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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.

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That is something I've always wanted to do, the Rivers of Steel Tour. You can see the Carrie Furnace from the Homestead high level bridge. I loaded steel beams at Homestead works in the early 80's. You turned right off the bridge to go down into the steel mill, you went to one side to load beams and turned the other way to load coils. It was the best US Steel facility I ever loaded at. Gary, In. was the worst and Fairless Works wasn't much better. I don't think they cared if you sat there a week waiting to get loaded, and were hateful to you the whole time you were there. I hadn't been to Fairless, Pa. for a long time but I crossed the Homestead bridge regularly going to Galv-Tech to load. You wouldn't even know a huge steel mill was ever there now. Kind of like Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows Point, Md. And Bethlehem, Pa. too for that matter. If any of you are going to Macungie you should go over to the old Bethlehem Steel facility and check it out. They have an elevated walkway that you can walk and see the blast furnaces up close, very interesting to see. Also the 14" gun barrel from the USS Mississippi is displayed there. And there's a casino and several hundred stores there too. Maybe thousands. The first time I was there since I was actually loading steel there was one night when I was delivering something in Allentown or Bethlehem. A fellow happened to stop by with several chern in his Dodge pickup and told me he was going to take me out for dinner at his cousin's Pizza place. I'd never seen the guy before, but pizza sounded better than beanie-weenies so I got in his truck. Turned out to be a real nice guy, and he showed me around the old steel mill. Big Detroit Diesel fan, he talked a lot about them. Not the new ones, but the old General Motors 2 cycle engines. I think he said he wished he had a 6-71 in his 1958 FWD fire truck. Oh, that reminds me- he was actually a member here on BMT! Goes by 1958 FWD. I'd like to get him to take us on another tour of the steel mill, it was dark last time. I also loaded coils at Jones and Laughlin steel in Cleveland several times, it wasn't a bad place to load either.

Oh absolutely, much, much more we could go on and on about.

Why do all the democrats think men should be allowed to compete in women's sports? Do most of the American people think they should? I would think not, and it's a no-brainer, but look how hard they're fighting for it. Why do all the democrats think it's ok to murder innocent babies? Do most of the American people think it's ok? I would think not, and that's a no-brainer too, but look how hard they're fighting for the right to do just that.

Me too! I loved listening to "Coast to Coast AM". And some of it was was scary stuff, no doubt about it. And "whack job"- that's a good one, I don't think I'd ever heard it before Zina . She's always saying somebody or other is a whack job!🤣

Is that why on the older 13 speeds they recommended shifting it like a 2 speed axle, that you shift to the next higher gear first then move the splitter button back to direct, then the later ones they said it was OK to preselect the splitter?