Where is everyone #5

Should have to pass an IQ test to obtain a CDL.

 

Took over mom's plant tonight and we got to talkin'.....we goiin to Buffett next weekend.... They's watchin the pup.

I been to alot of concerts with them. Seen Dolly and Kenny Rogers when they landed life flight on the track cause his voice was going. Seen George before he was the king. Seen alot of jazz players....Woody Herman.... Maynard Ferguson....

First concert I took mama to was Alabama...... That was 85..86...my memory ain't good.


But got to talking to the parents tonight.... They been to some I never got the chance to see...
Waylon and Willie....Roy Clark....Ann Murray.... Crystal Gail... Wayne Newton.

If you listen you find out things you never knew about......

If your parents are still with you go have a sit down....you never know what you will here.....

Happy Mothers day to all the girls that let us do what we do.....

 

Kinda cool today.....the oldest was camping down below the dam at howle station. We went for a walk across the old train bridge on the river up to the dam.

When grandpa died in '66 at 52 years old dad gave up a dang good job to come back and take care of grandma. The job he got then was helping build that dam we was standing today watching hold back that water.

Cool.....

 

I just pissed off a PAM driver in Effingham earlier, he was trying to back into a spot with his trainer guiding him...I just sat ther watching him struggle patiently..... apparently he didn't like that because he took off flying through the lot to circle back around after I went through.....if I was his trainer I would've yanked him out of the truck for going through the parking lot that fast.

Blind leading the blind.

 

Here's the screwy part about this story.... Grandpa before he passed ran a dragline during the day and ran the hydro in a the town just south of me at night. They've spent the last couple three years and around five mil putting a generator in this dam dad helped build that was just supposed to be for flood control..... Well...

In '93 they all got caught with their hands in their pockets....see the state figured out they could make this area recreational.... So they was holding back water to raise the lake....well then the rains came.

We spent a couple weeks helping sandbag a levee in the small town my wife grew up in to keep it from flooding.... A levee my other grandpa helped build in the late 40's

And in the immortal words of Paul Harvey....that's the rest of the story...

Thanks for listening to my jibberish....

 

Yea tgats the place, it used to rival Nicks believe it or not. But since the folks from across the pond bought it it went straight down the tubes.

 

You be nice now! I have you know those tight rest areas are hard on us folk with aero hoods!



Rolled up. Sitting in line. Sigh, it’s gonna be a long Monday.

 

Welp get to the turd care place this am. My load number was a Friday number not a Monday one. No big deal girl that does that be here at 9 am. WTF why does a place only half open at 7?

 

Stopped in to see an old friend couple weeks ago. Got talking about Chevettes and Corvettes and that led to him talking about losing his oldest son 15 years ago. Drunk driver.

Another old friend of mine lost his oldest son 11 years ago. Leukaemia. Every summer some of his sons friends and ex-coworkers go out for a supper.

Sometimes you just have to be there to listen to old men remember the past

There needs to be an Old Man Day. A chance for us to raise a glass and honor those who walked the line before us.

But you're right. Parents or just friends the tales need telling. They didn't start out life old, they earned it. If I've heard some stories once I've heard them 20 times. It'll be a sad day when I can't listen to them any more

 

I spy....