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Oh, it is!...just kidding, scrapple is delicious!

That's my favorite too- that way I can eat the pancakes and give the scrapple to the dog that's under the table...just kidding- scrapple is delicious!

Yep, I made some Yuengling popsicles for later.

So, I browned those sausages in a coated, non-stick skillet, just like the instructions said. After they were brown on all sides I poured half a Yuengling in the pan and let them simmer for 15 more minutes. The instructions said to simmer them in water, so I figured a Yuengling had to be better. Then I set them aside, with the fried potatoes and onions, poured the Yuengling out, and browned some peppers and onions a little bit. Then I added them to the skillet of potatoes, onions, and sausage- It was very good- maybe better than scrapple.

I don't know, first time i'd ever seen it. I'm going to test it here shortly!

C'mon down!

Yes I did- if they're not actually on the phone, it's laying right there on their leg where they can reach it instantly. Yes, I did get a long weekend, I unloaded in Emporia Wednesday morning and went up to Petersburg and loaded a 50' load going to Houston. I haven't done anything since, i'll leave Sunday for Tuesday delivery in Houston. I'll have a backyard barbecue tomorrow, everybody come on over!

When I got back into Tennessee I saw some kind of wild aminal by the road. I rode east until my hours were up, and pulled into a parking area to sleep. When I got up the next morning I thought I was at the Abilene terminal. Going east on I-40, almost to N.C. Approaching the first tunnel. That's a bypass road on the right, in case they have to close the tunnel for some reason. In the tunnel... Approaching the second tunnel- In the tunnel- Saw this before I got to Greensboro-

I hadn't gone very far across the bridge when I saw a diesel cop with a big truck pulled over. Then I saw a girl in a car. After I delivered in Muskogee I went to Blytheville, Ar. to load for Emporia, Va. Saw these trucks getting loaded in the field. I even saw green combines with blue grain heads, I don't know what that was all about! Following the forklift at Nucor-Yamato in Blytheville. I hit it lucky- got loaded 2 hours before my appointment time! When I left there I crossed back over the same big river.

This week I went to Muskogee, Oklahoma with a load of beams. I left Saturday, and when I got to the shop I thought Abilene had opened a terminal there. I saw a girl in a car on 81 somewhere. I stopped at exit 288 on 40 in Tn. for my mandatory 30 minute break. This is the ice box outside the truck stop. They have a big smoker there too, you can see a little of it behind that picket fence, past the ice box. This GMC was parked out back there too along with this International. Both of them had "for sale" signs on them. I saw a shiny pyramid in Memphis. Then I crossed a bridge over a pretty good size river.

Reminds me of the advice Rob gave somebody on here one time- he told them "if the DOT pulls you over the first words you say are "blow me!"

Yeah, I like those too! Some friends of mine's 66-

I went to Emporia, Va. with a load of beams out of Blytheville, Ar. Got to Emporia last night and went to Simmons Truck Stop. They have a Huddle House restaurant there, it's similar to a Waffle House, only better I think. I'm almost ashamed- but not quite- to say I had the usual- eggs, sausage, hash browns with onions, a biscuit and gravy, and a waffle.

It was a 396/350hp, which was actually a 402. It was bored .030 over, had a Crane cam, 780 Holley carb, Edelbrock "Tarantula" intake, Accel ignition, headers, all the usual goodies. Had an 8-track tape player too! It was originally an automatic, but I went to the junk yard and bought all the clutch parts and linkage out of a 4 speed Chevelle and put an M22 Muncie that I already had in it. Nice car! Then I got married- the first time- and sold it for half what it was worth. The end.

Nice window! Nice red pickup! Nice Chevelle, I had a '70 SS, in the 70's. Nice pictures!

It sure is Mike, I hadn't even noticed that!..must be a "cute effin' something"...i'm gonna call her and see what it is...

...so then, after nearly passing out from the heat and humidity tarping that load of steel, I went up to the Daisy Duke diner- had just enough- well, almost- hours to get there. T he food there is great, and the scenery ain't bad either. It was too dark to take any good pictures though. Then, the next day, I saw a girl in a car. Load of angle, when I stopped to get a bistit on the way to Petersburg the next morning. The worst part was, the load was going to the galvanizing place in Petersburg- I picked it up for Triad Metals, and if i'd known it was going to the galvanizer I wouldn't have tarped it in the first place. Now you might look at this and think "tarping- what's the big deal?..what's he whining about, that looks easy enough!" And it is, I just like to whine...but when it's 90-some degrees, 100% humididity, i'm old, you gotta use that stupid fall-prevention crap to get on the trailer, it is kind of a big deal- oops, sorry, got carried away whining again there! After I got unloaded at the galvanizer, I went over to the fuel stop to wait and see if we would get a load out of the steel mill. I saw this dumpster behind Hardees while I was there. I loaded a load going to Muskogee, Ok. that delivers Monday. I'll leave tomorrow. You can see the beams in the mirror here, while I was waiting to turn into the driveway off of 460 in Concord yesterday.

I went to Atlanta again, with a load of beams this time. Here's the Atlanta skyline from the place where I unloaded- I left there and went to Cartersville, Ga. to load some 40 foot angle iron at Gerdau. I saw a girl in a car along the way- She rates 2 pictures- No, she rates 3 pictures- Once again, it was just sweltering hot in Georgia- ...but i'm still not going to wear short pants hanging half way off my ass and tennis shoes when I go somewhere to load! I saw a big Mack truck there- I also saw this sharp looking pickup sitting inside the fence down the street a little ways when I left-

Reloaded at Gerdau in Cartersville, Ga. Thought i'd have a heat stroke tarping this load of 40' angle, and the one lift of 20' flat bar they put on top just to make it harder to tarp. I didn't go back down 75 to 285 to 85, through Atlanta and Charlotte, I went 75 north to Knoxville and 40 east to 81 north- much better going that way. I stopped at the Daisy Duke Diner at exit 30 on 81 in Tennessee and had a hamburger steak with mashed potaters, gravy and onions, pinto beans, corn bread, and a couple of glasses of iced tea. I was ready to take a nap then, but I didn't, I went on to Concord. Saw this unit along the way, so I took a picture for no good reason. I saw a bird yesterday-

I don't have a lot of pictures this week, except for some girls in some cars, and everybody's probably tired of seeing them. I did a van load to Sanford, N.C. Monday and again Tuesday, so that was nice. This heat and humidity has been rough the last few weeks! I was hoping to get towards Pittsburgh at the end of the week, but I had to go to Norcross, Ga. with a load of sheets, a machine, a coil, some skidded coils, and I was soaked with sweat before I got started good tarping it. A girl in a car- A van load (not really- I was back at the shop empty). Load of steel I took to Norcross. It wasn't foggy at all, but i'd had the AC on in the truck WFO and when I got the camera out after I got the tarps off it just fogged up immediately. I saw a white Dodge van at the gas pump when I stopped in Chatham on the way to Norcross. Some girls in a car. Here's another girl in a car- Here's a big peach- A big Mack truck-

I heard an armadillo shell helmet actually works better than tin foil. I don't know, but I ordered one just to be on the safe side.

Yes, some nice trucks at that little show- like the yellow Fleetstar, the Highbinder, the GMC...

I don't know if I can make it or not, I couldn't make Macungie. If I was in the area on Friday, I might hang around an extra day.