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I'm watching an Orlando news channel on TV, they're showing people clearing trees and storm debris from their homes and properties and putting it by the curb to be picked up. Couldn't help but think of the late Hat City, good friend and long time BMT member. He would be in his element now, clearing storm debris was his thing. He had a big Mack truck with a big body and a knuckle boom loader on it. RIP Ed Ackell.

Back when Zina from Gladys was known as Zina from Florida she lived in Winter Park. The Friendly Confines was just up on the corner, in walking distance...almost. I couldn't tell you how to get there though. We used to come up Semoran Blvd, turn right on Aloma Ave, go just a little ways then turn right again on some street, then turn left and right about 40 or 50 more times, until we got to Eastham street. I think you could have done it in about 3 turns, but she might have wanted to keep me confused 🤣

That's good then, that you can still get them. There's a place in Va. that will rebuild them and guarantee them for life. They might sleeve them, I don't know. I don't know how expensive it is either. I think they usually have an ad in the Wheels of Time magazine. Here's their ad, might be good for future reference anyway.

There was 5, maybe 6 Big Horns at the national show in Harrisonburg last year. Most i'd ever seen at one time.

Here's an old picture. This is a mighty 6-71 Detroit Diesel engine in a 1958 FWD fire truck.

wow, I just saw this today- slipped in just in time!

I don't know what kind of fish that is, but it's a nice one!

Amy report- She took a canoe out to the end of her road to go to work. They left their cars out there yesterday or the day before, because the St. Johns river was still rising. If I had to take a canoe to get to work i'd probably- well, on second thought forget the "probably" part- i'd just stay home.

Latest pics. from Amy in Florida. Her husband got this off their deck.

Wow, I hope they're safe. We used to haul pointy sticks to Fort Myers from Jr. Kidd's sawmill in Wingina, Va. Took them to a place that made silt fence.

I missed it somehow, and we were there for 3 days!

Here's what the storm left here, even though it's still raining. Sticks and leaves everywhere- But that's nothing compared to Florida. Zina's friend and co-worker sent her these pictures yesterday. These are from her home by Lake Harney on the St. Johns River. Her husband was driving her to work, this is the road to their house. She said she saw a fish jump in the road. Steps off their porch. View from their back deck. They saw fish jumping and an alligator in the yard. They actually fished for a while off the deck but didn't catch anything. She said somebody caught a tiny gator about a foot long in the ditch in front of the house. I said "what are they going to do with that little gator?" She said they were going to cook it and eat it😆.

Nice pictures, that Willys wagon is cool looking too!..and that yellow GMC.

I hope it's not raining there, it's been raining here off and on since yesterday, pretty hard sometimes. Last night about 12:30 the wind was blowing scary hard, it woke me up. I was afraid it would blow trees over, but it only blew one over in the edge of the woods behind the house. It was a dead oak. The entire yard is covered in sticks and leaves though, so I'll have plenty to do this week. I was going to post a picture, but it's 7.1 MB. so I'm not.

Yes, and as I was saying to some people in Winchester last week, with all this going on I see sleepy joe on TV patting himself on the back about some b.s. global warming bill he signed- unreal... except it is.

yes, that's it.

You're welcome, yes just take a random picture and play with it. You can make all these designs you see, straight lines, curved lines, circles. You can cut out a section using the dotted line square at the top, right click and copy, then paste, so you can paste the copied section as much as you want, like the extra tires here. You can click on the little medicine dropper looking thing, then click on any color in the picture and it'll use that color for whatever you're doing. I made the yellow scribble with the yellow off the yellow car. Click on the letter to write dialogue. I learned all this just by trial and error, and i'm sure you can do a lot more with it than I know how to do. Just remember when you're working on a picture you want to keep, if you go to "file" and click "save as" it will save the edited one and keep the original, but if you just click "save" it will save the edited one and the original picture will be gone.

He had lots of adventures, that's for sure. That's a really good book.

I just use the photo program that was on the computer at first, I don't have photo shop or anything. It's called "Paint". I just right-click on a picture, any picture- here's a just a random picture that was on facebook- when you right click you get this pop-up box, then you click "save image". Then this will come up, you can choose where to save it, pictures, documents, desk top, etc. I saved it to "pictures", just click "save". You can also re-name or number the picture anything you want to, to make it easier to find later, especially if you have thousands of pictures saved like I do. You can do that in the box shown in blue at the lower left, where it says "file name". . Then when it's saved you go to "pictures", find the picture, right click on it and another pop-up box opens, click on "open with", another box opens, click on "paint". Then you'll have this screen- Look at the top left and you see "resize"... ...just click "resize" and this box drops down. You can make it whatever size you want, by percentage or by pixels. I'll just do 50%, then click "OK". And here's 50% of original size- You can do a lot more things with this program, that's just resizing, no cropping, writing, circles, etc, but you can do all that too. And you might have a totally different system like Apple, or Linux, or something that none of this even applies to. Oh well.

I was just going to say that the late Clifford Bishop was part of that convoy, he tells about it in this book- I was also going to say that he was still alive and very active on facebook, at close to 100 years old. But when I went to his facebook page to see exactly how old he was I found that he had just passed away, at the age of 99. This is him driving, age 96. https://gofund.me/85156c26 I ordered several copies of that book, gave a lot away as Christmas presents. I ordered them directly from him, but it's probably available from Amazon.

Just click the photo for the link to the rest of the pictures.

just click the picture for the Flickr link to the rest of the pictures.

Here's what i'm doing, besides taking a break and drinking a beer now- i've posted examples before, but anyhow, here we see in this first photo a tiny little section of this Ford van. That's how big it is on the computer screen, untouched, straight from the camera. You have to shift the picture up and down and back and forth to see everything. Then when I reduce the size to where the whole picture fits the computer screen, you get this. Then I can see what I want to do, get an idea what to crop if anything, maybe take a light pole out. Sometimes it's more hassle than it's worth to try to get rid of a pole, but sometimes it's easy. I just copied and pasted sections of the grass between the van and the pickup when the picture was full size, that way it's barely noticable when the size is reduced. That's why in the "finished product" you don't see any of that pickup directly under the yellow trash can. Then i'll end up with something like this- But I enjoy doing it anyway, it's actually kind of fun. And i'll do that for every picture, all 206 of them. Some are simply just smallerizing and cropping, so it doesn't take long. So if somebody like, say, 1958FWD is walking by waving when i'm about to take a picture I just think "keep walking you jackass, two more steps and I can crop you right out of the picture". 😆

oh, I didn't know that. I'm sure I still have pictures there though.

I'm in Lynchburg now, at Ortho Va. waiting in the car with the dogs. I brought Zina from Gladys up here for her follow-up appointment. She had an MRI here last week because she tripped over a dog and fell and hurt her back. I'll get back to pictures when I get home. I need to cut a tree down, move a section of fence, and strain the wine too.