…hi there, it’s me again, this is my third post in the past three weeks, which is remarkable considering I had taken the past five months away from VKHPhotos to concentrate solely on endlessly scrolling and scrolling and scrolling through my Facebook feed, leaving laughing emojis on all the AI slop that I came across, heart and care emojis on posts by actual Friends, and Liking anything calling out stupidity in politics.

It’s nuts, I just can’t break away from the damn algorithm… I’m not even posting anything on Facebook anymore. Except for my youngest son’s birthday announcement in September, and sharing these last couple of VKHPhotos posts in a few different Facebook Groups, the last thing I posted about on my own FB Page [this is me: link] was in April 2025, about the incredibly humiliating defeat in the last Canadian federal election by the ‘Conservative / Reform / Canadian Alliance’ Pierre Poilievre campaign — I kind of copied and pasted “Ha Ha Ha” so it appeared about 300+ times on my post. Because, his losing after being ahead by more than 20% in the polls, was just that funny.

…I guess trying to break through the algorithm probably isn’t made easier by my being a Moderator of a very busy Community Events Facebook page [link], and an Admin of a local History FB Page [link]. I’m definitely not making it easy on myself. Yikes.

Anyway, enough about me and Facebook, this is the third, and last, post about this past June’s ‘2025 Vankleek Hill Truck Pull and Show ‘n Shine’ Event [link] held at the Vankleek Hill Fair Grounds. The previous two posts were about the totally awesome Monster Trucks [link], and the really shiny Big Rigs [link] shown off by proud local operators and owners. This post is all about very loud and heavily modified tractors, diesel and gas powered pickup trucks, and street-legal semi’s, all dragging heavy weights down a dirt track, in front of a few thousand fans.

…some of these photos, as well as some of my Monster Truck shots, and photos of the shiny trucks, made it into our local paper of record, The Review, you can see them here on their website: [link]… it’s a good newspaper — actually, working as a student columnist at The Review when I was sixteen waaaaay back in 1986, was my first non-farming job.

…so, if you’re into really cool modified trucks and tractors kicking up dirt and belching smoke, go ahead and click on the first photo to get the carousel going. I hope you enjoy them… it’s good to be productive again.