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That's what I do!

It's funny, but true- it didn't bother me a bit in the truck. I could drive from here to Florida easy, the only thing I would worry about was if I had enough hours to get there and where I could park if I didn't. Now when we leave in the car I'm pretty well beat by the time we get to Gretna. Gretna is about 20 miles down the road. 🤣

We'll leave here going to Florida and not even see a cop- until we get to Georgia, they've got plenty of them. I must be getting old- when I was still driving the last thing I wanted to see was a cop. Now I'm like "where's all cops, these idiots are driving like maniacs out here!"

Yes, very true mechohaulic. I just looked to see if there were any updates, and the driver who was killed was 69 years old. The truck and driver who lost the wheels were found at a nearby truck stop. No details about him, no charges had been filed, it was still under investigation.

I bet that was a nice trip, I always wanted to go to Alaska.

...to be driving along minding your own business and get taken out by a set of duals. https://www.kttc.com/2023/01/18/police-truck-driver-killed-after-another-semis-tires-fall-off-strike-vehicle/?outputType=amp

We've even started taking back roads when we go to visit Vicki from Florida. Those idiots on I-95 will run over you , they'll pass you on the right and then cut you off when you're running 85 mph. We both prefer running rts.1, 601, 301, and 17 even if it takes us 2 days to get there.

Absolutely, I used to see lots of trucks , tons of old stuff, parked by the road up in them there hills. Most of the roads seem to follow a creek or river, because it's the flattest area, so you'd have a creek, lot of times railroad tracks for the coal trains, then houses and the highway, then a mountain, or the highway might separate the house from the tracks, but either way there was not a lot of room to work with.

Yes, they're parked right across the road from the Super Stop.

I always liked that part of the country, we need to take a trip out to coal country in the car to see what we can see. In the truck you didn't have much time to do any sight seeing, every road is narrow, crooked as a dog's leg, and usually steep. And narrow. I watched a movie last night that took place in Pikeville, Ky. It was pretty good, I told Zina I've been to Pikeville a few times. It's a whole different world out there in those hills. And the roads are all skinny and crooked.

That's pretty neat, I was trying to find a place in W.V. that we delivered some long bridge girders to on steerable dollies a long time ago when I just happened upon these units sitting by the road. They're on rt. 52 near Iaeger, W.V.

That reminds me of a story a good friend of mine from Tennessee told me. The company he drove for was going to let some country music singer use one of their trucks for a music video. He could supposedly drive a truck, I think he even had a B model Mack, but after he nearly turned their truck over not once, but several times, they had to leave the driving to somebody else. So they had a country music singer wannabe truck driver, and my friend said they had a driver there who was a wannabe country music singer, but he was most often described by his fellow drivers as just an "arrogant asshole". So apparently neither one was as good as they seemed to think they were- like that beer guy says, "stay humble my friends"...or does he say "stay thirsty?"

So, sidetracking... I'm watching this Tom Hanks movie where he's the captain of a container ship that gets hijacked by somali pirates. And as everyone knows, I'm not the smartest person out there, but I once watched a movie called "Black Hawk Down". It's a great movie, and I said at the time "if I was king, which I am not, I would just bomb somalia right off the face of the earth". And I've already watched enough of this somali pirate movie to make me think... 🤔...If I was king- which I am not- I'd say "you remember when we bombed somalia right off the face of the earth about 20 years ago?..well let's go bomb those bastards some more". 😡

It should work great and last pretty near forever.

The Pit Barrel Cookers were on sale for $100 off, I got an e-mail from them, but I don't know if they still are. But I can only say good things about them, they're great! And they don't pay me to say that by the way. They really do work great though, and they're so easy to use. They're so easy- well, they're so easy even 1958FWD could probably run one without screwing anything up. They make a bigger one now, probably a full size 55 gallon drum. The one I have is smaller, but I don't remember the size. But like I said, it holds a whole turkey, or 8 racks of ribs, so it's plenty big for me. The new bigger unit has 3 rods in it instead of 2, so if you're cooking for a crowd.... They would be pretty easy to make too.

I saw that a couple of times, I liked to watch Highway Thru Hell on the weather channel too. We cancelled Dish Network or DirecTV, whichever one we had, because it got so expensive and got a smart TV, or Roku, or whatever you call it. It's pretty good though, still get lots of good channels. Probably can still get The Weather Network but I'd have to get Zina from Gladys to find it. I only watch the same 3 or 4 channels all the time.

That is very true, democrats do whatever they want without fear of repercussions.

Yes, it's fine- I will even send you a souvenir rock from where I fell for only $19.95, plus $38.95 for shipping and handling.

Just a follow-up. Pretty amazing how this has healed in a week. It's hardly even noticable now.

I'll tell you another good "store bought" pie- I like sweet potato pie, and when we were at Vicki from Florida's during Thanksgiving she bought a Patti LaBelle sweet potato pie and it was delicious, tasted very similar to the ones I make. I started making them years ago because you couldn't find a sweet potato pie. Everybody had pumpkin pie though, and I'd just as soon have a turnip and asparagus pie as pumpkin.

I do like cherry pie. 😊 But I don't eat much pie either, they're loaded with sugar. At the same store I got the strawberry rhubarb pie they have lemon chess all the time and they're just like the ones my mother used to make so I'll pick one up every once in a great while. They have them on the shelves so you're looking at them as soon as you walk in the door and they're hard to resist. I think the Mennonites make them and the store sells them for them. They have all different kinds of pie, but I always go for the lemon chess.

Yes, the one on the right. I've talked to him in Macungie a couple of times, super nice guy.

Me too. I did find a strawberry/rhubarb pie at Long Mountain Grocery in Rustburg one time though. Now I can't even remember if I bought it or not or what it tasted like if I did.

I love sweet potato pie, I can make a good one myself. Last one I made I put some Fireball liquor - I think it's liqueur, but I can't spell liqueur - in it instead of cinnamon. Came out pretty good.

That's just what I was thinking- 🤔! 🤣🤣 🤣