Competing with foreign oil

The other day I was in West Virgina delivering some farm tractors when I found a load in Parkersburg. This was a smoke stack. It was going to Sauget, Illinois to a new plant to turn corn into gas for cars. I found this pretty interesting. When I got there I had a lot of questions for the men there but of course they only built the plant and did not know much about the operation of it. It is not too far from where I live maybe when it is completed around the end of the year I can go and see it in operation. I was thinking about how much this one plant helps our economy, the people building the plant , the people who built the components and the truckers who brought the material to the plant to be put together, along with the farmers who grow the crops. Then there are the farm equipment dealers and factories to supply the farmers with the equipment to grow the corn. Then the seed companies. All this and less depending on foreign oil . This has to be good the the USA. Every one take care and have a great day.

Light poles

This is a load of light poles that I picked up in Mississippi this week. I start delivering them in Kansas, then 2 stops in Colorado, then 2 stops in Utah, then 2 stops in Idaho, then a final 2 stops in Washington. I have most of them off now and am in Washington for the Memorial Day weekend. I was going to grill some hamburges and hotdogs today but the wind was too strong. So I did laundry and just some lite stuff today. I will grill tomorrow even if I have to get behind the truck. When I get this unloaded I have a load in Washington going to Arizona. Every one take care and have a great day.

Donners Pass

This is a picture I took as I was going over Donners Pass.

The story of Donners pass is that in Mid

April 1846 George Donner with his family and some friends along with their hired hands left Springfield Il. going to Califorina.

They met a wagon train in Indepence Mo. going west. When they got to Wyoming George thought he knew a short cut so part of the group followed him.

The short cut wound up taking them three weeks longer.

When they got to the Sierra mountains a snow storm had already blocked the pass. I think this was in October. They made camp to wait it out but ran out of food so fifteen men left on snowshoes to try to get help. Only seven made it to Califorina for help. When all were rescured there was only forty eight out of the eighty seven that were in his group.

I will say I don't know how any body made it back when they only had ox and wagons, It is hard for me to cross this pass in my truck, I would not want to do it when there was not even a road. It is truly amazing.

Every one take care and have a great day.

History repeats

I want to tell you a little story that I have been thinking about.
When I was a young boy we did not have a tv, just a radio, now radio back then was different than it is now. We had all kind of shows on the radio with movie actors doing the scrip. There was comedy shows like Jack Benny and Fibber Mcgee and Molly and Lucille Ball got her start in My favorite Husband, Then there were Westerns, like Gunsmoke, Hop a long Cassidy, The Lone Ranger. And Mystery with shows like The Shadow. Now that I have a satellite radio there is a station that plays these shows as they were back when I was a boy even with the commercials.
I was listening to a show the other day that took place back in World War Two. On the commerical they were asking for people between the age of sixteen and up to help our Goverment. It seems that at that time in history our Radar defense did not cover our whole country so these volunteers would watch our skies for two hours at a time for aircraft that might not be ours. Now fast forward to the present and I am a member of the Highway Watch Program that our goverment has set up for us that on the road a lot to watch for unusal happening that we may see like a car full of men at a power plant taking pictures or a car following a tanker truck taking pictures or taking notes. We are to watch our history landmarks and utilities anything out of the ordinary we are to report. I just though it was interesting how history repeats itself. Everone take care and have a great day.

So where is the global warming

So where is the global warming everybody is talking about. It is May the fifth for goodness sakes and look at this.

I got into this mess at Buford Wy. as I started up Sherman Mountain. I keep noticing that the east bound side did not have any traffic. When I stated down I saw why. The road was closed while the snow plows were trying to clean up this mess. Owell I was in it until I got to Utah.

It is pretty but I am ready for to be gone until next winter.