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There is an update on the lumber truck, they say a car did indeed pull in front of the truck and cause the accident. The driver put it in the ditch rather than hit the car. But- I always secured every load like I was expecting that to happen, not like "well, it could possibly happen but it probably won't".

I used Bell helmets. The last bike I had was an LTD1000 Kawasaki. I sold it and bought a pickup truck, mainly because my wife wanted me to get rid of it, but I did need a pickup. I let the full face Bell helmet go with it and the guy that bought the bike only had it a week or 2 and wrecked it. Not his fault, a 4 wheeler made that left turn in front of him when he was coming from the opposite direction. The guy on the bike hit him right in the side. Put him in the hospital for weeks. My wife saw him somewhere after he got out of the hospital and he told her that the doctors told him that the fact that he had a good helmet was the only thing that saved his life.

I saw a couple more pictures of the truck on the Appomattox VFD page. The truck was the only vehicle involved, but that doesn't mean nobody pulled out in front of him and caused it, no details were given as to the cause. Said the driver was transported by EMS, but it doesn't look as bad from this side as it did from the other side.

Oh... I didn't even notice that at first 🤣 🤣 🤣

Yeah, hard to say. I wasn't close enough to see in detail, just got a phone picture from the Express Lane parking lot. The truck is nosed down into the median just past the stoplight , I don't know if any other vehicles were involved or not. Lumber might have been loaded on ice on an aluminum trailer, that's never good either. Hope the driver's OK, looks like the lumber is up in the cab pretty good.

I've been running the heck out of my snow removal equipment 😩 I didn't try to dig down to the gravel like that, but it comes up in big pieces like that. Some of them I just pick up and carry. I got out this morning with no problem, the road from here out to 460 is half clear and half solid packed ice. I saw this accident in Appomattox. I don't know any details as to what happened.

Did someone say "fake smear"? 🤣

I sent Andrew in Australia a few bottles of hot sauce last year, I think. Might have been the year before last. I call him Andrew in Australia because his name is Andrew and he lives in Australia. Anyway, I think it cost about $50 to ship it. Might have been twice that much, I don't remember that either, but he said I spent too much, I shouldn't have sent it, etc. And I told him that it wasn't about the money, it was just the experience of me sending my own hot sauce and him having it. In Australia 🦘 Kind of like when I wanted to stop at the Big Texan Steakhouse before I retired, but never got a chance to. Closest I came I lacked an hour of driving time to get there. Stupid ELD. And people said "you didn't miss anything, it's just a tourist trap, you can get a lot better steak a lot cheaper at other steak places, blah-blah-blah". And I don't doubt any of that, it wasn't about the steak, I can probably cook a better steak in the back yard, it was just about being there.