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That's "The wreck of the Old 97", it crashed in Danville .

This is getting ridiculous.

Yes, I was sitting in my room at this small college at this undisclosed location somewhere in the midwest when I suddenly got the munchies just before 2am. I walked down to the local convenience store to get some Doritos and there was only one person in the store, who just happened to be a beautiful blonde, and she was also the head cheerleader at this small college I attended at this undisclosed location somewhere in the midwest. As I walked in we looked into each other's eyes. Then she walked to the front door and turned the "closed" sign on and locked the door. Then she turned to me and said "hurry up and get your $#!t and get the f+*k out , or i'll call the campus po-leece- we close at 2".

Oh yeah...that helps a great deal with my research on sand pounding and hitting the bricks- I mean sales girls...

It's open all the way to Mt. Storm now but I haven't been over there for a while. Used to go across there to Oakland, Md. but it's been a bad winter for selling lumber. I don't know where the raspberry flavor comes from, but it's in there somewhere. I bought a bag of them at the truckstop in Barkeyville,Pa. last year and hadn't seen them since until last week. I even asked the guy delivering candy at a store around here about them and he said they were a temporary promotional type deal. Dark chocolate is good for you too... I keep telling myself that anyway. I delivered the mats right there at exit 23 on 79. You can see them from the interstate, on the east side of I-79.

None. Of course they're calling for snow tomorrow night and Monday- this winter's been ...very wintery.

They were gray when I bought them last week, today they had turned a kinda greenish-purple, but I just scraped them off before I cooked them and they were fine.

This is indeed truck related, because truck drivers gotta eat too, right? I made this today. First I took an aluminum pan and lined it with tin foil, same as tin foil hats are made from. Then I poured a little olive oil in it and added the two steaks that I bought from the reduced bin last week, and covered them with Grill Mates Montreal Seasoning and some garlic powder. Then I cut up 2 potaters and an onion and put them in the pan. Then I added a container of fresh mushrooms and a package of frozen baby carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower. Put a stick of butter on top and sealed it up with more tin foil. Then I prepped and coated a slab of ribs with my home made rub. Now I can have steak and vegetables today, and ribs and left over vegetables tomorrow- planning ahead you see. I put the steak and vegetables on the grill over direct heat, cooked the ribs over indirect heat for a while, flipped them over for a while, then wrapped them and put them over direct heat and moved the vegetables off to the side to finish cooking, after moving the steaks from the bottom of the pan to the top. So good I just had to share... Other Dog enjoyed it too.

As much as i'd hate to "rat" on anyone, and never have, I might be tempted to make a call in this case. That's just an accident waiting for a place to happen. Good thing he used a Craftsman wrench instead of some no-name "made in China" wrench or it might have already happened. And to keep on doing it knowing the 5th. wheel was bad, instead of getting it fixed?..that's just crazy!

That truck's been there for several years I know, doesn't look like it's been moved at all. I took this picture of it in May,2011.

Yes, it's right after you get through a couple of stop lights, on the right going east.

I see Mid East on the door, can't make out the rest of it. I took that pic. from a good ways away too, and i've already resized it. It was parked at the Go Mart on I-70 east of Cambridge, across from the old Shenandoah truckstop.

it's on rt. 422 between Butler and Kittanning.

Took a few this week, unfortunately I accidently deleted about 15 pictures that I took on my first trip of the week, to Plain City, Ohio. Probably the best pictures I ever took too, but I can't remember what they were of. Saw this big Mack truck on I-70 east of Columbus. Found the best M&M's ever. The week started out pretty warm, but then it was back to the ice and snow. Loaded crane mats in Long Island, about 5 or 6 miles from here. A Mack truck getting a load of bark. The wind was blowing away about as much as was going in the trailer. The de-barker machine. I went to this jobsite in Amity, Pa. After I got unloaded I had to wait 45 minutes while they loaded this load of pipe and strap it down before I could get out. Two more loads of mats were waiting down the hill to get in. I could have strapped down 7.437 loads of pipe in that time...union job I guess. Tight squeeze getting in across this narrow bridge. Looks like somebody already tried to knock it down. I'm on the way out here, but you had to get over as far to the left as you could get to turn in. Then I went to Sharon and loaded these two coils. Still got ice on the pond. It's still thick enough for a poorly photo-chopped girl to be ice fishing. Saw a nice B. That truck's been sitting there a long time.There's an old Carolina Freight trailer there too. Saw a cabover Ford too. And, I saw the goats on the hill. I wasn't going across the bridge, I came down rt. 220 into Moorefield so I couldn't get a close shot. I was actually this far away!

Here's a late entry- or maybe early for next week, because i'm not home on Wednesday.

It is- exact same pose. That must be Bear all grown up in the second picture.

down in Cumberland county, Va.

Mack what? I'm a student at a small college at an undisclosed location somewhere in the midwest, and i'm doing a term paper on sales girls. Could you post more pictures of the sales girls- for research purposes of course. Thank you very much indeed.

Stupid gum tree...but I wasn't driving, I let a friend drive because I had been drinking- another example of the evils of alcohol. It was raining, he shifted to second gear and floored it to pass a car, had an M22 Muncie 4 speed in it, and it got away from him. He wasn't used to the power. I'm still pondering whether to quit drinking or not. Good running car, had a corvette aluminum intake, 780 Holley, 327/300 heads, mild cam, headers,etc. It turned 14.20's with the original 3 speed and 3.08 rear.

She was quite beautiful, a wonderful person- we never had an argument.

Saw this one on facebook too.

I probably won't be home Tuesday, so here's before and after of the 1972 Nova I had, 1975.

Westvaco used Morbark chippers at all their woodyards. The old ones had 12V71 Detroits and the knuckle booms with 50 or 60 levers on them, their newer ones had 600hp Cummins engines on them. They would both sit there and run wfo all day long every day, only stopping to change knives once in a while. I moved this one from Dillwyn, Va. to Parkersburg, W.V. with this F model Mack, around 1980. That picture was in my oldest photo album, here's a few more from my chip hauling days- "Corn Stalk"s V8 Mack on the dump. The dump is only about half way up, it was dang near straight up when it got to the top. Sitting on top of the mountain on rt. 60, east of Buena Vista, Va. I walked up on the bridge where the Blue Ridge Parkway goes over rt. 60 to take this picture. Sitting at my uncle's house. Sitting at the bottom of the mountain on rt. 130. I had walked down to the James River. I didn't always sit around, sometimes I actually hauled chips. Chip pile at Westvaco in Covington, Va. I used to have a hammock...and long hair.

Sounds tasty!

Holy mackerel, you've got to drive to Afghanistan? I guess if you need to refuel they'll drop a hose down from a ship to the bottom of the ocean,eh? And how's anybody that doesn't know where they're going supposed to get to the public service gas and electric facilities if they refuse to give directions?..never heard of such. "Hi there, I have a delivery for you, could you give me directions to your facility please?" "No!" "excuse me?" "Not gonna tell you." "but..." "Not gonna tell you." "but-" "goodbye"