other dog

you're welcome-I want them all to be fat and healthy so they'll survive the trip to Fishers packed in a crate.

just gave the garden a final pepper spray,now I must be off. They say pepper spray works on bears,I hope it keeps the rabbit away. I have not seen a single bear in the garden.

where can I get some dynamite? I saw the rabbit out there last night just before dark,under the peach tree. I think it was eating peaches that had fallen on the ground. He can have all of them he wants,but I chased him off anyway. The beans aren't dead,they'll come back if I can keep him from eating them completely up. An old 275 gallon heating oil barrell make good smokers to make on a trailer. I've seen a couple of them,one had gas burners,Roger Eagle's was charcoal with 2 5" chrome stacks on it. That's about the whole place,I have about 3/4 of an acre,the little garden and grill is in the back yard. Note 2 CB antennas with reflector tape on them marking the driveway

I only did one truck model-it was a cabover Freightliner.I gave it to my brother for Christmas, I think because I liked it ,and I ended up putting it together.

Well,nothing new about trucking anyway except i'm already sad that I have to work tomorrow-Memorial Day I've finally finished a smoker/grill that Kevin started at the shop and never finished.I offered to buy it from him and he said I could have it,and it's been in the backyard for weeks. It's made out of a 55 gallon drum,on a stand. Didn't have any grill grates for it,but I cut off some old oven racks and put them in it. They should work fine for chicken or smoking a boston butt,but smaller things will fall through pretty easy. Good thing I have 3 more grills for smaller stuff,and I still got the smoker oven too. Been like Elmer Fudd trying to keep a rabbit out of the garden. The beans came up,even the ones I replanted and they were looking pretty good. When I got home Thursday I looked at the garden and they looked like stems coming out of the ground-all the leaves had been eaten by a creature. Looked out the window and saw a rabbit and a squirrel in it. Last year rabbits ate the cantalopes,but didn't bother anything else. This year I didn't plant any cantolopes for them,so they ate my beans-i've been spraying the whole garden with a little hot sauce and a little dawn mixed up in a spray bottle. People tell me it works,but I don't know. I don't want to try that new grill for the first time with a roasted rabbit,but I didn't plant enough beans for me and the rabbit too. ( just kidding,PETA people ) I've got to leave in the morning and go to Petersburg and load for Neville Island,Pa. That's just north of Pittsburgh. Last week I went to Fremont,Oh. and then over to Butler,In. and loaded steel back to Roanoke-6 coils. Then I went to Orchard Park,N.Y. and loaded at Brookfield,Oh. for Roanoke. Pennsylvania DOT nabbed me at Bald Eagle,Pa. on the way to Orchard Park. Gave me a warning ticket for my log book not being current I should have had it caught up-I had just gotten up on an exit ramp near Roaring Spring and was gonna go to the Snappy store at Bald Eagle and get a cup of coffee and get my book right. Unfortunately,the DOT was camped in the median just before you get to Snappy's. Rabbit is pretty tasty if you parboil it before you cook it-otherwise they're kinda tough might as well illustrate this entry too-the truck in the driveway, new (to me!) grill,what's left of some of the the green beans after the creature gnawed them off. And on a more serious note,it is Memorial Day weekend-let's not forget what Memorial Day is and remember the veterans,and those who sacrificed all so we can enjoy the freedoms we have today. May God bless this nation,and keep us all safe. This I pray in the name of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. Amen

looks good! So,how did you get started building models?

the "double diamonds". Couldn't find any McLean Mack pictures, mostly GMCs, some Whites,and Internationals.

I've probably been 3 trucks behind you on the W.V. Turnpike before and didn't know it

Hello Double Diamond,I don't have a clue in answer to your question,but Rob has never been known to be wrong about anything...so far I just saw "Double Diamond" and you already answered my question. That sure brings back some memories,haven't heard double diamond for a while. How long did you drive for McLean? I remember when they closed the doors-they were about the last company I would have expected to shut down at the time.

it's in Appomattox,Va. - at least I hope it still is!

I have a 64,65,or 66 scout half cab you can have if you want to move it-the man I bought it from took the distributor out of it,it was running before that.I had another '66 I was gonna fix,but that was right before my wife got sick,and it's been sitting at H.H.Moore trucking about 4 years now. They were sold to P.G.T. recently,and Larry Moore told me I needed to move it,and I was thinking of selling it for scrap of course,but i'd rather see somebody get some use out of it,and as far as I know the front end,rear end and transfer case are fine,the engine (152 cu.in. 4 cyl,half a 304) should be OK,and the body wasn't too bad either-it's just been setting for a long time now.

...or maybe he would-I keep telling him the truck doesn't have any power and won't get out of it's own way, but Jeff doesn't seem to believe me-now i've got pictures to prove it! thanks Paul

no,i'd never heard that one,that's good! i'd heard the "slow wagon in fast traffic",but that's about it. ..good one

very well said-I think it's time to stop screwing around and be drilling off the coast of Florida-we can't even drill for oil within 12 miles of shore,but the Chinese can drill 14 miles offshore?!! That's what they're doing right now,just off the coast of Cuba. We should be drilling in A.N.W.R. in Alaska too, and putting a nuclear power plant on every corner-like a 7-11 store, but Democrats and tree huggers won't let us-where IS this gonna end? They say "well,the offshore oil and A.N.W.R. oil wouldn't help now,that's 5 or 10 years down the road before we'd see any benefit from it any way". Well,I think we should've been drilling there 10 years ago then, and since we didn't, we should start tomorrow. I guess if some foreign countries can't defeat us militarily they figure they can destroy the U.S. economy,and that seems to be what they're trying to do. I paid $4.59 a gallon for fuel in Ohio yesterday,and saw it as high as $4.70-something in Pa!

they've been posted for a while-check my albums for the tractor show pictures

A few more random photos from the road...the very narrow street in Wheeling,W.V. I delivered a load of 60' beams on, a big Mack truck, Summit racing in Tallmadge,Oh, a B-model near Zelienople,Pa, A yellow fire truck near Sharon,Pa. (it's for sale!), a huge oversize load, a Swift truck that pulled over on the shoulder-except there was no shoulder there, and the old KB-5 that sat in front of the truckstop in Hubbard,Oh. Now it's parked across the road with a "for sale" sign in the window-$7500.

that was mighty nice of you Joe,i'm sure that driver appreciated it. I had a load of paneling one time with stops in Covington, Pearisburg,and Dublin,Va. Got to the last stop in Dublin a little before 5 o'clock at a Lowes store and they said "sorry,we'll get you in the morning" but one guy said "i'll unload him,it's only a partial load,and I was just gonna go home and shoot some basketball anyway". Never did forget that,and it was years ago.

you're welcome . Jobyna's going to Wal-Mart now to get the pictures,i'm gonna put the tractor show pics in a new album.

where IS up there,if anywhere?

Speaking of work,i'm still hard at it. I've been to Zelienople,Pa. and back twice this week. Sounds easy enough,but there ain't no easy runs. It's a titanic struggle to get 46,000 lbs. up the road several times a week. Got to Roanoke with 48,000 lbs,3 Metalsa coils, around 6:30 or 7 o'clock Thursday night and figured on getting unloaded and being home early,but sometimes it doesn't pay to figure on anything. I got unloaded about 3:30 am Friday, got to the shop at 5 am and slept until 8,then went to Dillwyn and loaded kyanite for Fremont,Oh. to leave Sunday with. Then I drove the mixer over to Stonewall and parked it. The annual Stonewall Antique Power show is this weekend,and it almost snuck up on me. Came home,after the usual grocery store stop,and cut the grass and replanted some corn and beans that didn't come up. Went over to Wal-Mart in Altavista and dropped a roll of film off too,so I should have pictures to post this afternoon. Took some of a Mack fire truck that's for sale near Sharon or Wheatland,Pa. and we're gonna ride over to the tractor show for a little while and look around so I might take a picture or two there. Hard to say what might be there,or what kind of turnout they'll have this year because gas is so expensive.When I left there yesterday the only antique vehicles there was a 1965 b-53 Mack concrete mixer and a Ford pickup,but lots of tractors were coming in. It's good to have a distraction from just hearing of gloom and doom all the time,so in honor of no clue joe-I must be off...film at eleven.

I stopped by a CB shop Tuesday,and was so impressed I thought i'd mention it here. CB shops have kind've popped up all over,most big truckstops have one,but a really good one where they know their stuff about radios,antennas,and coaxial cable,and don't have to look it up in the manual to know how to peak and tune a particular radio,and treat you right for a fair price-well,they're not so common. The one at the Broad River Truckstop on I-85 in South Carolina, just south of the N.C. line is a good one. And the 12 Volt CB Shop in Barkeyville,Pa. where I stopped Tuesday is too. I spent $37 dollars on my Cobra 29 at Hubbard,Ohio at a CB shop basically to get the light bulb fixed in the meter. It would quit on me periodically and i'd have to reach up and rap it on the bottom with my knuckles once in a while,and it would go back to working. The guy fixed it for me (he claimed) and 5 miles down the road it was doing the same thing.I was loaded with coils so I wasn't about to go back,so I ordered a new Connex 3300 since the Cobra was 5 years old anyway. When I put the Connex in the truck my swr was high with my Wilson fiberglass antenna,lowest I could get it was 2.5- 1.1 is perfect,up to 1.5 is OK,or so i've always heard. So I called the 12 volt shop when I saw their add in a truck paper,and they talked radios and antennas for a long time,and told me I should get a stainless steel whip antenna for that radio,and I hadn't even bought anything from them. So I got a Wilson 2000 antenna,couldn't get the standing wave under 3.0,cut some of it off,still couldn't get it down,so I put the fiberglass one back on. When I loaded in Sharon,Pa.Tuesday I went across I-80 so I could stop at Barkeyville. The man there, who kinda looked like Frank Beard,ZZ Top's drummer,came out and took a look and said "take that fiberglass antenna off,move the mount to the horizontal bar on the mirror bracket,and tilt the antenna forward to about a 45 degree angle,and i'll come back and check it". OK, I did all that,put the stainless steel one back on,he came back out and hooked up his swr meter-hooked the antenna coax to it and plugged something in the cigarette lighter plug,nothing going to the radio-in fact,he never even turned the radio on! He said "I can tune it,but you've got a lot of resistance in your coax". I said,or maybe just thought "you can tell all that-the radio ain't hooked to anything-it's not even turned on!" Anyhow,long story short,he made me a new coax and I put it in,he came back out and checked it,snipped a little more off the antenna and said "that oughta do it". The 45 degree tilt was so it wouldn't reflect off the stacks on the truck and give a false reading-I never knew! Charged me $31 for everything. I was waiting to unload in Roanoke last night and checked the standing wave with my meter just for curiosity,a pretty good meter by the way,and it was 1.1 on channel 40,1.1 on channel 1,and 1.1 on channel 20. Perfect!

ain't no doubt about that!

...nothing to apoligize about for being young! Sometimes I wish I were a little -well,never mind that,that's another story. Anyway ,glad to have you-it's good to see a young person interested in something besides video games, ,especially trucks

indeed!