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Speaking of Jim Hancock, I saw him in the latest "Double Clutch" magazine.

Thanks Bob.

Just send me your address, I'll put some in the mail tomorrow 🤣

They're pretty good, I rubbed them with some brown sugar first, then I coated them well with the top secret rub that I make myself. It's just garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, cumin, chili powder, etc. I just buy a bottle of each when I catch it on sale for $1 a bottle at the Walmart and mix it all together, nothing fancy or exotic. I always peel the membrane off the ribs first so it penetrates the meat better. I did all that yesterday and left it wrapped in plastic wrap until today. I smoked it in the Pit Barrel Cooker, which has become my favorite smoker. I have cooked 8 racks of ribs at a time in it before, and a whole turkey will fit. This isn't today's picture, but here's some ribs in the smoker. This is at Vicki from Florida's house, I had one sent down there too. And you would think that they would burn on the bottom, down closest to the charcoal, but they do not. I don't know how that works, but they just don't.

Here's some ribs I smoked today, just so I'll have more than one picture. And I know Bob, I stop by FLM where I used to work about every time I go to Appomattox and they'll have trucks that have been sitting not for days, but for weeks because they can't get some part they need for it.

I was watching this TV show called "Music City Trucks" just now, and these guys were at a place called Stovall's Collision and Wrecking in Tennessee looking for a square body Chevy pickup to build. They had a good size fleet of wreckers there that they talked about for a bit. And they showed a B model wrecker very briefly but never mentioned it on the show. I found the episode on YouTube and took a screen shot of it.

well, danged if it ain't!

...now I gotta see if that's on youtube. It's been years since i've seen that movie- it's a good one though!

Thank you, I feel fine, just don't look too good- but I didn't look too good before I fell either!

They probably did! Took a long time to get it to stop bleeding, then there was like a clear liquid coming out. I told Zina from Gladys " I don't know what it is, but I hope it's not something important that I'll need later". Last night and this morning she sprayed some "liquid bandage" stuff on it. Stung like crazy but it sealed everything up like a can of Flex-Seal does on TV.

So here's today's look-

I went back outside- with a flashlight- after I had cleaned up and came to my senses a little bit. I was still going to burn that stupid trash! There was blood all over the ground at the scene of the mishap, one rock about 2 inches across was completely covered. When I took the dogs out the next morning I looked and it was gone except for a couple of drops.

Yeah, it looks worse than it really is. The scary part was "I've fallen and I can't get up". Like the TV commercial most of us probably used to laugh at.

I was holding my own against those first four, but when their three friends jumped in to help them things started going downhill for me fast.

🤣 It was very warm Monday, and when I saw the next door neighbor outside washing her car I walked over and offered to help. That's all. Just trying to be a good neighbor, like State Farm.

You're right, I thought that new cast iron skillet might be a bad choice for a Christmas present 🤣. I tried to make up a story about how I tripped and fell in the yard, but it wasn't very believable. Should have went with the "I was attacked by gang members in a bar in Winfall" story.

She said " it's just a scratch, get over it". No, I'm kidding. She asked if I wanted to go to the Dr. yesterday, but I said no. I cleaned it up with a wash cloth the first night and put some Neosporin and three band aids on it. Yesterday and today I cleaned the area with peroxide and there doesn't appear to be any infection going on anywhere and it looks like it's healing up pretty good already.

Of all the stupid things I've done, and there's been a few, maybe more, last night's trip to the trash barrel is right up there near the top. Not because I was going to burn some trash, but because it was dark and I went out to burn it because I thought it was going to rain last night, which it never did. And I was too stupid to grab a flashlight, because I didn't need it in my own back yard...right? Wrong! I walked right into the stew pot stand, which was in the same spot it's always been in, and fell flat on my face. And you know how when you trip over something you kind of jump to regain your footing? Well, that didn't work because the stand is about knee high, my feets got all tangled up on something and I couldn't break my fall in time, and my glasses just landed flat on the ground. Unfortunately they were still on my face when they did. I still don't know how they didn't just shatter because where I fell was all rocks and gravel, no grass. And I lay there on the ground flat on my face and could not move. I literally could not move. After a minute or so I moved my legs to see if they worked, and they did. So I got rolled over onto my side and it still took a while before I could move my arms. I could feel what I assumed was blood running down my face. Then I grabbed hold of the smoker that's by the stew pot stand and managed to get up and stumble inside. And it's just so crazy to be doing something so simple, and trip and fall like that. Comes with getting old I guess. Looks much better today, eh? When I got up this morning my head hurt, my hands hurt, my wrists hurt, my knee hurt, my elbow hurt, and my shoulders hurt. Everything else felt pretty good though.

I've always said Montana was the prettiest place I've ever been.

Nice pictures, thanks!

I think she bought this because the bottle caught her eye- she said she thought it would make a good bloody Mary. I don't even know what it's supposed to taste like.

Merry Christmas!

Same here Bob!

Sun's out here now too, but it was only 5 degrees this morning. It's up to 21 now, but my water is still frozen.😡 Great pictures too Swishy, thanks!

Saw this parked behind a seafood restaurant in Lynchburg today, neat looking little truck.