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Wow, thank you very much for the kind words. Lots of people were disappointed that you weren't there, they really wanted to meet you. It was very nice, everybody there seemed to have a good time, and they loved the venue. The tractors with mighty Detroit Diesel engines in them were a huge hit with everyone too. We had a lot of food left over too- a lot! Along with a pickup load of beer.

Yep, me and Zina from Gladys, formerly known as Zina from Florida, got married at the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum yesterday. It was a great place to do it, everybody seemed to enjoy it. We had the ceremony in front of Dr. Bill's PIE tanker, because Zina saw a picture of me sitting in it in Winchester and that's how we reconnected after nearly 40 years. This is us with Mark Wright, known as vision386 on BMT.

Holy mackerel!.. here's a girl in a car, from the interweb.

I have lots of Wheels of Time magazines, and Double Clutch, and Old Time Trucks, and more that are no longer published. I can't throw them away, but i'm not a hoarder...I don't think. I have an old convenience store magazine rack stuffed full, 4 shoe boxes full, and more just stuffed anywhere I can find.

First time I remember. The "biden joke of the day" ( I think that's what it was called) thread went on a long time, but I don't remember it hitting triple digits.

We managed to see the ''Truckers Against Cancer Parade" on the way home from Colonial Heights Saturday. I've wanted to for years, and Zina wanted to since she found out about it, but there was always something that would come up and we never did. It's grown to be a pretty big thing now, so when we saw people by the highway, in parking lots, even in hay fields by the road, sitting in pickups, lawn chairs, hay bales, etc, we found an old logging road and just pulled into it and waited. I thought it would have been over with by the time we got there, but we asked google and it hadn't even started yet. So we waited... Then we saw chopper guy coming... then the po-po... ...then it was on. It was great, and for a great cause. All those trucks passing by, blowing the horns, there was lights, sirens, flags- very moving actually. So here's the big Mack trucks, with a few others sprinkled in. I won't post them all, but I think I took a couple of hundred pictures. Here's a couple opf F.L.Moore and Sons trucks, where I used to work. They had several more in the parade too.

That was a big selling point when we were pondering buying this truck a few years ago. He had all the wheel cylinders, don't remember about the master cylinder, done at White Post Restorations and were guaranteed for life. We were going to buy this truck, even sent him a $500 deposit to hold it until he got the paperwork from Maine, but he never got anything, no bill of sale, nothing, so after a few months he sent the money back.

Well thank you for that info, a few years ago me and Zina were coming home from sunny Florida and there was an ice storm here and we had no power when we got back. We spent the night in Asheboro,N.C. because our next door neighbor called us and told us the power was out. Came home the next day, still no power. No power that night. So we said we were going to get a generator, my first thought was a Honda, but they were about a million dollars. So I saw all these ads everywhere I googled generators for the Generacs, and they were like $300. So I said "that's what we'll get, a generac". But of course the power came back on right then, and I never did get a generator. I bought a snow shovel once and it didn't snow for 6 years.

Wow!

I'm watching an Orlando news channel on TV, they're showing people clearing trees and storm debris from their homes and properties and putting it by the curb to be picked up. Couldn't help but think of the late Hat City, good friend and long time BMT member. He would be in his element now, clearing storm debris was his thing. He had a big Mack truck with a big body and a knuckle boom loader on it. RIP Ed Ackell.

Back when Zina from Gladys was known as Zina from Florida she lived in Winter Park. The Friendly Confines was just up on the corner, in walking distance...almost. I couldn't tell you how to get there though. We used to come up Semoran Blvd, turn right on Aloma Ave, go just a little ways then turn right again on some street, then turn left and right about 40 or 50 more times, until we got to Eastham street. I think you could have done it in about 3 turns, but she might have wanted to keep me confused 🤣

That's good then, that you can still get them. There's a place in Va. that will rebuild them and guarantee them for life. They might sleeve them, I don't know. I don't know how expensive it is either. I think they usually have an ad in the Wheels of Time magazine. Here's their ad, might be good for future reference anyway.

There was 5, maybe 6 Big Horns at the national show in Harrisonburg last year. Most i'd ever seen at one time.

Here's an old picture. This is a mighty 6-71 Detroit Diesel engine in a 1958 FWD fire truck.

wow, I just saw this today- slipped in just in time!

I don't know what kind of fish that is, but it's a nice one!

Amy report- She took a canoe out to the end of her road to go to work. They left their cars out there yesterday or the day before, because the St. Johns river was still rising. If I had to take a canoe to get to work i'd probably- well, on second thought forget the "probably" part- i'd just stay home.

Latest pics. from Amy in Florida. Her husband got this off their deck.

Wow, I hope they're safe. We used to haul pointy sticks to Fort Myers from Jr. Kidd's sawmill in Wingina, Va. Took them to a place that made silt fence.

I missed it somehow, and we were there for 3 days!

Here's what the storm left here, even though it's still raining. Sticks and leaves everywhere- But that's nothing compared to Florida. Zina's friend and co-worker sent her these pictures yesterday. These are from her home by Lake Harney on the St. Johns River. Her husband was driving her to work, this is the road to their house. She said she saw a fish jump in the road. Steps off their porch. View from their back deck. They saw fish jumping and an alligator in the yard. They actually fished for a while off the deck but didn't catch anything. She said somebody caught a tiny gator about a foot long in the ditch in front of the house. I said "what are they going to do with that little gator?" She said they were going to cook it and eat it😆.

Nice pictures, that Willys wagon is cool looking too!..and that yellow GMC.

I hope it's not raining there, it's been raining here off and on since yesterday, pretty hard sometimes. Last night about 12:30 the wind was blowing scary hard, it woke me up. I was afraid it would blow trees over, but it only blew one over in the edge of the woods behind the house. It was a dead oak. The entire yard is covered in sticks and leaves though, so I'll have plenty to do this week. I was going to post a picture, but it's 7.1 MB. so I'm not.

Yes, and as I was saying to some people in Winchester last week, with all this going on I see sleepy joe on TV patting himself on the back about some b.s. global warming bill he signed- unreal... except it is.

yes, that's it.