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Looks like a good turn out. It looks like you had fun.

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I saw where your turned it around. I was amused. :)

So, which is it?

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The original. I feel so misunderstood I must define myself to the world :lol: I ain't ignernt. Just preefer simple is aw. I know what napkins is fer, I just chose not to use'em, thanky

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I noticed it too but figured it was my imagination :lol::lol:

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Napkins are sissified! Sleeves aren't for just covering up your arms........

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Don't get me wrong. I realize the better restaurants serve on linen table cloths and provide linen napkins. You lay the napkin across your lap so you don't mess up your jeans and use the tablecloth for all your wipin'.

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Man,
I went to the county offices today
To deal with some property tax stuff
Needed
To take a leak

I guess this was the right door :dum:

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My only other choice
Was
This one
?
?
?
Which really had me confused
:dohh:

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Ah,

That’s right

The benefits of living in
California

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More from Ottawa.

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and more

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and WOW.

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In 72 I bought an orange and white Cheyenne new, so this one caught my eye. I wouldn't buy it, but it's kind of cool. Hendrick Chevrolet brought this one down. They also gave away an LS2 crate engine delivered to your door (Not my door unfortunately.).

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holy crewcab batman!!!

nice pictures, thanks for sharing!

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Those pictures don't do that crew cab justice.

On the way up We were past Oceola Cheese Company before I noticed it so decided we would stop on the way back, but that didn't work because on the way back I just wanted to get home.

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Woo. That last one. I'm with ya. I wouldn't buy one either but some guys are gaga over the look. Our trucks have been a single color for so long now this looks strange. ;)

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Man, that white/turquoise/white/turquoise truck is gorgeous! Whatever they call that blue...scrumptious.

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I can see why you say that, and I can't see all the detail I know is there! Looks like even the bodyworks emblem was replated
I like the look. Other people like the look. So why did they stop the look? If I want a classic truck I'll buy a classic truck, but if I need a new truck I'd like it to have classic qualities. That's how I was thinking when I ordered the '92 K3500. What bugs me with these 1500s is they used 10 emblems. Truck would be just as cool without the throw-back emblems from 71/72 and sticker from late-70s. And something about Vette rallyes on a 4wd truck... I dunno.

My favorite is the Bronze & White K/10 in #1399

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worth the stop next time if you can swing it, free samples :metal:osceola cheese

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/u59nnvmyv77..._2268.jpg?dl=0

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It is beautiful. He said it was medium blue. I had a big block 71 Cheyenne that listed it as Hawaian Blue on the SPID.

He had never heard of this group. I invited him.

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my battle buddy :flag:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/xkvraun4ba0...buddy.jpg?dl=0

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Ive got a couple of the same pics, and some. Had I known you were going to be up my way I would’ve tracked you down. I was there early in the morn. Photos aren’t the best.

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Probably should’ve started my own thread, well hope you enjoy the pics.

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Thanks for sharing. I knew you were from Ottawa, but it never occurred to me 'till I got home and ran on to your sig.

I have rooms for next year so maybe then.

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house in Lowry City that grandpa built.. yes, grandma is standing on a lower step ;)
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/vyng4qc742s...0Copy.bmp?dl=0


picking apples with grandpa in his orchard
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ry8u8giy4px...0Copy.bmp?dl=0

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Making that Sledsel emblem was a great idea. I bet he was looking at it and suddenly it hit him. I bought a '78 shortbed once that had a Harley Davidson sticker on the back window, just the letters. I didn't have a bike at that time so was contemplating taking it off until I was looking at it and I realized all the letters for Silverado were in there. Pretty amazing all those letters are in there. I removed that sticker, bought another, and created the silverado sticker. Yep, no capital S
That's some great stuff there. Wew, asbestos siding. Big sales pitch for that stuff was "It will outlive you" :lol:. Nah, it's safe and stable sitting there on the house. But cutting was not too good...although it's nly like 3% asbestos.

My dad's father I never met and my mom's died when I was maybe 6. So I missed out on the grandfather experience. I really like that old fellers, though. Now they are my dad's (Rest his soul) age.

Today I did a job for a 93 year old feller. He still drives and he brought the ladder up onto the deck for me to use. I think he would have climbed it and done the work if the family hadn't told him to stick to the ground (good idea). He is sharp as a tack and I enjoy my time talking with him. I just want to kid with him all the time to get him going. What's neat is I'm working on a cabin on the water that his wife's family, then he, has owned since 1927. Very neat rustic place you drove the Model T down for the weekend. There was a train that ran from Baltimore to Annapolis that I'm sure was a popu;ar way still to get down there.

Then tomorrow I'm meeting Roy, a 79 year old feller from the Shenandoah Valley (Fort Valley within, actually). He's buying a power steering box, pump, and hoses to put on his '61 Apache. I can't wait to meet him. He says he's been fooling with these trucks for 60 years.

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I did some work for a guy that was probably in his mid 80s about a year ago. His wife had passed a little while before I met him. She was bedridden the last 11 years of her life. He took care of her by himself. One of the kindest men I’ve ever met. He felt like he didn’t do enough. He pointed out paintings she did that were hanging on the walls. He was very proud of her.
I typically just focus on my job without a whole lot of small talk. I’m mostly just thinking about where I want to move the furniture and where I’ll place the seams in the carpet. Do I need to pull the doors. Basically how to stage everything.
But this gentleman wanted to talk, so I slowed down and listen. We talked about his wife. He had the same job 50 or 60 years and then we talked about old cars and trucks. He was a bit of an old car guy. Well he had left me alone for a minute and then calls for me to come watch this car show that was on the tv. I don’t remember what show it was. I haven’t had a tv for nearly 12 years or so. But that day I sat down for 20 minutes and watched tv with him. Then went back to work to finish installing his carpet. In my estimation he was a honest, caring and decent man.

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The old folk are true treasures. I try to always take time for them. They have all that life experience behind them and often no one to talk about it with. Once you get too old to get about and do much of anything, your memories become your best possession. Great to pull things up in your own mind, but a shame not to be able to share. One thing I like is they are done being in a hurry like most everyone else. I try to live by a more controlled pace, but can't wait for the day it all slows down. I'll be busy doing all the things I never had time for and doing them at my own pace.

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My dad was a WWII veteran. He had five Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. Not many men lived through five campaigns. He said seventeen men out of his entire company that landed on D-Day lived to come home.

He worked hard until he couldn't, and his integrity came before anything else. He always gave the customer more than they had bargained for, and people that didn't operate that way rubbed him the wrong way.


He passed July 13 six years ago. When they told him he had a few days left, he never showed any fear or remorse, he just wanted us to promise we would take care of Granny.

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I salute your father's valor, quintessence of the greatest generation, thank you for sharing!

:flag:

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Your dad and my dad had a lot in common from what you've said. He dropped out of school, had my grandmother sign him up at 17, and became a Ranger medic. He collected up an some medals as well. He went to college on the G.I. Bill where he met my mom. Became a HS teacher and worked to develop the WOC (work oriented curriculum) and OJT (on job training) programs for kids at risk of dropping out. He became good friends with the woodshop teacher (Dicky Woodard, a big influence on me) at one school. They'd work in the woodshop after hours teaching a few students how to make guitars. My sister has one he made. One student went on to opening a guitar shop. They started a folk music club and they met at our farm. On weekends our place was the hangout.

There wasn't anything he wouldn't try to do. Him and Dicky messed with cars and motorcycles on the farm, too. Dad never took a car to a shop. I watched him rebuild engines, manual transmissions, rears... etc. We never had a new car. He also built a big dormer addition on our house one summer. I always felt lucky to have the dad I did. He passed Jan 15, 04. Damn diabetes got him

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An old Italian Mafia Don is dying and he called his grandson to his bed.

"Grandson I wanna you lisin to me. I wanna for you to take my chrome plated
38 revolver so you will always remember me."

"But grandpa I really don't like guns, how about you leaving me your Rolex
watch instead."

"You lisina to me, soma day you goin a be runna da bussiness you goina have
a beautiful wife, lotsa money, a big home and maybe a couple of bambinos.
Soma day you goina coma home and maybe finda you wife in bed with another
man. What do you gonna do? Point to you watch and say TIME'S UP?"

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:lol::lol:

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Roy didn't make any mention of "Dry Run", "Seven Fountains", or "Four Corners" did he? Those places are dear to my heart. They're in "Powell's Fort Valley" which is the valley between Woodstock and Front Royal.

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for my fellow Jack fans..

found this little gem in our neighborhood liquor store..

No 5 Master Distiller Series - Frank Bobo

very tasty! that is all..

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/bpkftisrr1g...0bobo.jpg?dl=0

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No, we met kinda quick at a convenience store in Berryville, about 1/2 way point for both. He had his wife and they needed to get back home to prepare for a trip to her sister's the next morning to celebrate her 99th birthday! But he did say he would keep my number and I'm keeping his. That's where he's from, born & raised.

I know those places. Something almost magical about that valley. Like a world within itself, especially in the early days. I know the Union Army never knew it existed :cool:. My great grandmother, dad's side, was a Saum. Saumsville is along the tracks west of US11 just north of Woodstock. The house she was born in is still there. I spent my honeymoon night at a bed & breakfast in Woodstock. My sister lives in Rileyville up on the mountain at the boundary for the national park/Skyline Dr. You can see both ridges of Massanutten that cradle Fort Valley. That area is like a second (third?) home to me. The other is Friendsville, MD where my mom is, was born.

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Hmm...I'm on the hunt now.

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I you haven't already toured the Jack Daniels distillery, and get a chance, do it.
I thoroughly enjoyed that tour.

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been there once and also a squire ;)

lost almost every picture from that trip, only ones saved were resized for text during trip :(

this is the playground in Lynchburg

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/uc0dqz461n9...51636.jpg?dl=0

and this was a memorable game :D

Browns' record road comeback stuns Titans

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/3opg97abh8q...40898.jpg?dl=0

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/wo3gfo2ikh5...35235.jpg?dl=0

exploring the farm back home..

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/shmd4czy1ll...19745.jpg?dl=0

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/3f9ax3sjrkw...39498.jpg?dl=0

discovering daddy's lego from the 70's :D

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/6gfcwjq8ly6...15561.jpg?dl=0

had to ship that home for the kids, 35lbs of lego :lol:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/dh47kv2pa0e...57538.jpg?dl=0

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:lol: Some little kid has died and gone to LEGO heaven!