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🤣 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.

I saw this girl in a truck when I was leaving. She asked me if I would jump her, so I guess the truck wouldn't start. I had my jumper cables in the trunk too, but I told her I didn't have time because the dogs were home by themselves.

Today I saw a big Mack truck on the way home from Appomattox. I was on the way home, I don't know where the big Mack truck was going. I thought about stopping and asking about the little Cargostar parked in the weeds by the upside down Diamond Reo cab, but I didn't. I had to hurry home because Zina from Gladys had a Dr's. appointment in Altavista too and the dogs were home alone. I did make a quick stop for gas at the TA in Winfall though.

Yesterday's project.

Looks like it would make a great smoker too!

Yes, Rob was working on that B model that he had at the time, doing the new drums, king pin bushings, etc. I think a man had given him that truck? It had been parked in a shed for a while I think. And he had run out of fuel a time or two, so when I saw the picture...and it did kinda look like he was reaching for the shirt pocket too- or a quick squeeze 🤣😂🤣 And the other guy was Mark, just because 🤣. But he was a good fit because he was a hard working Mack owner-operator.

I wonder if I could buy the hood off this GMC? Zina needs a new desk.

Thank you, yep I looked back at the pictures and we had just gotten her as a kitten 2 years ago in September.

The transmission was the latest thing to give out on it. I told him he should try to find an 18 speed to put in it, but he was way ahead of me, he was already in the process. He sent us a wedding gift too- He sent some other stuff too, but this caught my attention more. He asked Zina for our address and she wouldn't tell him, saying "you don't have to send us anything". So he asked me, so he could "send a Christmas card" he said. So I sent it to him, not knowing he had already asked her- until he told me. He said "she wouldn't tell me, but I knew you would be just dumb enough to do it". I've seen Vinnie at Macungie a couple of times, last time he bought a fuel tank at the flea market there. I don't remember if that was last year or the year before last now. He has definitely grown up!

So true. I always said I'd like to go out like my Daddy did- he told Ma he didn't feel good and was going to bed. Then she heard him hit the floor in the bedroom, gone, just like that. Unlike my wife who suffered with cancer for two years. Not that we have any say in the matter...

Well, back to the regular routine, here's some pictures of the week- I saw the grinch on a roof. Here's some chicken leg quarters and a piece of pork loin that I saw on the smoker today. I just wanted to smoke something on that smoker, so I picked up the leg quarters and pork loin at the Food Lion in Rustburg on the way back from the dentist in Appomattox yesterday. It is a great smoker- I've cooked a lot of delicious things in the old "smoke shed" as I call it. it was certainly money well spent...but ever since I got the Pit Barrel Cooker that's been my "go to" smoker, it's just so versatile. You can cook on a rack- or hang from hooks- like this whole turkey. And I have cooked 8 racks of ribs at once in it before. ...or get the hinged grate and do both at the same time. Speaking of racks, here's a girl in a car- And on a sad note, the little arrow head cat died. We have no idea why, she was perfectly healthy, at least she appeared to be, and the other morning she was laying on the bed looking out of the window. Then a minute later she was laying under the kitchen table dead. No clue as to why, or what happened, just that quick she was dead.

Oh wow, I didn't know that about Greg Ryder, I remember him.

He's another one who's very active on facebook, and Mark (vision386) is too.

I don't know if this should be in Pictures of the Week, or Former/Dormant Members, or the Christmas post. Anyhow, it's one of my favorite poorly photo-chopped pictures. The date on the computer said Dec. 24, 2011 and I think i've posted it every year since then. This is Rob and Mark, AKA Vision386. Rob ran his B model out of fuel in the corn field one time, that's where this idea came from.