other dog

...and here's a picture of two dogs' noses-

Turns out there's a lot more to this story- http://wset.com/news/local/man-charged-in-connection-to-deadly-mobile-home-fire-in-gladys The story going around here is that the man shot the women first, then set the fire to get rid of any evidence. I saw Gibson's Truck Parts in Cowpens, S.C. I've always wanted to stop there and look around. I could see the F model, a couple of B models, and a lot of other stuff from I-85. I saw a big Mack truck at exit 32 in S.C. too. Then I saw a lot of traffic in Atlanta. Here's the story- I unloaded a load of steel at N.B. Handy in Norcross Tuesday morning. I had a drop deck trailer so I could go to Monticello, Ga. and get a load of utility trailers coming back to New London Trailers in New London, Va. However, the trailer getting place was closed- all week- for the holidays. No problem, i'll just go to Spartanburg and get a load of skidded coils going back to Handy in Lynchburg. That was a lot easier than going to the middle of nowhere to get those trailers anyway, where they always try to get about 40 trailers loaded on you. So I drive 3 hours north to Spartanburg, and they will not load a drop deck trailer. I've loaded there before, and they load you from the side- you back in the door and keep the left side of the trailer as close to the wall as you can, the trailer floor is at dock level. I figured on the way up there that they would probably just set the coils on the edge of the dock and have me get in the other bay, over to the right, where they would have room for the fork lift to work, or just load them outside- which i'm sure they could have if they had really wanted to. Anyway, they would not load me at All Metals, so I figured on coming home empty. But they found a load in Carrollton, Ga. going to Mineral, Va. so I had to go all the way back to where i'd left from at 9am, and beyond. It was 1pm when I left Spartanburg- it took me three hours to get there from Norcross, took 5 hours to get to Carrollton. I got back to 285 right around 4 o'clock, and you know how that Atlanta traffic is... I picked up this big round thing at Southwire in Carrollton- good place to load, from the time I checked in to the time I was loaded, chained, and leaving- one hour. Waiting to unload in Mineral- Then I had to run a couple of mill roll rounds to Milton, W.V. I got my T shirt in the mail, but instead of wearing it myself for a picture I hired a model to wear it. She was really easy to work with- I just said "here, put this T shirt on and go stand in the pond." She said "duh...OK!"

Danged if it doesn't, I didn't even notice that!

hmmmmm... This was a neat picture on the Madison Heights page too, no date.

That green one, good googly-moogly!!!!

I saw these pictures on a Facebook page about Madison Heights, Va. Lots of old pictures of Madison Heights, not a truck related page at all, but there just happened to be some neat old pictures there, like this H67 moving a house- This one says Dec. 1968 on it- A Virginia-Carolina F model heading south on U.S. 29. I know exactly where this is, they've taken that zig-zag out, now the road goes straight from where the bus and what looks like a Karma Gia is, and from where the photographer was standing if he looked to his left he'd be looking at the Lowes store today. At the top of the picture is the old John P. Hughs motor Co.

Speaking of sheds, they tell me- ''they" is another one of our drivers that lives near here in this case- that I can get a wooden shed with a metal roof for $800 delivered from the sawmill that's right across the road from Walmart in Altavista. I need to go see them, but they're only open on week days. The metal shed like I had is less than $300 at Lowes, but then you have to buy the floor kit extra, and some 2x4's, and three sheets of plywood, and then you still have to put it together with 3,000 nuts, bolts, and screws and if they don't make Straub's any more how are you supposed to do that? The $800 dollar wooden shed sounds like the way to go to me- and, they're bigger than the old shed was.. I have a big pile of scrap metal piled up right where a new shed needs to go, so I need to get that moved because i'm gonna put it farther from the house than the old shed was, in case it catches fire.

I ran 160 from Berlin to Cumberland once. I was still driving the Peterbilt, and before I got to the top of the mountain a red light came on on the the dash- high temperature in the drive axle. Then another red light came on- high temperature in the other drive axle! I'd never seen that before, and never seen it since. I had them check both rears when I got in to make sure they were full of grease, which they were, but no doubt, that's a helluva hill right there!

Wow, that's some big machine!..kinda reminds me of something out of Star Wars-

Welcome, eh?.........just showing off my command of the Canadian language.

Neat looking truck!

Sorry for your loss Bob.

Time for this again-

Nice work Bob!

I thought i'd roast a giant rack for Christmas, but I might have to roast a turkey instead since I haven't found any giant racks. I will not be smoking a turkey, that's for sure. However, the thought did cross my mind to experiment by cutting my turkey in half, and cooking one half in the oven and the other half on the grill.

Winter wonderland pictures- these are on rt. 219 in W.V. Load of sheets I took to Charlotte- I saw an airplane too. Reloaded in Spartanburg- it was much warmer in Spartanburg than it was on rt. 219 in W.V. Be careful out there- when my shed burned up it made me realize just how quickly things can happen. This is just up the road from here- Merry Christmas everyone!

I took a load of pipes to Mountain Lake Park, Md. and when I got unloaded Monday morning I noticed that the pipe unloader people were out of New Alexandria, Pa. I saw a couple of big Mack trucks there too. I got unloaded right behind Sisler Lumber, and the R model log truck looked like it was probably the sharpest looking log truck in the United States at one time. Superliner, chained up and ready to go! I saw a dangerous mountain... Nice view from the top- I think you can see Green dash's house from here. There was even a big Mack truck coming up the hill. Blowing snow on the ski slopes north of Oakland, near Deep Creek Lake.

You're right Bob, they were great trucks. That one on the right with the stripes and straight pipe in the last picture reminds me of the orange and white one I used to drive. Back then, 70's and 80's I mean, there were more F models around here than anything else except maybe Internationals.

Hmmmm...that gives me an ideer. I'm on my laptop in ...dang, I don't remember where i'm at....something Lake Park, near Oakland, Md. Getting free wi-fi from Fitzwater/Guest. Anyhow- I can't photochop with the laptop,I don't have a mouse, but when I get home I can fix you up with a Detroit Diesel T shirt- you're welcome!

I went to Lynchburg and looked at a red '66 Ford myself Bob, back in the 80's. It wasn't a stepside though. I would have bought it, that's my favorite Ford body style, but it was too nice. I needed a truck that I could take in the woods to get firewood, that scratching it up wouldn't matter, and I couldn't have taken that one in the woods. I ended up buying a '69 F100 that was already scratched up to haul firewood with.

I know it, and I get the biggun- the 16 oz. size!

Thanks, I don't add any salt to anything, but there's a lot in a lot of stuff we don't think about much, like bread- loaded with salt!. And I do like a potato chip periodically, washed down with a Red Bull. I don't drink a lot of coffee except when i'm at home, but I suck up a lot of Red Bull!

No doubt about that, I just hope there's no ice on the hill. There was ice and upside down cars all over Lynchburg yesterday morning, then it warmed up to almost sixty degrees later- exactly what the weather man said it was going to do on the TV Friday evening. I hauled a lot of lumber to Lowes in Oakland. Good place to go, i'd park around back, unstrap the lumber, enjoy the Lowe's free wi-fi, and they would be unloading me about 5 or 6 am, then i'd head north up 219, 40, and 51 about a hunnert miles to Pittsburgh- unless there was snow and ice, then it was 200 miles- and get a load of coils coming back to Lynchburg. I had just delivered at the Lowes store and pulled out front to put my wood away when a car came up at a high rate of speed on the ice, lost control, and plowed into the red truck. He hit the step, then the front wheel, taking out the nut covers and the hub caps. I thought there might be bail money involved before this was over, but a young boy got out of the car crying. He had worked all night, then dropped his wife off at Lowes for work. So I got his insurance information, took pictures of the damage- and his license plate- and told him "stuff happens, it's not so bad." I put a duct tape hub cap on it for the time being, and stopped at Truck Enterprises in Harrisonburg on the way back and got a new caps, the chrome outer one, and the inside one that was broken all to pieces too, and new nut covers. They never did get the step fixed, it was still sitting at Truck Enterprises in Lynchburg a few months ago and it still had a bent-up step.

I ordered the "Super Beets" that I saw advertised on Facebook and on TV. It's just powdered beet root crystals that you mix with water and drink, and it's supposed to improve circulation and lower your blood pressure. Two times in a row they checked mine at the eye doctor and it was 160 over 90. After I took the beets for just 4 days it was at 140 over 88, then a few weeks later I checked it with a little tester you put on your wrist and it checked 120 over 74, so I thought "hey, this Super Beet stuff must really work!" So now i'm not too sure.

Larry, I think she should give you a little cut because of you selling all these T shirts for them!