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Making that pulled pork- My aunt and uncle, my mother's brother. I'm really glad they made the trip up here.

We had a lot of my family here, chern, aunt, uncle, brothers, sister, nieces, nephews, grand chern, in laws, out laws...

Not that this has anything to do with anything, but I drove a '77 F model that apparently had absolutely zero air leaks anywhere. It's the only truck I ever drove that I could park on Friday and when i'd get in it to leave on Sunday it would still have 120 pounds of air.

Thanks Bob, it must have been pretty good, it sure disappeared quick! I wouldn't even have gotten a taste of it myself if Zina hadn't stashed some away for me in a Tupperware container before it was all gone.

I smoked a Boston butt in the offset smoker yesterday, and pulled and shredded it this morning. I like when I have plenty of time to smoke it, and it pretty much just fell apart when I pulled it apart this morning. I always discard most of the fat and yucky stuff, but I leave enough of the bark for extra flavor. I've got it back on the smoker now just warming it up, got folks coming over later.

I stopped by the truck washer guy's place on 460 when I was on the way to Lynchburg this morning. We'd seen old unit 55 sitting there for a couple of weekends now, and we'd always say "we should stop and grab some pictures, while it's still around" but we never did. Well, today we did. I got this truck brand new and it's the one I was driving when I retired. Really nice truck, always did a fine job for me, but I heard it had some issues after I got off it. I think they had to put a transmission in it, I know Jeff said there was some kind of problem with the transmission. Clean as a pin on the inside too. I saw a nice looking smoker too.

I like to eat breakfast over at the Winfall Diner. The kitchen seems kind of disorganized sometimes, but they always manage to get things done. My favorite is the big breffist platter, you get some of everything.

Those are fantastic pictures, thanks for sharing. I don't get around like I used to, but I sure did love running out west. And I would have put at least 8 chains on that transmission.

I saw this in the Wheels of Time magazine, they might know something. I was looking for a different ad that I see all the time for a place that deals in old, obsolete, and discontinued tire sizes. As usual, I can't find it when I'm looking for it.

I saw a couple of memory pictures today of when I met Tom Brady at the Watt's Mack show last year, and at the ATHS Show in Harrisonburg. He was wearing a Battlestar Galactic T shirt in Harrisonburg, which I thought was pretty cool.

That cornhole game was really big around here a few years ago, everybody was making cornhole boards, or whatever you call them but it seems to have died out now.

We found 2 more hiding in the grass. Two that were ready to pick, there were several more green ones.

I saw a woman in Kroger in Winfall with a couple of nice melons yesterday. They looked good but I didn't buy any because I pulled this one out of the garden. I'm sure there's more out there hidden in the grass that are ripe. The grass kind of took over this year, and we're still getting more peppers than I know what to do with. Those little orange ones are Tabasco peppers and they're just starting to turn from green. They're waaaay hotter than the jalapenos too!

I was in the Walmart store in Appomattox this morning and I walked by a vinegar display. I use a lot of vinegar when I make hot sauce (we haven't forgotten about you Bob, I'm sorry) and a gallon of vinegar was over $6! I couldn't believe it, it was Great Value too, the Walmart store brand.

I had 4 chains on it, one in front, one in the rear, 2 across the top. I hadn't chained it when the picture was taken. 😁

Those are actually beveled 4x4s that I used to haul coils. They're still good and solid, I'm planning to use them to put under my stew pot when we make stew. That's the stew pot stand there to the right of the burn "barrel", aka "three truck wheels stacked up to burn trash in" and a dog digging a hole. That's some kind of satellite antenna dish that I put under the stew pot stand.

We set that unit off on the ground today. I was going to leave it and borrow a hand truck to move it into position, but I had a brainstorm. I had a couple of metal fence posts laying around and we used them to carry the grill into the back yard and put it where I wanted it. Worked great! And here's a nice Cadillac convertible that I saw on the interweb.

Still moving. We got the grill yesterday- by ourselves. It took some ingenuity, but I got it loaded. My son came over today to help unload it. Only big thing we've got left is the picnic table, which I was tempted to just leave, but since it came from my grandmother's I guess I'll move it.

It was a good one! My favorite episode was when Peggy and Bobby discovered how good food cooked on a charcoal grill was. Hank was all about a gas grill of course, he worked for Strickland Propane. So Peggy and Bobby would load a grill and a bag of charcoal in the car and get some hamburgers and drive for miles out to the middle of nowhere. Then they would grill their hamburgers, so Hank wouldn't know they were cooking with charcoal.

Nice boats!

That's what I always said. We all know why unions started, companies could take advantage of the workers any way they wanted with hours, pay, and everything else so unions were needed. But somewhere along the way the balance turned in the worker's favor, and they just expected more and more pay and more and more benefits for doing less and less work. That greed put a lot of trucking companies right out of business.

It's truly a different world. I remember when my parents built a new house in 1964. It cost $8,000 and they financed it for 20 years. I was 8 years old in 1964 and I remember thinking "20 years?..we'll be paying on this forever". But back then most people didn't even bring home $100 a week. The first brand new car we got was a 1971 4 door Impala, with a 400 small block in it. It was just over $4000, which was an expensive car for the time. Most cars then were in the $3,000 range. I went to the dentist this morning, he looked at my teeths, everything was good, $129. Stopped at Kroger on the way home to get some honey because Zina wanted me to try a new recipe for the cowboy candy that calls for a cup of honey and the honey bear was $8.49, and that was the cheapest. I started to leave the bear in there and stick with the old recipe but I brought it on home. 🤣

When we bought the Nissan it had about a quarter of a tank in it, maybe a little less. Zina said " are y'all going to fill it up with gas for us"? And the salesman said "I can't fill it up, but I'll put some gas in it for you. Meet me down at Sheetz". So I drove it down to Sheetz and he put $26.01 worth of gas in it. I don't think that even brought it up to half full, but still nice of him I thought. On the other hand, I once picked up a brand new K100 at Truck Enterprises in Roanoke. I said "this truck doesn't have any fuel in it"! They said "it's enough to get you to Appomattox". And it almost was, I ran out in Lynchburg. I hated Truck Enterprises in Roanoke.

Holy crap!