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We had potato soup a lot when I was a young'un, which was pretty much just potatoes and onions with maybe some thickening added. I still make it now, and add a can of canned corned beast. You probably only eat real corned beast, but I like it. Corned beast between two pieces of bread with lots of Miracle Whip makes a good sammich, but corned beast has gotten expensive, around 4 dollars a can around here, and that's for the cheapest brand. Wonder if your lovely wife would share that recipe for pea and potato soup with dill, I like potaters, I like peas, and I love dill- just don't tell anyone else I asked for a recipe, after all this is Big Mack Trucks. I really couldn't care less myself, but probably other folks would like to know.

This is right across the street from Galv-Tech, all the trucks i've seen there are Macks. Most are newer, but that R-model just looks tough.

Some oldies but goodys. The back story- I had to go to Pamplin today to a baby shower. Is a baby shower the most boring thing you can do? Anyhow, my youngest son's wife is in a family way. Rained most of the way there, but I didn't see it showering any babys. As usual, I was looking for U-models all the way but didn't see a one. When I got home I looked through my photo albums to see if I had a picture of the U-model that was parked beside the C-model that was in Concord but didn't see one. Found some other neat pictures though, even a John Deere scraper. These others came out of The Trucking Pioneers books, lots of Macks, even U-models. Others are just favorites, like the whole Smith & Solomon fleet of D860's, the lineup of highbinders, Cannonballs, and the CBE Kenworth.

the skating rink down at the ymca?

Picture of dogs looking where they've been and where they're going, date on the back said July,2008. I remember taking this on 460 in Appomattox. Every time the pickup stopped all their heads would pop out, when it started moving again they'd disappear back inside.

He must have been the one with the hard hat, eh? probably not the Indian Chief.

I went down to Long Island Lumber the other day and got a load of mats going to a pipeline company in Idamay, West Virginia. Talk about middle of nowhere, Idamay is out there...or is it Idamae? So is Long Island for that matter. It's only a few miles from where I live. I took a few pictures, just in case anybody was wondering about mats. This is where I unloaded- Front axle's off the ground after unloading. They had a huge stockpile of mats, light and heavy duty. Big timber bolted together. This is where they make them in Long Island. I went there yesterday when I got back from the eye doctor and got another load. I noticed they had a bulldog mirror on the control tower for the debarker. I saw mirrors with a truck attached to them in Pittsburgh.

Wow, great drawings and models! Seeing those made me go dig out some drawings I once did, but they're not nearly as good as you guys' are. I'll go ahead and post them anyway. This first one was drawn in 1966, when I was only...let's see...some quick math here...hold on...10 years old. This next one, drawn in 2011, shows great improvement as an artist, eh?..must have even had some of that 1966 paper left over too.

Compared to the never to be mentioned again "Uhrichsville incident" she would be considered pretty hot. I prolly woulda hit that in 1983.

that sounds good- if they'd just called it cabbage, onions, and noodlles fried together with butter I would have ordered it.

I thought maybe that was the secret mission he was on- retrieving his RL700 out in NV. I could have took a load today going to Reno that delivers Tuesday, but I declined and got another load of mats going to Idamay West Virginia. I would have taken it if i'd had a little more notice and time to get my shi stuff together.

I'm with you on that!

Saw this Michigan loader behind Lowe's in Oakland, Md. yesterday. Looked like it needed a kickstand on both sides. They had been pushing snow with it with this big blade attached to the bucket. Leaked a little oil too.

That's what I was thinking. Big Jim passed an accident scene in West Virginia on rt. 50 a few years ago where a load of lumber had turned over at the bottom of a mountain, killing 2 drivers. He asked me to see if I could find anything on the computer about it. I googled "West Virginia truck accident" and all I saw was ad after ad by some attorney who specialized in truck accidents. According to him pretty much every accident involving a truck that ever happened in West Virginia was the truck driver's fault. Every truck that was ever in West Virginia was driving too fast on West Virginia's roads, and on and on. I travel West Virginia all the time and couldn't tell you how many times 4 wheelers have passed me at a high rate of speed on double yellow lines on rts. 60, 39, 20. Where ever they catch you they're gonna pass, they don't care whether they can see what's coming around the curve or not. I guess they figure they've got enough a-hole lawyers to prove it's the truck who's at fault no matter what.

buttermilk?..bleh! They might serve balute with it, I did not inquire since i've never heard of balute either.

Haluski. never heard of that either, maybe i'll order some next time and report on it...not. I have heard of fish.

Had to try the peierreiogiessses today. I unloaded in Oakland, Md. this morning and went up to Pittsburgh and picked up 2 coils. Got loaded pretty early and decided to stop at Bill's for a burger. No line at The Red Caboose, but still a pretty good crowd about 11:45. Got to Bill's and ordered my hamburgers and pepsi and decided to go for it. I said "lemme have a small order of them peierreiogiessses too". That's kinda how I pronounced it. The girl said "progies?'', pronouncing it kinda like that. I said "uh...yes" She said "you want onions and butter with those?" Now i'm really confused, because I didn't know if I wanted butter and onions with them or not. Figured it must be the thing to do though or she wouldn't have asked, so I said "uh...yes". I should have said "no thank you", I didn't know they would be swimming in enough butter to deep fry a porpoise. But except for that they were pretty tasty.

I tried to let her down easy. I was just glad none of our other drivers were there, I would have never heard the end of it.

I've wanted to stop there just to check it out, but like I said, there's always a line standing outside 15 or 20 people deep- always. what?..she was beautiful!

Well...OK then- Back in the early '80s, before I got married, I took a load of kyanite to a place in Uhrichsville, Ohio. Got there around 10 or 11 that night, and sat up until 3am talking to some girl on the CB. Her handle was "sexy kitty", and she sounded like it! I talked her into-or maybe it was her ideer-meeting me at a restaurant for breakfast the next morning. I got there first and was sitting in the restaurant drinking coffee when she came in, driving a huge Plymouth Fury with the muffler and tail pipe dragging the ground. She was the biggest, fattest, oldest, ugliest woman i'd ever seen. I was only about 25 or so at the time, she must have been in her 50's. When she came in we talked for a few minutes, then I told her I had to call headquarters. I didn't call anybody, but I came back to the table and told her I had to go, had a hot load to pick up in Cleveland or somewhere, and I had to be there by 10am to load...or something like that. Anyway, I hauled ass outa there.