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naw, that's Mike that you're thinking of-he wants to ride in there on his bike and take her to the prom. He was even pondering trading his bike to "Momma" for the daughter, but I think Rob's belt fed weapon on the front porch and land mines in the front yard may have changed his mind.

maybe he'd like a mixer-then we can make a trade. He comes here and gits the mixer and I goes there and gits the B-67 when you finish it.

rats!

Not wasting any time... Once upon a time a brave knight was about to ride off on a quest to seek some rare parts. Before he left he went to his best and most trusted friend and told him "I am going on a dangerous mission-here is the key to my lovely lady's chastity belt. If I should never return...or if I have not returned in a year or so...well, do what you must my dear friend-I must be off". And with that he rode away. After riding a couple of hours he heard a horse racing up behind him. He stopped and heard the rider shouting "stop-wait-stop-STOP!" It was his best friend, with whom he had entrusted the key to his beloved's treasures. He rode up to the knight, him and his horse both out of breath. "What is it?" asked the knight. "What kind of emergency do we have?". "It's the wrong key", panted his friend. "You left me the wrong key."

I always cook them in the smoker oven-low and slow, starting with charcoal then putting wood in it. I coat it with the rub first, then when it's done (when the bone pulls out easily) I either keep it whole for a roast and slice it, or pull the meat off and mix it with the vinegary homemade BBQ sauce.

couldn't say- I was just a boy then! BTW, if you're around Abingdon and want a crooked road to ride your bike on you should head up 81 a little farther to Marion. Then take rt. 16-it'll either be 16 west or 16 north, most likely west though. Goes to Hungry Mother State Park. From the top of the mountain where all the towers are over to rt. 42 is undoubtedly the crookedest rode i've ever been on. I went across there in a big truck one time, going around the scales at Bland. Since I was going to Atkins to the Utility trailer factory, I looked at the map and decided i'd just take 42 south down to 16 and back to 81 instead of the usual "bypass the scales" route, highway 52. 42 was nice, but when I got on 16- what a mistake that was! Never again! You couldn't keep the trailer on your side of the road because there's a mountain on one side and a cliff on the other with a guardrail, then a 10,000 foot (my estimate) dropoff. It has a length restriction on it now anyway, I think it's no vehicles over 35', but it didn't then. It's certainly no road for a truck to be on. Worst part was when I was motoring down 42 I heard somebody say the scales were closed anyway! Here's a google earth image of it, one looking north, one looking south. First picture is from directly overhead, second is tilted, looking from 42 towards Marion. Looks about as crooked after you cross rt. 42, but i've never been on that part of it.

ah-HA! ...solved another case...

The website had lots of info, maps showing different elevations, curve names, and the locations of all the fatalities on it since 2000. Didn't say if cement mixers were allowed. Gladys is about 50 miles from Roanoke. Downtown Gladys is on rt. 501 south of Lynchburg (well, there's a store and a post office there!) and between Rustburg and Brookneal. I actually live off of rt. 699 about halfway between Gladys and Altavista.

I'd never heard of the dragon-just googled it and looked at the "tail of the dragon.com" site. Pretty neat stuff.Don't think i'll be attempting the trip in a big truck. Also looked at it on google earth.

maybe that's the winter uniform. she's YOUR co-driver, tell her to wear something skimpy this summer, and post more pictures!

It would surely increase UPS's binness if the drivers looked like that

Naw, I didn't say anything. He'd gone back in the shop by the time I saw it.

you can do it either way, but one key thing Fred and 417mack are right on is make your upshifts first, which would be in the main first when upshifting, compound first when downshifting. as in first high to second low-shift main first, then compound to low. 5th. low to 4th. high-shift compound back to high first, then downshift the main.

They were installed new when I got the truck, so they're 4 or 5 years old. They're heavy duty NAPA's and I shut them off when i'm not using it, so they should have a little more life in 'em. It doesn't hold a lot of fuel, 40 or 50 gallons- I don't remember, but it'll get you out of the driveway!

OK, it started right up Saturday and it's almost full of fuel. Bad part is the man on the driver side holding the hood let it get against the radiator shell and it scratched it up pretty good. Gotta get some touch up paint now.

does that mean everybody in town rode her?

I didn't put that on there-i'd have put "village idiot"

I only stumble around inside-i'm afraid to go out after dark...unless my fearless dog is with me The paint doesn't match exactly,but it's close enough. Actually it's more noticable in the picture than when you're standing beside it. I just finished the last of a jar of pesto I had-it was delicious too! I was just reading about pesto on Wikipedia because Jo was wondering what was in it. The article said you could store it for up to a week in a tightly sealed jar in the refrigerator. I had that in a tightly sealed jar in the refrigerator for months and it tasted the same as it did when it was brand new.

Great googly-moogly! she might be too much of a distraction for him to make his p&d's in a timely manner, even with a high speed package car!

UH-OH! And,yeah it was-just happened to by passing by.He went up 501 north towards Lynchburg when he left Rustburg,and we took 24 to Concord.

I'm not sure about that, but he has a B.S. degree in high school-most people have to go to college to get one of them ***note-Rob is on a field trip, so it's OK to talk about him behind his back today***

He did! That's why he's so smart-said he spent 14 years getting a high school diploma. Most people call it quits after 12 years, but he went above and beyond- spent 2 years in the third grade and 2 years in the sixth grade just to make sure he didn't miss anything, and now he's a rocket scientist. That's dedication right there!

I thought there couldn't be many units like this out and about.

That sure is a good looking truck!

Well, I mowed the grass early this morning, had to wait 'til daylight to finish though, because the batteries went dead in the flashlight. Then I went to Concord and finished putting that hood on the mixer. Don't remember when it was last started, but it fired right up. I dumped about 800 gallons of water out of the drum and let it run about 15 minutes. Then I stopped at Carson's Store and got 2 rolls of chicken wire and made a fence around the garden. The chicken wire was way more expensive than I thought it would be-$28 for a 50' long, 3' high roll and I needed 2 rolls. I could probably go to the vegetable stand in Gladys and buy $56 worth of produce and get more than the total output of my garden, but I can't let the creatures get the best of me, right? They're already eating my cabbage plants! I feel like Bill Murray after the gopher in "Caddyshack". Fence looks pretty good too. I left some extra at the bottom, folded it out on the grass, then laid 4x4's on it. The owl certainly doesn't do his job, the pepper spray didn't work, Other Dog the beagle won't work, so maybe this will do the job. I hope so, because there's only one option left that I can see- fried rabbit...squirrell stew...rabbit pot pie...squirrell and dumplings...rabbit on a stick...sauteed squirrell with peppers and onions...marinated grilled rabbit...barbecued squirrell-what am I saying?!!I couldn't do that!..could I?..maybe Saw 3 doves at the bird bath...no squirrells reported in the area.