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yessir, little Graham was born today. I've got grand daughters but he's the first grandson. He was only a few minutes old when I took this, still nekkid. Hey Rob, Graham wanted me to ask if Kinley was into younger men...

Thank you...yep- it's one of my favorites.

picked another one today- had it for supper, with the biggest T-bone I could find, along with some new potatoes I dug, fried with an onion I pulled.

My wife was a beautiful redhead. Gone almost 7 years now. This was taken at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, late 80's probably.

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Speaking of "International meet Mack", I was looking for a picture yesterday in one of my books and just happened to notice this. Looks like a Mack bulldog on this International. Seen the picture many times but never noticed the bulldog until yesterday. Pictures didn't really come out too good.

OK, here's the full size real picture of it still attached.

you got it, not a problem. yes, around here everybody was always shooting for tomatoes by the 4th. of July, that was always peak combining season too. The wheat field just up the road here looks like it'll be ready to combine any day now. A week or so ago when I left it was still green, when I got back it was almost completely golden brown, in a week! Wait a minute, I should have known- that tomater was attached to the stem this morning, I suspected you would doubt me, so here's a picture to prove it!

I know what you mean, I couldn't have anything until I put a chicken wire fence around the garden- rabbits and squirrels would eat everything as soon as it came up. I've got 2 peach trees, an apple tree, a cherry tree, and a pear tree and have never eaten any fruit off any of them, the squirrels eat them off the tree before they even get ripe, and the rabbits get the ones that fall on the ground.

well, two out of three ain't bad, eh?

This is the earliest i've ever picked a ripe tomato. Got one of it before I picked it too, lest olive says "that tomater came from the produce aisle at the Piggly Wiggly, I seen it yestiddy!" The future hot sauce looks pretty good too, eh?

yep, that '66 looks just like it!

Well...I just don't know what to say ...i'm touched, thank you very much, master of kodiakotronomy randyp.

Quite the difference, eh? The 2012 PACCAR engine is the top one by the way, it's up in there somewhere, bottom one is the 6-71 General Motors Corporation diesel. right side-

Glad to hear that you're doing well Mike.

Think so? Had a little different look to it, more rounded or something. Looks cool though, i'd like to have it to park in the yard.

Hey, you can see the top of that unit I drive over there! NTC 350 Cummins in one loader.

Is this like the one you're talking about?

Associated Transport built Brown trucks and trailers for a while. There was an article about them in Wheels of Time or Old Time Trucks a while back.

you can go online and take a "practice" test in Va. for a drivers license, not sure about a CDL test though. You might look into that in NJ, it could help you.

whatcha gonna do with the combine?

I don't know the story behind this equipment, whether it was just left behind after they finished making rt. 19 4 lanes or what. Was it owned by some company in Texas and it would cost more to move it than it was worth? Sold at the auction and never picked up? Didn't sell at auction and abandoned? Some of the stuff looked pretty good, but everything was rusty from sitting for years. The one dozer had way less rust than the other, neither had a blade, but they might have been laying around in the bushes. There was a lot of small miscellaneous stuff laying around, some buckets and whatnot. I was looking over my shoulder half expecting to get run off the whole time I was there, but nobody seemed to notice me.

Once upon a time I posted a picture of an International Payhauler that's parked a little ways north of Summersville, W.V. After I posted that picture I heard that there was some more old equipment behind the truckstop at Mt. Nebo, including more Payhaulers. I stopped there today to investigate, and sure enough there was indeed some more old equipment parked out by the truckstop, including more Payhaulers. I don't think they were as big as the first one I looked at, I know they weren't as pretty. But there was 2 TD25 IH dozers, they were pretty big, and there was some big loaders there too. TD 25 dozer A big loader Don't know what this is, couldn't find a name anywhere on it. This one's a Cat Payhauler Old Euclid A clean 6-71

Yeah, it's about the first exit on 95 after you get off of 85. they even have plenty of room to park a truck around back, there's usually some Abilene trailers there. I passed it regularly going to and from Gerdau-Ameristeel in Petersburg and always said I was gonna stop there soon...and never did yet!

no, no, I didn't resize Miss Oklahoma.