Ol' Blue Truck

For My Grandkids!

Dear Olives, Bud-Bud, Dwukie & Wes-Wes,

When I was a little boy, your Great-Grandad had a truck a lot like the one in this picture.  It was a 1954 Chevy with "Don Robertson & Sons" hand-painted on the panel just behind the driver-side door.  When I saw this picture hanging on the wall of the hotel we stayed in last week outside Silver Dollar City, it made me think about one night around Christmas 1964 when that Ol' truck couldn't make it up the big snow-covered hill on the way back home to our house on the farm.
 
It had snowed a lot that day and since Dad's truck wasn't 4-wheel drive it couldn't make it up the one big snow-covered hill on Soast Road.  We got stuck part-way up the hill and had to back down so Dad could put snow-chains on the back tires.

When he got back in the truck, he said, "Hang on boys; we're gonna give it another try!"  I recall thinking something like, "Come on Blue Truck; you can do it!"

Well, that old blue truck came through that night and we made it home just in time to eat supper and get ready for bedtime stories.  I can't say for sure, but I bet my dreams that night included snowmen, firetrucks and Romp 'em Stomp em' Robots.  But that's another story:)

I'll try to keep you posted on "Christmas-Time-Ol'-Blue-Truck-Time".  In the meantime, don't forget to brush your teeth...even though they're just gonna fall out in a couple years to make room for the new ones:)

Love,
Papa