other dog

It might have been, I'm not sure now.

Deleted a lot today. I think I had 240 pages of attachments when I started yesterday. If anybody reads an old post and wants to see the picture let me know, it's probably still saved on the computer.

I've been making a little progress on the smoker shed. I worked on it this morning until the heat got to me. I've done about all I'm gonna do anyway, now I just need to recruit some help to get the other grill over here. Looks pretty good, I put the shelf up and spread some gravel around the perimeter today. I'm going to put the other grill on this side, in front of the green shelves. I'm going to stack the wood for the smoker on the shelves. I've got the stew pot stand in back, with an old satellite antenna under it, and the fire "barrel " is some truck wheels that came off a B53S Mack mixer stacked up. I put a "beware of dog" sign up because Roman bit the neighbor the other day. Right on his ankle, broke the skin too. This one- And here's a girl on a car over at the Winfall car wash.

I just saw a post the other day explaining how to manage your attachments and delete pictures, but of course I can't find it now. Anyhow, I could get on the computer and delete pictures willy-nilly but everything works a bit different on the phone. I can't get on the computer much now anyway because the internet here absolutely sucks and Zina needs it for work. I don't want to call hughesnet again like I had in Gladys because they- whoever "they" are- keep saying the new fiber optic high speed internet is coming to this area soon. So back to the pictures- I started going through my pictures I'd posted yesterday, some as far back as 2008. I went through I don't know how many pages and checked well over 100 pictures to delete. And when I did I got a message saying something like "sorry but we can't find what you're looking for now". So I started over and deleted a few, and what I discovered was that if I deleted pictures on one page at a time it worked fine, but if I tried to delete any more than one page I'd get that same message. So I went through about 20 pages of attachments and deleted quite a few, but it's a pretty time consuming process.

I need to go get 2 2x4s to make a shelf in my smoke shed. Might as well go by the bank and apply for a personal loan first I guess.

It might not be the "proper" way, but I have welded a few beads across the back of the wedges too, so they would clamp tighter. Whatever works, eh? Never had any DOT man look at anything that close.

If I had put the same size tires back on my pickup, they were almost $200 apiece. And they were "off brand" tires, not Cooper, or Goodyear or something. The ones I put on it were about $150 apiece. When I had the mud bog truck in the 90's I remember paying 150-something each for a set of 12.50- 38 Super Swampers. And I had a set of Q78 Super Swampers, a 36" tire, that were $148 apiece. And the gas, I remember well when people would pull up to the pump and get a dollar or 2 dollars worth of gas. Now you spill a dollars worth just putting the nozzle in the gas hole.

Yes, I just paid over $200 for an Interstate battery for the car.

Yeah, we were talking at Winchester last year. I think MH Fred was thinking of selling his too. I was thinking about buying one, but I think it was Ken who reminded me that getting in and out of them doesn't get any easier and I'm not getting any younger. I'd want something like that GMC with the 6-53 that I thought was for sale but wasn't in Macungie anyway. Then I could look cool and make lots of noise.

This heat's been something else! Went to Gladys yesterday and burned some trash and Zina's old desk while I was there and thought I would melt. When I go to the garden here I can only pick a few green beans and have to come inside to cool off. Then I go pick more. They're hard for me to pick because when I bend over for very long my back hurts. And I can't squat down to pick them like you normally would, because that makes my knees hurt. We have so many we've frozen a lot, cooked a lot, and given a lot away, but I'm not complaining about that!

I saw a bullnose for sale on Facebook earlier today.

Rhasler was from Farmington, N.M. I don't know if he's still on here, he was a moderator but didn't actually get on here and interact a lot. I think someone took offense at him being a moderator because he moved one of their posts to the VIP Lounge and he stayed mainly off the forums after that.

I made a quart of the cowboy candy, and I made a pint of just pickled jalapeno slices. I use them for making nachos, one of my favorite snacks. I just wanted to use up some jalapenos, I've already got a couple of bags in the freezer for hot sauce but I want to save room for the Tabasco and cayenne peppers. They're not even ready to pick yet, but I've had lots of jalapenos.

What was this post about?..oh, I remember now. I got some new tires on the truck. I didn't put 33s back on it, I went with 31s. 33s were around $190 apiece, these were 150-something. Still high though.

Indeed, the 70s... C.D. Brown and Sons Supermarket had the hose going to the gas pump that rang the bell inside too. It was a supermarket but they sold Amoco gas too. And they also had the air compressor that you turned the crank for whatever pressure you wanted. And it was free, all the time, unlike today where you have to put 4 quarters in the machine to get air. My parents got all our groceries there, usually spent about $20 some dollars, for a family of 6. It was a little small grocery store, by today's standards anyway, but they had everything you needed. The meat department was all the way in the back and they pretty much cut everything to order. I remember the hotdogs were in a big box, about like a shoebox, and they were loose. The bologna was in a huge roll that they would slice, there was no such thing as a pound package of hot dogs or bologna then. They had to slice a pound of bologna for you off that giant roll, and if you wanted a pound of hot dogs they would get 10 out of that box and wrap them up for you. They also had clothes, boots, hardware, fishing rods, lures, guns- anything you needed, they had.

I remember when Rachel Campos-Duffy criticized Jill Biden for letting her husband run in the first place, and she caught a ton of flak for it. Turns out she was exactly right, just like she was right about saying that there was "fraud and shenanigans" in the election. And she was the the only one on Fox and Friends that had balls enough to say it. And I will never, ever, believe that that buffoon won a fair election.

Ain't that the truth!

Oh man, I just remembered - I have a bicycle pump!..somewhere. If I'd only had it with me and some Monkey Grip patches I would have been back on the road in just a few minutes!

Uhh, Freightrain - never mind. Sorry for any inconveniences. 😁

Oh...I guess I should call the man coming from Ohio and tell him "never mind", huh? 🤣

Yes, I'm thinking maybe he should bring 2 cans 🤣

It's good to have friends. I told Zina that I might as well go back home and get a jack and take the tire off so I could take it somewhere and get a new tire put on the wheel. About the only tire place that was open was Walmart. So she called our next door neighbor in Gladys to ask if her husband Travis had a jack I could borrow, since we were closer to Gladys than Spout Spring at the time. And Travis said he'd do better than that. He came out with his pickup and tools- he used to drive a service truck doing road calls- and also an old tire that he had that was the right size. He had a floor jack and an electric impact wrench, we had the flat off in a few minutes, then we went to a garage in Gladys that was open. They took my tire off, put his on, but it had a small hole in the sidewall. So we plugged the hole in the sidewall, which you're not supposed to do but it was an emergency fix. Then we found that it had another hole in the sidewall. Instead of fixing the second hole the guy at the garage said he had a used 31" tire that he could put on it instead if I wanted, so I said "yeah, let's do that". When he got done I said "how much do you want for that used tire?" And he said "nothing at all". So I said "how much do I owe you for all this?" And he said "$10". I handed him a 20 and he said " let me go get your change" and I told him not to worry about it. Me and Travis took the tire back and put it on and I asked Travis how much I owed him. He said "not a thing". I told him his pickup didn't run on air and gave him $20 anyway. Still feel like I got off really cheap today. And I have no one to blame but myself. I knew the tires were kind of sketchy - ok, not "kind of", I knew they were crappy and I just pushed my luck a bit too far. I had no jack and no spare tire. However, I did have a lug wrench 😁. I didn't finish the trip to Gladys with that used tire with no tread, I just turned around and went straight to Appomattox with it and left it at the tire shop. I'll get 4 new tires put on it Monday, and I'll check the junk yard for a used wheel and I'll start carrying a jack and a spare tire.

I posted some pictures of the dry rot cracks in my tires a while back. I must have deleted them off the phone, I don't see them now. Anyhow, I was driving down 501 heading to Gladys to get some more stuff today when I experienced sudden and catastrophic tire failure. No worries though, I have a friend in Ohio who's on the way here with a can of Fix-A-Flat now.

Wow, how wide is that grain head, 120 feet?