Go Big Truck--Life on the Road through the eyes of a truck-driving team, Del and Cher'ley Grogg. Bits of information about their hobbies, Lizzie--their dog, the loved ones they left at home, truck and traffic info and their other interests will be posted here. Comments, guest posts and suggestions will be appreciated.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
I have two poems up and they have earned me $1.50. If you get a chance please take a look at them. Thanks. http://ping.fm/RraMV
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Fall in Love with Fall. My article about Fall Inspiration. Comment and if you like it repost or tweet it. Lizzie's there. http://ping.fm/fldQ1
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
An Easter Poem I wrote. It's short. Please read it and hopefully it will bless you. http://ping.fm/Dwren
Check it out. My favorite Easter Verses. I get paid if you give it a click and if you like it give me a comment. Thanks. http://ping.fm/NT4Y9
Monday, March 14, 2011
Truck Driving Blog-Need some followers-Adventures, Recipes, guest bloggers. http://ping.fm/rXpSn Diana Robinson
Westward Bound
I'll post some photos later. The snow drifts in CA were huge. Beautiful on the pass, but the roads were still slippery. The photos are on my Droid.
Only had two trucks pull out in front of me yesterday (I was in the fast lane). It seems that big rigs are getting worse than 4-wheelers when it comes to respecting other drivers. YOU HAVE BRAKES DRIVERS--use them--so I don't have to. Why should we both lose our momentum? Of course, I did almost run over one 4-wheeler when they pulled in front of me to try to get out of another cars way. Come on, who do you want to run over you?
Fun part of this week was while we were shut down, I got to do a little gaming. Not much, but I found a machine that was paying really well. Of course, by the time I found it, the roads were opened up again.
Here's a recipe from my friend and fellow driver Diana Robinson. She and her husband drive for Tri-State. This is good if you have a confection microwave (which I am getting as soon as possible), a toaster oven or the NuWave Oven.
If you're wondering what to do with that can of chicken try this:
Here is Chichen in a basket
1 can chicken ( drained)
chopped onion
3/4 can cream of mushroom soup
mix in small bowl , set aside
Unroll 1 pkg of crescent rolls. Leave 2 together to form a square
Spread cream cheese on rolls, then place large spoonful of chicken, sprinkle cheddar cheese on top. Fold all four sides over to meet in middle. Use toothpick to hold in place. Bake until rolls are brown.
Makes 4 large baskets.
Thanks Diana. I'll catch you all in the Fast Lane.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
This is my blog for my current Work in Progress. I will post on it from time to time. http://ping.fm/6yd1S
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Today is a Kindle campaign for Sink or Swim -- if anyone gets a chance to tweet this, much appreciated! Check out this mystery on Kindle, $2.99. http://amzn.to/i8ZRqX
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Life in the Fast Lane-Truck driver's on the road and elsewhere. Wonder what it's like to be a Semi truck driver here's your blog.http://ping.fm/DDaAW
Life in the Fast Lane--Bad Drivers and Taxes (Unrelated)
So muddy, clean the truck floor, drag in more mud, clean the truck floor, drag in more mud.
My least favorite chore on the truck is making the bed. Yesterday, I washed the linens and rugs, swept the truck out real well and removed a ton (no exaggeration) of merchandise from the truck. Del cleaned his toolboxes and the Outhouse (headache rack). After all that, I broke two nails and skinned my knuckles tucking the sheets behind and under the mattress. Oh, but it's so nice to have clean, fresh sheets against your body. (Smiles)
On the way home, I determined Pennsylvania gets the bad drivers award (If I were giving an award—Altogether now—RASBERRY, ok, try that again RASBERRY). I almost ran over at least 5 or 6 4-wheelers (cars). They just seemed to pass me and then come to a near stop.
They were all over the road, and almost all of them were on their cell phones. You can tell when someone gets a phone call—4-wheeler or Semi. They swerve a little, slow down, wobble and then straighten, still going under the speed limit. You could give them the bird, stick your tongue out, flirt, whatever you wanted to do, and they would not notice you. Hey person on the cell phone, you're a driving and about to cause a 20 vehicle pile-up. Hands-free is better. All drivers need a headset. I know you're just running to the store or taking Junior to soccer, but you know someone will call you before you get back home.
My least favorite chore on the truck is making the bed. Yesterday, I washed the linens and rugs, swept the truck out real well and removed a ton (no exaggeration) of merchandise from the truck. Del cleaned his toolboxes and the Outhouse (headache rack). After all that, I broke two nails and skinned my knuckles tucking the sheets behind and under the mattress. Oh, but it's so nice to have clean, fresh sheets against your body. (Smiles)
On the way home, I determined Pennsylvania gets the bad drivers award (If I were giving an award—Altogether now—RASBERRY, ok, try that again RASBERRY). I almost ran over at least 5 or 6 4-wheelers (cars). They just seemed to pass me and then come to a near stop.
They were all over the road, and almost all of them were on their cell phones. You can tell when someone gets a phone call—4-wheeler or Semi. They swerve a little, slow down, wobble and then straighten, still going under the speed limit. You could give them the bird, stick your tongue out, flirt, whatever you wanted to do, and they would not notice you. Hey person on the cell phone, you're a driving and about to cause a 20 vehicle pile-up. Hands-free is better. All drivers need a headset. I know you're just running to the store or taking Junior to soccer, but you know someone will call you before you get back home.
Del discovered chains are not that easy to put on the tires and that we have the wrong size. Grr. Best solution, just don't go anywhere chains have to be put on. Right!
Tax time is ridiculous for a truck driver. I've worked like crazy most of the time we've been home to record the receipts. I know, should have been doing it all year. Next year, I promise. Today I must finish and get it ready to mail to my accountant. The magic worker, Nils Lenz. Thanks Nils.
Next time we meet, I'll let you know how my NUWave Oven is doing. I'm also going to have a guest blogger. Next week think of F words, in a nice way. Flattery-fun-fabulous-food-fast. Leave me a comment here and send me an email with your ideas on Life in the Fast Lane and F-words and your email may be what the next blog is about. Welcome to guest bloggers.
Our ID photos
Gotta go, need to work some more on my taxes and finish the laundry. Catch you later from The Fast Lane.
Gotta go, need to work some more on my taxes and finish the laundry. Catch you later from The Fast Lane.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Secrets and why do we do what we do. Why do your characters do what they do and what secrets do they have? http://ping.fm/8rwNu
Friday, February 25, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Comforts, Challenges and Other Chaotic Happenings
Comforts
The best part of being on the road is sharing time with your spouse. It's not always easy, but it's always interesting. My favorite time together is when we have an evening off; we get a new DVD, some popcorn, and a sweet treat. Our favorite shows are comedies, so we snuggle, chomp and laugh.
Challenges
Preparing food is a challenge. I recently bought an electric skillet (what would we do without inverters?). Soupbeans, covered in raw onions and Mexican cornbread sounded good.
The beans were easy enough to microwave and I chopped up the onions. Then I preceded to mix up the cornbread batter. I added my own touch to the mix and I'm a pinch of this and a dash of that cook. Put it in until it looks right.
Ingredients:
Cornbread mix
egg
milk
peppers (banana or jalapeno)--few 10 slices
grated cheese --about a handful
corn--1/4 of a can
applesauce --about 6 spoonfuls
I throw it all together in a dish, mix briskly with a fork and it's ready to pour. In the preheated skillet, I poured four large pancake blobs.
Takes a bit of fiddling with the skillet to figure out how to fix the cornbread pancakes in it. After burning the first batch (we raked the burnt part off and ate it any way), I learned to turn the heat down and even off occasionally. Slow cooking insures the inside will get done at the same time as the outside.
Chaotic
I'm also a writer and I try to work writing in around everything else. I write for different websites and magazines. Among the magazines, is a men's magazine. I'm the one who writes those articles, the ones that men say, "I only buy it for the articles." Just kidding, it's not 'that' men's magazine.
I also write novels, mystery and suspense.
Next time I'll post some other sites I write for.
Now that I've shared a little bit about life in our truck. How about you? Share something about yourself.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Truckers Hours of Service. This is what I sent to the DOT comments. Let me know what you think. http://ping.fm/P3pmH
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