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True that!

I took a picture of a helicopter at the Truckers Parade Against Cancer last year and it looked like the propeller was stopped, it's still on the computer. I might have posted it on pictures of the week here, I don't know.

One of my earliest tool memories is hearing that a BFH and a long handle punch were two of the most important tools to have.

I have a book here somewhere that he wrote about his life, mostly about the early years before he "hit the big time". One of my favorite stories in it was about when he won his first race. He stopped at a steakhouse with all his crew to celebrate with steaks. They were still in the jeans and T shirts that they were wearing at the track, and they sat down and ordered steak for everyone. They waited and waited for their food and while they were waiting a wedding party came in and sat down. In just a few minutes the waiters started bring out steaks- for the wedding party. Needless to say they were highly pissed. I think it was Cale that said "those look like our steaks". I know it was Cale that walked over and picked up a steak off of one of their plates with his hands and took a bite out of it, then he said "tastes like our steaks too". That's how the fight started.

The numbers this morning. I like what John Kennedy from Louisiana said about the border- he said it was a man made crisis, and the man's name was joe Biden.

The wheels are pretty small. I'd have to cut that metal piece off to put bigger ones on it. I might have to find a longer axle shaft and put duals on it, because if the ground is even a little bit soft it's gonna get stuck.

I think that's gonna work just fine.

All finished decorating, time to start undecorating now- as soon as break's over.

I'm on Facebook, but I don't know how to post a link from my phone. But this is what my page looks like.

I was going to get one like that, I already looked at them at Lowe's. But Randy- that's dispatcher Randy, not Randy Y, Randy M, or Randyp- dropped by to pick up some stew and he said he had one I could have for free, so naturally I told him I'd take it. I think I can make it work. I could have really used it when we were moving, but oh well, we got it done.

I went and retrieved that hand truck yesterday, and it's a nice one. Very heavy, no cheap junk here. I might have to make a little pallet of some sort for the pot to sit on so it won't tip over forward if I make a sudden stop, but that shouldn't be too hard. It would be good to put the oxygen and acetylene tanks on too, it even has the hooks to wind the hose up on. Too bad, I don't have a set of torches anyway.

Zina says hey, and Merry Christmas! I know the world is crazy now, but it would be great if you could make it to Macungie again.

Oh, they live next door. They would do it for free, but I did give them each a bowl of stew 🍲

Happy birthday!

Yep, I saw that on the news earlier today.

It's quite tasty too!

Merry Christmas everyone! I put the new bigger stew pot in service Friday. It's a lot heavier than the old stew pot, I need a hand truck to move it from the shed to the stand. I hauled it on the wagon, but it's really top heavy. Fortunately, a friend has a hand truck he said he would give me. I'm going to get it this afternoon. I made a full tank of stew in it, then we jarred it and put some in Tupperware and gifted it to people. Took 12 quarts to family in Cumberland, and gave 3 quarts to the guy who's giving me the hand truck- that's why he's giving it to me. I asked him how much he wanted for it and he said I'd already paid for it. It was good, the pot holds 36 quarts and we containerized 35 1/2 quarts. Even gave the mail man a quart. The dogs didn't get any though. One time I saw a big Mack truck in Gladys, and one time I saw a big Mack truck when I was on the way to Cumberland.

I guess it's that time again-

Did somebody say tranny?..

Yes, I forgot to mention that about NASCAR, but it was another reason for losing interest. Every year everything was more expensive than it was the year before. Ticket prices, food prices, and when we got a motel for the Charlotte races they would jack the room rates up double or triple what the regular rates were, that always pissed me off. I know it's legal, I know it's supply and demand- but it still pissed me off.

From '83 until the late 80's or early 90's we went to both Charlotte, both Martinsville, and both Richmond races every year. Went to several at Rockingham, I'd try to get a load going to Florida on Rockingham race weekend and drive the truck to the track. That was a great track. Spent a lot of money going to races, but I enjoyed it. Now I don't even watch it on TV.

All because they're scared to death of being called racist. I was having an online argument - I mean discussion- one time about how NASCAR sucks now, and it's too "gimmicked up". I never liked "the chase", never liked the stage racing, the "roval", or whatever they called it, never liked the idea of Bristol being a dirt track. And as soon as I said they don't have sense enough now to tell a loop tied in a garage door rope to make it easier to pull down and a hangman's noose I was called a racist. I never called any names, and I heard it was actually one of Bubba's crew members that saw the loop tied in the rope to make it easier to grab and pull the door down and called it a noose, but anyway, I was a racist for mentioning it. Now NASCAR is like the NFL to me, I couldn't care less about either one.

I tried the bacon flavored Spam and it's good.