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Oh, the rest of the story- I was sitting here minding my own binness the other day when Michigan guy called. He said he was sending a truck to get the big green International that runs now and it would be here in the morning. This was after he had already talked to Underdog about delivering it. So then I had to scramble to clean it out. Still had tools and stuff and decorations from the Christmas parade in the side boxes and I had to put the mattress back in it. And the next morning the driver called and said he was about 30 minutes away. I went out and started it and let it run until it was on the trailer. It was about 30 degrees and I told him I'd never even tried to start it when it was that cold before. But it started right up, and I leaned my big piece of cardboard up in front of the radiator. He had cash in hand, so we loaded up and away he went. After we stood around and talked for an hour 🤣

I was outstanding in the carport this morning (see what I did there? 😁) and noticed that a screw was backed out about halfway. So I got the stepladder and a quarter inch drive ratchet and socket and went over every screw in it. It's not screeching and moaning now, most of them were loose and two had come all the way out.

Happy birthday 🎂

Still holding out on turning that AC on- but just barely!

The igloo just disappeared. I'm guessing somebody picked it up at night, because I didn't see anything. They never paid me for it either. The only thing is, I don't know if it's in Australia or North Carolina.

Happy birthday!

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I mowed the grass today- part of it anyway. Seems like just a few weeks ago I was shoveling snow.

One of the neighbors came over and wanted to get a last picture of it. I told her "that's fine but the truck is over there behind you".

The Mack is too tall. I parked my Impala in there.

I remember those!

...and away she goes.

I took a load of treated lumber up to a Carter Lumber store in Uhrichsville, Oh. One time. While I was waiting to unload a guy came in in a fairly new Dodge pickup. He was loading some long boards in it and he ran one end through the sliding back glass and actually rested the ends of the boards on the dashboard of the truck. He had them right up against the windshield, sloping back to follow the slope in the windshield. The tail gate was shut and the other ends of the boards were sitting on top of it. Then he took one rubber bungee and put it across the top of them and hooked it in the bed. I looked and said "I hope you don't have to hit the brakes anywhere". And he said "I'm only going a few miles". And I said "I hope you don't have to hit the brakes anywhere".

Bigger than this one for sure-