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A lot of people probably don't realize what a big truck fan Tom Brady is, we ran across him at another show too. And he was wearing a Battlestar Galactic T shirt!

We even hung out with Tom Brady at the Watt's Mack Show one time.

Yeah, we know a few dignitaries too.

It's as real as Zina on the summit of Mt. Everest! 🤣

Well, Brian Griffin can fly a helicopter. I saw it on Family Guy.

Yeah, there's too much about electricity that I just don't know. I know how to run the extension cord though, that's about it.

I just watched the first video on the big screen, that was great! Actually it was the second one, the climb in the snowcat. But it was just like being there!

I've been seeing previews of this on TV, true story of a 12 year old boy lost on the mountain in Maine that's at the end of the Appalachian Trail. Looks like a good one, not sure what channel it's on, or whether it's even out yet. https://youtu.be/fS2KrNvUHN4?si=cok90CcNAD3WFVnx

I got a screenshot of the R Model.

I read "The Grapes of Wrath", many years ago.

That reminds of of the bread. I saw this with my own two eyes. I know I've told the story before, but once upon a time I was delivering a load of steel in northern Virginia, Arlington, Alexandria or somewhere, it's all the same. I was parked outside of where I was delivering the next morning and the back side of a bakery was right across the street from me. This was in the summer too, didn't get dark until late. And I sat in the truck and watched a woman come out onto the dock behind the bakery pushing a cart that was taller than she was. It was stacked with trays of bread top to bottom. And she picked up each tray and dumped it into the dumpster that was beside the dock. And she went back inside and got cart after cart after cart of bread, and threw every loaf in the dumpster. I was tempted to go dumpster diving myself, but I figured with my luck she'd come out and catch me with just my feet sticking out of the dumpster. I thought then that all that bread would feed a lot of homeless people, or it could have been used for hog feed, or SOMETHING besides just throwing it away like that. And the thing is, that probably takes place at every bakery, everywhere, every day. Probably past the expiration date or something and they couldn't sell it, so they they just throw it away. Such a waste.

I don't know, I looked at his Facebook page a while back and there was no indication that he had.

We got this big ass carport and the big green International that runs now and my car are in it, so I still had to go clean the snow off the Zinamobile in case we need to go somewhere. The road is still covered, but the next door neighbor didn't have any trouble getting out.

...which reminds me of the time the power was out in Richmond one time for several days. This was years ago, and I think it was during the summer. I don't remember all the details of course, I don't remember a lot of details about yesterday. But one supermarket chain down there invited everybody to come and bring a grill and set it up in their parking lot. Then they gave everybody all the meat they could grill. They were going to have to throw it away anyway but instead of putting a dumpster in the parking lot to throw it in, like every other store did, they let people have it. I remember thinking that every one of the stores should have done it, but only one did. If I lived there that store would have been the only place I bought groceries from then on. And like I said, I don't remember if they couldn't get fuel for backup generators or what the story was there, but anyway they said "come on over- and bring your grill".

We passed by the hardware store before the storm the other day on the way to Appomattox. The parking lot was full and people were lined up for miles waiting to get propane. Or maybe lined up for several yards. Zina said " what is the reason that all those citizens are in line to purchase some propane to fill their propane tanks?" I said "so they can cook on their gas grills if the power goes out I guess". It never even occurred to me that it might be for a propane heater or propane powered generator, all I thought about was cooking!

I have several outside sockets too, I was wondering the same. But nope, ain't gonna do it. I'm just going to get a generator extension cord, run that inside, and what I read said you could "SAFELY" run 3 extension cords from that cord. So I'm thinking internet, freezer/fridge, and a small electric heater or a fan in summer.

No problem getting it here, but it's expensive. Last time I bought some it was still up close to $4 a gallon, $3.89 I believe.

I have no idea. Her setup looks like a NASA control room. I think her laptop is the main computer, and she has 3 monitors besides the laptop that she uses.

I was posting that very thing when you were.

And ALWAYS use non-ethanol gas!

Good to know, thank you.

Thank you for the kind words, I don't know about all that, but I did "buy now with one click" on this one.

Yep, after much research- ok, I looked around on the interwebs a little bit- that's what I decided would be best. You can even order Westinghouse generators from Amazon, and all the reviews of Westinghouse generators were good, on several different sites. And a smaller one that you just run a generator cord in through a window or door is around $600. It said you could run several extension cords from the generator cord safely to power the refrigerator, freezer, coffee maker, etc. Or a still smaller and cheaper unit that they recommended running the refrigerator for an hour, then the freezer for an hour, then the "something else". I'd get one bigger than that, but yep, the gas powered portable is the way I'm gonna go.

So, I saw these pictures on my phone a while ago. Randyp had posted a picture on here of him sitting on a huge pine tree. Randyp was a regular here, very funny, always had a humorous reply to just about everything, and then he just... disappeared. I tried calling him several times but the last few times got no response, so I don't have a clue about his current status. But anyway, if you remember him here's the old story about the big tree.

https://youtu.be/wYXFSbLotSU?si=8DZUrz5F07mLfLUW