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We had a big pile of broken "made in China" binders laying in the shop floor-dozens of them. The handles would just snap in two. We use mostly snap binders,and they'll hurt you when they break! They were yellow and every time I need a new binder I tell them "Don't give me no yellow one,I want a red one". The red ones are actually made in China too but they didn't break like the yellow ones for some reason. Tom in the shop would say "ain't nothing wrong with them binders,them guys had too big a pipe on them,that's why they broke"! But only the yellow ones broke.

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yes,always take your camera. my hobby is taking pictures of things. taking pictures of things is a great hobby. I like taking pictures of things.

Once again, my new hobby of taking pictures of things came into play today when we stopped at the store in Rustburg. I saw this Farmall C sitting there and proceeded to take pictures of it. Has chrome wheels and everything. This is similar to the very first vehicle I ever recall driving,in the hay field. Saw 2 dogs on the porch too,other dog and "new" dog,so I took a picture of them.

well,yeah,this is so true.

naw,I had the windows up and the doors locked.

I was wrong about when the mine closed. The explosion was in '81 but the mine didn't close until 1997. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._21_Mine_explosion

good thing I got away before he made me walk the plank,eh?

I took a load of steel from Lynchburg,Va. to Cookeville,Tn. the other day. Then I had to go to Whitwell,Tn. to pick up a load of landscaping stone going to Charlottesville,Va. I called for directions and figured i'd still never find the place,since the directions said "Take 108 north to the top of the mountain... you'll pass the church with a cemetery on both sides of the road,then go past the yellow house and take the next right-there's no road signs,but I put some orange tape there. When you get to the blue building stay to the left.Open the gate and go through,then close it behind you.you'll see some equipment on the side of the road and a road turning off to the right,but don't take the road to the right..." Never seen so many yellow houses,but I actually drove straight to the place. The loader man said most people call him back several times for more directions. This place was back in the woods 5 miles from where I turned off the highway at the orange tape. I went back into the woods so far, with the road getting smaller all the way, that I started to worry about pirates and truck smuggling operations-nobody would ever find me in there.It was at an old coal mine that had been shut down since 1981,when an explosion killed 13 miners.I never even knew they mined coal in that area. The loader man was real nice and after I was loaded he took me down to the old mine site in his pickup. There wasn't a lot to see,but I put my new hobby to use and took some pictures. There's some power poles,a concrete foundation,and you could see where tracks used to go into the mine. It's now sealed off. He lives in the area and he told me the miners used to ride the rail cars into the mine there on the cars you had to lay down on. Interesting stuff. "...go to the top of the mountain..." That would be this mountain- heading into the unknown... still going... and going finally there-looks legit,don't see any pirates about. Some pictures at the old mine site- Headed back down the mountain on rt.108 after I got loaded. View off the mountain.You can see rt. 28 down there somewhere. That's where I was-somewhere up in them there hills. When I got to Charlottesville the man told me to pull into this subdivision and wait for him. When he got there I had to back out of this road and about 50 yards or so up the other road to a driveway where he started unloading me on the side of the road. He parked his pickup back behind me with the flashers on and I had the lights and flashers on too.Before I was half unloaded a county cop came up and said we had to get that truck out of the road. It was a little backroad with no lines on it in the middle of nowhere too,and there hadn't been but 3 or 4 cars that passed by. But everybody has a cell phone in their hands now just wanting to call somebody,so I guess somebody called and complained. I pointed to the man on the loader and told the cop "he's the brains of this outfit,I just did what he said". The cops says "well,you're driving the truck,therefore you're responsible and you'll be the one getting the ticket". So I said "in that case,i'm outa' here!" Cop said "that's what I thought" So I pulled back into this road (private property) and he finished unloading me.

I think that's in a Geico commercial too.

...here's another one. I paid $3.99 a gallon in Mt. Morris Pa. for diesel Thursday. Just filled one tank to make sure I had enough to make it back.

I think i'd carry a shotgun to work,like a 20 gauge. next picture would be of snake's head blown off. I guess smashing it with the bucket would work too.

Keith is from Woodstock,Va, not too far from Front Royal.

yep, that looks just like it to me.

It was raining when I took this, but it's still a much better picture.

great pictures Randy! After getting calls, e-mails, and several letters to the editor in the local paper about how I needed a hobby,I decided to take up basket weaving. I emptied the vacuum cleaner bag and got all the dog hair out and made this basket out of it,but it was boring! You've inspired me to do photography as my new hobby, f^*# basket weaving!

might have been those Trojan Magnums if it was that big...

The price is right-and it's got a V8!..we all know there's nuthin' like a V8 Mack.

Thought that looked like a Miller unit. They're in Ohio, right where rt.14 crosses I-86. That looks like where this picture was taken, coming from the road that goes to their yard onto rt. 14. If it is there's a fuel stop just ahead of the truck on the right where i've stopped a few times.

I have heard on talk radio shows that there is enough oil in the U.S. to last for 100 years at the present rate of consumption, also that with today's technology they could get as much oil out of wells that have been closed for years as they got out of them before they were closed.

New they'd reopened the Shenandoah- didn't know it was reclosed already. Used to be famous for the commercial beavers that worked there!

Thank you-hope I never do anything to piss you off. By the way, do they sell those missile systems at the Wal-Mart? I might wanna get me one.

It does taste like watered down water, but I gotta work tomorrow so i'm taking it easy,only gonna have a few-besides,I ain't as young as I once was.