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.
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.
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