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She was supposed to be cleaning the interior of the big green International that runs now, but I caught her taking an unauthorized beer break. I didn't fire her or anything because I really like how she works.

Oh no, them Winfall wimmens are tough!

I was going back searching for a picture and ran across this old post. No worries here, turns out that transmission is NOT an overdrive unit, and it will NOT run 70 mph. unless you drove it off the side of the grand canyon, and nobody would "drive it most anywhere" when I first got it, unless you hired a wrecker to follow you. 🤣

I haven't been through Winfall since the last time but here's an old picture I took when I was stuck in traffic.

I was wondering about that truck, I was reminded of it too. I used to pass by it every time I went to load at Lane Steel in Mckees Rocks. I took several pictures of it too.

They did.

You're not the only one to notice that!

Happy birthday Vlad, from me and Zina!

Oh yeah, I see lots of stuff. There's still Christmas lights on that balcony...there's a Cargostar International back there at the edge of the woods, behind that lift and the orange and black car, along with a couple more fire trucks. Definitely one of the weirdest places i've ever seen, like something you'd see in a horror movie. Wonder why there's so many old trucks and van trailers parked all around? And only one or two houses in the whole town that looks like the grass has been cut in the last 3 years, but there's some fairly new looking vehicles and boats parked in some of the driveways. Several broke down lawn mowers parked in the weeds though. Strange.

I'm on the computer now, Zina wants me to print something for her. I'm going to take another look at google earth too, I can see it a lot better than I can on the phone. Maybe i'll even see the cat lady.

I found the video on my phone.

This is the same truck that's in the video?

The guy didn't have any story or history of anything, he pretty much just walked around videoing houses and trucks. There was a lot of old firetrucks there too. He did say the locals that were still there were not very friendly, and he was warned about trespassing. He never showed a good look at the R Model, I found the better picture on Google Maps Street View. The town was called Moselle, Missouri.

Since it was cold and rainy all day today I couldn't do anything outside for fear of melting. I saw a pretty interesting video on YouTube though. I can't post the link because I watched it on the TV machine, but this was the name of it- This is some town in Missouri, pretty much abandoned, but not completely. The best thing about the video was all the old trucks sitting around, like these- And last but not least-

Thank you everybody! We went out to dinner at the New London Steakhouse with some great friends. I'm pretty sure a good time was had by all!

Yep, trying to cut all the fraudulent and wasteful government spending to reduce that 30- something TRILLION dollar deficit, sounds like he's hell bent on destroying the country all right.

I'll bet, it cost me about $60 to send Andrew Bee a few bottles of hot sauce.

Yah, "we wants our free shit!"

Man, ain't that the truth!

Awesome job Larry! Looks great. And as far as the spray paint goes,.. had to go out and get Roman and Belle. 2 kids were walking by so I had to grab Roman before he decided to bite their shoes. Anyway, where was I- oh, spray paint. I got a little agitated in the Walmart store a while back when I went to pick up a can of appliance white paint. Not to paint an appliance, but that's what we used to paint our wheels with back in the day. And all the spray paint was locked up, you couldn't touch a can of any of it. There was a button there on the wall and a sign that said "Push For Help". So I pushed the button to summon help several times, waited around about 10 minutes because I wanted the paint, but no help ever arrived. So needless to say I got pissed, threw all my other items down on a counter that nobody was at anyway, and left. I went to the hardware store and got the paint, probably paid twice as much for it, but oh well. Somebody told me me later that it was locked up because kids were "huffing" it to get high. But when I went back to the Walmart store I actually saw somebody who worked there and told him the story, and he said they locked it up because people couldn't just go by the color on the cap, they had to spray in on something. He said they would ruin $600 worth of merchandise spraying a $6 can of paint to test the color.