other dog

Other Dog got a new dining facility- he look impressed,eh? Looks kinda like a bulldog on the box. Got a box of sweet potatoes from Ma and Dad yesterday- they're huge, like Bollweevil's. Probably get 2 pies out of 1 potato. I do not clean them with carb. cleaner, it's just for size comparison. Got these cayenne peppers they'd been saving for me too. Might try to make a little hot sauce. They were still on the plants, hanging in the shed to dry.

Yes, thank you, one of the best cards ever! http://www.chillybeach.com/root.html There used to be downloadable e-cards here, but I didn't see any today. The Christmas downloads are pretty funny though. Click on "webisodes" at the bottom, then "pg14" when the webisode opens, you'll see the Christmas ones on the list.

Yeah, that's a good one! I look forward to getting the magazines every other month. You might want to check out www.oldtimetrucks.org , their magazine is top notch too.

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just STOP!..don't do anything! not a Christmas picture, but pretty funny,eh?

I have these ornaments that I picked up at the flea market a few years ago. Amazingly, a whole dozen of them only cost 10 cents!

Contrary to what you all think, with me being as lazy as I am, I did more than lollygag around and drink beer today. I got the old stew pot out and made a batch of stew- but I did not wear my Mack apron. Or my chef's hat. I'm gonna deliver it to people tomorrow for Christmas. And not just because i'm cheap, it's good-and it's good for you, delicious and nutritious too. Lot of work actually- we processed a 5 lb. bag of taters, a 3lb. bag of onions, and cut up a whole sirloin tip into bite size pieces last night- like kibbles and bits. Put it in gallon ziplock bags and marinated it in worcestorshire sauce. This morning I put the beast, taters, and onions in a big pot on the stove. Then I got the stew pot out and boiled it out good before I started. Didn't really take long to make the stew with the head start on the raw ingredients, besides, I didn't want to put cold stuff in the already hot cast iron stew pot. Don't want to take a chance on cracking it. Then after it cooled a while we put it in canning jars for delivery. But there's still work to be done after that. I washed the pot out with the hose, then had to put water in it and build the fire back up. Boiled it out again, dumped it, dried it out over the fire, then reseasoned it with Crisco. I repeat this process every time I use it. I haven't even tasted the stew, but Jo said it was the best i've ever made- like I haven't heard that one before! My uncle used to say there's no such thing as a bad stew, some's just better than others.

just watch where you step.

Looks like he had it fixed.

I'd like to find this under the tree. Never know when you might need a generator.

More secret spy pictures...no names named, to protect me. Here's one from central Illinois- Some from southern Illinois- "hey y'all, look at my gift basket" "I'll go put it under the tree" Moving on , to somewhere in Texas... ...and in Gladys, Va. the lights are up outside We just have a small tree this year This must be from the north pole!

you're right- that is scary!

like this?

#17 In all, more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have shut down since 2001. This used to be U.S. Steel, Homestead works. I've loaded steel there before, in the early '80's. Now you'd never know it was ever there except for the smokestacks they left, and there's a huge gantry crane over by the river, out of the picture.

Amen brothers (bulldog man), thank you very much indeed, and hope all you and yours have a merry Christmas and happy new year!

Finally got a picture of the billboard in Beckley.

nice grill! good looking pup! nice looking dump truck too.

Bob looks like a professor...hmmmm, that gives me an ideer...

I only saw those on Peterbilt cabovers.

I am in the market be new steer tires, got 10.00 20 bias plies on it now. They were put on new, but they flat spot bad when it's parked and I want to go tubeless on the steers and get away from the split rims, like I did on the drives.

they are 14/80 R20, still mounted.

used to have floats on the front. They're still in the back yard, I filled them with potting soil and planted broccoli in them this year.

Heard from Mark a while ago. He said Randy did not manage to bring down his drone due to the built in safety features, but he did cause it to veer off course and continue flying into New Mexico. In fact, it flew right over mowerman's place- whoda' thunk that Bob was doing all this when he wasn't trucking? Here's some stills from the super secret spy camera- thanks Mark!

I see...I think you're safe actually-that's a fine looking aircraft but it doesn't look like it's capable of moving much dirt, and Randy's got 3,000,000,000 yards to get moved by Jan. 1st.

top speed 311.6743890411 mph. too!