Forty years ago today I found my first glass along the bank of a creek just down the street from my house. I suspect these were dumped by someone rather than being used nearby. The assortment was Hemingray and Armstrong CD 129s and 155s, along with a pair of common brown porcelain cables. The insulator on the right is one of those pieces of glass, an Armstrong dated 1970.

To celebrate forty years of this nonsense, I wanted to pick forty Hemingray 40s. The only place I knew I could do so in quick and easy fashion was a 3.75 hour drive, so I hit the road around 2:30 this morning for a little sunrise harvest. Indeed I removed forty of them and hit the road back south. I don't have a pic of all forty arranged yet, but the 40 on the left is the last one that came down this morning.

Special thanks to J.L. Cox for big help!!