Olivetroad

Well, hopefully he is busy hitting the english grammer books, and ain't no mo lernin propr spelin round heres. I laugh when I see schools offer what used to be typing class - now I think they call it keyboarding. As if kids these days won't be expert computer typists on their own.

Even Macks get a little lean to them with the boom AND the outriggers up at the same time

A couple of days ago I went through the drive thru as my blushing pregnant bride called me to let me know the kitchen was closed as far as she was concerned. I bought a couple dozen McDoubles and McChicken sammiches on the dollar menu for me and the kiddos. I got to driving too fast around a corner while I was stealing frys out o' the bag, and I guess some of the McChickens fell out. I found them three or four days later and ate them for lunch in front of some buddies that thought I would just die on the spot after that - hell, they put so many chemicals in those things you could eat them a year later and be fine. The mayo was a little turned, but it went down okay. I will eat about anything if it is rolled in salt and fried in lard - I like to think I have an iron stomach - but the time Rob pulled up his shirt to give his dewlap a scratch about did me in.

Great photos - I enjoyed looking at all of them - you have a brand new truck there my friend - better I bet than when it came off the line!

All I know is that if I call her Babushka, and am nice to her, she has a tendency to whip up a big ol' USA made chocolate cake and lots of after dinner liqueurs to wash it down with. At her house I also have been introduced to meals with the africans where you have 20 different dishes that all contain plantain(sp?), and some kind of little ball of crap called FooFoo. I have been caught more than once throwing away a wadded up napkin full of food that someone else spooned up on my plate. There is no way on God's green earth that this country boy is going to eat something that I can't identify at first glance.

That is the way it should be - play with it and use it - you can't take it with you - get some enjoyment out of it while you can!

At least through my 'puter's scent attachment, it has that deep, dark, chocolate smell. You know - the stink you end up with if you don't take advantage of the need to go and put it off too long? Like Kramer on Seinfeld - "Well, I, uh, I waited so long, I missed my chance."

I am doing all I can! Hopefully the bids will go crazy at the last minute.........

Greetings!

They limit the overhang on the back of the trailer - never said anything about the front!

Once many moons ago, I thought I did something stupid, but I didn't, so that was just the first and only time I was ever wrong.

Randy - Now do you believe me about Rob's weight? Wherever you met him, did you kind of steer him away from food?

Vinny - I read what you said, as I prepare for my bed, in fact I think you planted a thought in my head. For you see Mister U, while what you say is quite true, it really does not make me sad or turn blue, I buy these brand X trucks, not to keep, like a good herd of white sheep, but to resell and make bucks, which is handier to trade at the store than a duck. In these recent years past, while they have moved rather fast, have allowed me to see, the wisdom of owning a DM600, a R600 and now a Frankenstein B!

That is the biggest problem and also just the fact people are now too far removed from the food chain. Guns no longer just hang over the door and get pulled down when you are hungry or threatened. But I am glad that at least around here, more folks are buying guns, as long as they practice with them and know how to handle them. We just have more and more need to protect ourselves. Even the pot heads have changed, they used to be into peace dude - now they just are flippin crazy and willing to do anything for more of that crap. If you do not have a gun, you better get one and practice with it the way things look from my perspective.

That log loader at the landing knew what he was doing - a fart on a windy day would not make it between those logs - that is how you rack up the board feet on a load!

Well, even if it is fake, just read a single issue of American Rifleman and they have that page every month that lists story after story of documented instances just like that one.

Worth repeating daily

I bought a truck recently - can't say what brand - would get laughed at - hurt my feelings - boo hoo The four cylinder diesel starts great and it runs great with no smoke, no noise, plenty of power. Once it gets up to operating temp, it starts to lose power and then if you keep driving, it starts putting out black smoke that smells funny - kind of burned, and then it dies and the starter can barely turn it over. It acts like it is seizing up. I unhooked all the safety shutdown stuff so I know that is not going on. If you leave it for an hour or more, so it cools down - it starts up like a normal one again. I have run it at different lengths of time, if you leave it in the shop at idle, it never gets hot enough to mess up, so I do not think it is the fuel pump doing something weird. Any ideas? I screwed up and wrote in the listing that it is a four cylinder - now you are going to guess what it is.

In the fourth grade, we used to all run around with our arms in the air like we were riding motorcycle's with ape hanger handlebars (it was the 70's). A classmate works at the local prison as a guard and he has been caught several times walking the halls making the same BRRROOOM, BRRROOOOMMM noises with his mouth and his arms are in the air. It's all good.

Sounds like you got a deal! I always like to buy vehicles without a key. Usually it was a repo and nothing is more wrong with it other than the pissed off former owner flushed it down the john! I have gotten to know all the locksmiths and if it is new enough, you can usually get a key based on the VIN from the dealer if you show proof of ownership. Got a photo?

Have you tried U-ship.com? I use them a lot and get some smokin' cheap prices on there if you are willing to wait until someone shows up running empty the same way.

Vinny - It really does not matter where you go to school, it is what you make of it. If you apply yourself, you can reach the same level as anyone else. The main thing I have seen in my short version of life is that the thing that successfull people do is just really try hard. They may not be the smartest, they may not have had as good a home, they may not have as good of a school, but that does not matter, they just every day did the best they could and everyday tried a little harder. You obviously have a grandfather that loves you enough to spend time with you on your U model - you have nothing to be jealous about - most kids today will never be able to do what you do with him. DO NOT LISTEN TO UNCLE ROB! (although he will tell you the exact same thing I just did)

I hope she leaves the wooden paddle with the leather wrist strap and the holes in it at school! Kids used to sit on a wooden bench outside the office and they would leave the door open just enough that you could see that paddle on the wall. The principal would make you look at it for an hour and then he would slooooooowly get it down, whack it in his hands a few times and then call your name to come in for a "visit". Not that such a thing ever happened to me of course. I just hear that is what would happen. Yeah, I just think that is what it was. There is no way I would know for sure. Right.

My wife homeshools our five kids - I love it. I take them with me to auctions, they can drop everything if needed and we will all take a field trip. In a couple of weeks we are all going to see the Steamboat Arabia in Kansas City - look it up on your computer, they dug it up out of the ground and it is in a museum. But you have to get your work done and done well. My middle son gets up at 5:00 and does his math on the computer so he can work with me in the afternoons. But he got to where he was rushing through his work and his grades slipped a little - mom put the smack down and he did not get to leave the house for a week! He was about to rip his hair out - won't do that again!

I always like holding onto a "OH SHIT" wheel, especially the soft rubber kind you can squeeze like a tube of toothpaste when you get close to running over the bosses new truck, but I like skidder type steering when sitting sideways in the seat.