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Great stuff! I remember the great adventure last year, that route was pretty rough going. I still have the picture-

I saw what you need for squirrel hunting at the flea market yesterday- a .300 magnum rifle,with scope. Didn't ask the price though. I saw a nice Colt .357 magnum revolver i'd like to have but it was $750. I thought you could get a new one for that price! Ammo must have really gone up too- nobody had any .30-06 ammo, but I noticed a box of .38 special bullets had $41 on it.

The snail? I just took it this evening, I pulled the old dirt and roots out of that container and saw it sitting there. Thought I should take it's picture before I threw it in the woods so I can compare it to when he crawls back in a few years.

Yes, that would be great. I told Joe he should shoot for the 4th. of July, he should have a long weekend then, but they run the heck out of him.

Planted 8 pepper plants today, 4 cayenne and 4...something else- I never heard of them, but it looks like a banana pepper. They said they'll have jalapenos next week, so 4 of them and i'm done with peppers.

plastic?!! now you tell me! I bought her a real steel 2lb. ball peen at the flea market.

I had a lot of stuff I needed to get done around here today, so I went out and sat under the umbrella on the deck with a beer or twelve and looked through some more picture books. Found some good pictures, like this one on top of the mountain on rt. 60 at the Blue Ridge Parkway, east of Buena Vista, Va. Hope the statute of limitations has run out...anyway, I "authored" this sign- took a metal marking pen and altered it a little. Pulled over on the way to Covington with a load of pulpwood one time and did it. It has the brakes smoking, driveshaft wrung, and pistons flying out of the bottom of the engine...he's in a heap of trouble. My best friend, the late David Elder, wanted me to draw a dog on the joe-dog he used to pull. I said "what do you want, like a cartoon dog?..because I can't really draw." He said "I don't know, just a dog." So this is what I came up with. Drew it with a metal marking pen, which i'm not allowed to have any more by the way. The old Pete I used to drive- My old mud bogger. First truck I drove for F.L.Moore and Sons. My cabbage- all looks good except for that one. There's always got to be one screw-up in every crowd. I'm gonna pull it up and plant a pepper or something there. While I was doing all this work, I spotted this creature looking at where I was going to plant a tomato. I threw his ass down there in those woods, but he'll be back in 2 or 3 years.

She got the bushel bag of cereal herself. She got me these for my burfday- She said "I want the red one, and i'm gonna blow your doors off!" I said "are they both mines?" "yes" "well then, yours has a 318, mines has a 550 Cat, you're not blowing my doors off!" I put a folded paper towel under the red one, just to be on the safe side.

Thanks Mark, I might be interested in some when you get them sorted out. Might be cheaper for me to make a pick up than paying shipping.

Speaking of ZZ Top, I ordered this barbecue sauce and hot sauce from their website.The hot sauce is delicious, tastes almost exactly like my homemade sauce. I've never tried the barbecue sauce yet.

I don't think so, last time I was there was the White Bash. Y'all got a lot more stuff since then,i'm hoping to get back this summer. I think nocluejoe66 might come up this summer sometime, he wants to go too.

Today is Jo's birthday and I wanted to take her somewhere really nice, so we rode over to the flea market at New London. Found these brand new Rocky steel toe work boots in my size. I didn't really need them but I got them at a good price, less than half new price, so I went ahead and bought them. I've never bought used boots before but the seller said the company he used to work for paid for them and he retired and never wore them. Got them for $65. I got this 9000 Ford NAPA truck too, but Jo had to pay for it because I spent all my money on boots...and a drill bit... and some duct tape...and a bottle of honey. It was $9. She got a 50lb. bag of cereal yesterday though, apparently she can't get enough of that super sugar crisp- it keeps her going strong.

I saw a Brockway like that once.

Me neither, seen red ones, and I can look out the window and see gray ones, but i'd never seen or heard of a black squirrel before.

He had one good song, Born to Run. I've seen ZZ Top in concert 4 times, with Grand Funk, the Black Crowes, the Screaming Cheeta Wheelies- or something like that- and Lynard Skynard. But the one I missed and wish i'd gone to was when they had a concert in Roanoke with George Thorogood.

Thanks Ed, I keep some of them, but never thought of doing that.

I didn't even see any good ole boys drinking whiskey and rye. The levee was indeed dry.

Don't know what's in it, but if it's at Art Reed's it's for sale. Except maybe the R model, that's what he retrieves equipment with.

Early this week, because I had to abort my last mission and return to headquarters. I was on the way to New Castle, Pa. yesterday with a load of lumber when an air bag on the truck suffered catastrophic failure. I turned around at Charmco and dropped the trailer at Burns Motor Freight's yard at Sam Black Church and bobtailed back. Had a load of coils to pick up at Lane Steel in McKees Rocks coming back to Lynchburg too. Really nice people there at Burns. They even disconnected the air lines going to the bad air bag and put a coupling in it for me so the other three would still hold everything up. I took a couple of secret spy photos while I was there- Nice DM here. Had a Quadruplex in it, used to be a dump truck. I went to Brewster, Ohio to the Brewster levee with a load of beams too. I was on the look-out for Bighorns and U models but I didn't see any. I did see lots of wild aminals. I saw an elephant. A rabbit. A black prairie dawg. A black squirrel. A black bird. A red dog riding shotgun. A rhinoceros. Narrow road to the levee. End of the line. Got my doors blown clean off by a well lit bull wagon. Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. A waterfall. The Gauley River hydro station. The big green thing- looks like it's been painted recently. That's Rainelle down there- ...where this IH fire truck is for sale. Art Reed's R model, and a General mixer. Nice little load of logs. Bugs...they mess up a lot of pictures...stupid bugs.

Welcome, Extra Small!

I see the rpm range is marked too.

...or- "my check engine light is on- says it's low on water, what should I do?" " just put some water in the radiator, dumb ass!" "oh, ok-that sounds easy enough"

Maybe your cattywompus needs adjusting too.

I got nothing this week, except a blurry Bighorn...and this blurry Superliner dump truck i've posted several times before- The bridge in Steubenville, Ohio with blue lights on it, but the windshield is covered with bugs. Trucks at Tucker Equipment in Lisbon, Ohio. I'll just get some random pictures from the interweb machine- An early picture of the Beatles, when they were still a five man band. They decided the xylophone just didn't fit their style, so they fired the xylophone player and immediately became rich and famous. An early picture of the Rolling Stones. They decided they didn't need a xylophone player if the Beatles didn't, so they fired him and became rich and famous. The xylophone player was not discouraged however, he gave up his music career and moved to Hollywood where he appeared in many motion pictures, and became rich and famous. The end.

Yep, that one was at Winchester in '06 or '7, but I haven't seen it since.