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Looks just like the one I saw, but it's probably not. You didn't happen to see 2 red and white hounds on it's trail did you? 🤣 The one I saw out here in the field with the dead groundhog that time was the first fox I'd seen in years. Now I've seen 2 in a couple of months. I think the last one before that, that I can remember anyway, was when me and traveling kid were running together and he hit one with the truck on rt. 460. That was right near here, just before you get to Concord. He pulled over to look for it, but he couldn't find it. He said the hide was worth about $50. That was about 25 years ago, I think he passed away in 2001. I don't know what he would have done with it if he had found it, you can't really carry a dead fox around with you. Well, you could, but it's probably not the best idea.🤣

My dad had a '74 GMC pickup and it had a little pouch on the door, and he always had a pack of cigarettes in it. I'd sneak out at night and smoke a couple of them.

We used to ride in the back of my dad's pickup all the time. We'd ride in the back from Cumberland, VA. to Farmville when we went to see my grandparents on my mother's side. My grandparents on my father's side lived right across the field. But that's all we had, my dad bought a brand new '66 Chevrolet pickup, blue with a white top, 292 engine, 3 spd. on the column. He had a '58 Chevrolet pickup before that, that's the first vehicle he had that I actually remember. And there was 6 of us, I have 2 brothers and a sister, and everywhere we went we went in that pickup. I do remember him borrowing my grandfather's car a time or 2, he had a '60 Chevrolet, 2 door, 283 with a powerglide. I remember a lot of stuff. Then when my mother got a part time job she bought our first car, a '65 Impala, 2 door, 327, powerglide transmission. Nice car. The first brand new car she bought was so expensive I couldn't believe it. $4100 I believe, and around $3000 was typical for a new car then. 1971 Impala, 4 door, 400 small block. That was a really nice car too.

Only if they were the pointy ones 🤣

Exactly, I've picked many a tomato and wiped it off on my filthy shirt and ate it. Always had a watermelon patch near the tobacco field, at break time if nobody had a pocket knife with them we'd pick a watermelon and break it open on the ground and eat it with our hands. We'd get our own watermelon though, couldn't take a chance on getting any of my brother's filthy germs. 🤣

Or, "the picture I didn't get" of the week. I looked out of the window a minute ago and saw a beautiful red fox just trotting across the front yard and across the driveway. Of course I didn't have my phone so I could get a picture. Then 2 red and white hounds came moseying along on It's trail. I felt kind of sorry for the fox. Anyway, here's some dogs. And here's the hot sauce I made this morning.

Trying to maintain law and order is a far cry from taking over the city. I'm not a fan of thugs and criminals on the streets myself. I remember when Chicago was one of my favorite places to go. We had several places in Chicago, plus Gary, In, Crown Point, In. and Hammond, In. that we hauled kyanite to regularly. One of the places in Chicago was Chicago Fire Brick, right down town, on 79th. st. I think. No, you took 79th. St. and then turned north on Ashland ave. I think. It's been 40 years, anyway I would go there and park right on the street and go to sleep until they opened the gate in the morning, nobody ever bothered me. Nowadays? No way, you couldn't pay me to go to Chicago and sleep in a truck on the street.

Yeah, remember when that stupid bit- sorry, I meant to say AOC, stupid autocorrect, said she didn't even know how she could afford to pay rent in Washington, and now she's apparently loaded?

It sure hits close to home, a good friend of mine just passed away Sunday. I was driving for H.H. Moore Jr. in the early 80's when he started to work there. Ran many loads of steel to Boston with him. He came off the road several years ago after he had heart bypass surgery and when he recuperated he went to work in the shop at FLM. Worked his ass off too, mainly on trailers, doing lights, tires, brakes, etc. Many times I'd go in the shop and he'd be working and just pouring sweat and everybody else would be looking at their phones or something. He was a great guy, came over to Gladys one time to help me work on that old Dodge pickup I had, came to several backyard barbecues. I had just asked Jeff last week why he was still working, and he said it was so his wife could stay on his insurance. He was the same age as me.

Yeah, but if they hadn't do you realize how much spotted owls would cost at Piggly Wiggly now? Or if you could even find one, then I wouldn't get to use my spotted owl cooker.

Sorry for your loss.

Where's mrsmackpaul? Oh, never mind, he's probably shoveling snow. 🤣

You would have loved it around here then, I think it was 90+ every day for the entire month of July. About did me in. It's cooled down a bit now though, it's only in the 80's.

It has an L10 Cummins, 9 speed.

OK, here's a few more pictures.

...or I would trade a 1984 GMC Brigadier that runs like a clock and drives like a car for it. Doesn't have a sleeper though.

Wow, I just now saw this here, but David had sent me a link to it before on messenger. I told him, I don't know the truck, or the guy, but he sure has a lot of junk. 🤣

I have a bird's nest, but no fan.

We were talking about how big a K100 Kenworth seemed compared to a Transtar or an F model Mack the other day. I don't have a size comparison between those models but I did see this picture today. This was at an antique truck show in Lincolnton, N.C. It was in my memories for today, an H-63 Mack and a K100.

They do. I told Zina we should only plant the yellow and purple ones because they're so much easier to pick. We've got several gallon freezer bags in the freezer now for stew this fall. I'm going to cook some of these today. She doesn't like the way I cook them though. I cook them in chicken broth instead of water with a piece of cured seasoning meat. Sometimes I'll boil potatoes with them. She "steams" them, that's what she calls it anyway. I call it "barely cooked at all". They're still crispy, crunchy, and mostly tasteless when they're done. I cook them like my mom used to cook them. 😁

Good thing I went down yonder to the garden when I got home from delivering some tomatoes a while ago and picked these green green beans. And yellow green beans. And purple green beans. And these jalapeno peppers. Because now it's pouring down rain on this GMC- again. And it's raining on this big Mack truck too. Again.

Speaking of lawyers, you never hear anything about Rudy Giuliani anymore. He was a great mayor for New York City and cleaned up the crime and riff raff, most of it anyway, then he was Donald Trump's attorney. And when he said the 2020 election was rigged he was sued and had to pay some outrageous amount. Now there's PROOF that the election WAS indeed manipulated by the democrat's lies and deceit, something everybody with good sense already suspected. The democrats should have to repay him every dime he's paid, with interest. I don't remember if he was disbarred or not, but he probably was, so he should be reinstated as well. Just my opinion.

I told my assistant to sit out by the GMC today in case anybody stopped by and wanted to buy it. It was too hot out there for me. One person stopped by to look at it. Then her and my assistant left together and haven't been seen since.

https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/07/24/virginia-men-arrested-allegedly-shooting-down-drone/

I've only been outside a few times today, and the heat just about takes your breath away as soon as you step out the door. Went down to the garden and picked green beans, tomatoes, and peppers this morning and was just soaked with sweat in a matter of minutes.