I finally managed to muster up enough energy to make one trip this week. I felt terrible the first part of the week. I called Ma this morning, and she wanted to know if i'd been bitten by a mosquito. She said it sounded like the west nile virus, and that had been reported in the area. I was laying on the ground jacking the mixer up to change the tires last week and stirred up dozens of mosquitos, so I probably did get bitten a few times. I think maybe I caught the swine flu, because I was watching Hog Hunters on tv last week. And Jo thinks I got a virus from playing on the computer... So, anyway, I took a load of lumber to Roseville, Ohio and brought firebrick back from Alliance. Ran across 60 from Charleston coming back because I invested my money in a bag of sweet corn and some nice tomatoes at the produce stand in Newcomerstown. Bought 4 dozen ears, just put most in the freezer. Saw this double sleeper cabover for sale east of Charleston. Been sitting there a pretty good while. This is Chimney Corner, heading east on rt. 60. This is a girl in a car. and this is the mysterious "Mystery Hole". These are some of the old truckstop just east of Ansted. The little booth is the old scales, where you weighed one axle at a time. I think it cost .25 cents an axle- I paid $8.00 at Mineral Wells to weigh that load of lumber Thursday. This used to be a state weigh station, just a little ways past the truckstop. You can still see the concrete pad with the grooves where they put the portable scales in, right there between the power pole and that first group of trees. I hit this fellow coming through Lynchburg last night- It was so big I thought it was a bat at first, but it was just a big moth. ...and this is a red dump truck-