Happy Easter Everyone from Pennsynvania!

I'm just getting ready to sit down to my Easter ham dinner. It's just me this year, so I did not buy a Honey baked ham. I just got the normal Brown Sugar style. I'm sure it will be fine. I hope all of you are enjoying the company of family and friends.

Jeff

Hi All, This has been a trip to remember. Blizzards, a van driving full blast in the fast lane on the wrong side of the interstate in the Appalachian MTs in Pennsylvania yesterday. It was a real close call. 10 trucks including myself were just cresting a 7% grade and were starting to pick up some good downhill speed. We heard over the CB that there was a van heading Westbound in the Eastbound hammer lane. (fast lane) I had another big rig right next to me as we headed into a blind corner and then the van came around the corner right at us. I cranked my truck into the right hand emergency lane to make a hole for the truck passing me to slip into. Now for the Lords part of this message. My truck has 2 antennas on it One for FM and TV and the other is for the CB. My CB has never worked right in this truck, but did work fine in the Volvo. About a week ago I bought a new cable, socket and a new antenna for the CB side and was just to lazy to put it all together. That morning, after my shower and laundry, I looked at those parts just sitting there and said not today, I just showered and did not want to get dirty. I sat in my seat, started the truck, put it in first, released the air brakes and moved about 4 feet. I then shut it down and proceeded to install the new CB parts. If I did not install those parts that morning, I would not have heard the warning and the truck passing me, most likely would have hit the van, due to nowhere else to go. TIP OF THE DAY. On all freeways and most roads there are 2 solid lines on the outside edges of the road. these are called fog lines. The white will always be on the right and the yellow will always be on your left. If you ever look out at that line and you have a yellow line on your right side, You are going in the wrong direction. I will probably be getting a e-mail from Rev. Jesse Jackson for that white is always right comment. be safe out there.
Jeff

Boot Hill in Dodge City not the one in Tombstone, AZ. I wonder if that was the name that Wyatt Earp called the graveyards. It seems funny that both of the towns that he is famous in, the graveyards are called Boot Hill. It might just be an old West thing.



Old steamer in the town

Old caboose

This is in Mead, Kansas. It is where the Dalton gangs hang out was. It's about 40 miles out of Dodge City.

Old town In Dodge City

Big sun dial in the town square in Dodge City, Kansas
Wyatt Earp

Theater house

Rear view sunset

The Great Plains of Kansas

Ice & snow in WyomingThe start of a really bad day

Getting worse

Worse. It's a white out. Icy road with both blowing and falling snow

Picked up a load of Bud in Fort Collins, Colorado

2000 case's of Bud and Bud light

She's a full boat. 44 thousand pounds of beer. With the beer and the 45 thousand pounds of beef plus one hoof, We could have had one big old BBQ

One of the worst parts of my job, are the meat loads. I have to go to the slaughter house and drop my trailer off and then sit for 10 hours watching load after load of full cattle trailers going in and empty ones coming out. Last summer, Kerry and I had to sit in Dodge City, Kansas for 30 hours. We had to wait for them to get more cows in so they could fill our hamburger meat order.

My cargo out of Liberal, Kansas. (Meat load) of course they wont be alive then.

When I stopped for fuel, I noticed that my trailer was leaking blood


Blood and meat in trailer

When I opened the rear doors to get unloaded, a hoof fell out. Oh how I wish Al would have opened the doors. That would have been funny. I had to set my Big Mac down. it just didn't taste the same after that.