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DEF has got me sitting at home now. I broke down Thursday and had to drop the trailer and bobtail back to the shop, got the springs and air bag fixed, left again Sunday. When I left Carter Lumber in New Castle to go pick up a load in McKees Rocks Monday morning the red "low DEF" light came on in the DEF gauge-but the gauge still showed almost 3/4 full, which was right. I stuck a piece of wire in the tank to make sure it had fluid in it, which it did, and all that accomplished was losing the top off the tank. Apparently I didn't get it back on there right, so I had to cover it with duct tape. Then after a while the check engine light came on and it derated itself, but it was still going. And using the DEF, because I filled it to the top at the Pilot, which didn't help either, and I could see the gauge moving. Then I stopped at the Mack/KW dealer in Jane Lew and got a new breaker and put it in, which didn't help either. Then I stopped at the Go-Mart in Nettie and got 2 slices of pizza, a drink, and a pack of smokes-that didn't help it either. In fact, it made it worse. When I started to leave the engine with the red circle around it lit up on the dash. Couldn't get over 4mph. after that, even when I dropped the trailer again and tried to bobtail- 4mph, tops. So I spent 18 hours on the side of the road in Levaisy, West Virginia waiting for a wrecker. We don't have any spare trucks now, so I had to wait until unit 21 got in, he runs to Baltimore and back every night, and they sent me that truck to get the load back to Lynchburg.

I planted the cabbage, onion sets, and potatoes in March. Frost won't hurt them, I usually wait until May to plant tomatoes too but I did plant a few tomato plants a couple of weeks ago.

Great stuff! I remember the great adventure last year, that route was pretty rough going. I still have the picture-

I saw what you need for squirrel hunting at the flea market yesterday- a .300 magnum rifle,with scope. Didn't ask the price though. I saw a nice Colt .357 magnum revolver i'd like to have but it was $750. I thought you could get a new one for that price! Ammo must have really gone up too- nobody had any .30-06 ammo, but I noticed a box of .38 special bullets had $41 on it.

The snail? I just took it this evening, I pulled the old dirt and roots out of that container and saw it sitting there. Thought I should take it's picture before I threw it in the woods so I can compare it to when he crawls back in a few years.

Yes, that would be great. I told Joe he should shoot for the 4th. of July, he should have a long weekend then, but they run the heck out of him.

Planted 8 pepper plants today, 4 cayenne and 4...something else- I never heard of them, but it looks like a banana pepper. They said they'll have jalapenos next week, so 4 of them and i'm done with peppers.

plastic?!! now you tell me! I bought her a real steel 2lb. ball peen at the flea market.

I had a lot of stuff I needed to get done around here today, so I went out and sat under the umbrella on the deck with a beer or twelve and looked through some more picture books. Found some good pictures, like this one on top of the mountain on rt. 60 at the Blue Ridge Parkway, east of Buena Vista, Va. Hope the statute of limitations has run out...anyway, I "authored" this sign- took a metal marking pen and altered it a little. Pulled over on the way to Covington with a load of pulpwood one time and did it. It has the brakes smoking, driveshaft wrung, and pistons flying out of the bottom of the engine...he's in a heap of trouble. My best friend, the late David Elder, wanted me to draw a dog on the joe-dog he used to pull. I said "what do you want, like a cartoon dog?..because I can't really draw." He said "I don't know, just a dog." So this is what I came up with. Drew it with a metal marking pen, which i'm not allowed to have any more by the way. The old Pete I used to drive- My old mud bogger. First truck I drove for F.L.Moore and Sons. My cabbage- all looks good except for that one. There's always got to be one screw-up in every crowd. I'm gonna pull it up and plant a pepper or something there. While I was doing all this work, I spotted this creature looking at where I was going to plant a tomato. I threw his ass down there in those woods, but he'll be back in 2 or 3 years.

She got the bushel bag of cereal herself. She got me these for my burfday- She said "I want the red one, and i'm gonna blow your doors off!" I said "are they both mines?" "yes" "well then, yours has a 318, mines has a 550 Cat, you're not blowing my doors off!" I put a folded paper towel under the red one, just to be on the safe side.

Thanks Mark, I might be interested in some when you get them sorted out. Might be cheaper for me to make a pick up than paying shipping.

Speaking of ZZ Top, I ordered this barbecue sauce and hot sauce from their website.The hot sauce is delicious, tastes almost exactly like my homemade sauce. I've never tried the barbecue sauce yet.

I don't think so, last time I was there was the White Bash. Y'all got a lot more stuff since then,i'm hoping to get back this summer. I think nocluejoe66 might come up this summer sometime, he wants to go too.

Today is Jo's birthday and I wanted to take her somewhere really nice, so we rode over to the flea market at New London. Found these brand new Rocky steel toe work boots in my size. I didn't really need them but I got them at a good price, less than half new price, so I went ahead and bought them. I've never bought used boots before but the seller said the company he used to work for paid for them and he retired and never wore them. Got them for $65. I got this 9000 Ford NAPA truck too, but Jo had to pay for it because I spent all my money on boots...and a drill bit... and some duct tape...and a bottle of honey. It was $9. She got a 50lb. bag of cereal yesterday though, apparently she can't get enough of that super sugar crisp- it keeps her going strong.

I saw a Brockway like that once.

Me neither, seen red ones, and I can look out the window and see gray ones, but i'd never seen or heard of a black squirrel before.

He had one good song, Born to Run. I've seen ZZ Top in concert 4 times, with Grand Funk, the Black Crowes, the Screaming Cheeta Wheelies- or something like that- and Lynard Skynard. But the one I missed and wish i'd gone to was when they had a concert in Roanoke with George Thorogood.

Thanks Ed, I keep some of them, but never thought of doing that.

I didn't even see any good ole boys drinking whiskey and rye. The levee was indeed dry.

Don't know what's in it, but if it's at Art Reed's it's for sale. Except maybe the R model, that's what he retrieves equipment with.

Early this week, because I had to abort my last mission and return to headquarters. I was on the way to New Castle, Pa. yesterday with a load of lumber when an air bag on the truck suffered catastrophic failure. I turned around at Charmco and dropped the trailer at Burns Motor Freight's yard at Sam Black Church and bobtailed back. Had a load of coils to pick up at Lane Steel in McKees Rocks coming back to Lynchburg too. Really nice people there at Burns. They even disconnected the air lines going to the bad air bag and put a coupling in it for me so the other three would still hold everything up. I took a couple of secret spy photos while I was there- Nice DM here. Had a Quadruplex in it, used to be a dump truck. I went to Brewster, Ohio to the Brewster levee with a load of beams too. I was on the look-out for Bighorns and U models but I didn't see any. I did see lots of wild aminals. I saw an elephant. A rabbit. A black prairie dawg. A black squirrel. A black bird. A red dog riding shotgun. A rhinoceros. Narrow road to the levee. End of the line. Got my doors blown clean off by a well lit bull wagon. Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. A waterfall. The Gauley River hydro station. The big green thing- looks like it's been painted recently. That's Rainelle down there- ...where this IH fire truck is for sale. Art Reed's R model, and a General mixer. Nice little load of logs. Bugs...they mess up a lot of pictures...stupid bugs.

Welcome, Extra Small!

I see the rpm range is marked too.

...or- "my check engine light is on- says it's low on water, what should I do?" " just put some water in the radiator, dumb ass!" "oh, ok-that sounds easy enough"

Maybe your cattywompus needs adjusting too.