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Who is BJ?

I noticed a few of you commented; “who is B J” when you saw the 1st graders drawings and thank-you notes.  My daughter-in-law answered the question in her comment but I’m not sure everybody saw that and besides there is a story behind “B J”.

There is a national association called the “Trucker Buddy Assoc”. (I think that is what it is called) See truckerbuddy.org. Their whole objective is to match willing truck drivers with elementary school teachers who want a truck driver to bring their truck to the school and show the kids.  Believe it or not there are many more teachers waiting for a truck driver to come to their school than there are willing truck drivers!  Usually a truck driver does this for the benefit of his kid or grandkid, but there are also drivers who love kids but don’t have any of their own so they are willing to go to schools etc… hence the “Trucker Buddy” program. 

My company,  Werner Enterprises, supports this program.  They sent a “Trucker Buddy” package to my granddaughter’s class.  It included a “Trucker Buddy” coffee mug,  a calendar, yoyo’s shaped like dual truck tires, and a T shirt for the teacher.  My daughter made up a bunch of “Tom Trucker” buttons (she can make you buttons, T shirts anything you want… check out my store and you can see for yourself).

Usually when a driver takes his truck to a school, he brings along a mascot.  My wife and daughter-in-law picked out this huge teddy bear.  We didn’t know what to name him so we asked the kids to name him.  There were lots of suggestions but “Billy” got most of the votes, then one kid said he wanted  to name the bear “Jack”… again we held a vote.  Jack received the same number of votes as Billy.  The teacher wisely suggested we call him “B J” for short.  Everyone was happy, so “B J” it is. 

I’m sure you can imagine my crowded truck… all my stuff… all my students stuff… stuffed into the cab of a truck.  True my truck is what they call a “Condo”;  Freightliner’s idea of a spacious ‘All-in-one-Motor Home-Freight-Hauling’ big rig.  Add ‘B J” and we are truly an "Overstuffed-Student-Behind-the-Wheel-Truck-Driving-Condo!”  

Last weekend I was out in my yard working on getting the ground ready to plant some tomatoes when my wife said ‘B J’ needs to get out of the truck too. Thus the pictures of ‘B J’ helping with the yardwork!

We are in Albuquerque, New Mexico… still have load of bamboo cutting boards going to Boston, MASS

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Just an update regarding the blog about bamboo cutting boards... thanks Marilyn for your great comment!  I really appreciate comments. I'm not sure Marshalls are in California... I'll try to find out.  I will get to reading your blogs as soon as I can. 

Check out Totally Bamboo's website:   totallybamboo.com. 

I'm in Wytheville, VA  pronounced 'With-vul'... its Sunday morning, I've got to get on the road
 
Thanks everyone.. you are making this blogging thing a lot of fun!  :)
posted by Tom at 8:21 PM