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Or, "the picture I didn't get" of the week. I looked out of the window a minute ago and saw a beautiful red fox just trotting across the front yard and across the driveway. Of course I didn't have my phone so I could get a picture. Then 2 red and white hounds came moseying along on It's trail. I felt kind of sorry for the fox. Anyway, here's some dogs. And here's the hot sauce I made this morning.

Trying to maintain law and order is a far cry from taking over the city. I'm not a fan of thugs and criminals on the streets myself. I remember when Chicago was one of my favorite places to go. We had several places in Chicago, plus Gary, In, Crown Point, In. and Hammond, In. that we hauled kyanite to regularly. One of the places in Chicago was Chicago Fire Brick, right down town, on 79th. st. I think. No, you took 79th. St. and then turned north on Ashland ave. I think. It's been 40 years, anyway I would go there and park right on the street and go to sleep until they opened the gate in the morning, nobody ever bothered me. Nowadays? No way, you couldn't pay me to go to Chicago and sleep in a truck on the street.

Yeah, remember when that stupid bit- sorry, I meant to say AOC, stupid autocorrect, said she didn't even know how she could afford to pay rent in Washington, and now she's apparently loaded?

It sure hits close to home, a good friend of mine just passed away Sunday. I was driving for H.H. Moore Jr. in the early 80's when he started to work there. Ran many loads of steel to Boston with him. He came off the road several years ago after he had heart bypass surgery and when he recuperated he went to work in the shop at FLM. Worked his ass off too, mainly on trailers, doing lights, tires, brakes, etc. Many times I'd go in the shop and he'd be working and just pouring sweat and everybody else would be looking at their phones or something. He was a great guy, came over to Gladys one time to help me work on that old Dodge pickup I had, came to several backyard barbecues. I had just asked Jeff last week why he was still working, and he said it was so his wife could stay on his insurance. He was the same age as me.

Yeah, but if they hadn't do you realize how much spotted owls would cost at Piggly Wiggly now? Or if you could even find one, then I wouldn't get to use my spotted owl cooker.

Sorry for your loss.

Where's mrsmackpaul? Oh, never mind, he's probably shoveling snow. 🤣

You would have loved it around here then, I think it was 90+ every day for the entire month of July. About did me in. It's cooled down a bit now though, it's only in the 80's.

It has an L10 Cummins, 9 speed.

OK, here's a few more pictures.

...or I would trade a 1984 GMC Brigadier that runs like a clock and drives like a car for it. Doesn't have a sleeper though.

Wow, I just now saw this here, but David had sent me a link to it before on messenger. I told him, I don't know the truck, or the guy, but he sure has a lot of junk. 🤣

I have a bird's nest, but no fan.

We were talking about how big a K100 Kenworth seemed compared to a Transtar or an F model Mack the other day. I don't have a size comparison between those models but I did see this picture today. This was at an antique truck show in Lincolnton, N.C. It was in my memories for today, an H-63 Mack and a K100.

They do. I told Zina we should only plant the yellow and purple ones because they're so much easier to pick. We've got several gallon freezer bags in the freezer now for stew this fall. I'm going to cook some of these today. She doesn't like the way I cook them though. I cook them in chicken broth instead of water with a piece of cured seasoning meat. Sometimes I'll boil potatoes with them. She "steams" them, that's what she calls it anyway. I call it "barely cooked at all". They're still crispy, crunchy, and mostly tasteless when they're done. I cook them like my mom used to cook them. 😁

Good thing I went down yonder to the garden when I got home from delivering some tomatoes a while ago and picked these green green beans. And yellow green beans. And purple green beans. And these jalapeno peppers. Because now it's pouring down rain on this GMC- again. And it's raining on this big Mack truck too. Again.

Speaking of lawyers, you never hear anything about Rudy Giuliani anymore. He was a great mayor for New York City and cleaned up the crime and riff raff, most of it anyway, then he was Donald Trump's attorney. And when he said the 2020 election was rigged he was sued and had to pay some outrageous amount. Now there's PROOF that the election WAS indeed manipulated by the democrat's lies and deceit, something everybody with good sense already suspected. The democrats should have to repay him every dime he's paid, with interest. I don't remember if he was disbarred or not, but he probably was, so he should be reinstated as well. Just my opinion.

I told my assistant to sit out by the GMC today in case anybody stopped by and wanted to buy it. It was too hot out there for me. One person stopped by to look at it. Then her and my assistant left together and haven't been seen since.

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I've only been outside a few times today, and the heat just about takes your breath away as soon as you step out the door. Went down to the garden and picked green beans, tomatoes, and peppers this morning and was just soaked with sweat in a matter of minutes.

Holy mackerel!

This is true.

I went back to the scene of the crime. Looks like little yellow jacket carcasses all right. This one was still in the shed, but it didn't look like it felt very good. Then it got stepped on. This was what was left of the nest. The whole compound was housed in that paper looking stuff. That thing was huge, had like 5 of these compartment apartment complexes in it.

Yeah, I dug up an underground nest before and they'll have those type of nests in the ground. I thought this was a hornet's nest at first, that's what it looked like. Had the "paper" wrapping all around the part with the holes in it that the eggs or larva or whatever you call them are in. I would have hated to have gotten stung multiple times by these, the one still hurts- almost 24 hours later. As many as there were I still feel lucky to have only been stung once. And when I was washing the big green International that runs now I found a good size wasp nest up under the visor, that one had the big red wasps on it. I always considered those the most painful stings of them all. I just sprayed it with the water hose and knocked it down with the brush handle. If we got stung by a wasp when we were kids my grandfather would cut off a little piece of his plug of Peach and Honey and tell us "chew this a minute or two and then hold it on where it stung you and it'll stop hurting". Worked too.

I already burned one shed down, better not try the starting fluid flame thrower trick in this situation. 🤣 I didn't look at them real, real, close but they appeared to be yellow jackets. They're just mean anyway. I think that was the first yellow jacket nest I've seen that wasn't in the ground. I burned 3 or 4 when I was in Gladys. Got stung several times cutting the grass one time but it took me a while to find the nest. I finally saw some go in a hole in the ground so just before dark that evening I poured half a red solo cup of gas in it. Non ethanol gas. That probably would have done the trick, but I got a can of ether out of the shed and sprayed a trail on the ground back about 10 feet and lit it.