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Great googly-moogly! she might be too much of a distraction for him to make his p&d's in a timely manner, even with a high speed package car!

UH-OH! And,yeah it was-just happened to by passing by.He went up 501 north towards Lynchburg when he left Rustburg,and we took 24 to Concord.

I'm not sure about that, but he has a B.S. degree in high school-most people have to go to college to get one of them ***note-Rob is on a field trip, so it's OK to talk about him behind his back today***

He did! That's why he's so smart-said he spent 14 years getting a high school diploma. Most people call it quits after 12 years, but he went above and beyond- spent 2 years in the third grade and 2 years in the sixth grade just to make sure he didn't miss anything, and now he's a rocket scientist. That's dedication right there!

I thought there couldn't be many units like this out and about.

That sure is a good looking truck!

Well, I mowed the grass early this morning, had to wait 'til daylight to finish though, because the batteries went dead in the flashlight. Then I went to Concord and finished putting that hood on the mixer. Don't remember when it was last started, but it fired right up. I dumped about 800 gallons of water out of the drum and let it run about 15 minutes. Then I stopped at Carson's Store and got 2 rolls of chicken wire and made a fence around the garden. The chicken wire was way more expensive than I thought it would be-$28 for a 50' long, 3' high roll and I needed 2 rolls. I could probably go to the vegetable stand in Gladys and buy $56 worth of produce and get more than the total output of my garden, but I can't let the creatures get the best of me, right? They're already eating my cabbage plants! I feel like Bill Murray after the gopher in "Caddyshack". Fence looks pretty good too. I left some extra at the bottom, folded it out on the grass, then laid 4x4's on it. The owl certainly doesn't do his job, the pepper spray didn't work, Other Dog the beagle won't work, so maybe this will do the job. I hope so, because there's only one option left that I can see- fried rabbit...squirrell stew...rabbit pot pie...squirrell and dumplings...rabbit on a stick...sauteed squirrell with peppers and onions...marinated grilled rabbit...barbecued squirrell-what am I saying?!!I couldn't do that!..could I?..maybe Saw 3 doves at the bird bath...no squirrells reported in the area.

...it would probably look something like this. We followed this bus up rt. 501 from Gladys to Rustburg. When it pulled into a gas station we pulled in right behind it. I asked the owner if I could take some pictures and he said "help yourself". All the guys, and the familiar looking woman "Jo-bingo", in the picture started pulling out their cell phones and cameras to take pictures of it. The owner is the guy standing by the gas pump. He said it used to be a real bus, and him and "a lot of buddies" built it. Even still has the door control lever by the driver's seat-an awesome looking vehicle, even though by the looks of that engine he probably doesn't pass too many gas stations without stopping . It's a pretty short bus- yeah, I could see Larry taking Rob to school in this... ''Git in,sit yer ass down,hold on, and shut up-we'll be at the school in about 11 seconds"

I put the hood back on the mixer yesterday. When I took it off a while back to have it painted I left all the nuts, bolts, and screws inside the cab right beside the driver's seat. I put it together and got a couple of the guys in the shop to help me set it on. Then I couldn't find the little clamp that goes over the center strip on the front. I looked all over the cab, where it should have been, and all over the ground around it. I knew I didn't bring it home...or did I? I was going back today and roll the wheeled magnet around in case it was on the ground hidden in the grass, and if I couldn't find it i'd have to make one. When I got home sure enough it wasn't where i'd had all the emblems. Might be time to panic. When I went out to look at the garden, where creatures are nibbling on the cabbage plants already, I picked up the little metal tool box in the shed with the quarter inch socket set and a few wrenches in it and opened it-and there it was. I'd taken those tools with me when I took it off, and dropped the clamp in the box. Now i'll go over and put it on today, and try to pick up some chicken wire to fence in the crops.

you're welcome

great story, pretty neat to find a unit like that and drive it home after it was setting that long! It looks pretty good now, soap,water,chrome polish,and turtle wax will make most of it look new.

ohhh, I shoulda known. Last time I passed by there it was still Norwalk Raceway Park I think. Sometimes i'd go by it on rt. 18 coming from Fremont. I used to go to the old Richmond dragway a lot and went to Suffolk a couple of times-I guess Suffolk's closed now, but they had big time national events there then (in the 70's). I always liked watching the 10-12 second cars with 4 speed trans. better than funny cars or top fuel. That's a pair of great looking cars! True drag racing story- in the mid 70's I was at Richmond Dragway and a car ran a 6.06-I remember it like it was yesterday. Seems to me it was an exhibition run, not a regular, by a funny car or top fuel team. I told my buddy "some day they'll have a car in the fives". He said "it'll never happen.they've gone about as far as they can go with the engines, and the tires-that'll never happen"...guess we know how that turned out-now they're getting close to getting under the 4 second mark!

I don't remember the exit number, but it's east of Erie-almost to the N.Y. line. You can see lake Erie behind that truckstop, the Kwik-Fil and a Macdonalds is across the street from it. It might be the first exit in Pa. after you come off the thruway. Or if you're on the way back, the last one in Pa. It's on the north side of the interstate.

one for today, one tomorrow, one the next day...

Only made one round this week. Thought I was going to Lisbon, Ohio or Mercer, Pa. with treated lumber Tuesday, so I lollygagged around here in no particular hurry to leave, but when I got to headquarters I had a load going to Roxana, Il. WTF?!! If i'd known that I would have left 2 hours ago! Brought lumber back to Moneta. Some of what I saw along the way- some trucks on rt. 60 in West Virginia this used to be known as "dead man's curve" on rt. 60. Used to be a lot of truck traffic on this road before I-64 was finished. trucks at the truckstop W.V. coal train a colorful Peterbilt barge on the Kentucky river, near Paducah, Ky. a cement mixer at the Pilot in Oak Grove, Ky. a field of dozers a load of big yellow engines The Peaks of Otter from rt. 122 there's still lots of ice storm damage visible around Paducah.

Do you ever race at Norwalk?

Other Dog and who?

me neither

there, he said "ALL"- smart fellow!

Yes, I remember him. Didn't know he went into trucking though.

There's always setbacks that seem to pop out of nowhere, but you've made tremendous progress! Shame about that cab though. I believe the old saying "nothing's as good as it seems, and nothing's as bad as it seems". Good luck.

Dang it! I went all the way to Appomattox to the tooth doctor and Mary the tooth babe was on vacation this week. Then when I went to the shop it was too late to load lumber, so i'll have to load it tomorrow. Have to be in Moneta by 3:00 to load, and my appointment was at 2:50 Then I was shaving off some more Irish Spring in the mixer and cut my finger. Haven't injured myself further since I got home.

...believe I must've hit the nail on the head with that one!

kinda looks like a cross between the blue aardvark from the pink panther cartoon and spongebob squarepants.