other dog

well congratulations!

diesel was $4.99.9 in Pittsburgh yesterday. I got 50 gallons at Keysers Ridge truckstop in Accident,Md. at $4.79.9 to make sure I had enough to make it in-maybe I should have filled up.

I have all the above,except the rabbit fence-I put string around it and tied plastic bags on it to keep the dogs out,they're too lazy to cross the fence. After I took those pictures I took the dog out there and he went one way and the rabbit went the other. Sometimes I wonder what I pay other dog (the beagle) and another dog for-that's their only job.And I couldn't shoot the old rabbit,I can just imagine a whole family of little orphaned bunnies...

I wouldn't trust myself to do a project like that anyway,but i'd help you if I could. You couldn't be any harder on me than Jeff is-I tried to get him to drive the mixer one time and he said " hell no,i'm not driving that thing-if a tail light burned out 3 years from now you'd say it was because I drove it"

They say a picture's worth a thousand words,but these probably aren't,took them through the kitchen window...

I'm only here for a little while-hopefully.I've been to Neville Island and went to Ambridge and picked up a load of 60' beams going to Chesapeake,Va. but the truck's been running a little hot so I left it at Carter Cat so they can check it out. Then i'll deliver in Chesapeake,unless they get somebody else to deliver the load,which would be fine with me. Jobyna was moving some stuff around while I was gone and ran across the secret home made barbecue sauce recipe. I've been making it out of my head and left out some ingredients,namely worcestorshire sauce and black pepper. the recipe is this: 1 gallon of vinegar-remove one pint 1 bottle of Texas Pete (or whatever hot sauce you prefer ) 1/4 cup black pepper 1/2 cup worcestorshire sauce (just pour the whole bottle in ) 1/4 cup garlic powder 1/2 cup crushed red pepper 2 tablespoons liquid smoke (I just pour the whole bottle in ) mix it up and let it set for a few days smoke a boston butt 'til it's done,pull the bone out,pull it apart, or shred it,or chop it,mix with about 1/2 cup of the sauce (i'd just pour a whole cup in),then call me now if I lose the secret recipe again,it'll be here. And if I lose it and the computer crashes somebody can e-mail it to me.

Too bad I live so far away, I'd give you a hand with all your stuff- I used to be an excellent welder. No,really.Stick,MIG,brazing,soldering-I did it all. Last time I tried to weld something I couldn't decide which side of my bi-focals I should look through. You'd probably make me do the yard work while you did the fun stuff anyway! By the way,I got the first crate stuffed full of rabbits-what's that shipping address again? They'll be hungry when they get there too.

you're welcome-I want them all to be fat and healthy so they'll survive the trip to Fishers packed in a crate.

just gave the garden a final pepper spray,now I must be off. They say pepper spray works on bears,I hope it keeps the rabbit away. I have not seen a single bear in the garden.

where can I get some dynamite? I saw the rabbit out there last night just before dark,under the peach tree. I think it was eating peaches that had fallen on the ground. He can have all of them he wants,but I chased him off anyway. The beans aren't dead,they'll come back if I can keep him from eating them completely up. An old 275 gallon heating oil barrell make good smokers to make on a trailer. I've seen a couple of them,one had gas burners,Roger Eagle's was charcoal with 2 5" chrome stacks on it. That's about the whole place,I have about 3/4 of an acre,the little garden and grill is in the back yard. Note 2 CB antennas with reflector tape on them marking the driveway

I only did one truck model-it was a cabover Freightliner.I gave it to my brother for Christmas, I think because I liked it ,and I ended up putting it together.

Well,nothing new about trucking anyway except i'm already sad that I have to work tomorrow-Memorial Day I've finally finished a smoker/grill that Kevin started at the shop and never finished.I offered to buy it from him and he said I could have it,and it's been in the backyard for weeks. It's made out of a 55 gallon drum,on a stand. Didn't have any grill grates for it,but I cut off some old oven racks and put them in it. They should work fine for chicken or smoking a boston butt,but smaller things will fall through pretty easy. Good thing I have 3 more grills for smaller stuff,and I still got the smoker oven too. Been like Elmer Fudd trying to keep a rabbit out of the garden. The beans came up,even the ones I replanted and they were looking pretty good. When I got home Thursday I looked at the garden and they looked like stems coming out of the ground-all the leaves had been eaten by a creature. Looked out the window and saw a rabbit and a squirrel in it. Last year rabbits ate the cantalopes,but didn't bother anything else. This year I didn't plant any cantolopes for them,so they ate my beans-i've been spraying the whole garden with a little hot sauce and a little dawn mixed up in a spray bottle. People tell me it works,but I don't know. I don't want to try that new grill for the first time with a roasted rabbit,but I didn't plant enough beans for me and the rabbit too. ( just kidding,PETA people ) I've got to leave in the morning and go to Petersburg and load for Neville Island,Pa. That's just north of Pittsburgh. Last week I went to Fremont,Oh. and then over to Butler,In. and loaded steel back to Roanoke-6 coils. Then I went to Orchard Park,N.Y. and loaded at Brookfield,Oh. for Roanoke. Pennsylvania DOT nabbed me at Bald Eagle,Pa. on the way to Orchard Park. Gave me a warning ticket for my log book not being current I should have had it caught up-I had just gotten up on an exit ramp near Roaring Spring and was gonna go to the Snappy store at Bald Eagle and get a cup of coffee and get my book right. Unfortunately,the DOT was camped in the median just before you get to Snappy's. Rabbit is pretty tasty if you parboil it before you cook it-otherwise they're kinda tough might as well illustrate this entry too-the truck in the driveway, new (to me!) grill,what's left of some of the the green beans after the creature gnawed them off. And on a more serious note,it is Memorial Day weekend-let's not forget what Memorial Day is and remember the veterans,and those who sacrificed all so we can enjoy the freedoms we have today. May God bless this nation,and keep us all safe. This I pray in the name of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. Amen

looks good! So,how did you get started building models?

the "double diamonds". Couldn't find any McLean Mack pictures, mostly GMCs, some Whites,and Internationals.

I've probably been 3 trucks behind you on the W.V. Turnpike before and didn't know it

Hello Double Diamond,I don't have a clue in answer to your question,but Rob has never been known to be wrong about anything...so far I just saw "Double Diamond" and you already answered my question. That sure brings back some memories,haven't heard double diamond for a while. How long did you drive for McLean? I remember when they closed the doors-they were about the last company I would have expected to shut down at the time.

it's in Appomattox,Va. - at least I hope it still is!

I have a 64,65,or 66 scout half cab you can have if you want to move it-the man I bought it from took the distributor out of it,it was running before that.I had another '66 I was gonna fix,but that was right before my wife got sick,and it's been sitting at H.H.Moore trucking about 4 years now. They were sold to P.G.T. recently,and Larry Moore told me I needed to move it,and I was thinking of selling it for scrap of course,but i'd rather see somebody get some use out of it,and as far as I know the front end,rear end and transfer case are fine,the engine (152 cu.in. 4 cyl,half a 304) should be OK,and the body wasn't too bad either-it's just been setting for a long time now.

...or maybe he would-I keep telling him the truck doesn't have any power and won't get out of it's own way, but Jeff doesn't seem to believe me-now i've got pictures to prove it! thanks Paul

no,i'd never heard that one,that's good! i'd heard the "slow wagon in fast traffic",but that's about it. ..good one

very well said-I think it's time to stop screwing around and be drilling off the coast of Florida-we can't even drill for oil within 12 miles of shore,but the Chinese can drill 14 miles offshore?!! That's what they're doing right now,just off the coast of Cuba. We should be drilling in A.N.W.R. in Alaska too, and putting a nuclear power plant on every corner-like a 7-11 store, but Democrats and tree huggers won't let us-where IS this gonna end? They say "well,the offshore oil and A.N.W.R. oil wouldn't help now,that's 5 or 10 years down the road before we'd see any benefit from it any way". Well,I think we should've been drilling there 10 years ago then, and since we didn't, we should start tomorrow. I guess if some foreign countries can't defeat us militarily they figure they can destroy the U.S. economy,and that seems to be what they're trying to do. I paid $4.59 a gallon for fuel in Ohio yesterday,and saw it as high as $4.70-something in Pa!

they've been posted for a while-check my albums for the tractor show pictures

A few more random photos from the road...the very narrow street in Wheeling,W.V. I delivered a load of 60' beams on, a big Mack truck, Summit racing in Tallmadge,Oh, a B-model near Zelienople,Pa, A yellow fire truck near Sharon,Pa. (it's for sale!), a huge oversize load, a Swift truck that pulled over on the shoulder-except there was no shoulder there, and the old KB-5 that sat in front of the truckstop in Hubbard,Oh. Now it's parked across the road with a "for sale" sign in the window-$7500.

that was mighty nice of you Joe,i'm sure that driver appreciated it. I had a load of paneling one time with stops in Covington, Pearisburg,and Dublin,Va. Got to the last stop in Dublin a little before 5 o'clock at a Lowes store and they said "sorry,we'll get you in the morning" but one guy said "i'll unload him,it's only a partial load,and I was just gonna go home and shoot some basketball anyway". Never did forget that,and it was years ago.