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I picked up a USA Today Wednesday and an article in it about the weather said that over 70% of the U.S. was snow covered, and every state in the lower 48 reported snow on the ground-except one. You are correct,that would be Florida!

That looks lot like the one a fellow known as "Sweet Pea" had when I was growing up in Cumberland county. It had a 455 Olds engine, and I think it was a 4 speed, but i'm not sure.It was a terror on the streets, even being basically stock, and guys would come from all over to race him,and they usually lost. I remember when he blew the engine in it one time, and he had a guy named Max rebuild it at Cumberland Auto Service. As soon as he finished the engine they took it down rt. 60 from Cumberland headed east just as wide open as it would run for miles.60 is arrow straight,just a little hilly,almost to the Powhatan co. line and they just matted it the whole way,then turned around and came back the same way,wfo! That's not the recommended practice, but he never blew the engine again.

Good idea, probably better than using a fixed rope and crampons to get up on that.

I need to figure a way to bottle all this and sell it...they be sum funny muh-fuggahs on here!

Kinda hard to make out Clem.

yep,still looks much the same.

I liked that green and white B-model about 2 minutes in-before that my favorite was the blond in the red jacket,boots,and tight fitting jeans.

A great big round spiny looking thing-looks like it was "ribbed for her pleasure"...never mind.

Roy and Boy are brothers,as are Billy and Jimmy,and Tyrone and Jerome. The blender doesn't really chop the peppers up as fine as i'd like,but what can you do? I chopped them,blended them,boiled them,then jarred them. Boiled the bottles first too. Hopefully it won't hurt anyone and tastes OK, but who knows?

Well, I finally got around to making hot sauce today. I was worried I wouldn't have enough bottles but I ended up having 4 left over. I could have made 2 full quarts more, but I didn't put all the habenero peppers in it-I just don't like the way they taste and smell. They're supposed to be the hottest pepper there is but they just don't taste that good to me. I processed most of them by themselves and filled 2 quart canning jars to send to Big Jim. Here's what I ended up with-I even named them. front row,left to right-John, Boy,Billy,Wesley,Henry,Charlie,Jimmy,Jerome back row, left to right-Jack,Tyrone,Bubba,Alphonzo,Roy

I painted a '71 Ford pickup in my driveway with a brush and implement paint-same way I painted the mixer drum. I put 2 coats on it and it didn't look bad, but if i'd put a 3rd. coat on it it would have looked really good. I just used it to haul firewood, and trash to the dump anyway.

I admire you both for the talent and your dedication to a job being done right. All my painting usually involves Krylon.

No, no, not at all- Rob had just painted that truck in the "big top paint shop" and the radiation levels were still a little high. It'll look normal in a few days.

I agree.

I remember my first trip across Colorado on I-70 too, same trip I first crossed Donner Pass on-1979. I stopped at the scales west of Denver and asked the scale man "how long before I get out of these mountains?" He looked at me like I was crazy and said "son, you're just getting started". I couldn't even cross Donner until they opened it to all traffic because I had no tire chains and it was snowing so I hung out at Sierra Sid's truckstop in Reno. This was in April or May, snow was long gone around here. Good thing I was hauling furniture at the time, a typical load was about 12-14,000lbs, or things might have turned out different,eh? But Bollweevil reminds me of another story, and it just brings to mind how different things are now and how different drivers are today. I welcomed any advice I was given by older drivers and was respectful to them even if I didn't follow their advice, like the time I was loading some steel coils in Burns Harbor. I had several coil coils,loaded shotgun, and I was criss-crossing 2 chains through the eye then putting one across the top. A couple of other older drivers were in there loading and one of them said "you don't need to do all that,one chain over the top is enough." They might have been going across town for all I know, but I was going to either Walker muffler in Harrisonburg or Modine Mfg. in Buena Vista, Va. so I was going across rt. 60 from Charleston, so I chained them like I wanted. Many years later when I had hauled hundreds, maybe thousands, of loads of chips and pulpwood across the mountains on rt. 60 to Covington there was a Schneider truck coming east on 60 one fine day. 2 of our drivers met him just after he had started off the last mountain, Long Mountain. They asked him on the radio if he was loaded, and he said "yes". So one of them told him "you're going pretty fast" and he said "...eff you, I know what i'm doing!" When they came back across after unloading in Covington, there he was, turned over at the last "s" curve before you get to the bottom. A piece of the trailer was stuck in a tree there about 10' off the ground for years...might still be there.

I started to change that,Rowdy Rebel's speedometer reading, and thought "nobody will ever notice that anyway"...hmph! ...or maybe he took the picture instead of me...

I just happened to take a picture of the interior last time I was by there.

Name: International Scout II (1971) Date Added: 12 April 2009 - 01:02 PM Owner: other dog Short Description: '71 Scout I mud bogged for several years, I later sold it for several reasons, but mainly because the local track switched from mud racing to sand drags. View Vehicle

I went to Nashville last week, but I didn't see anything. This week i've been to Ambridge,Pa, Atlanta, Fort Wayne, Bluffton,In. and back to the yard. Saw a new Freightliner Cascadia with a DD15,10 speed at the shop but I didn't take a picture of it. Nice looking unit though, solid black. This is a coal pile in Newport News-they hauled this coal here on trains. They're going to load it onto the ships, then they'll be sailing off to central Illinois-don't know why they have such a demand for coal in central Illinois every year around Christmas. Saw this big twin steer KW pulled by a Peterbilt near Butler,Pa. This is Mack 2, in warm Cartersville,Ga. Saw this Mack mixer in Bluffton,In. where I loaded aluminum ingots Thursday. It was cold. Ford grain truck for sale in In. The old stove at the shop. They replaced it with the stove from Jamerson Bros. Trucking, which was much prettier until they put the chrome stack on this one. And a re-run from Mark-because I like it!

That rascal!

Where are you located,if anywhere?

I would never smoke something Randy dug out of a pond, might be toxic aztec waste in there. I just didn't want him to think I was unappreciative of his efforts to send the pond scum.

It'll be dried up by then,maybe i'll roll it up and smoke it.

I've been eating them all my life, they're my favorite green. I find it astonishing that no one else has ever had them. We'd go out and fill sacks up with them when I was a kid. Used to find them growing in corn fields a lot in the early spring. Hardest part was washing the dirt out after you got them. We'd pull the leafy part off the ends and cook them and throw the stems away- the cans I bought are full of stems. I figured they probably grow in Georgia too- they're hard to find because they're so close to the ground, but by summer you can tell where they were because they go to seed and grow up tall then, and they'll have a yellow bloom on them and you see them all over the place. I've bought the seeds at the hardware store before.