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I watched them making that scrapple. Oddly enough, some people still ate it after watching it. They just put leftover parts, everything they swept up off the floor, all the trash out of the parking lot, and whatever was in the dumpster in a big ol' tank and boiled it down for a couple of days. Might have been a week or so, I don't remember. Then they scooped it out of the tank and pressed all the liquid out between two rollers, like in a giant wringer washing machine. Then they put it in the fridge over night and the next morning they put it in a machine that cut it into blocks, kinda like bricks, only it was scrapple. Then everybody tasted it and said "mmmmm, this is good!" so they wrapped the scrapple bricks up and loaded them onto pallets so they could be shipped out to all the scrapple distribution centers in the U.S. At least that's how I remembered it.

more dog-

I did not have time to stop.

I found another picture that shows the tree, but it's hard to compare the size of it because of different distances and angles. But i'm pretty sure it's bigger now!

Happy birthday!

I saw a girl in a car at a red light. And a big loader at a big pile. Some cars and a firetruck. Some trucks in the field. A truck on a stand. Former home of the H.H.Moore Jr. Trucking Co. in Appomattox. The power pole there is the one right behind the cabover KW picture taken around 1984. Too bad you can't see that sycamore tree in the older picture to see how much it's grown. It's one of the biggest sycamore's i've ever seen. I also saw a dog with a ball in the truck stop parking lot. I saw a big yellow dump truck go by when I was stopped in a construction zone.

I hope to be there too, if I don't have to go to Arizona. I wanted to go and it's a really good paying load, but I think i'd rather go to Winchester. Jeff was going to see if one of his other drivers wanted to go, so if he does i'm going to Winchester. If not, I guess i'll go to Arizona.

I was on Rt. 28 south of Manassas.

Don't know what kind of power this one had, but more D860's had 6-71s than 4-71's. He would have had to bring half his sammich with him to get back out before one of those big hosses got by!

Ah-hah! I thought that's what the sleeper part looked like, the IH cab, as I mentioned when I posted it in the pictures of the week. I had never seen or heard of a D860 with a sleeper cab like this, so I thought maybe some guys did it in the back yard while having a few Yuenglings, and they did a fine job.

I used to use photobucket, still got pictures there I guess, but I don't know how to get to them. Now I put my pictures on Flickr- I think! They're all saved on the computer somewhere any way, just takes a long time to find a particular picture sometimes, because i've got about 10,000 pictures saved.

Noice!

and another thing that amazes me is that in a storm now you might see roofs blown off, or sheds blown over, and there'll be an old barn in a field that's been leaning for the last 20 years, built 50 or 60 years ago, and it's still standing after the storm.

Looks like a one ton Chevy chassis.

I should have posted this here in the first place, but here's an odd duck-

So that was you that broke my windshield and cost me $400!..you'll be hearing from my attorney!

I had a lot of old tools, some belonged to my grandfather, but I lost a lot of tools in a shed fire last year. Some are still riding around in a plastic storage bin on the back of the pickup, I'm waiting on a new shed and tool box before I go through them . I saved everything that might be salvageable.

Nope, that's the old bridge. Here's some drive by pictures after they had started tearing it down, with the new bridge behind it.

I went to a job site with a load of pipes yesterday. I came out of Irish Spring Street there, made a left, then backed up Cedric the Entertainer Street to where I got unloaded. No big deal, just had to thread my way between the concrete pumper and the dumpster. Northern Va, near Manassas. They're building houses everywhere.

I saw some big Mack trucks on rt. 17 yesterday.

Thanks Bob. I saw one of our drivers at the steel mill in Petersburg yesterday and he had seen the picture on facebook. He said "I had to blow it up to make sure it was you. No gray hair, way smaller - what happened?" I said "about 33 years, that's what happened."

I saw in the paper one day that there were looters in a grocery store in Florida. I said then that that didn't really bother me, I might do the same thing if I were hungry. But the pictures of all the low life scum looting the shoe stores and electronics stores, that's a different story, they're nothing but thugs and criminals and I have zero sympathy for them.

Many times, narrow is an understatement!

Yeah, I thought it was pretty anal when they made me slide my trailer tandems to shift 120 lbs. at the scales on 81 just south of Winchester that time.

now that's just funny right there...