have a 350, but he sold it. Saw all these units parked at the old Ford dealership in Appomattox- I don't know a thing about them, who owns them, or where they came from, but they look good for their age to be unrestored. They look like one of those "barn finds" you hear about sometimes. A little before my time, but the Ford appeared to have a manually operated cable shifted 2 speed rear?

Only got a few pictures this week, so here with even more gripping descriptions than usual... A mixer in Gladys,Va. Another mixer in New London,Va. I saw this Lynchburg Ready Mix Diamond T passing by on 460 when I stopped at the Express Lane the other day and grabbed a quick pic just as he was pulling away from the stop light. They've been digging and grading on this place for a long time in White Sulphur Springs,West Virginia. It's between the Greenbrier Hotel and I-64. I was wondering what it was, and if you don't know something, ask a Burns driver. He said the owner of the Greenbrier was building it and it was going to be a practice facility for an NFL team. I need to turn right right there to get unloaded and reloaded. All this TMC had to do was pull up about 15 feet and I could turn- but no, he sat right there until he was finished chaining that roll down. I saw a rabbit scratching his head. I saw a storm up ahead in Pa.. I saw rain up ahead in Va. You can usually see all the way to the top of Afton Mtn. from here, it was pouring rain at the bottom of this hill. Saw an old military truck. Later I saw another one- I think this one might be for sale. Saw lots of odd looking trailers. I saw a girl in a car.

Whatever kind this is...

Well, I was heading back to Milton with 2 more mill rolls today when I got a call from headquarters. They said the roll coming back wouldn't be ready until late tonight or in the morning. Last time they said that it was lunch time the next day before it was ready, so I got on 29 at Charlottesville and went to the shop and came home. Took a couple of pictures on the first round- saw a big load of pulpwood heading up 220 to Covington. Got it stacked up pretty high there. Nice job loading it though. Got behind this truck heading into Charleston. And, I saw a bag of dog food in a car in Charleston.

well, it was just that one time.

I did.

Just went through my saved pictures and deleted about 257 of them. Here's some oldies but goodies-

I like that blue Chevrolet truck, looks like a nice job, and it still looks like an old Chevy truck...and the Painless display- nice!

Thanks Al.

I prefer Bud Light, but being's i'm not 19 any more I stick with the light beer because there's only half the calories of regular beer, and i'm big enough now.

Here you go Mike, it's in the mail- already has an emergency kit in the trunk!

here's my recipe- you go to Wal Mart and get some PBR glasses, no matter what kind of beer you drink, they just look good,eh? Get a bottle of Clamato juice... Pour beer into PBR glass, top it off with Clamato- it'll look like this- When PBR glass is empty, repeat step two. When PBR glass is empty, repeat step two. When PBR glass is empty, repeat step two. Repeat step two, until you just cain't repeat no more...

hmmmmm...Yogi's an expert in his field, he might have stolen the camera and they were all watching the video at his place.

Gee...now you got me started- there's all the bears, sitting around in the bear cave watching the film- "hey look, there's uncle Bobby Bear, flipping off the camera! Oh look- I see Gentle Ben over there by the edge of the woods too- he's taking a dump...and there's cousin Fozzy, haven't seen him in a while...what's he doing?..oh, he's mooning the camera!"

Bonus pic of the day... I asked Morgan the other day if Graham ever played with the Cat loader and dump truck we got him for Christmas. He said yes, but he wanted to get on everything and ride it now- he'll be two Tuesday. Since the Cat toys will break easily, when we saw a little ride-on Tonka toy today at a sidewalk sale in Altavista, we circled back and bought it- for $2. It's got batteries in it, and it's got turn signals, a horn, beepers, and all kinds of sounds that work. Now I need to find another one for Graham to play with. I did get him another Cat toy to go with his collection too. It lights up too, and makes engine sounds, shakes, rattles- I don't know if the blade moves because it's still in the box, but he likes anything that lights up and makes noise.

I thought it was a EHU, but i'm not sure. It's a super cool looking outfit though, that's for sure!

Geez, i've been running my ass off this week, like these two women here- I went to Canton and back, Milton and back, Ambridge and back, then went from Roanoke to Petersburg yesterday and brought a load back to the yard. Saw this wrecker at Alta, W.V. Wild turkeys in the field just down the road from here. Mill roll I picked up Tuesday. It was quite a job chaining this unit down- I did it all standing on the ground. They won't let you get on the trailer at Gerdau-Ameristeel for any reason. They don't care if you fall off the trailer, just do it somewhere else and not on their property. Usually the rolls are in a rack like this- and i'll just strap it and leave and go across rt.1 to the big dirt parking lot by the store and chain them, but this one wouldn't fit in a rack because of the big block on the end of it and I was afraid to go without chains on it. Had to set it on 4x4s in coil racks. The bearing was bad in that block and it wouldn't turn and they couldn't get it off, that's why it had to go to Milton. I saw a dog at Lee-Hi. A burned up truck on the W.V. Turnpike. Nice looking IH at the mill. A girl in a car. Later, that same day, I saw another girl in another car. Nice looking 3000 White in Canton. Freightrain might know this truck. Nice looking car hauler and drag car in Canton, but it was blurry. Big Mack at Newcomerstown Truckstop. Units in Roanoke- Big ape in Dover.