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I know that's right! My hands were burning because I didn't have gloves that fit, but 2 things you especially do not want to do is scratch your nuts or rub your eyes when you've handled hot peppers!

yeah, lots of places used to put used motor oil on gravel roads and parking lots. Kept the dust down, plus it would pack down hard as concrete, but you can't do that any more either.

didn't have a load. unloaded those scrap coils in Suffolk yesterday, then came home. gotta be in Blacksburg in the morning to pick up some scaffolding and bring it to Bedford, then hopefully i'll get lumber from Moneta to deliver Monday.

I'll send you some hot sauce Bob, but I can't send the chicks!

Very interesting- Mike HuckabeeLast month, the Senate Budget Committee reports that in fiscal year 2011, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average US household below the poverty line received $168 a day in government support. What’s the problem with that much support? Well, the median household income in America is just over $50,000, which averages out to $137.13 a day. To put it another way, being on welfare now pays the equivalent of $30 an hour for a 40-hour week, while the average job pays $25 an hour. And the person who works also has to pay taxes, which drops his pay to $21 an hour. It’s no wonder that welfare is now the biggest part of the budget, more than Social Security or defense. And why would anyone want to get off welfare when working pays $9 an hour less? For more of the Huckabe Report, visit MikeHuckabee.com. I was reading an article in the "USA Today" a few weeks ago about the longshoreman who were threatening to go on strike. The most surprising thing to me was that their average salary was over $120,000 a year- 3 times what I make.

I might have seen you there. H.H. Moore was a contract carrier for Westvaco for years and years. I hauled many,many loads of chips to Covington from Dillwyn and Howardsville in the '80's, then we started hauling long wood. We hauled the pulpwood from the new yard on rt. 60 in Buckingham about 5 or 6 miles west of Mt. Rush. Hauled mainly to Covington, went to Luke when there was too much snow in western Maryland for the locals to work in the woods, took the logs to GP in Emporia. I liked hauling pulpwood, if you didn't have a load going up the road- like my case now- you could always go to the woodyard and run a load or 2 of wood to Covington. I liked to just stay there and haul wood all the time. They got rid of most of the chip vans and got log trailers when they switched from chipping at the woodyard to hauling the wood to the mill. Then Westvaco went back to wanting chips, and opened a new chip mill north of Dillwyn on rt. 15, so Larry Moore didn't want to get a bunch of chip trailers again, sold the log trailers, and quit fooling with forest products.

I've got several "almost had the big one" in snow and ice stories. Been stuck a couple of times, never really almost had the "big one" but once though, that was in Wyoming a few years ago when I had to pass a car on the right- on the shoulder. Ran through a snow storm, road was about as slick as i've ever seen-ice on the bottom,snow on top. Cars in the ditch and the median. I was easing along making good progress when I came over a little hill and saw a car near the bottom just barely moving. Another truck was coming up on me in the left lane- i'd look at the car,look in the mirror...look at the car,look in the mirror. I knew if I touched the brakes it was all over, I was going to jack knife- it was that slick. When I realized that the other truck wasn't going to get by me before I hit the car I just hit the shoulder and passed between the car and the guard rail. I had decided to quit smoking a while before that trip, but after that incident I stopped at the next truckstop and got 2 packs of Marlboros.

. that's not enough goats, here's more goats on the hill.

did you haul to Covington or Luke for Westvaco?

we weren't supposed to, but sometimes we'd put diesel fuel in a sprayer and spray the inside walls on chip trailers so the chips would come out when they were frozen. It was either that, or get up in there and dig them loose with a grubbing hoe. I brought about 5 tons of chips back to the woodyard that was frozen in the van one time. Payed less of course, but better than me having a heart attack trying to dig out frozen wood chips.

I wish I could send you a bottle Vlad. Old Bill in Canada likes hot sauce, but i've never sent him any because he advised me that it probably wouldn't be a good idea to try to send a food product to a foreign country.

Hey Paul, long time no see! Your hot sauce will be in the mail shortly. uhhh...which ones are the good ones? I try to please everybody!

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Must be a Peterbilt wannabe- you'd have to sit on the floor to see out of the windshield with that visor. Should have said "be different- drive a Superliner instead of a dime a dozen Peterbilt or Kenworth!" I like it except for the visor though, it's just too big- have to lean down in the floor to see when the light turns green!

Finally, all finished! I swished a little vinegar around in the pot to get enough to fill the little Louisiana Hot Sauce bottle. "All done- i'm going home! Mind if I rinse off a little bit first?" "not at all"

The story so far- might as well post this picture story for Olive, even though he's been missing for a long time. These are the peppers Ma and Dad saved for me. All jalapenos. Made this much after processing. All these came from my garden. Ended up with this much. Quite a pot full,eh? Had to split it into 2 pots. New bottles washed and ready to fill...soon as I turn them over. Neighbor came over to help- she wanted to learn how to make hot sauce, so I helped her out. All the new bottles filled, pots still half full. There's a dumpster a couple miles away though... Found lots of bottles*! I'm waiting for them to boil now, that's why i'm taking this break. Some of her friends were with her. ..."so, what do you want us do do while we're waiting- a watched pot never boils you know!" "Well, you can get me a cup of coffee". *as most of you know,I did not use any bottles that came out of a dumpster!

wow! picture 4 are the ones I didn't get- A+ Vlad!..I'll go sit in the corner...Farmer, you're in the other corner.

I'm with Vlad, 38 so far...i'm gonna bottle sauce now.

34b?

about a 36c i'd guess

33

no,34...

31...I think.

maybe to cover the very expensive brake drum paint- probably used Krylon instead of the dollar store paint, the cheap paint would be gone in no time if it were actually driven much.

I liked them too. I got to drive one to Chicago once when the F model I drove was in the shop. I'd only driven Transtars, F models, and an Astro before that, and the cab seemed like it was 12 feet wide on that KW. Rt. 34 and 35 in W.V. was way narrower then too, but I made it all right. It was a big ride, 400 Cummins 13 spd. The next truck I got after the F was a brand new '83 K100. First trip was a load of steel going to Boston, it had just been lettered, it was late in the evening, they were working on last minute stuff on it in the shop, I was trying to put all my stuff in it, and H.H. was walking around telling everybody to "hurry up, that boy's got to go". I finally threw the last of my stuff in it and took off, and had to pull off at a wide spot just down the road to look at the dash because I didn't even know where the headlight switch was. Got 2 more new ones after that, then we switched to T800's. This is the last one I drove, haven't driven a cabover since.