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It has been a long time since this has been updated. It sure is a bummer that I don't have ready access to the internet while I'm on the road. Im still hoping I'll be able to get my laptop squared away with the new internet options available to me at the truck stops. I will keep trying to get set up... one of these days you will find me able to regularly update this. Then poor Brenda won't have to take her time to try to keep up with me.
Well, I'm actually home here in Hemet but everybody else is gone. Sue left today to go up to Red Bluff... had some car trouble on the way... she had to be towed to Lost Hills CA . The pickup just died on the road. Turns out the distributer cap disintegrated so no spark was getting to the engine. We got it fixed and I trust she will arrive in Red Bluff sometime
tomorrow.
Last time I updated the blog I left you hanging... I'll try to finish the story.
On the way home with Sue last month we stopped in Flagstaff AZ. I had driven all I could drive that day so we were done.
Across the street fron Little America truck stop in Flagstaff is a very unique restaurant. It is called Black Barts Steakhouse. When the owners started Black Barts around 1975 they wanted to do something different. They new there was a campus of Arizona State University there in Flagstaff and they wondered if the students in the music department wouldn't like to have a job and further their music studies at the same time. So they started hiring these music majors to be their waiters and waitresses.
Sue and I arrived there at 5:00 pm just as the restaurant was opening for the evening. We were seated and we orderd some Ice tea. We noticed that there were about 20 waiters and waitress scurring about, all in their late teens and early twentys. One girl was sitting at the piano and when she got up the piano kept playing; it was a player piano. We enjoyed the honky tonk tunes while we ordered our meal. The food was excellent. The fun was just starting. Pretty soon all 20 on the waiters and waitresses got up on stage and the girl started playing the piano and they put on quite a musical show. After the song was over the waiters and waitresses went back to being waiters and waitress. A few minutes later one of the waiters walked up on stage to a big cabinet filled with black notebooks. Each waiter and waitress has their own selections of songs they like to do. They select one from their book, place it on the piano for the piano lady to play and then they pick up the mic and start performing. Every one of the waiters and waitress had an excellent voice and the entertainment was fabulous. Sue and I really enjoyed our evening. The Food wasn't cheap but it was excellent. We recommend Black Barts to anyone going thru Flagstaff. Get off I-40 at Butler st. You will see Little America truck stop right there and Black Barts is right across the street. We are sure you will also enjoy your evening.
So now that that story is over I'll bring you up to date on what I'm doing.
I swung thru Hemet so I could pick up Sierra the cat. Sue couldn't take her with her so I will take her with me. I have to take her to the vet tomorrow morning for a shot them we will head north. I have a load to deliver in Sacramento on Wednesday morning. After that I hope to get a load thru Red Bluff so I can drop some things off at Uncle Dans that Sue needs and I had on the truck. Then in a week I'll be back thru Red Bluff for Joy's wedding. Sue will be bringing Amber, Suki and Heather down here after the wedding.
Well bye for now I'll try not to let so much time go by between updates. Tom


posted by Tom at 10:00 PM