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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-

And, as usual, I bought the truck and spent a pile of money on it, then sold it for way less than I paid for it at first. If it's sold that is, as of now I still have the truck and Michigan guy still has the money.

That reminds me of a St. Patrick's Day story. Actually it was the day after St. Patrick's Day. Back in the 80's several of us had to layover in Elizabeth, N.J. I think we had to load copper in the Bronx the next day. There was myself, Easy Pickings, Gravedigger, and seems to me somebody else, but I don't remember now. Me and Gravedigger both drove big F model Mack trucks, and that has absolutely nothing to do with anything, but gearhead grrrrrrl used to like to keep everything truck related. So Gravedigger dropped his trailer and everybody got in his truck to go find a bar. He didn't drink, so he got to be the designated driver, and designated drivers hadn't even been invented then. We went to this bar and they had draft beer for $.25 a glass. It was green because they had dyed it green for St. Patrick's Day and they were just trying to use it up, and we helped them all we could. It didn't taste green, at $.25 a glass it tasted great!😃

Speaking of Tonka trucks, there's a place not far from here where there's dozens of Tonka trucks sitting on some shelves, outside, in a yard. I don't know a thing about them as to who's they are, why they're there, or anything else just saw them sitting there. I took a drive-by picture but I'm pretty sure I deleted it. However, I did find them on street view.

Same here, high winds and sideways rain and it was over in about 5 minutes. Carport's still upright.

I guess Michigan guy is going to buy the truck. He gave me the no. for his bank in Michigan so I could call and verify that he was good for the money, and he already called Underdog about hauling it to Michigan.

...and we've got high wind and severe thunderstorm warnings for today.

We raised tobacco when I was a kid, that was many years ago. And my Dad and grandfather would make a plant bed in the woods. I don't know why it was in the woods, maybe the richest dirt? Anyway, they cleared a spot, tilled the soil good, then cut 4 poles to put on all 4 sides of it. They sowed the tobacco seeds inside and covered it with a big white cover like cheesecloth. I guess so frost wouldn't kill the plants when they came up, and the poles kept the cover off the plants. And they would always put tomato seeds in it, so when everything came up they had enough tomato plants for half the county. Dad grew his own sweet potato slips too, but he would just put a sweet potato in a hole in the ground and cover it with sawdust and it would sprout lots of slips. He still had a little plant bed for tomatoes and peppers every year too, long after we stopped growing tobacco. Still had enough plants for everybody in the neighborhood. But when I was a kid many years ago there was 6 of us in the family and our garden covered a half acre, there wasn't much we didn't grow.

Thank you Vlad.

Thanks, I will do that. I just happen to have an old tire out here, but I probably need more than one to make a tower, right? I do have a huge flower pot that I was going to plant one in too.