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Yeah, no more than I drive the pickup I probably wouldn't even put tires on it. My Ranger pickup wouldn't pass inspection one time because of dry rot cracks that weren't near this bad. I just took it to another inspection station, and they passed it. But, we're thinking of moving back over to the Appomattox area to be nearer to family, and civilization in general. Heck, it's nearer to everywhere. Zina said we're not thinking, it's a done deal. So we're going to move to Appomattox. Anyhow, I wouldn't want to be driving up 501 with a mattress, coffee table, and TV on the back and suffer catastrophic tire failure, so I might just go get some tires on it. It's old enough that I could get antique tags for it, then you don't even have to have it inspected in Va. but I'm not going to go that route unless I have to.

Back in my younger days people would have a party or cookout and order a keg sometimes. You had to order them in advance from the beer distributor and rent the tap too. Many folks have spent all evening and half the night trying to "float the keg", only to end up passed out on somebody's lawn. It seemed like the thing to do at the time, but they didn't realize just how much 15 1/2 gallons of beer really is. I've been called the day after such events before and heard "hey, Joe's got half a keg of beer left and he's got to have the keg back by tomorrow, come on over!". I tried to do my part to help out. I knew a guy who had a refrigerator in his basement and kept a pony keg in it. He had the tap mounted on the side and could just grab a red Solo cup and have a cold draft beer whenever he wanted, that was pretty neat.

If you're going to do all that, I'm coming down there too. Winston-Salem's not far from here.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02sNNrWf1KwSbPmoguDz53UznVfHFgSQRAgjiER3bK4Avo7N1hVTPASeayvYjHMaQ3l&id=100003315522508&mibextid=Nif5oz I don't know if this link will work or not, I can't work this phone as good as I can the computer, but somebody made a little video of a bunch of nice looking F models. This one that I used to drive was in it- There was several there that I recognized, Underdog's 2 F models were in there too.

A year ago today I planted some potatoes and onions, then had a big red beer. This year I haven't planted anything. I might have a big red beer later though.

This is liquid smoke- There's different brands, this is just what I happen to have. I couldn't even taste 2 tablespoons, or 3 tablespoons in the vinegar, so I just poured a whole bottle in. And he said "Texas Pete" meaning hot sauce. It's probably the most popular hot sauce around here, more than Frank's or Tabasco. I didn't know there was any other kind of hot sauce the whole time I was growing up. Any kind of hot sauce you prefer would be fine for this sauce.

well whaddya know- I knew i'd run across it some day when I wasn't looking for it.

Very colorful- if only the jacket was bright red, now that would be the cat's ass!

Great, that's probably more accurate than my count. I can only count to 29, then I have to start over.

This is the most snow we've had all winter. I guess I shouldn't complain, I'm not a big fan of snow and ice but I do like it cold in winter. If it was colder maybe the flies, ticks, and mosquitoes wouldn't be as bad in summer. Ticks were bad last summer- bad. The dog had 29 snow flakes on her back. Nothing to see here...

I saw snow and you're stuck in the house. We might get a little snow here tomorrow, this is about the first winter I remember that it didn't snow at all.

Holy crap!

Yessir, absolutely!

I see drag racing on TV all the time, I forgot the channel. We don't do Dish Network or DirecTV anymore. And all they ever show is top fuel and funny cars, and that just doesn't interest me. I used to go to Richmond Dragway a lot in the 70's, went to Suffolk and New London a time or two too...see what I did there? Anyway, I used to run my street car a little, but as far as watching racing I used to love to watch the 10 to 12 second cars, especially 4 speed cars, way more than a funny car or top fuel car. Pretty much only saw those when I went to a national event at Suffolk Dragway anyway. Same thing in mud racing, which I used to do a little of. I couldn't care less about a 2,500 HP mud racer skipping across the top of the mud- I'd rather see the F-250 that some guy and his buddies modified the body on so they could get some 44's on it and built a 429 that came out of uncle Joe's old Mercury to put in it.

Yes, that was an expensive barbecue sauce bottle, but when you buy the bottle you get a half gallon of vodka for free! 😁 And yeah, the tire situation sucks😞. All that tread left and it's got all those dry rot cracks too. And tire prices have gone up like everything else. It'll cost me a fortune to put 4 tires on it. That tire won't pass the state inspection. The only good thing is somebody has already offered to buy the old ones to put on a farm truck, and use them for playing in the mud. They'll last a long time on a farm truck or a hunting truck.

Here's the original barbecue sauce recipe as it was given to me- Of course I tweaked it a little. I made it exactly by this recipe at first, and it tasted like vinegar. It takes a lot to change the taste of a gallon of vinegar. I probably left the red and black pepper and the hot sauce as it was- you could use more or less, just depends on if you want it hot or not. But I just poured a whole bottle of Worcestorshire sauce in it, a whole bottle of liquid smoke, and I poured the whole bottle of garlic powder in. I don't even keep it in the refrigerator, it's got enough vinegar to keep it from going bad. Mine looks like this now. I don't use the vinegar jug any more either, I bought this fancy barbecue sauce holding bottle. Probably shouldn't have shaken it up, oh well. This sauce isn't for everything, you probably won't want to dip your chicken Macnuggets in it, but for grilled chicken, or pulled pork barbecue it's the cat's ass. It has very little sugar and it's very thin so you can brush it on chicken every time you turn it and it won't burn. The reason mine looks so tasty- right?- is because every time I empty a bottle of that "store bought" barbecue sauce, like you dip the macnuggets in, i'll pour some of this in the bottle, give it a good shake, then pour it back into this bottle. That's the reason it has any sugar at all, and I think it gives it a little more flavor, but that just personal preferrence.

Yep!

Absolutely, I didn't even mention how ticket prices kept going up, up, and up. Motels jacked their rates up double or triple on race weekends. And the Bubba Wallace thing- what a joke! I've been in and worked in many garages and shops and EVERYBODY tied a loop in the rope to make it easier to pull the door down if they didn't have electric door openers! And that idiot has to call in the FBI to have it investigated, when the track said there's no way to tell who gets which garage stall from one year to the next, it was pretty much a luck of the draw deal. I once saw a meme that said "Bubba Wallace ruined NASCAR, Colin Kaepernick ruined the NFL, and Lebron James ruined the NBA". As far as me personally, I would agree with that statement totally. I know the left would just immediately say "you're a racist!", which I am not, but that's their standard response.

"Pictures or it Didn't Happen"- I know the deal. I figured I should take photographic evidence of this chicken in the grill. I should have sent them to myself and went inside and resized them on the computer, but I gotta watch this chicken. I have my Miller Lite in this red cup, which holds 2 at a time. I'm on my 4th. cup...or is it the 5th?.. anyway, here's the chicken. The chicken is the 4 items on the lower left, there's 2 pork chops right above it, and the other things are country style ribs- I think. We just cleaned some stuff out of the freezer to make room for more stuff to put in the freezer so I put it on the grill, whatever it was 🤣. I just slapped some barbecue sauce on it. I have a great home made barbecue sauce recipe by the way, if anybody wants it. And then there's this- That's the left front tire on the pickup. It has lots of tread left, but I'd better be getting some tires. I can't drive it like that.

I believe you're right. Kind of like NASCAR, but completely different. But I used to be a big NASCAR fan in the 80's and 90's. I used to go to both races in Charlotte, Richmond, and Martinsville every year and every one was packed. I remember going to Martinsville one year for the spring race and it was a standing room only crowd. They promised they would have more seats by the fall race. Bristol had a waiting list to get tickets. Now the stands are not crowded at all, and - this is just my opinion, I don't know for sure- in my opinion it was the few who didn't like anything and complained about everything who ruined it. The majority, who were fine with everything, didn't say anything but the few who didn't like anything called every talk show and complained. "Well, that Jimmy Johnson wins too many championships" or "Well, that Kyle Busch wins too many races". The next thing you know they had completely redone the points system, started "the chase", the "stage racing", and who knows what else to gimmick it up. I liked the points system like it used to be, I just completely lost interest in it now. But getting back to what you said, yes, now everybody can get on social media and let their feelings be known immediately. But the ones who don't have anything to complain about say nothing, so therefore their satisfaction with any given subject is seldom heard. I'd better get back to cooking this chicken and drinking this Miller Lite, that's my area of expertise. 🤣

Happy birthday, guess I'm too late for cake and ice cream, eh?

I don't believe it, I'll never believe it. The demonrats stole that election, IMHO anybody that believes otherwise is either delusional or just plain stupid.