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Good luck! I used to go to "The beautiful Charlotte Motor Speedway, where the pre-race activities are worth the price of admission" (Humpy Wheeler) with my wife all the time in the 80's.

Very cool indeed! I just got the boston butts out of the fridge, where they've been thawing since last weekend. Guess i'll make some pulled pork barbecue. I rinsed them off, scored the fat cap, coated them with the rub, then wrapped them in plastic and put them back in the fridge. I want to get them in the smoker early. And, they're saying 90% chance of rain and thunderstorms here tomorrow. If I get rained out i'll just make barbecue and freeze it.

Oh, did I post this one?..can't remember.

Went to Moneta from Winchester and got a load of lumber going to Warren, Pa. Stopped at Broadway on the way back up the road, where I spotted this wild animal across the road from the fuel stop. Saw lots more wild animals in Pa. Some road shots- going to Warren. Then I went to Greenville to get a load of roll-offs. Had to wait for Green Dash to get his bills signed before I could get around back to get loaded. I got in another backup before the 79-70 split. Took about an hour to get from here to where 79 south splits again. I was beginning to wonder if I wouldn't be better off turning around and going back north to I-80, then taking 80 east over to 81, then 81 south to I-70, then taking 70 west back to 79 south. I did see the best girl in a car yet going south on 79 though. My hours were about up so I stayed at the truckstop at Mt. Nebo, W.V. last night. I looked around some of the old equipment that's just parked in a field there. Pay Hauler interior- The left pedal operates the engine brake- And, for 58FWD- he loves this stuff.

Somewhere up around Woodstock on I-81 two trucks went off-roading. One was way out in a field. Never heard exactly what happened. Sitting in Winchester- I saw another girl in another car going back south on 81. They were getting the truck out of the field went I went back by. Another girl in another car- each one seems to be a little better than the last.

I got depressed reading about all the gloom and doom, that's only going to get worse by the way, so i'll post some pictures of the week. Like this gumball machine at Appomattox Hardware- a great big gumball machine. ...and this sign. This sign was in front of the place where I loaded some plates in Chattanooga, going to Winchester, Va. It was across the field from that place over there. I saw Bob go by when I was waiting to back in. I was fooling with different camera settings- Bob is in "nostalgic sepia" here. I have no idea what that means. When he came back he was in "sharp contrast monochrome", which i'm pretty sure means "black and white". I saw a bird too. A girl in a car in a nice dress. Loooooooong backup at the Johnson City exit. Hey, there's Bob again! Flag on the hill, just south of Bristol. I passed Green Dash on 81... ...but he apparently knows some secret shortcut through the woods, because I passed him again later. He had stopped and changed units somewhere and still came out ahead of me.

We're on it...

I remember the "giant sucking sound" very well.

How big is it? How much does it weigh? I don't know who's running the mill rolls from Petersburg to Milton now, but somebody is. You could give Todd Moore a call and see what he says,434 993 2216. I f I was doing the Milton run i'd have him knock off the driver's pay, that would give you a little bit of a discount.

you mean Raleigh,N.C?

I would try that. I saved a Roanoke paper last week that had a recipe for some kind of cherries soaked in some kind of liquor that George Washington supposedly made. I forgot what it was called...and forgot what I did with the recipe.

It actually came off this 5000 Ford tractor. The one that's now on the Saturn came from this Mack.

We used to unhook the wagons too when we had to back one into the shed or barn. Then we would hook the tongue to the bumper on the front of the tractor and back it in, made it a little easier...or probably a lot easier.

Coming up next- "a-holes who put $2,000 worth of 20'' 'rims' and tires on their $500 POS cars"...stay tuned!

I had to order one for a 5'' stack today, couldn't find one at the parts store- biggest they had was a 2''. When it comes in i'm gonna hack saw it off square and put the rain cap on for her. NoClueJoe66 got her a special helmet to wear when she's driving too, even has her nickname on it- "krash bandy-koot"

I put a couple of extra rolls of duct tape in the car for her. That should take care of any problems.

Looked at one down at P.L.Duncan's, also red with a 290 Cummins and 10 speed. First one i'd ever seen except in pictures. P.L.'s was in really nice shape. I don't think he wanted to sell it at the time, but George Tackaberry wanted it bad. I wouldn't mind having it myself.

And best of all, my stack didn't go to the junk pile- I already found a home for it. Jo will be so surprised- i'm sure she'll love it.

I didn't realize I was looking like an idiot because of my one stack Ranger, I thought it was because of pretty much everything else I did. Anyhow, I spent all morning taking my stack off and redoing every thing. Here's my new look- looks factory, eh?

Yeah, there's some hard pulls on 422. Not too long but really steep, especially the one before you get to Nolo. They have good pizza at the store at the top of the hill though.

Road shots, rt.20 in W.V. Nice Jeep trail down that power line. A Burns' Mack down past this big woodpile. A girl in a car. Saw this girl in Winfall on the way home last night. She appeared to be having mechanical difficulties and tried to flag me down, but it was getting dark so I didn't stop. The rest of the fish story-

I was looking on the computer for a picture of my pickup to photo chop for research purposes and ran across these. I hadn't biggerized them and read the captions for a long time, thought it was pretty funny, worthy of a re-run. And how about this one- I don't think this particular movie ever got made did it? I need to order the DVD from Amazon if it did. I took some new pictures this week too. This is a dragon fly that was on the ground by my truck. This is a big Mack truck with a load of pulpwood. This is a big Mack truck with a load of chips. This is at Welfer Street and Beechwood Blvd. in Pittsburgh. Site of U.S. Steel's Homestead Works. About the only evidence of it ever being there are the smokestacks. Part of it was on this side too. I loaded beams there once. You can see the Carrie Furnace way in the background,across the river.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Furnace You turned off the bridge to get into U.S.Steel, I loaded over to the left. I think they made beams there and plates on the other side. I was there in the early 80's. This is the door to the offices at Gal-Tech. Road shot, from the toll road between Uniontown, Pa. and Morgantown, W.V. A big pile of wood. Dismantled FWD at the Mead-Westvaco woodyard at Rupert, W.V. Don't know if it's being refurbished or being scrapped. Pretty good picture of this plane for just holding the camera up to the window and snapping without looking. Big machines. Trailer's dog-legging pretty bad! Big motor.

I didn't go overboard with mines, I just got a one-stack Ranger...looks awesome though, eh?

Well, ive never mentioned this before, but i'm actually an eskimo from somewhere up in the great white north. I was chasing a seal in my kayak one day when a polar bear started chasing me.I started paddling furiously to get away, and just kept paddling and paddling. Next thing I knew, I had paddled that kayak all the way to Gladys. I got away from the polar bear, but I was too tired to paddle all the way back, so I just decided to stay here. I like it all right, but you can't find decent blubber around here anywhere...and that's my story.

My uncle bought a brand new one in 68 or 69 I think, 383 4 speed. It was blue with a black top, definately bad-ass!