We got back from the "Food City 500" NASCAR race in Bristol, Tennessee, on Tuesday. I love the giant shopping cart they drive around the track! We arrived there on Wednesday, after spending the night at our friends' Larry and Linda in Cookeville, Tn.
Friends from New Mexico...Peter and Neida were on the way, but he hurt his back, somehow, so she just drove them home from Georgia, where they were at the FMCA rally. Kelvin and Deann couldn't make it, either....so it was just Larry & Linda, Bruce & Babs, Ken (Kris couldn't make it ) Harriet & Stanley, Jim & Gale and a few people that Bruce Had as guests, that I didn't really know.

Just a short note....last Saturday was my birthday and Jimmy had a surprise for me. He had a Hummer H2 Limo come pick us up, take us to dinner a PF Chang's, then we went to the Majestic Theater in Dallas to see "The Rat Pack- Live at the Sands" ....great fun to see "Frank, Sammy and Dean" sing and tell jokes. It almost seemed like they were really there.

Being stuck in the ice on I-40, we got moving, after several tries.......went a few miles, then stopped again!

Once again....after sitting there several hours, traffic started moving. but we were stuck!

Jimmy tried rocking, back and forth, a hundred times, spinning the back tires so much that they were smokin'!!

We finally got to a spot where we could just stop and the rest of the traffic could go by, so we decided to stop until daylight. We put it in park and went to sleep about 2. When we woke up....the same cars that were next to us when we went to sleep, were still there the next morning! No one had moved!

The snow was nine inches deep, so Jimmy got out with the cat litter scoop, a screwdriver and a Tupperware container to get the snow and ice broken up and cleared away from the tires. (I was afraid he'd have a heart attack!) Nikki loved the snow,.......Shadow was not too thrilled.

Once we finally got moving, we made it to the Petro Truckstop, in West Memphis, Arkansas....pulled up to the fuel island, trurned the bus off, then tried to start it again to move up a little....and it wouldn't start!!! Out of Fuel!!Whew! What a trip!

Anyway, breakfast, then headed home!(click on the picture to make it bigger)

After hearing that one of our customers at K9 had a truck in Nashville with the rod through the block and the engine computer, Jimmy decided that we should go get it in the bus and tow it back. We arrived at the Freightliner dealership in Nashville about 12:30. We had until 4:30, when they closed, to get hooked up and leave......We pulled out just as the guy was locking the gate.

On the way! 2 hours to Memphis, fuel and something to eat.

About Jackson, Tn. it started freezing rain, then snow.then traffic stopped....big wreck ahead.

We noticed a lot of trucks on the off-ramps to the truck stops, some- three-wide had slid over into eachother on the ramps.

The wreck finally cleared up and we moved, a little, at 11 pm.....

When we got home, we noticed some new structures being built in our neighborhood.
OILWELLS! It seems that we are sitting on top of the "Barnett shale!" Pretty cool.....we will be getting a check each month...(not much) ....$150.00, I think...but it's something!

Next weekend, Jimmy has informed me, we are going to take the bus and go to Nashville to rescue one of RBX's Freightliner trucks.