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K&H Truck Plaza for supper.

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Swing by my house and drop them off please.

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Swing by my house and drop them off please.
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Mine also I only need 2 Someone in #5 will pay you

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Every second Sunday of every month, I light a fire in the yard, drag out two bbqs, have a bunch of water and pop, and many burgers and hot dogs, and those small bags of chips. Its an open invitation event for my employees and they can bring their families as well if they choose. It is so refreshing to have a get together without it becoming a pecker measuring contest. An incredible amount of laughter, some good natured teasing if someone has recently done something stupid, but it is just fun. In winter I have this big sleigh that holds 8 kids, I tie it onto my quad and drag it around the yard, kids love it. It really is just a fun time, and well attended. That is how group gatherings should be, and usually the worst thing that happens is someone's dog steals some food off a kids plate and makes a run for it to get away. Ten minutes later we have them another burger or whatever it was grilled, and life goes on...
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I seem to have lost your address. Could you send it to me again ?? Lol

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Do you recognize the area in the picture?
Hint it isn't far from a ferry and restaurant.
I walked to the restaurant and got two burgers and milkshakes to go, sat on the trailer and ate them, because the lake is a lot nicer view than the inside of a restaurant. I love being outside.
Drive south of there you are in Nelson, head north you go to Ainsworth hot springs. About 2 months ago a trainee and I stayed at the Ainsworth hotel and soaked in the attached hot springs for about 3 hours. She had never stopped to be in the hot springs before. I actually used to live 10 minutes north of the hot springs when I was a youngster. I rented a tiny house beside the lake, 720 square feet, man it was small, and I loved it there. I was 21 years old, single, just bought my first truck, was a crazy man, rented it because the driveway was big enough to park the logging truck in. All the tourists would come to the area, so many 1 day to 1 week flings with the tourists away from home and gone wild. Met this one gal who was up for a little R&R, told myself to not ever let it happen to me...don't get serious about any of them. Took all of 5 days and I fell in love with her. When she went home I was a mess, actually asked her number, so I called her and we talked daily for a month. She quit her job and moved, lived together for a few months and got married. We were so in love, had two amazing daughters together, moved to Revelstoke and bought a house. Life was amazing until a drunk driver hit her car one afternoon, our older daughter was with her, they both died, and I was suddenly a single dad with a 3 year old, that was 21 years ago. My little girl turned 24 in May. I still very frequently drive through the kootenays, and right past the little rental house that still stands today....drove past it twice today, on the way down to Castlegar, and again heading home now. What sucks about this time of year is the roads are so busy with tourists, and the line up for the ferry is crazy. I hope we don't have to wait too long to get on the ferry when we get there. At least our load is small and light, only a 72,400 lb grapple loader going to the cedar mill.
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Yup spent a few nights in the springs after shoveling about 8 tons out of 40 off the flats and slopes on the convertibles. Better than a shower!!
Now the wife and I are arguing if that little dock is north or south of the ferry dock.

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Meatloaf is one of all time favorites. Clara City Minnesota

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Me too
I spent 3 years delivering road salt to many of the highways yards around the lake and through to Greenwood as well as down to Trail from mid October to mid March with a set of super-b convertibles and lumber or Diatomaceous earth back to the prairies. Spent many nights in the tavern on the west side ferry dock while waiting for the right ferry to get breakfast when eastbound. I should know that little dock if you can get there with a truck but I can't place it.
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Wood Duck is what its called, near Balfour.

I haul a lot of salt to highway maintenance yards, have been for nearly 20 years. Salt hauling should start in about 2 months sadly, because I am way short on trucks, trailers, and drivers. I have 5 months worth of gravel left to haul, which is why I am busting the chops of my shop guys to finish the rebuilding of the old trucks, and why I have 6 more end dumps ordered that should soon start arriving one at a time, and tomorrow I am going to pick up the phone and order some new trucks, just not sure how many to order, and how many to rig with a box, and how many with a 5th wheel. Leaning towards ordering 7, 3 with a box, and get them a matching tri axle pony, then 4 with a 5th wheel.

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Me too
I spent 3 years delivering road salt to many of the highways yards around the lake and through to Greenwood as well as down to Trail from mid October to mid March with a set of super-b convertibles and lumber or Diatomaceous earth back to the prairies. Spent many nights in the tavern on the west side ferry dock while waiting for the right ferry to get breakfast when eastbound. I should know that little dock if you can get there with a truck but I can't place it.
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I seem to have lost your address. Could you send it to me again ?? Lol
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You're welcome any time at all, not just bbq sundays. Lots of room for you to park in, and only 5 minutes from downtown Revelstoke.

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MartinFromBC said: ↑

Do you recognize the area in the picture?
Hint it isn't far from a ferry and restaurant.
I walked to the restaurant and got two burgers and milkshakes to go, sat on the trailer and ate them, because the lake is a lot nicer view than the inside of a restaurant. I love being outside.
Drive south of there you are in Nelson, head north you go to Ainsworth hot springs. About 2 months ago a trainee and I stayed at the Ainsworth hotel and soaked in the attached hot springs for about 3 hours. She had never stopped to be in the hot springs before. I actually used to live 10 minutes north of the hot springs when I was a youngster. I rented a tiny house beside the lake, 720 square feet, man it was small, and I loved it there. I was 21 years old, single, just bought my first truck, was a crazy man, rented it because the driveway was big enough to park the logging truck in. All the tourists would come to the area, so many 1 day to 1 week flings with the tourists away from home and gone wild. Met this one gal who was up for a little R&R, told myself to not ever let it happen to me...don't get serious about any of them. Took all of 5 days and I fell in love with her. When she went home I was a mess, actually asked her number, so I called her and we talked daily for a month. She quit her job and moved, lived together for a few months and got married. We were so in love, had two amazing daughters together, moved to Revelstoke and bought a house. Life was amazing until a drunk driver hit her car one afternoon, our older daughter was with her, they both died, and I was suddenly a single dad with a 3 year old, that was 21 years ago. My little girl turned 24 in May. I still very frequently drive through the kootenays, and right past the little rental house that still stands today....drove past it twice today, on the way down to Castlegar, and again heading home now. What sucks about this time of year is the roads are so busy with tourists, and the line up for the ferry is crazy. I hope we don't have to wait too long to get on the ferry when we get there. At least our load is small and light, only a 72,400 lb grapple loader going to the cedar mill.
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I lived in Northern Idaho when I got out of high school. One of my best friend's parents had a cabin on the lake, and after graduation about eight of us (4 guys and 4 of our good friends that were girls) went up there for a week. We had a blast! That was in 1976 though so I don't remember many details about where things were.

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Yup spent a few nights in the springs after shoveling about 8 tons out of 40 off the flats and slopes on the convertibles. Better than a shower!!
Now the wife and I are arguing if that little dock is north or south of the ferry dock.
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A minute south aka the Nelson side.

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