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I was watching clips of the Gutfeld Show on Fox this morning. First time I'd watched in a while, but I love his show. They played this clip from a podcast and I thought it was the best Trump story I'd ever heard. I searched for just this clip for a long time before I found it, I found the original podcast but it was over an hour long. So anyhow, I finally found just the clip I was looking for, I think it's just over a minute- https://youtu.be/voihAkRN3hs?si=rY-sXGGwIvmNAZ0z

Yeah, me neither...much. The closest Hooters around here was in Roanoke, but I'm pretty sure it's been closed for several years now. The first time I ever went to a Hooters was in York, Pa. and I think it's closed now too. Me and Woodstock had taken some long loads on steerable dollies somewhere up to the north and east of York, I don't remember exactly where. We had one dolly operator between us, because the only time we needed the dolly was on the job site. After we unloaded, the dolly was hooked to the back of the truck on a pintle hook for the return trip. We were very short, these dollies were just made from a set of tandems with a hydraulic turntable and a gas motor to run the hydraulic pump. So, the dolly driver was much younger than me or Woodstock and he wanted to stop at Hooters on the way back. We said fine, so we pulled in, plenty of room. It was ok, not great, certainly not horrible. You certainly won't see more there than you you would see on TV, especially on the "shaving that sensitive hoo-hah" commercial. That was probably in the 90's and the next time I went to Hooters was in Florida with Zina and her sister. I actually like Twin Peaks better.

Not really, I didn't even feel like stopping at the Winfall Hooters on the way home. Maybe next time.

It's been dry, dry, dry here, and hot. We got a little shower of rain yesterday but it was barely enough to settle the dust. And I had the prettiest potatoes and onions in the garden I've ever grown, with hardly any rain. I'm thankful for what I've got, but can't help but wonder what might have been. I would have had to rent a bobcat to dig those potatoes if they'd gotten some rain. The onions were pretty nice too. I took some to the farmer's market in Winfall to try to sell them. This girl invited me into her car to show her what I had, but I felt like she might have been up to something. I said "what are you doing back there? How do you even reach the pedals to drive?" She just rolled her eyes and said "never mind".

Thank you, I'll catch it eventually.

Funny, I never heard of that movie but now I'd like to see it.

I thought I had finished it all, but then I found one hidden in the refrigerator door...but I drank it. Pretty sure it's all gone now, but I'll double check.

Yes!

I watched "Let's Make a Deal" last night. What an embarrassment. All the contestants were military personnel, and they had the maturity level of a bunch of high schoolers. Most were obviously overweight, they certainly didn't give a very impressive view of our nation's military. I told Zina it was a good thing I wasn't their CO, they'd all be peeling potatoes for the next 6 months.

And how come they run these stupid shaving commercials every 5 minutes, or whenever the stupid Toyota commercial is not on- the one about "shaving down there", which doesn't bother me as much as the one that always follows it- the one where the guy calls his dad to tell him about this new razor. No grown-ass backwards hat wearing punk has ever called his dad to tell him about a razor, ever, in the history of the world. It's just stupid.

And how come they run this stupid Toyota commercial on TV every 5 minutes? The one where they say "you do you" over and over and over? It gets on my nerves so bad that if I did own a Toyota I'd have that sunnavabitch down at Automattox so I could trade it just as fast as I could possibly get it there.

So, I was just thinking- I've been sick since we got back from Macungie. Really sick, not just "I don't feel too good" sick. So sick I hardly had the strength to get from the bathroom back to the bed. So sick I lost about 30 lbs. On 2 different occasions I was sweating so much that I just soaked the pillow and bed clothes in a matter of minutes. I'm finally started to get better now, but it's been almost 3 weeks now. For 2 weeks I didn't know anything, I was just completely out of it. And Zina was sick too, but she never even missed a single day from work. I thought it went easier on her because she had been vaccinated. She had to get vaccinated to be able to visit her mother in the nursing home when she was still in Florida. But- my sister-in-law, my wife who passed away in 2005's sister, whom I'm still friends with, has gotten the COVID vaccine and every supplemental vaccine they've come out with ever since, and she's been battling COVID for 2 weeks now, and it's the 3rd. time she's had it! So what does that tell us?..well, I don't know, but apparently the COVID vaccine doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

I'm not like that anymore. I've been sick as a dog for going on 3 weeks now. I mean I was sick, too weak to do much of anything. However, I did feel good enough yesterday to run over to the Piggly Wiggly in Winfall to get some Alka seltzer Plus. I saw this girl in there and she asked me if I could help her find the bread aisle. I told her "no" and kept right on going to the Alka Seltzer aisle.

No, I didn't know that but it doesn't surprise me. Zina got 2 tests but I didn't take one. I told her I knew if I got hit by a bus walking to the mail box a COVID test would come back positive. I know I've felt about as bad as I've ever felt before, but hopefully I turned the corner last night...I went to bed about 8 last night, got up around 10 to go to the bathroom and I was so weak I nearly collapsed trying to get back to bed. Sweat was just pouring off me, but I hope that was the low point. I feel a little better now, but I'm still very weak.

What this is is a COVID test. And it's showing a positive reading too. As I might have mentioned Zina and me have both felt like crap since we got back from Macungie.

One of my favorite summer songs!

Same here, 90's every day, no rain in sight!

Yes sir, it belongs to the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum now. They still have his name on the door though.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ho4Pdrf2x9KosKNr7

here's my Macungie pictures.

Here's a link to the rest of the pictures I took.