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I need to get to the Walmart store. I just hope hoarders haven't snatched up all the tin foil.

Well, we decided to pass on that 2012 Pinnacle. It's a fine looking truck, clean inside and out, but the fear of any def or emissions repairs it might need in the future has scared me away. Sure is a pretty truck though, I like that red frame.

How does that old joke go?..something like the little girl asks "mommy, when should I give daddy his birthday card that I made for him?" And mommy says "this afternoon, when he delivers the milk sweety".

Maybe they got off track and went through Bland. There used to be a joke about the Bland scales- story was you could cross every scale in the United States and be legal, then when you got to Bland they would say "you're 1200 pounds over on your drives, pull around back and bring your paperwork inside". 🤣

We had about all the Dr. Seuss books when I was a kid too. One of my childhood favorites was called "Go Dog Go". I liked it so much I bought a copy for my son when he was little and one for my grandson too.

This is true! When I was a kid, many years ago, we stayed in the woods when we played. We played army a lot, or cowboys and Indians, and our guns were sticks. And every time you got "killed" you could be somebody else and keep right on going. I was always Sargent Saunders from the TV show "Combat!". And as we got older we played baseball in a cow pasture or hay field. We never actually had enough people to have 9 players on a team, but it didn't matter, we still had fun.

I went to look at a truck yesterday. Turned out to be much worse looking in person than it looked in the pictures. The owner was asking $15,000 for it. We went to look at another truck today. We had pretty much talked ourselves out of getting a truck that we didn't need anyway but I told the man on the phone yesterday that I was coming to look at it today. And the bad part was that this one looked better in person than it did in the pictures. It's a 2012 and clean as a pin. You'd think it was a 2024 model looking at the interior, and it only has 154,000 miles on it. That made it really hard to talk ourselves out of buying a truck we don't need, and just for personal use, non-commercial, not for hire.

We don't have the cement mixer, but we did get the backhoe attachment.

Anybody in the northeast seen any? I've been watching the news, and people are reporting seeing drones all over the Northeast, and now in California too. The things are as big as a car they said, but according to the gummint people there's "nothing to worry about", and they're legally flown- even though nobody seems to know what they are doing, who's flying them, where there come from or anything else about them. Rachel Campos Duffy told some politician on tv the other day that all they had to do was follow it back to wherever it landed, and he immediately changed the subject. So they obviously know a lot more than they're saying. I have a feeling they're up to no good, maybe checking things out for a future terrorist attack. If I was in charge, which I am not, I'd shoot a few of them down and take a close look at the wreckage.

That small freezer can also be used as a refrigerator so I keep some beer in it just in case somebody comes by that does like it. And some extra in case they drink it all.

Yes, we have one of those vacuum sealers and we use the heck out of it. I don't know anything about that 400 lb. heavy duty industrial grade mixer Zina has. Only mixers I ever used was the little hand held mixer that when you pushed the button the beaters came out. She had two of the KitchenAid mixers, but she gave one of them away. She used to bake a lot, but not so much anymore. They're very expensive, but she gave it to a family member.

We freeze a lot of stuff too. We bought a freezer last year but it was too small so we bought a bigger one. Zina has one of those big fancy KitchenAid mixers that we never use, weighs about 300 lbs, and we ordered a meat grinder attachment for it. We thought maybe we would grind our own hamburger or sausage, but we've never used that either.

Yes we go to Sam's sometimes, usually get our paper products there. You can get a 36 can case of beer there for the same price as a 24 can case at the Walmart store. I'm not a mathematician but that's almost like getting a free 12 pack😊 I don't even like beer but I get 36 when I'm there because I do like free stuff 😁 There's a Costco in Charlottesville but not around here. I might have been in one in Florida, I don't remember. Publix is big in Florida though.

Up to 80% now for Sunday.

Yeah we have Dollar General stores all over the place, and a Family Dollar and Dollar Tree. But I like them myself, nothing wrong with going into Family Dollar and buying a bottle of ketchup or mustard for half what it costs at Kroger. Seen one bottle of mustard you've seen them all as far as I'm concerned. Dollar General even sells refrigerated and frozen food items now, beer, pretty much whatever you want.

Yeah, I've got Rain-X on the windshield though, just in case.

...but now I doubt if we'll be going to another parade on Sunday anyway, or if they'll even have it. They're saying there's a 70% chance of rain Sunday, high in the 40's, and I have no wipers and no heat.

No, it's a plastic wreath from the Dollar Store. I think all that stuff came from the Dollar Store. We pulled over after the parade though and took all of it off anyway, then crammed it all in the side box so we can put it back on this Sunday.

Speaking of that- The last time we drove the truck around the loop here we came up to a house on Spring Grove Road where there's usually people in the yard, and we blow the horn for the kids. This time there was what I thought was a dead chicken laying in the road there. I moved over to the left to go around it, and it got up and started towards the house, which is on the left. And the "dead chicken" was a little white fuzzy dog. It has been laying in the road licking his...whatever 🤣 and it ran right in front of us! But the brakes work pretty good, we missed the little fella.

Yes indeed! As soon as I mentioned your name they said "oh, pardon me sir, we're really sorry for any inconvenience that you may have suffered. Right this way, please". And then they escorted us to our designated spot, where they had drinks and sammiches for us. Meanwhile, in the real world they already had the right lane of rt.60 closed when we got there about 12:30. The parade entry numbers were on a flag beside the road. But we went past our number to the NAPA store, like we were told to do. And the guy at NAPA told us to go back and park beside our number. So we went back up the road, turned around, then came back to our spot. Not a big deal at all, but that was exactly what I was trying to find out in the first place when we were told to "be at NAPA at 1pm".

Nice!

I didn't either at first, I just happened to notice the latches one day. The one on the driver side opened pretty easy, took a little WD-40 before the passenger side one opened easy.

The seats are strapped in, and their harness' are strapped to the seats. I drilled a hole on both sides of the sleeper near the back down into the storage area. Then I put an eye bolt on each side and ran a 1" ratchet strap through the seats and hooked it to the eye bolts. They ride really good in it, Roman seems to like it better than riding in the pickup. The kids were the best part, I heard several yell "puppies!" when they spotted the dogs. They were way more impressed with the "puppies" than the truck! And Mack would bark right in my ear periodically, it was a lot of fun. We're going to another Christmas Parade in Pamplin Sunday. That one is a lot closer, but it's supposed to be a lot colder too. Weather was great yesterday, got up to the upper 60s.

So we took the big green International that runs now down to Cumberland, my home town, to a Christmas Parade today. Thing runs like a clock now, no issues. We took all three dogs, they did great too. We heard kids yelling "puppies!" all along the route.

Yes, I remember him. Still Facebook friends.