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Oh...Thursday you say? I'm gonna put mine down for a while, been holding it since yesterday.

...hate snow...

I'm out of likes, so I improvised...

Wow, sounds like the "macho man" 's story, a driver and good friend of mine. He was bitten on his heel by a brown recluse spider, but he didn't go to the doctor for a while and by then it was badly infected and just wouldn't heal. Took them a while to figure out what it was when he finally did go. He ended up losing his leg at the knee. I stopped by his house in Farmville several times to see him, then heard that he had passed away a year or so after he lost his leg.

Sorry to hear about that Mike, take care of yourself.

Spot the Wonder Dog- it never gets old. http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/16733-new-adventures-of-spot-the-wonder-dog/?hl=%2Bthe+%2Badventures+%2Bof+%2Bspot+%2Bthe+%2Bwonder+%2Bdog http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/16828-the-new-adventures-of-spot-the-wonder-dog-episode-2/?hl=%2Bthe+%2Badventures+%2Bof+%2Bspot+%2Bthe+%2Bwonder+%2Bdog http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/16906-the-new-adventures-of-spot-the-wonder-dog-episode-3/?hl=%2Bthe+%2Badventures+%2Bof+%2Bspot+%2Bthe+%2Bwonder+%2Bdog http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/17004-the-new-adventures-of-spot-the-wonder-dog-episode-4/?hl=%2Bthe+%2Badventures+%2Bof+%2Bspot+%2Bthe+%2Bwonder+%2Bdog http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/17088-the-new-adventures-of-spot-the-wonder-dog-episode-5/?hl=%2Bthe+%2Badventures+%2Bof+%2Bspot+%2Bthe+%2Bwonder+%2Bdog http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/17006-spot-the-wonder-dog/?hl=%2Bdaingerfield+%2Bbuffet http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/17666-the-new-adventures-of-spot-the-wonder-dog-episode-6/?hl=%2Bthe+%2Badventures+%2Bof+%2Bspot+%2Bthe+%2Bwonder+%2Bdog http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/18242-the-new-adventures-of-spot-the-wonder-dog/?hl=%2Bthe+%2Badventures+%2Bof+%2Bspot+%2Bthe+%2Bwonder+%2Bdog I went back and found these and laughed my ass off. I think I have them in the proper order.

speaking of a-hole cops... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-WMn_zHCVo

Took a ride down to Cumberland to see the folks today. Saw this mashed up Western Star sitting at Cumberland Auto Service, so I pulled in and Jo took a pic. out of the passenger window. Took one of their 9500 GMC wrecker too. Saw this Ford pickup there too. And this one I saw on facebook- pretty neat, eh?

I used to load a lot of beams there too. Best to have your lunch, and supper for that matter, when you went there to load!

Uhhhh...she might have made a wrong turn in Moscow and ended up lost in Winfall...I should have stopped.

It's right at the other end of the Key Bridge in the bridge picture, it's a pretty good pull going up the bridge, the toll booth is right at the bottom.

I only made a short trip this week. I went to Lynchburg Thursday and picked up the trailer I dropped Monday, then loaded a load going to Hanover, Md. because the driver that usually makes that run was sick. Reloaded in Baltimore yesterday morning and got it off in Lynchburg yesterday evening. I thought about getting Graham the drivable Mack truck for Christmas, but decided to wait until his birthday in June, when he'd get a lot more use out of it. Then I found out his granny got him a battery powered Jeep, so it would have been redundant anyway. He loves Bob the Builder, so I looked for construction equipment. He doesn't seem too interested- Well, maybe a little... Doing his daily 200 pushups? I saw the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. ...and this boat. I was crossing the bridge on the way back when I took this one. And the old Bethlehem Steel plant at Sparrows point. I've loaded many loads of steel there over the years, it was a busy place, trucks everywhere...now, nothing. Looks like they're tearing at least part of it down. And I might have seen Freightrain out touring on the Cub Cadet, but I'm not sure. Then on the way home I saw a damsel in distress in Winfall, but I didn't have time to stop.

Welcome Dave. Did you drive the highbinder up to Winchester this year?..if so,I met you there and talked to you for a while- even offered to drive the IH back to Gladys Colonial Heights.

wow, this is kinda scary...

I like it, it's a little different. But if you changed the aqua to Mack green, left the white part white, and left the frame and tanks black that would look good too.

...and especially for Ken- ...and one from Christmas past, still a good one!

Maybe Vinny will loan you his books when he finishes reading them.

Merry Christmas Speed! Truck looks pretty solid anyway, not a lot of rust there.

Yeah, a little bit. I went to the Winfall Mall to sit on Santa's lap but he was so busy I had to sit on one of his helper's lap. Good thing he had three helpers with him, because I didn't have a lot of time. I liked it so much I got back in line and sat on all their laps.

Yep, they always have some nice ones there.

I jarred it this morning... ended up with 7 quarts, one half pint jar, and a little juice glass full. I drank the juice glass. Too bad the recipe makes so much, i'd tweak it a little. It's very sweet, and you can not taste the alcohol. What I used was only 80 proof, i'd cut back on the sugar, cider and apple juice is already sweet anyway, and maybe increase the liquor amount just a little bit. But it's good!

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...moonshine that is. I've been hearing Dave Moody talking about "apple pie moonshine" on his radio show on the NASCAR channel on sirious/xm for a few years now. I finally went to his website ( http://www.godfathermotorsports.com/ ) and got the recipe. I was going to post it here, but I took a picture of what I wrote down the other day, since I type with one finger. We had to go to Altavista this morning after I got home from work so I picked up all the gredients...first time i've been in the liquor store in years. Got this clear corn liquor- ...and it's very clear...that I have no idea if this is half a liter, but it looks about right. Anyway, I'm at the "allow to cool" stage now. If i'm not heard from for a few days, it was probably very good- I'm not even a liquor drinker. And on the way home I stopped at that new store in Winfall to get some gasoline.

Nice! First truck I ever drove was a 1974 Transtar. Matter of fact, so was the second and third trucks I drove, then I went to F models. H.H.Moore had dozens of them, along with a couple of Macks and two KW's. A couple were Eagles, the rest were the basic models with 290's, VT903's, and 350's in them. Very popular trucks then, you probably saw more of them on the road than anything else.

Got my "real" computer back. To quote Bob- "woo-hoo!" This is a road shot from the east side of Moorefield, W.V. You can barely see the smoke from the Mt. Storm power plant in the center of the picture, on top of the mountain. The other pic.I posted at first was taken on rt. 560, south of Oakland, Md, probably 20+ miles away from the power plant, this is taken from at least that far away from the other side. Sharp looking White there, too much stuff around it to get a good picture of it though. A couple more rt. 219 "road to Buffalo" snow pictures.