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Well, it was a little bit different when I got it. It was solid red and the mixer drum was all gray. I had the fenders painted black, and I painted the drum and the wheels myself- in the yard with a roller and brushes. I used farm implement paint from Tractor Supply. Here's a picture when it was all red, but I had painted the wheels a little. I know I had a picture that was taken shortly after I got it when it was still parked at H.H. Moore Trucking, but it must be in a photo album and they're all in Spout Spring. Here's one taken at the old Stonewall Antique Power Show, that they no longer have. well, that's how it usually works. I found a scan of the picture I wanted, this is before I even drove it home. I had started doing a little work on it then, there was paint on the wheels, I put the Car Quest mud flaps in front of the tires and the mud flaps and hangers on the rear. The rear hangers was a big piece of angle iron that went all the way across the frame. I probably accumulated it from around the shop somewhere. I had to get two steer tires before I could drive it home, all these tires were good for was keeping the front axle off the ground.

I sold it to a man in Kentucky, he posted a video of it on YouTube a few years ago. He has taken the mixer drum off of it, and that's all I know about it's current status. Here's the last picture I saw of it-

Yes, it is.

I was going through some items and found this. Very nice calendar. I think there's more somewhere.

Here's an oldie but goodie. I was packing up some items to move and ran across this BMT Calendar. Very nice calendar, big too.

Yep, that's what I always heard- no, wait, I'm thinking about something else. Never mind.

Happy birthday!

She did say that- she used to anyway, but I told her that I hadn't lost a thing there, they couldn't pay me to go to that over priced tourist trap. Good place to take the chern and let them experience it I guess, but there's nothing there I'd wait in line for and pay out the ass to see.

I think I've told the story of how I knew Zina when she lived in Connecticut in the 80s. But, the super condensed story- We lost contact for years, both got married, my wife passed away from cancer in 2005, Zina had moved to sunny Florida and had left an abusive husband and was renting a room from a friend when we reconnected in October, 2017. Shortly after we did I called the ex from the Love's truck stop in Franklin, Va. one Friday afternoon and asked her if she wanted to go to El Cazador, the Mexican restaurant in Altavista, when I got home. She said "no, I had a sammich earlier, and by the way I think I'll be moving on". And I said "well, OK, see ya-bye". Really. I know that she was expecting me to say please don't go, and beg her to stay, but that's what I said to her. She sent me a text message after Christmas saying it was "a new year, we should start new, and get back together". I told her I had no interest. Zina was flying into Roanoke on weekends when she could, and when they invented COVID and she had to work from home she moved up here and we've been together ever since.

🤣 The Ranger!

Right- My ex gf took the Ford Ranger pickup- the one I should have kept- over to a little garage/shop about 2 miles from here to have it inspected one time. They "inspected" it and put a new sticker on it, and when I got in at the end of the week we drove it to Winchester to the truck show. After we got back it was in the driveway with the wheels turned a little bit and I just happened to notice something shiny in a front tire when I walked by. I got on the ground and looked and it was the cords showing on the inside edge of the tire. It scared me to think that I had just driven it up I-81 to Winchester and back at a high rate of speed when there was a good chance of suffering catastrophic tire failure at any time. I mean letting a small exhaust leak or something slide is one thing, but not an obvious safety issue like that. I took it straight to the tire shop and had new tires put on and a a front end alignment done.

Mine too. He's in my lap now. When I come out of the shower he's always laying right outside the door.

I stopped at a little used car lot in Rustburg the other day to look at a pickup that I've seen there for a while. Zina doesn't like the rust bucket, it's too big, too loud, it's not an extended cab so there's nowhere for the dogs to sit, it's too loud, etc. So I stopped and looked at a pretty nice looking F150 extended cab pickup. It had $10,500 on the sticker, no rust, no bents. Not too bad I thought. But it was a lot older than I thought, I think it was a 2002 model. Then I saw the milage- 297,000. It has a 6.0 diesel in it. I don't know what it is or a thing about a 6.0 diesel, so I phoned a friend who knows all about all such matters. He said to stay far, far away from it because 300,000 was about the life of them. He said you're lucky to get 300,000 out of one. So I'm sticking with the old rust bucket, at least for now.

Congratulations to you and Star on a job well done, and congratulations to Large, Medium, Small, and Extra Small for having their heads screwed on straight!

Yes, and every time you went to that Disney place in Florida- well, never mind, that's not my story to tell...

An invasion at our borders, destroyed our Energy Independence, skyrocketing inflation, crime out of control in our cities, billions being spent to stop the invasion in Ukraine but ignores the invasion at our borders and America's safety and security and Sleepy says re-elect me for more of the same.

Absolutely!

Happy birthday Bob!

I've been doing similar work myself 🤣. Sort of- just on a much smaller scale. I had to cut a couple of longer pieces of plank to make my lawn mower ramp. The first two were laying behind the shed but they were just the right length so that when you drove up them the back end would kick up and hit inside the mower deck when the front tires got to the top. The new improved longer ones work great, and the mower fits nicely in the shed.

He has some pretty impressive ears there.

We got another dog.

Happy birthday Vlad!