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  1. Here's the next to last truck I drove. It was sitting up at Truck Enterprises in Lynchburg after it was traded in on the last truck I drove when this picture was taken . I'd bet they would be asking twice that much for that truck in that condition now, the way truck prices are. This is the last truck I drove, identical specs. The only difference was the breathers on the outside, but it never seemed to run quite as good- almost, but not quite. That Cummins pulled better than the Pete I used to drive with a 550 Cat engine, with the same transmission and rears.
  2. These are straight from "Double Clutch" magazine-
  3. Maybe- but pretty much every place I ever went had the worst drivers I ever saw🤣
  4. https://youtu.be/dL_tmAfjQgk?si=PWK2PEIIG4QtlixS
  5. Thought you were going to say she demanded that you take down the Christmas lights 🤣
  6. Thanks Bob, I changed the picture. I thought it was this year's flyer too, I didn't even notice that it was from 2021!
  7. That's a good idea, I was thinking I might just cut it where there's a lot of slack in the top and splice it back together. The wire is tight at the bottom down on the lower side of the garden but the top is loose.
  8. Oh no, now he's got a lot more room to dig a lot more holes. He dug a potato up to eat when I was trying to plant them. We were going to take that section of the chain link fence out and move it to make the 3rd. side of the new fence, then they would have one big area to play in. But Zina said we should leave it, so now we can put them in the lower section and close the gates if we have peoples over for a cookout or stew. Then they can still be outside with folks instead of locked inside in the bedroom.
  9. I've been fencing all week, except when I was watching TV- I had to watch the news in the morning, and sometimes Family Feud before I got started because it would be 25 degrees in the morning and in the 50's by afternoon. I put up new fence from the far corner of the chain link fence, out around the well, then down the hill and across, then back uphill to the house. I had much difficulty getting the wire tight with all the elevation changes, and putting up fences is not really my field of expertise. The home made wire stretcher I made worked pretty good though. We were going to pay a buffessional fence putter-upper, but couldn't find anybody that was interested. So my job might look crappy but I'm sure we saved a lot of money by doing it myself. It still wasn't cheap- 3 100' rolls of 4' wire, 20 metal posts, and a 6' gate were over $700. Then I went back and got 6 wooden posts and some other items for $139 more dollars. All so these fellas will have more room to run. They're watching the driveway people now... I ran the tiller through the garden a time or two and planted a row of potatoes and a row of onions this morning too, before it started raining. Then I took the rest of the day off. We also had the driveway biggerized. Zina's gotten stuck in the yard twice. I would have put a circle driveway in here at first if it was up to me, the driveway was kind of... weird. And, in the "this doesn't have anything to do with anything" department, I ran across this picture today when I was looking for a different picture. I know we were talking a while back about how the propeller of a plane or helicopter looked like it wasn't moving in a picture. This is a picture I took of a chopper that was leading the "Truckers Against Cancer Parade" the year before last.
  10. I had an old '71 F100 pickup one time, bought it from one of the mechanics that worked in the shop at H.H.Moore's. Pretty good old truck actually, except it was really light duty. It came from the factory with the smallest Ford 6 cylinder and a 3 speed on the column. He swapped in a 351 out of a station wagon or something at some point, so it ran great but you still couldn't haul much with it, or the rear bumper would be dragging. The exhaust manifold on it cracked and I located a used one close by, already off the engine. Went over to get it and it was laying under a tree in the front yard amongst a pile of junk. The guy wanted $100 for it, and said "but if I was you I'd just go get me a pair of cheap headers". So I guess he didn't really want to sell the manifold anyway. It made no sense to me, but I did go get a pair of headers and slapped them on, back then they were about the same price as what he wanted for the used cast iron manifold.
  11. I agree, the Keystone museum is great, well worth the trip!..me and Zina got married there you know. Dave took us on a tour of the shop where he did most of the restoration work one time, a few years ago. I still owe Dave a hotdog and a Pepsi, but he says I owe him a steak dinner- which I would be more than happy to buy him. When me and Zina reconnected in 2017 it was because she somehow saw my picture on Facebook when I was sitting in Keystone 's PIE Freightliner in Winchester, Va. and Dave took my picture. I was glad to see he made the trip to Florida recently. Let us know when you're going, we're only a couple hours away! And we've been saying for years that we were going to Don Garlits' museum in Ocala when we were in Florida, but we just haven't gotten around to it yet.
  12. This is the house I grew up in, and both of my parents lived there until they passed away. I believe it cost $8,000 to build in 1964. I have no idea what it's worth now, but I'm pretty sure they financed it for 20 years. To me, 20 years sounded like forever in 1964.
  13. A house just down the road from us was just put on the market. 3 days later the sale was already pending, $279,900. 1 acre of land. Beautiful place, but geez!
  14. Yep, there's quite a a list. I've seen them all posted before somewhere.
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