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That's the same color as the '60 my grandfather had. First car I can remember. It was black with a white top, had a 283 with a powerglide.

I didn't use a "real" smoker, just put it on the grill with the offset firebox. Went in the woods and cut some green maple, oak, and hickory wood. It was cold all day, the grill temp. only got up to about 150 degrees, but it smoked well. I put it in the oven at 350 for 2 or 3 hours before the timer thing finally popped up. My best smoker is an old gas stove, that'll cook a turkey a lot quicker because of the insulation around the oven but it only holds a little bit of wood and you have to feed the fire about every 15 minutes or so.

After smoking for 5 hours- It's already a little dark,eh? After I finished cooking it in the oven it was really dark, but I guess that's because of the rub I coated it with inside and out. After plattering, ready to be judged for appearance, taste, and tenderness...not really, i've been watching too much Barbecue Pitmasters on the tv. I did the turkey and made a mess, Jo did everything else.

Wow, that's pretty neat!..and i've learned more about Australian trucks in the last few minutes than I ever knew before. Seen lots of pictures of them driving through deep water and never even thought about the rear end vents. And, it would be a good unit for a mail delivery route with the right hand drive...might have to put some extensions on all the mail box posts though.

...but it's probably a Werner. And the truck he hit was the famous "Lead Sled".

I had to go out today, there was only seven cans of beer in the refrigerator.

I've had one in a 5 gallon bucket of brine since yesterday afternoon. Tried a new brine recipe I saw in the paper last week- salt, brown sugar, and apple juice. I'm gonna put it on the smoker in a little bit. I think i'll smoke it for several hours then bring it in and finish cooking it in the oven. It's 19 degrees now. Made 2 sweet potato pies yesterday with pecans in them, they look good enough to eat anyway.

Holy hamburgers Batman!

oh well...that's all i've got.

"I'm with you fellars".

Nope, sorry, but it wasn't me. I went to Lynchburg yesterday and unloaded those machines I picked up in Tennessee Friday, then went back to the shop and hung around until about 2 o'clock...then I went home, where i've been ever since. Been trying to sign in all day but I couldn't until a few minutes ago. Must be the weather, cloudy and raining here all day, and I have Hughsnet. I just haul the mill rolls to and from Milton, W.V. out of Petersburg, Va.

Amen brother!..well said. I saw something on the interweb the other day about Vladimir Putin and radical islamists and Putin makes more sense than our own president.

Thank you Vlad.

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looks like it dropped in a hole.

I keep a gallon of drinking water in the truck all the time in case I have to cross the desert.

Got more happy pictures- Like this hornet's nest in the back yard. Didn't see it until the leaves fell. No sign of occupants, but they might be inside by the fire. I saw a chicken on a can in the backyard yesterday too, then it moved to the table. Best chicken ever! Here's the wine update- I thought there was no way that wine would be any good, because it's been working for...what, a month or more? I gave it a taste yesterday, expecting vinegar, but it was actually pretty good. Got a nice color too. I keep the balloon on the jug to tell when it's done working. I deflate it and if it fills back up the wine is still working. You can see it has a little pressure in it now. You don't need fancy equipment to make decent wine either.

I don't know, the actual fine was $6100 dollars, the rest was court costs and other b.s. they tack on.

Really, I mean I could understand it if he caught me again next week, but I was just going by the directions they gave me. Looks like he could have told me that there was another way, don't come this way again. He said a lot of times when you call for directions you get a secretary or someone that only drives a car or a pickup, which I understand, but if you call and they tell you how to get there, what else have you got to go on? And nails me for 6 thousand dollars? geez!..

Thanks Jim!

no, I didn't. I loaded at Tennsmith, up rt. 56 about 5 or 6 miles north of McMinnville.

The load was legal, light actually- only had on 13,000 and some pounds. But that section of the road, about a mile or so long, had a ten ton weight limit. And there was another way to get in, but we didn't know it. We went by the directions they gave us. The cop told me- he was a local township cop by the way,not a state man- "you're not the first one-this is all I do all day." He said "these trucks are tearing our roads up." And about 10 minutes after I got to the job site, a truck came in with one of the big transformers, grossing over 100,000 lbs- right over the same road. It's just a big money racket for the locals. $6300+ dollars? That's just #*@#ing ridiculous!

That's way nicer than what I referred to him as. No chance of the shipper paying, he wrote the ticket to me. They used to write overweight tickets to the company, now they go to the driver. We were delivering to First Energy and they do have a permit for delivery trucks to run than section of road, but I didn't have a permit with me. We are hoping to send a copy of the permit to the court and get it dismissed. Patsy Moore, president and C.E.O. of F.L.Moore and sons told me not to worry about it, but I can't help worrying a little about a $6,357 ticket that's written to me.

This week I saw a green combine in a brown soybean field. I also saw another green combine in a brown corn field. I took this load up to a jobsite in Evans City, Pa. Another driver called the jobsite and got directions. They involved turning on a 10 ton weight limit road, but that's the way they said to come in. Shortly after I made the turn I saw a cop backed into a road that crossed a field. Then I saw him pulling out behind me after I went by. Then I saw the blue lights. I pulled over, and he asked for my license and permit. "permit?" I said. "that's what I thought" he said. "follow me down here so I can weigh you." So I followed him down there, and he weighed me. Then he gave me this, and my license back. And on to happier stuff- Yard dog killing the mosquitoes at the shop. The Liberty University sign on Liberty Mountain in Lynchburg. Went to Duluth, Ga. and came back by McMinneville, Tn. and picked this load of machines up for N.B.Handy in Lynchburg. It was a light load, but a pain to tarp. Last time I loaded there I had a Conestoga. I saw a fire there too- they burned a load of trash.