Woke up to Greg going – “oh no!  It’s snowing!”   Just a few flakes so far but it is pretty cold and the forecast says cold coming down and going all the way south to Georgia.  10 to 15 degrees below average.  And we are going north to Michigan.  Looks like I’ll have to get my boots back out.    We are headed to Plainwell, Michigan for meat to take to Georgia.  

Finally able to do laundry last night.   I’ve been in sweats for two days. LOL 

We had some extra time today since it’s only a 4 hour drive to michigan so Greg wanted to get a tire checked out that has been slowly leaking for a couple of weeks.  Turns out there was a nail in the side of it.  One new tire cost $600!!  Ouch!!  

The snow didn’t last long thank goodness.  Just a few flurries around but boy did the temperature drop.   It’s 28 right now but feels colder.  It’s real windy which makes it seem worse.   

Greg is all excited about the basketball game.   I just put on my headphones and watch something else.   I cannot stand all those whistles and squeaky shoes.   But, He loves it and can’t wait to watch it.  He even has his lucky hat on.  

Keeping his eyes on the road even while I’m bugging him for a picture.  

Nasty windmills.   They sure mess up a pretty horizon.  

Got to our stop in Plainwell, Michigan and dropped our trailer.  On the way to the office we noticed the guy in the truck beside us has a big bird cage in the cab of the truck with him.  We never saw the bird but judging the size of the cage it must be a big one.   You see a lot of truckers with dogs, a few cats (I can’t imagine a litter box in a truck) but never a bird before.   That’s a new one.  

Found a walmart not too far from our stop so we got some med refills and groceries.   Got a roast for dinner one night and plan to make some soup after we eat part of the roast.  Got some chicken for chicken and dumplings and some stuff for crockpot lasagna again.   

Time is running out on the clock so we decided to just stay here for the night.    Long weekend coming up.  1,100 miles by Sunday night.   

Going to watch a bit of TV and turn in.   Goodnight y’all.  

DG:  Got me a lucky hat so you all can place your bets on UK.  Like you haven’t already.  How about them Cats, huh?  Going all the way.  

Annie told you it is cold and it is. 22 at 11:30 pm. I’m going to have a cup of hot tea and go to bed. We had probably the quickest pick up of all time. Trailer was loaded and waiting on us, got my papers, scaled and out the gate is 42 minutes.  Has to be a world record.

Tea is done. Good night and God bless. 

Up at dark again.   At least this truck stop had coffee and ice so we are good to go!

Not much going on today going through Illinois and Indiana So far.  Corn fields and corn fields.  I figure you have seen enough pictures of that for now.  I look forward to seeing them change soon and start to grow.

We got to our destination in Lima, Ohio.  A place where they make pork rinds.  This sign is on the door.   Gross!

Pulled in to a Pilot for the night.  Clock ran out of time.   We are supposed to be going to Michigan tomorrow but just found out load wont be ready until saturday.   Will call in the am and see if we can get trip swapped out.  No sense sitting in a Pilot truck stop all day tomorrow when we can be on the road!

DG: At least this place smelled better than the others.  I mean they were cooking pork rinds.  Mmmmmm….

A record unload as well, 30 minutes from the time we hit the dock.  Those are the kind I like.

Parked with no time left.  Can’t move for 10 hours now.

Gonna watch UK beat WVU here in a bit.

Love to all. good night and God bless.

Up at 6:30 and on the road.  Got to go 285 miles for the first stop.   We have to leave this Pilot and hope there is another truck stop close by.   This one is under a water boil mandate so no coffee or ice for my Diet Coke. Need caffeine!

We were finally able to stop and get caffeine at about 9 am.    All is right with the world now so on we go.

We made it to Family Dollar about 15 minutes late.   There was a detour on the highway and the GPS kept making us go in circles until we finally were able to get on the right road.   Fortunately the load was a drop and hook so we got back on the road pretty quick and headed to Columbus Junction, Iowa for a load of meat to take to Lima, Ohio.   Clock is almost out of time so we won’t get too far tonight.

Got our pork skins, pork belly skins and pork fatback skins from Tyson and off we go.  Only got about an hour to go on the clock so we find an AmBest about 20 miles and park there for the night.   Sign outside said pizza, chicken, fish, so we were excited about the possibility of dinner.  Well, we got there after they had closed down the deli.   Lovely.   Another bologna sandwich night.     We have a busy day tomorrow.   Next stop is about 400 or so miles so a long drive.

DG:  Thought: ever wonder about the history of those cars and trucks you see rusting away in fields along the roads we travel?  Got to thinking about that the other day.  Saw an old, 40s maybe, flatbed truck sitting in a farmer’s field, about a hundred yards from his house, out behind the barn, out of the way, just rusting.  One could tell it had been there a while.  I tried to imagine it’s last trip, how it ended up there and the driver that parked it there and just walked away.  Never to return.  Was it grandpa?  Tired from a life of farming and hauling feed for his cows or corn to market.  Did he just decide to retire that day and not wanting to sell the truck just left it there at the end of his last day of working the farm?  Did he die?  No heir to take over so the truck just sat there?  Or did it just refuse to start one day so it was left where it stands today.  Perhaps the owner had the intent of fixing it someday, but just never got around to it.  We see so many vehicles end up like this.  Serving their purpose no one sees any worth in them any more so they are just left there to rust.  We do this to people as well.  Stick them in a home somewhere for strangers to watch after.  Just letting them rust.

Boy, that sure took a turn toward the morose.  Sorry about that.  Don’t know why I went there.

Driving leaves lots of time for introspection and imagination.  I have a lot more thoughts during the day but by the time we park and get to the blog I have forgotten most of them.  Will try to take verbal notes from now on so I will have something more to write about.

That’s all for now.  Hope all are well.  Good night and God bless.

What a beautiful day to start out in.   We are on our way to West Plains, Missouri but are having trouble with the GPS.   Apparently the place is on state highway ZZ and the GPS shows it in two different places, about a hundred miles apart.  I tried googling the correct address and came up with a third address and one site that said the place was closed since 2012 due to a fire.  This is going to be fun.  LOL.

It started to rain a bit but not for long thank goodness.  Weather report was calling for thunderstorms and possible tornado in southern Missouri but it looks like it went around us.

We went over the Mississippi twice to get to Missouri.   There was a lot of flooding.  It looked like there were three or four rivers running there was so much flooding.   Some of it is fields but it is so flooded it looks like its part of the river.

We went across one bridge and I was shaking by the time we got off.   It was awful.   Apparently a barge had hit it and there was a crew working on it.   They had a section of the bridge marked off so we were sitting on the bridge waiting for the other side to go and then we could go.   The opening was so narrow I could have touched the bridge from the window. It didn’t help either that on the CB the truckers were all talking about how many times this bridge had been hit by barges and how they didnt like sitting still on the bridge in case all that weight decided to cause it to fall.   Lovely thoughts to be listening to as you cross over.   Finally got to the other side and ended up in Cairo, Illinois.  It was the saddest little town I have ever seen.   Most of the buildings were closed up, had broken windows, the houses were in shambles.   People were just walking around or sitting on stoops.   It was awful.   I wanted to scream at them to get up off their butts and do something about their community but that might not have been received quite so well.

We got on down the road and made it to shipper on time.  Found it the first time.  Yeah!   Getting a load of charcoal (20,000 pounds) to take with the clothes to Iowa.  Seems like an odd mix to throw together in the back of a truck in my opinion.   Only took about an hour to load so we are back on the road headed to Troy, Illinois.

Made it about 8 o’clock.  Pouring the rain.   Found a Pilot to stop in for the night before we go on to Maquoketa, Iowa and drop our load at Family Dollar.

DG:  That’s easy for her to say.  East Iowa.  Nearly straight north of where we are.  Then to Storm Lake, IA for some meat and all the way to Maryland.  I thought Marylanders liked crabs.  Guess they eat beef as well.  I like both.

So I’m thinking today that the police would do well to watch for “cutters”, those people who apparently like to see how close they can cut in front of a semi while traveling at a high rate of speed down the highway.  You get those people off the road and we all live better. Oh well, wishful thinking.

577 miles today in 10 hours and 14 minutes.  Not bad considering we went through a lot of small towns where I had to slow from 65 to 35.  I’m trying to travel around 57 mph as I have heard that is the optimum speed for fuel efficiency.  Sometimes it just seems soooooo sloooooowww.  But if I have plenty of time, on my clock and time to pick up, I will go at the slower speed to save fuel and in the process, save money.

We are still having fun.  Something very odd happened today somewhere in the middle of Missouri on day 56, but I have been sworn to secrecy.  That means I can’t tell you, but I hinted to add a little mystery to the blog.  Let’s just say it was very, very funny.

That’s right, we are still laughing and having a blast.  Nobody’s been killed, not even injured, on purpose.  Instead of living together before marriage I think couples ought to spend a few months in a truck, just to test their compatibility.  That would certainly let them know if they could live together in a house.

That’s all for tonight my good folks.  Good night and God bless.

At Bubba’s Foods at 8 am.  Nice place.  It’s out in the woods which is a welcome change to most places we go to.

Ran in to a lady who works for Trans Am.   She got here right after we did.    We saw her at National Beef when we got our load and at Tonkawa  when we stopped for the night.  We must be on the same schedule.

All done and headed to Dalton, Georgia to Family Dollar and then to West Plains, Missouri at Dollar General and then taking all this to Maquoketa, Iowa.

Got to our first stop in Dalton, a warehouse for clothing for Family Dollar.   Unfortunately, there are two guys with hand trucks loading the trailer.  This may take a while.

Surprisingly fast load considering.   Only there about an hour and a half.

On to West Plains, Missouri for the rest of our load.    Got stopped just outside of Chattanooga for an accident though.

Saw these at a rest stop north of Chattanooga.

Found a spot just north of Nashville to stop for the night.   Really nice older gentleman told us it was okay.  Its not a truck stop so you have to be sure.   We have about 400 miles to go tomorrow to West Plains, Missouri.   Then on to Iowa.

Got some pretty pictures today.   The sun came around so bright and the temperature reached 78 degrees!   I am now back in my sandals and no jacket.   Its wonderful.  Yes, Gregory, I know.  You were never out of yours.  LOL.

The trees in Georgia are really starting to open up and bud and bloom.   I got a few pictures of the red bud trees and the pear trees but whats neat to see is little tiny buds on the big trees and the grass starting to turn green.   Hope we don’t get a big snow now!

DG:  Another day of trying my best not to run over somebody.  I swear it’s like a demolition derby some days.  Every body trying to get in that little space in front of me as close as they can make it.  By the grace of God I have yet to nail somebody.

So here we go again, through Tennessee and into Missouri, then on to Iowa.  I put in a request for something on the west coast or southwest.  Now that spring is here, even the old rout is going to be different every day for a while but still would like to see some more of this beautiful country.

Pulled into a convenient mart.  Not a truck stop but the guy said we could park here.  We first went to a place just on the other side of the Interstate that has fuel pumps for big rigs but had numerous signs up stating no truck parking.  We got the hint and left.  Without fueling.

Sunny and warm.  Just the way I like it.  Want to thank my son again for the CB radio he gave me.  It came in handy when we came upon the backed up traffic due to that crushed car you see in the pictures.  We were north bound on I24, three lanes of traffic, and the truckers going southbound were letting us know on the CB that the only lane open ahead was the left lane.  So that gave us some time to get in the left lane and move past the wreck quicker.  Some of the things you hear on that radio are funny.  One trucker wanted clarification as to the proper lane to choose and asked if that was the hammer down lane.  Not all who heard that thought it was funny, but I got a chuckle out of it.

Well, looks like Annie has the TV working so we will watch a show or two before bed.  Don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn tomorrow so we can stay up a bit and watch some tube.

Good night and God bless.

Slept in a bit this morning.   All the way to 8 o’clock.   Woke up to a rainy nasty day.  Hope it clears up as we go.  I don’t like to be on the road in the rain.   Some people are crazy the way they drive around trucks and rain and snow make it worse.   You can’t stop 80,000 pounds on a dime.    They pull on to a highway in front of us and go slow causing Greg to slam on the breaks or they go along the right side of the truck on the shoulder until they can get in front of him.    Everybody is so afraid of getting behind a truck for a minute that they don’t know how close they come to getting under the truck.   

Passed in to Alabama.   Still raining.  Looks like it’s going to rain all the way to Georgia. 

We went through Graysville, Alabama and saw a lot of storm damage.  Apparently this area had a tornado come through in April 2014.   Still a lot of downed trees.   

Birmingham on a rainy afternoon.    

We made it to Elberton in plenty of time.   We have been here before.  Nice little place.   The granite capital of the world!   

http://www.cityofelberton.net

We have stopped for the night at a Marathon station with truck parking.  Went to Zaxbys next door for dinner.   Good chicken!   Probably going to turn in soon.   8 am appointment tomorrow.  

Sorry there was only one picture.  It has rained and been foggy and nasty all day.   Not a good day for pictures.  Hopefully tomorrow. Lots of things blooming in Georgia.  

DG:  Took the words right out of my mouth with that statement about automobile drivers.  You would be astounded at the things we see people do. It’s really a wonder more people aren’t killed on the highway.  So I spend my day trying not to run over people.  Definitely keeps you alert.

Ran into a driver at an Alabama truck stop we had met on St. Paddy’s day in Council Bluffs, IA.  I remembered him because we spent some time talking to him because of his dog  “Buckshot”, a six months old American Bull Dog that was quite playful.  He said people speak to him all the time asking about Buckshot.  Buckshot and I hit it off and I let him chew on the sleeve of my jean jacket for a bit. When I got back to the truck and threw my jacket on the bed Precious started sniffing it and was quite upset so I explained to her that the “other dog” was in another truck going far, far away in the other direction.  She was okay with that. 

I’ve been meaning to mention something for several days now and keep forgetting.  I notice a lot of memorial highway signs as we travel and I’ve started praying for the families of these people that they have comfort.  One sign we saw had the two female names on it, I forget where it was, but they were unfamiliar so Annie Googled them.  Come to find out they were two teenage sisters who were killed by a highway patrolman when he lost control of his cruiser going at a high rate of speed to an accident scene that had already been cleared. His car crossed the median and the article said his car drove “through” their car killing them instantly.  I can’t imagine how their parents felt.  

Other signs are for deceased military, police and firefighters, and politicians. Pray for them all. I don’t know what one has to do to get a memorial highway, but one thing is for sure, if you get one if those signs you won’t be able to admire it. 

Didn’t mean to get morbid.  Just something that’s been on my mind.

Hope all is well with you all. 

Good night and God Bless. 

First day of spring.   It feels like it here in Oklahoma.   The mock pear trees are blooming, daffodils are up and the wild lilacs and clover are blooming pretty purple everywhere.

We passed one big field of purple flowers.   I looked up purple flowers in Oklahoma and apparently there are several lavender fields here.  One farm is 500 acres and they have a big festival every year when it’s in bloom.  I think the field we saw was clover though.   It’s too early for lavender plus they were low to the ground, not bushy.   Beautiful though.

We went through Tulsa and Stillwater Oklahoma then in to Arkansas.  Not a lot to see but rain soaked fields.  Looks like they have had some flooding.

We crossed over in to Tennessee for about half an hour or so and then in to Mississippi.   Found a Pilot about 60 miles in and have stopped for the night.    It has been a long day.   Greg is wore out.    We still have about 400 miles to go tomorrow to get to our stop at Bubba’s Burgers in Elberton, Georgia.   We have been there before.  Its almost on the border of Georgia and South Carolina.

DG here:  Oh, forgot to tell you all we had stewed chicken two nights for dinner and then chicken sandwiches for lunch today.  That crock pot is definitely earning its keep.

Drove over 600 miles today and I feel it.  Tired puppy.  Good weather though and some trees are starting to bloom along with some flowers.  Spring is definitely in the air.  Stopped at a truck stop earlier for a bathroom break and there were several small trees near the entrance filled with chirping birds.  It was almost deafening they were so loud and there were so many of them.  However, you couldn’t see them in the trees so it made somewhat of an eerie scene. Everyone who has seen the movie “The Birds” knows what I am talking about.

Moved on from there and aside from the wreck on the opposite side of the highway, see pics below, we had an uneventful trip.  Thank you Lord.

We’re still having a good time.  Annie got the UK game on her iPad and let me listen to that as I drove.  My radio allows me to plug in my iPhone or iPad and play books, music or TV over the truck stereo so it sounds pretty good.  You need a good sound system to hear over the engine.  Cats won by the way, for those who didn’t see the game.

Tomorrow we go the rest of the way through Mississippi and Alabama and Georgia.  Praying for a safe journey with good weather.

Good night and God bless everyone.

Woke up to a gorgeous sunny morning here in Kansas.

Two firsts this morning.  We saw our first prairie dogs.  There were two we saw running around their little hills out by the rest area.  I guess the big trucks don’t bother them.  Also saw a sign that said “warning.  Snake habitat”.  Needless to say we didn’t let Precious out to pee there!   I figure it’s too cold for any snakes yet but not going to take a chance.

We have a tire that is a tiny bit low.   Greg is keeping an eye on it.  Definitely don’t want to buy tires for this sucker!

Got to Dodge City at about 12 o’clock.   There was a restaurant next door so we went there and ate lunch while they unloaded us.  Two restaurants this week.  Wow!  Lol

Our next pick up was for beef at National Beef.  They had our trailer ready so we are back on the road.   Going back to Bubbas in Elberton, Georgia where they make the Bubba Burger.

We stopped for the night in Tonkawa, Oklahoma.  Pretty neat little place.  There is an Indian Reservation close by and the truck stop across the street has the signs in both English and Tonkawan.   The link below has a bit of their history and their language.

http://www.tonkawatribe.com/profile/profile.htm

DG here:  As expected, the female of this group failed to be awed by or mention the fact that we were in the very city where probably the most famous of all Wild West characters began his now famous career as a “lawman” of the old west. Actually she was excited by it as our GPS took us right by our stop and through downtown Dodge City.  Interestingly enough it appears that they have preserved quite a bit of it and with a little imagination you can see how it must have looked 130 years ago.  We ate lunch at a place that used the old train station as a restaurant and actually had a full size box car in the middle of it where they put the restrooms.  There was Boot Hill museum and Doc Holiday Liquors.  And just like in olden times they still run a lot of cattle through there. Except now they come in on trucks.  And out on trucks 40000 pounds at a time.

We passed a winter feeding lot you will see in the pictures.  There were more cows in one place than I have ever seen anywhere.  Annie looked it up on line and apparently they bring cows to places like this to fatten them up for about four months before taking them for processing.

We also passed the home and work place of a very prolific artist.  There was at least a quarter mile of metal sculptures lined up along a fence three or four deep.  We were going by too fast for me to see very much but what I did see appeared to be characters of people with little signs on them. Very strange.

Found a place for the night. Back on the road in the morning.

Good night and God Bless.

First off today I have to wish my baby a happy birthday.   We love you Gregory.  Hope you have a wonderful day.    Sorry we aren’t there to share it with you.   I’m sure the kids will have something special for you and be so excited.   Happy 28th sweetheart!

We are still at the rest area.  Load of kegs of beer won’t be ready until 11.   I wish I could go back to sleep but too used to getting up before dawn now.

Got to our 11 am appointment.  It’s supposed to be a drop and hook.  Drop ours.  Hook up a loaded one.  But it’s not ready. They can live load us, which is where we back the truck up to the dock and load while we wait, so we say ok.  Well, 5 1/2 hours later we are finally loaded and able to go.   This really ate up Greg’s clock so we probably aren’t getting to Dodge City on time but will try.   I hate to leave Colorado.  I think just what I’ve seen this has to be the prettiest place so far.    Wow doesn’t describe it.

Leaving the Budweiser plant I saw a bird in the grass with a bright yellow belly.  Never seen it before so I tried to get a picture of its belly but all I got was its back and it flew off.  Turns out it was a Western Meadowlark.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_meadowlark

Didn’t get any good pictures of the mountains today.   Low cloud cover.   Couldn’t even see the taller peaks that I was able to get pictures of yesterday.

One of the guys at the travel center had just moved from Lake City, Colorado to Fort Collins, where we were.  He said it was to be closer to doctors.   He looked about 70ish I would think so he or his wife must be ill.   He really loved Lake City and talked about it quite a bit.  He said it was nothing unusual to wake up and have breakfast with deer, elk and moose in the yard.   You could walk right out of the house and go hiking in the mountains.  I looked up Lake City in google and I dont know if I would have moved.   I would probably make the 2 hour trip to the doctor if I needed to.

http://www.lakecity.com/

We passed a huge motorcross track.   I just got a little bit of it but it was huge and motorcycles all over it.

DG here: well I had to tie Annie up to get her back in the truck. It wasn’t pretty. Kicking and screaming, yelling, “I don’t want to go. Leave me here. I love Colorado.” Wailing and gnashing of teeth. It was awful. Finally got her calmed down enough to where I could drive so I untied her. Swerved a little when she went up side my head with her big 64 oz diet coke jug, glad it was empty, but I’m feeling better now.

She will probably pout for several days especially since we will be retracing previous paths for the next couple of days. Just kidding.    (ANNIE HERE – I could live here.  No doubt in my mind.   Yes with the snow and the bears!   I was so excited to be heading toward Denver when we left the Budweiser place only to get within 20 miles of it and the GPS on the truck sent us around it.    I so wanted to see it and get pictures.  I will next time! )

Colorado is beautiful though. At least the part we saw. They had a visitor center next to the rest area and we spent some time in there. I bought a book on past and present Colorado. I like those kinds of books where they show you what it looked like way back when and how it has changed. Annie and I are in agreement, the Indians should have stopped the Europeans at the beach.

Okay, that’s all for me. Good night and God bless. Oh, almost forgot, Happy Birthday son. We love you very much.

Up and ready to see Wyoming today!  Drove all the way across Iowa yesterday.  Today it’s all the way across Nebraska, a little bit in to Wyoming to Cheyenne and then down to Fort Collins, Colorado.   From here we are going to Dodge City, Kansas and then back to Georgia.

Nebraska started off pretty flat and then got in to some rolling hills and buttes as we got closer to Wyoming.   There were a lot of tumbleweeds around the middle of Nebraska.   I tried to get one as they crossed the road but they are so light they just flew.   I did get one as it was going across a field.   The fences are all covered with the tumbleweeds in some areas.

Wyoming was amazing, what little we saw.   Found a great place to pull off and walked some on the nature trails and looked at the hills and rocks.  So gorgeous.

Then crossed over in to Colorado.   We have stopped at a rest area outside of Denver at a place called Ft. Collins.   We are right at the foot of the Rockies.   I hope my pictures turned out.  I think I took 100.   Wow!  Its amazing here.   Greg said he would always get me to Denver!

The rest area here has solar powered trash compactors instead of garbage cans.   Sounds good in theory as you probably dont have to empty them but once a week or so but man do they stink!

We got to our stop here at Budweiser but our load isn’t ready until the morning so we get a good rest tonight since it’s only 6 o’clock here.

DG:  Apologies for not writing last night.  My belly was full of steak and potato and I was sleepy.  That was a good meal last night.  It stuck with me quite a while.  Weeks of eating at a steering wheel made me really appreciate a table and chair.  And someone to wait on us.  And someone else to cook the food.  It’s the little things in life. Tonight it’s ham and cheese sandwich at the steering wheel.

Going through Nebraska into Wyoming is a gradual climb that you barely notice.  However if you have an altimeter with you, or the appropriate app, you find yourself at over 5000 feet after a while.  That’s where we are now.  The mountains are really beautiful.  Can’t wait to see them in the morning.  I sat outside and stared at them until the sun went down.  I really think the Indians messed up by not making the Europeans get back on their boats when they came here.  But if they had, then I wouldn’t be here and neither would you.  So I’m glad they didn’t.  Bet they wished they had.  Anyway, I stared at those mountains for a long time and I imagined as I do when traveling, what it must have been like for the Indians and the first settlers.  Seeing all this land in its natural state.  I don’t see how they were not constantly overwhelmed.  Of course the Indians didn’t have anything to compare it to.  It had always been the same for them for generations.  But coming from Europe, now they had to be overwhelmed by all this open space and the beauty of it all.  I wonder why they didn’t adopt the Indian way of life and preserve this most beautiful landscape in all its original glory.  Something to think about.

So I was trying to make it to our next pick up with what little time I had left with hopes that we could pick up our load and then park for the night and head out first thing in the morning.  But, that wasn’t the case.  Or cases as it is.  We are picking up a trailer full of beer from the Budweiser plant here in Fort Collins, CO in the morning and taking it to Dodge City, Kansas to a place on Wyatt Earp Blvd.

I started to say earlier that traveling through the west I always imagine cowboys riding the plains, bandits hiding out in the hills and Indians on the ridges of the bluffs ready to ride down and attack the wagon train.  Aside from the highways and suburban neighborhoods, it’s pretty much the same as it was then.

Good night and God Bless.