Shorts, flip-flops and reindeer games

You
think Wal-Mart jumps on Christmas early? Let me tell you, sugar plum, they
don’t hold a motorized multi-hued LED candle to Land Line.



The
editors and designers start sweating deadlines long before the temps at Grain
Valley fall below 90. Sunset’s still about 8:45 CDT when “Land Line Now” news
anchor Mark Reddig starts testing his permanent outdoor Christmas light
display. And we

OK, it’s really Christmas …. My Mack catalog is here

Every morning I get mail, email, phone calls by the armload.
It’s part of the job. But last week – in my daily mail, there it was … my
favorite catalog, Mack’s Bulldog Basics – Official Licensed Merchandise wish
book.



Not only does it have everything needed to smartly outfit
the Mack truck owner, driver and enthusiast, not to mention what you need for
your Mack truck to be totally lunked

So I walk into the Midway Truck Stop …

Anyone who has jumped off of Interstate 70 at Exit 121 knows
that there are two things you can count on about the Midway Truck Stop:
friendly people and never knowing what you’re going to see.




Joe Bechtold, center,  sets up the strongman competition.


My idea of Sunday afternoon fun the week before Christmas
was to load up the kids (two teens and a tween) and head out to Midway for the