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Most excellent, i've even cooked beef brisket in it that came out tender and delicious, something i'd never been able to accomplish before. Everything i've cooked in it came out good.

I thought about going for a ride- briefly- but both tires are flat on the Huffy.

nope, just my charming personality

I like this one too.

The winter that never ends- we had substantial snow before Christmas last year, and it's still snowing in April. I bought a bird feeder for entertainment, already got birds enjoying it. The big peach. The big mug of beer. The big rack of ribs. Yum... A big Mack- oh, I posted this one last time, never mind.

She sampled some Pit Barrel ribs this weekend, but I told her that your food was much, much, better than mine so she'll be looking forward to it.

I've been doing many new and exciting things. A while back I noticed that I had a squeeze bottle of spicy brown mustard in the refrigerator that was about half full, and a larger bottle of regular yellow mustard that was only part full. So I mixed them. And just today I poured the last of the pineapple juice in with the orange juice to save space. Very delicious too.

Looks great!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday Vlad!

thank you!

Thank you everyone!

Only 75.

Or it could be just a bad air governor?

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I hope it's only the beginning Vlad, because this woman...I already know that I would marry her right now, she's just great, and i'm just completely taken with her. Yep...

A big Mack truck. After I delivered the crane mats and cribbing to Diversified Rigging I took off to Oak Harbor, Ohio. Picked up these compressors and drying towers that I took up there a few months ago. There's several pallets of hose on the back of the trailer. When I took this load up there they told me I would have to unroll that hose across the parking lot so they could roll a steel ball through it. I thought they were joking at first, but they were not. The nuclear power plant people don't have much of a sense of humor. It was about 10 degrees that day and I told them "somebody might roll that hose across the parking lot, but it won't be me- i'll take it back to Lynchburg first!" And I meant it. The security guard with the automatic weapon that rode in the truck with me, and followed my every step when I had to get out just laughed, and said "I don't blame you, you drive the truck- they can take it to the pallet x-ray machine, that's the simplest thing to do." Then they called somebody, and they decided that the hose was probably ok, and I didn't take it back, but I was not going to roll it out across the parking lot. The cooling tower is huge. Pulling into the truck trap on the way out. Pulling out of the truck trap. My favorite view- the power plant in the rear view mirror. Then yesterday my gorgeous girlfriend and I climbed Mt. Everest.

So, when I left Florida I went to Georgetown, S.C. and picked up some stuff at International Paper for Diversified Rigging in Rustburg, Va. They were there putting up this new crane at the paper mill. It was too big to get all of it in the picture. Saw a big red loader there. It was too big to get all of it in the picture. A collapsed shed , been like that a long time. Yep, there's a car in there. And the big Mack truck in the garage- I saw a red and white Ford at Diversified too- And this red and white big Mack truck- West Virginia- Cooling tower, Oak Harbor, Ohio. Me and a gorgeous red headed woman. She's way out of my league, but she seems to like me.

Thank you Vlad, thank you very much. She's coming up here for my birthday in April, and already said she's coming to Macungie- she's great...yup- great!

Yep, it was St. Patricks day when I was there, but it goes on for a whole week. That was the last weekend of it when I was there. And Yes, she's the one. Moved to Florida from Connecticut a long time ago. She's great!

and I was surprised at how cheap the beer was- 2 or 3 dollars for a bud light draft, and I would have expected it to be at least twice that.

I bought several beers at the Cabbage Patch, where the cole slaw wrestling was. That was the best, everything you wanted was right there. That young lady under the umbrella was over on main street in Daytona. We just rode over there to look, never even stopped. Too many people, nowhere to park, etc. But the Cabbage Patch, that was the cat's ass. Still lots of people, with lots of bikes, food, beer, souveneirs, hats, t shirts, scantily clad wimmens, you name it. We just parked over there and walked around, had a few beers, watched some rasslin, had a great time.

And...bike week. I wasn't even that enthused about going at first, but it was a blast, I really enjoyed it! Wimmens about to wrassle in the cole slaw- an elf, I think. more body paint- There was a few bikes other than Harleys there, but not many. I don't know what group this is, but they were good! The guy standing playing drums was really good. And there were beer stands everywhere! Oh, there were lots of motorcycles there too, but I forgot to take any pictures of them.

I saw lots of Florida wildlife. And more- I saw an airplane a big round thing- and this building.