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I didn't have much to do today.

yes...

Oh, I found another picture, must have missed it somehow.

Here's all of the pictures from the truck show Saturday.

what a cu- I mean bit- I mean- never mind, we all know the deal...

More units- This guy might have come from a land down under, I don't know, but I had to put some pants on him. His shorts came right to the top of the water bottle he's holding.😆 We were thinking about getting a drone. A friend of mine has one and he takes some great pictures with it. I asked him yesterday if he would give me flight lessons if I got one, and he said he would. I googled the brand he reccomended getting, and I had no idea a drone was that expensive- around $500 for a good beginner drone, so I don't know about the drone idea.

oh yeah, that reminds me- I put my morning eye drops in, but haven't taken my blood pressure, gout, and cholesterol pills yet.

There were some fine looking rides there too.

oh,took me a minute-I see her now.🤣

I didn't see any wimmens, but I saw a nice blue pickup.

I'll have some truck pictures to post shortly, but in the meantime, here are some of the dignitaries that I saw at the Watt's Mack truck show Saturday. I didn't get a picture with Farmer52 for some reason, so I used one from the archives. Mowerman flew in from Nevada. First thing he said when he landed was "boy,are my arms tired!" 75T Green Dash Jumper and Son, without Son. Me and Tom Brady The gang at dinner Friday night. I've been to many truck shows, and this is a good one. I've never really been to a bad one, but much like when you make stew, some are just better than others. We had a great time, it was a bit hot for the dogs so they sat in the car with the AC on.

Happy birthday!

I read the book too, great read. They made a movie about it based on the book too, it's been years since I've seen it though.

"that's what she said".

When I first hauled concrete pipe out of Roanoke I think the plant was called Paracrete, then it was Concrete Pipe and Products for a while, then I believe they changed the name again. Same facility, just different names. I don't know if they're still in operation or not.

That reminds me of the time I was hauling concrete pipe out of Roanoke. They had a couple of trucks there all the time, the drivers lived in Roanoke. That's all they did, was haul concrete pipe. But if they were extra busy, or there was a big highway project going on, they would put more trucks up there. Many times I would go to Roanoke and just haul pipe for weeks at a time. One day I took a load out to a job off of rt. 100, north of Dublin. You went a little ways up the mountain, then turned onto a dirt road that they had bull dozed into the woods. It was a pretty good ways back in the woods, up and down some really steep hills. When you got back to where they were working, there was no room to turn around so they would hook a cable to the back of the trailer and pick it up with the track hoe. Then they would swing the trailer out over the cliff while you got the truck turned around.

Sign on rt. 29 south of Lynchburg.

No, I just told her to scram, but I was suspicious. It was the uniform, it just didn't look like an official gummint uniform to me.

Must be, this gummint agent showed up here immediately after it happened. She even said "i'm from the gummint, and i'm here to help!..help- any way I can" So I said "I ain't falling for your stupid B.S, now git on 'way from h'yeah!" And she said "fine then!" Then she looked at the evidence, took some pictures, and said "this is terrible- do you want to press charges against the evil-doers?" And I said "nah, it's just a mail box- now beat it".

I have one of those!..spools that is, I have a big spool. It came with the new body that's on the rust bucket.

I took a load of steel to a bridge job in northern VA. one time, DC area. They had the left lane of the street blocked off with orange cones- I pulled in behind the cones to get unloaded, the crane was on the street below. Rush hour traffic in the morning, this guy on a Harley rides by with his left foot sticking out and knocks over every single cone. The guy at the job site said "this a$$ hole does it every morning. Every morning - one of these days I'm going to fill one of them with concrete and see how he likes that". Great idea, but I doubt that he actually ever did it.

...it's just a mailbox. That's what I would have told the person that knocked it off the pole and into the ditch today, if they had walked over and told me they had hit it. We were sitting inside with the TV on this morning when we heard a loud noise. A funeral was going on at the little cemetary across the road, we just figured it was caused by something they were doing. It was. Somebody had hit the mailbox, knocking it completely off the post. I went out and pulled the rest of the board off the post with a crowbar, found a piece of board in the shed that was already cut, took 2 nails and 4 screws out there and had it fixed in about 5 minutes. I even waited until after the funeral to fix it. That's the only thing about it that kind of pissed me off, that nobody said a word. They knocked it completely off, the board had three or four 16 or 20D nails in it, the post was solid, we heard it in the house- so you know they had to know they hit it. Not a word.

That one was at the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor museum. It was parked out back, and the last time I was there they still hadn't put it on display inside.