Over two months now.  Time has really gone by fast.

Greg is still up talking about the Kentucky game.   Figure I am going to hear about it all day. LOL

Stopped at the TA in Nashville.  Been here many times already and was really hoping we could take another route but so glad we stopped this am.   Ran in to one of God’s Angels behind the counter.   This little old lady who said she was 79 years old and had been working there for 33 years.   She was the happiest, smilingest person I think I have ever met.   She was talking about how she works every Sunday and talked to her pastor about it because she didn’t want to miss church but he told her God had her right where he wanted her.  She said she tells everyone to have a blessed day and she said even the nastiest trucker will say thank you.   She has several pins on her jacket that said 50 on them and when we asked her about them she said her truckers take good care of her.  That’s points for all the wonderful comment cards that she has gotten over the years.  50 for every 50 pin.   She had to have had 15 or 20 of them.   She said sometimes she will start talking about The Lord and others will join in and they will have a little church service right there at the counter.  She said too that sometimes a trucker will try to get nasty with her and she says when that happens 4 or 5 other truckers will come up behind him and say you don’t talk to her like that.   They all call her Granny.  So glad we stopped in this am and now I have a good reason to come back through Nashville again.

Sign on the bathroom door.  Only in Nashville probably.

Got the soup on for tonight.  Used the rest of the beef roast and some veggies and it’s been cooking for a couple of hours already.   By the time we stop in about three more hours it should be yummy!!

We drove through Alabama and in to Georgia this afternoon.   Finally stopped at a Kangaroo truck stop about 30 minutes from our stop.   We cant be there until 8 am so going to stop and rest a good bit tonight.

A lot of the trees are starting to bud out in Alabama and Georgia.    All the different greens of the buds are showing.  Next time we come through there will probably be leaves.    The azaleas and Dogwood trees are blooming and so is the wisteria (one of my favorites). Its amazing to see the wisteria climbing all the way up to the top of the pine trees in some spots.  We had them in North Carolina when we lived there and it was a joy to see in the spring.  All that pretty purple and the smell.  Wonderful!

So much green down here.  Its beautiful, especially after all the snow and ice we have been through this winter.    Several peanut farms here in Georgia as well as some other fields that will be bringing you watermelons and cantaloupes in the summer.    They have already started tilling up the ground.

We ate our vegetable beef soup tonight and my, it was delicious.   I get so tired of fast food places so every time we get to eat homemade it just tastes so much better.   We need to make more of an effort to get to a Walmart more often.   Most of the time we don’t go because its late or we are tired or in a hurry.

After we drop off part of our load tomorrow we are heading to Jacksonville, Florida to drop the rest of if off.   Not sure where to after that yet.

DG:  A rocket in a rest area.  Only in Alabama.  They have a space center here you know.

On to Cairo, GA in the morning, then to Florida.  It is so good to be in some warm weather for a change.

Beef stew was delicious.  Barely any left over.  Maybe enough for lunch tomorrow.

Listened to the Louisville, Michigan State game on the radio.  Was hoping Louisville would beat them so we could have an all Kentucky final.  Yes, I am that confident UK is going to be in the final, and they are going to win it.  Number 9.  So fine.  Write it down cause it’s coming around.  Poet and know it.

This job is all about timing.  Adjusting speed to conserve fuel when possible, but getting to your next stop on time with time on your clock.  Cars, well their drivers in particular, are really getting to annoy me.  How many times can someone get away with coming up on the right side, on the shoulder, just to get around a truck without getting squished?  What’s wrong with passing on the left anyway? Are they really in that big of a hurry?  And the driver who slows to 45 in a 70 zone to look at an accident that’s on the other side of the highway.  AAARRRGGGHHH!!  There needs to be more intense driver training.

Okay, how are you today?  Thanks for letting me vent.

Trucking is a world all to it’s own.  Unlike any other profession, we are alone out here.  Our only contact is other truckers, truck stop clerks and the company people we talk to on the phone.  Yes, there is the CB, but that’s filled with such profanity these days it is hard to listen to and I only turn it on to get information regarding a wreck ahead or weather conditions.  I remember when my dad first got a CB, he had one at the house and one in the car, the FCC prohibited profanity over the airways.  You also had to take a test and get a license for one.  I guess somebody complained it was messing with their First Amendment rights not to be able to say what they wanted, and I agree with that, but I also feel that people should display some degree of decency when communicating in this way.  Guess I’m a little old fashioned that way.

All in all we are still having a good time.  It gets pretty silly in the truck sometimes as there is no one here but Annie and me and we do get off on some tangents once in a while.  That’s what the incident in Missouri was all about that I hinted at a few days ago.  She went blubber mouthed on me and just started blubbering out of the blue.  So that’s when I started laughing and said somewhere in the middle of Missouri on day 56 Annie lost it.  She recovered fine and has maintained a degree of normalcy since so no need to worry.  I, on the other hand, well, do I need say more?  I don’t think so.

Going to make an early day of it tomorrow.  Get to our stop early, so we look good, then wait while the hourly employees take their good sweet time getting to us and getting us unloaded. Why is it everyone but me in these scenarios is getting paid but me while I wait?

All is good.  Good night and God Bless.