other dog

. 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.

Dammit!..my hands feel like they're on fire again! I bought some rubber gloves at the store today for handling the peppers. The box said "one size fits all". Should have said "except those over 4 years old" too. So I had to bare hand them.They had stopped burning after I cut all the peppers up, but after just taking them out of the stainless steel pot to put them in the blender they're burning worse than before now. Sauce is simmering on the stove now...might wait until morning to bottle it.

Another DD video-

Guess i'll make the hot sauce today. I've got more peppers than i've ever had before, since Ma saved half a trash bag for me in her freezer. Just got done washing them, still got all of mine in the freezer to do as soon as I get back from the store. Olivetroad wanted kodiakatronomy documentation of the whole process- and some sauce- so I guess i'll have to print some pictures for him and send it with the sauce. I always recycled bottles to put it in before but this year I ordered 2 dozen new bottles online- only problem is I should have ordered twice as many, so i'll still have to use all the old bottles I got. Good thing I save them, eh? I always wash them first and then boil them before I reuse them. Still got my mailing list, but I might have to add to it this year to get rid of some of this stuff...I mean "delicious hot sauce".

That ones in the "Trucks With 2 Sticks" video.

Now that's a sharp R-model!

I found a square point shovel some place I delivered to one time. They had thrown it away because the handle was broken off, it was less than 2 feet long. I picked it up and put it in one of my tool boxes. Still carry it...never actually used it, but I still carry it around.