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I told Zina from Gladys that that looked like your truck!

Hmmmmm...I cropped the people out of this picture and just left the fantastic seafood and it failed to post 4 times. Tried to post it in this reply, and it still "failed to post,unknown error''. But when I tried the whole picture, it posted with no problem. So that's the lovely Vicki from Florida with the beautiful Zina from Gladys, and me holding a mug of beer. And the fantastic seafood- Vicki had the fish tacos, I had the fish and chips at the top right, there's some sweet potato fries there, and I don't remember what Zina from Gladys had, clam strips I believe.

Here's the rest of the pictures that I took in Leesburg, which isn't many. But like I said, I just wasn't going to pay $60 for 3 of us to get in when we didn't get there until 3pm on the last day and a lot of trucks had already gone or were loading up to leave. Here's a girl in a truck. This is a fine looking cannon ball. Here's a fine looking boat in the water over in Sanford, where we had some most excellent seafood. That fish I got was the cat's ass!

I know i've told the story before, but I one night I needed a headlight for the 2006 Peterbilt I was driving. I had just gotten loaded at Kyanite Mining Corporation in Dillwyn, Va. I was already a bit cranky because it was late, already dark, I had just gotten loaded, and I was supposed to have that load relocated to someplace else in the morning. I stopped at Advance Auto Parts and told them I needed a low beam headlight, and told them it was for a four headlight system, rectangular sealed beams, even told them the number on the headlight, I think it's a 2A1? Mybe a IAI..anyway, they're all the same, whether it's for a Peterbilt or a Buick. And the first thing the guy wanted to know was "what's the VIN?" I just said "I'm building a spaceship in the back yard out of 2x4's and I want to put headlights on it.'' Then I just started walking out the door and a girl that worked there put a headlight on the counter and said "is this what you need?" I said ''yes!" So I paid for it and when I was leaving she said ''good luck with your spaceship''.

Here's a girl on a boat then-

That's all I got so far... We had to make an unexpected trip to Florida, and we rode up to Leesburg to the truck show to check it out. We talked to our friends from the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum, so that made the trip worthwhile, but we didn't even go in to the show grounds. We didn't get there until 3 pm on the last day and most of the trucks had either already gone- hey, that reminds me of a song- never mind that, they were either gone or loading up to leave. We went over to the gate and they still wanted $20 each to get in, so we just left and went to a fantastic seafood place in Sanford.

That reminds me of a job site that we hauled some long bridge beams to one time. I don't remember how long the girders were, but they were loaded on stretch trailers (extendable), but the longer the trailer the easier it is to back anyway. We- there was two or three of us, I don't remember that either- got off of I-95 down south of Petersburg somewhere, and took this little small road that i'm pretty sure turned into a dirt/gravel road, but I don't remember that for sure either, and went probably 3 or 4 miles to the job site. It turned out that the beams were loaded backwards on the trailers, or we needed to be on the other side of the creek- which we were not. They couldn't spin them around with the crane so we backed up all the way to 95, turned around, then backed in all the way back to the job site. It wasn't hard, just took a while, and I don't think there was any traffic on that road to get in the way because the bridge was out.

thanks Bob!

Pretty much.

Here's a link to the Big Macks flickr album too, I just added these to it.

We went to a funeral Saturday, for Patsy Moore. She was the wife of the late F.L.Moore, founder of F.L.Moore and Sons Trucking Co, where I worked since 2005. H.H.Moore Jr. was F.L.Moore's father, and I worked for him from 1979 until he passed away, and stayed with the company until 2005. So I've know her a very long time. Super nice person, everybody thought the world of her. And her father, Herbert Jamerson, owned Jamerson Brothers Trucking Company in Appomattox. They've been out of business for a good while now, and so has H.H. Moore Jr. Trucking Co. Inc, PGT bought them and closed the doors. There was very little that Patsy Moore didn't know about the trucking binness. I had been to a couple of funerals at this church before, but only from 460. You turn right there by those self storage units at Spout Spring and go under the tracks, that road takes you right to it- you know where i'm talking about. But I checked the old google maps on my phone and they told me "oh no, not from Gladys, you don't want to do all that- just take Pigeon Run Road to Bear Creek Road to Red House Road to some other road...." and so on. So on the way there we passed this old mill- very nice drive through there by the way. Then yesterday we went to see my mother, who's in a nursing home in Farmville now. We took another scenic route home, but we've been this way lots of times. Actually, the google says it's only one minute difference in time going 501 to Rustburg, 24 to Concord, and 460 to Farmville or Pigeon Run Road to Red House Rd. to 47 and 47 out to 460 at Pamplin when driving from Gladys to Farmville. Anyhow, we saw this B model on the side of rt. 47 so I went back and took a couple of pictures with my phone. I used to never leave home without a camera and I need to get back in the habit.

yes, June 2017, shot 1/200 sec. f 3.7 4.5mm ISO 125 Device COOLPIX S9700

...this was 2017? I'm thinking...maybe. I'll research it and find a definate answer that's totally accurate and get back to you.

I run across some treasures that I haven't seen for a long time too. Like this picture of agent Brocky at Macungie for example-

Spoiled?.. that's ridiculous! 🤣

Evidently 🤣🤣🤣

I see I have duplicates of trucks i've driven, I'll remove some. It's hard to keep track of all the pictures, the only way they're organized is by the date, and if I save a difference version, or edit, or resize, or rename a picture they're all on the computer somewhere, and they all get jumbled up somewhere somehow. I've been going through pictures on the computer and editing a lot, that's why I was posting some on Flickr. And I have deleted several hundred pictures already. Gives me something to do on snowy and rainy days too.

I had to go back and see which pictures they were, yes, the LEDs don't generate any heat at all to melt the snow off. And I remember that camper, I'm pretty sure I posted that picture here and said I saw Rob on vacation, because he always gave me a hard time because I drove a Peterbilt.

I know Brocky, I just started taking a lot of pictures in the later part of my career. I took a load out to a campground near Mt. Rushmore one time and didn't even have a camera, so I stopped along the way and bought 3 or 4 disposable cameras. You had to send them off to get the film developed. The pictures were pretty good though, they held up decent. I had an old Polaroid camera way back when, but the film was very expensive, and the pictures did not hold up well at all- not that they were that great to start with anyway. I think I got that first digital camera around 2007 or 2008, and I took a picture of everything I ever saw after that 🤣. If you check the rest of my Flickr photos, I have over 10,000 pictures there now, including an album of Mack Trucks.

My nephew Chuckie worked at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock for a while. When he was training he had to weld something that he had to break a piece of a mirror off and lay it in a hole because that was the only way to see what he was welding. He liked it, worked there a while then came home to Buckingham and got a good job welding at Hi-Tech Labs. And he welded on log trailers in his spare time for a hobby.

Yeah, how did that happen?😆

The potato would get at least 2 votes then.

Their new light-up collars, so we can see them in the yard at night.

Here's some more pictures that I just put on flickr, these are from 2009. I loaded some steel beams at Nucor-Yamato in Blytheville, Ar. and took them to Payallup, Wa. Then I reloaded some wooden crates in Seattle, that's where the yellow Western Stars were, and took them to Houston. Then I loaded more beams in Midlothian, Tx. going to Milton, Pa. There are some pretty nice pictures of the great northwest there. I took all these with the very first didital camera I ever had, just a small 7.1 megapixel Kodak. The first time I ever saw Mt. Rainier was on this trip, the big mountain in the distance after I crossed the Columbia river. There's a Frito's truck just ahead of me in the picture. And that was about the only time I saw it. It was much closer to Payallup but it was so foggy when I was there you couldn't see very much. I thought the Anaconda smoke stack was neat too, it was huge, nearly 600 feet tall. This trip was in January and I still thought Montana was the prettiest plce i'd ever seen. I always wanted to go back in the summer and see it when everything was nice and green, but of course that never happened.

I think so Brocky, we were planning to go but we can't plan too far ahead nowadays, Zina's mother isn't doing too good, my mother isn't doing too good. But we are certainly going to try to make it. I think Dave is going, and they're going to bring some trucks down from the museum. I'm looking forward to it, we haven't been anywhere in a while...anywhere.