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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.

I thought the same thing! I thought it was me at first, then I said "no, it couldn't be me, he's way younger than I am."

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I was going through some old pictures and found these that i'd never gotten around to posting anywhere. They're from a local antique power show that they no longer have, but there's some nice looking old cars, trucks, and tractors there, including my old B 53 mixer.

No, their trucks are all different colors and they don't do any painting there. That Freightliner is the only truck that I've ever known to be painted there. They keep a few cans of Krylon in the parts room but that's about it.

He painted this Freightliner about a year or so ago, it used to be solid black, so it's probably paint that he had left over from that project.

I asked him a long time ago if I should take the radiator out and that whole piece out of the donor truck, but he said it was a pretty easy fix, so he must have a plan. It looked like to me that that would be the best way to fix it, but it doesn't look like he's cut any corners on it yet, so I just try to stay out of his way.

They are rusted out, I just don't know if he has done any work in that area yet. It's not the cab mounts actually, but the radiator support mounts that are rusted out.

I don't know Bob, I was wondering the same thing.

Thank you, I just told Zina from Gladys that I might have to change it's name from the rust bucket to the red rocket or something 🤣

Rust bucket update. Timmy just sent me these pictures this morning, I didn't even know he was painting it.

Happy New Year!

rust bucket update-

and I agree with you 100%! No way that moron won the election fair and square, i'll never believe it either.

they were guarding that delicious home made stew we had in the jars too.

Thanks Bob!

they're originally from Connecticut, that's why she likes the Patriots.

No, that's her sister Vicki. I remember the picture, but I can't find it. This is the Tshirt though, it's my favorite- for two obvious reasons, but Zina hates it for some reason.

Those who have been around here awhile will understand better. I could actually do this much better now, but it's kind of something I don't want to change.

Yes she is- and she said "Wow, thank you very much!'' She is fantastic- she's young and beautiful, she could do much better than an old fart like me i'm sure!

Yes it is. She was so proud to have her name on the passenger door!