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If Trump wins in November I can already hear her yelling "impeesh fodie sebbum, impeesh fodie sebbum!"

There's so many questions that we'll probably never know the answers to here. I saw a post on Facebook- not just some person's post, but a link to some news outlet. And the secret service agent on another roof with the sniper rifle, (there were 2 agents on the roof, I'm sure most everybody has seen that picture on the news), said that he told his superiors that he had the shooter in his sights and had a clear shot. This was before the shooter had ever fired a shot. And they told him not to take it, to do nothing. Then after the shooter fired the agent took it upon himself to shoot him and killed him. He said he already lost his job because of it. Now whether ANY of this is true or not I have no idea, I only saw this that one time, and have not been able to find that post again, nor have I seen any other story anywhere confirming it. But if every bit of it is true it would not surprise me at all.

I felt kind of bad that I didn't really get to hang out with Bob at Macungie as much as I would have liked to, but on the other hand if I had and he had gotten as sick as I was I would have felt terrible.

I never drove a Brockway truck but I hauled a lot of lumber from Drake's Branch, Va. to Cortland. It was a 9hr. trip in that 9400 International I was driving. I always liked that run, especially after you passed the 81/78 split and kept on up 81 north, it was pretty up through there and not much traffic. I'd get off of 81 at some exit, turn left and go into town, then turn right somewhere to get to the lumber treating place. The best part was they'd unload you early in the morning. I'd get unloaded about 6am but there wouldn't be anybody in the office at headquarters until 8, so I'd go back south a couple of exits to a little diner that had plenty of parking and have breakfast. It was either the pizza omelette or pancakes, every time. The pancakes were as big as the plate they were on, and delicious! The pizza omelette had about everything you'd get on a pizza- sausage, pepperoni, peppers, onions, mushrooms, etc- and it was delicious. That was many years ago. The last time I was up that way the diner wasn't even there anymore.

THIS is a leader.

That reminds me of a story I've probably told before. One time Zina from Florida was visiting and when the trash can was full I took the bag out and loaded it into the trunk of the car. She said "how come you're putting trash in the car?" "So I can take it to the dump". "Why don't you just take it out to the end of the driveway?" "Because it would probably be there a long, long, time".

One or the other link might work. Here's what we're looking for- Well worth the watch. It was great.

https://youtu.be/voihAkRN3hs?si=Tz75qKP1XtdRY5s1

I was watching clips of the Gutfeld Show on Fox this morning. First time I'd watched in a while, but I love his show. They played this clip from a podcast and I thought it was the best Trump story I'd ever heard. I searched for just this clip for a long time before I found it, I found the original podcast but it was over an hour long. So anyhow, I finally found just the clip I was looking for, I think it's just over a minute- https://youtu.be/voihAkRN3hs?si=rY-sXGGwIvmNAZ0z

Yeah, me neither...much. The closest Hooters around here was in Roanoke, but I'm pretty sure it's been closed for several years now. The first time I ever went to a Hooters was in York, Pa. and I think it's closed now too. Me and Woodstock had taken some long loads on steerable dollies somewhere up to the north and east of York, I don't remember exactly where. We had one dolly operator between us, because the only time we needed the dolly was on the job site. After we unloaded, the dolly was hooked to the back of the truck on a pintle hook for the return trip. We were very short, these dollies were just made from a set of tandems with a hydraulic turntable and a gas motor to run the hydraulic pump. So, the dolly driver was much younger than me or Woodstock and he wanted to stop at Hooters on the way back. We said fine, so we pulled in, plenty of room. It was ok, not great, certainly not horrible. You certainly won't see more there than you you would see on TV, especially on the "shaving that sensitive hoo-hah" commercial. That was probably in the 90's and the next time I went to Hooters was in Florida with Zina and her sister. I actually like Twin Peaks better.

Not really, I didn't even feel like stopping at the Winfall Hooters on the way home. Maybe next time.

It's been dry, dry, dry here, and hot. We got a little shower of rain yesterday but it was barely enough to settle the dust. And I had the prettiest potatoes and onions in the garden I've ever grown, with hardly any rain. I'm thankful for what I've got, but can't help but wonder what might have been. I would have had to rent a bobcat to dig those potatoes if they'd gotten some rain. The onions were pretty nice too. I took some to the farmer's market in Winfall to try to sell them. This girl invited me into her car to show her what I had, but I felt like she might have been up to something. I said "what are you doing back there? How do you even reach the pedals to drive?" She just rolled her eyes and said "never mind".

Thank you, I'll catch it eventually.

Funny, I never heard of that movie but now I'd like to see it.

I thought I had finished it all, but then I found one hidden in the refrigerator door...but I drank it. Pretty sure it's all gone now, but I'll double check.

Yes!

I watched "Let's Make a Deal" last night. What an embarrassment. All the contestants were military personnel, and they had the maturity level of a bunch of high schoolers. Most were obviously overweight, they certainly didn't give a very impressive view of our nation's military. I told Zina it was a good thing I wasn't their CO, they'd all be peeling potatoes for the next 6 months.

And how come they run these stupid shaving commercials every 5 minutes, or whenever the stupid Toyota commercial is not on- the one about "shaving down there", which doesn't bother me as much as the one that always follows it- the one where the guy calls his dad to tell him about this new razor. No grown-ass backwards hat wearing punk has ever called his dad to tell him about a razor, ever, in the history of the world. It's just stupid.

And how come they run this stupid Toyota commercial on TV every 5 minutes? The one where they say "you do you" over and over and over? It gets on my nerves so bad that if I did own a Toyota I'd have that sunnavabitch down at Automattox so I could trade it just as fast as I could possibly get it there.