Re: April 2015 Greetings thread

[Claymore]

Here's something else scary.

I have always admired my Grandfather. He was in the Army in France during World War I.

I stumbled across one of his letters that he wrote to my grandmother, and it went something like this...

"....and what's this that I hear about Howard Kisting flirting with all of the girl-friends of us soldiers? He ought to be over here helping us to fight the Hun, so that we can finish this thing and get back home. When I get back there, I've got a mind to give him a thrashing....."

That just did not sound like the wise, confident, old gentleman that I always knew. Then it struck me. He was the same cocky 19 year-old full of vinegar as me and and thousands of other young bucks. He just grew out of it, before I met him.

[Phillip Gross]

That's got to be neat having things like that from your grandfather. 

I think about that as I look at older people. I sat in a group of elderly people at Easter lunch at church and had a great conversation. I guess I'm getting to the age that I recognize that they were young and dumb too at one time, but have grown out of it like you say. It's hard to exactly explain, but you know it when you feel it. You can talk to them and one one hand feel the similarities because they were once young, but then listen to things they say from the perspective of someone who has already been there and done that.

I try to tell my son that, but of course he's too young to understand. He just looks at me as dad who doesn't understand. I tell him all the time that I know exactly what he's feeling and thinking because I've already been there, but that he doesn't know what I'm thinking and feeling because he hasn't been where I am yet....

[ccm2361]

Its baseball season!

[Phillip Gross]

Yes it is, and we're already 8 games into it with a 4-4 record so far.... It's amazing how much their heads effect the outcome. I can honestly say that we haven't lost one game from being out skilled by an opponent. It's always been due to stupid errors caused from them not being where they should be (head wise).

This last loss came after a 4 win streak. I knew as soon as we hit the field for warmups that we were going to lose. The boys were just too cocky.

Oh,..... but I'm sure you were talking about the big leagues Chris.

[RRCmdrBennett]

Indians sucked but Orioles came back to beat Blue Jays Sat.

[ccm2361]

Tigers are 8-1


Allergy season is here

[RRCmdrBennett]

What in particular are yo allergic to?

[joecool]

Never fails. Take the snow tires off and it snows the next day. Wife isn't saying "I told you so" this time, though. Still giddy about her new car that I'm picking up tomorrow.

[Claymore]

Yesterday was our 40th Wedding Anniversary.

So, the wife sat down on the couch next to me with a magazine and said, "Wouldn't these sofa covers be nice for us?"

I said, "Sure, fine".

"Wouldn't four of these deck chairs be good?"

"Yeah, OK."

"This deck umbrella would really be great in the summer."

"Right."

"Etc, etc."

"Yeah. Sure. OK. Right."

(Fifteen minutes later, I had OK'ed $750.00 worth of deck furniture.)

I said, "You intentionally waited until today to do this. Didn't you?"

She just smiled and nodded her head.

[ccm2361]

What in particular are yo allergic to?

According to the allergist...... "All life on planet Earth except food"

[ccm2361]

Yesterday was our 40th Wedding Anniversary.

Wow! Congratulations!

[Mark Jones]

Those girls know how to turn the head don't they. It takes them a while but they figure us out and bam...they own us.

God sure knew what we needed when he made our wives.

Mark Jones....still learning to look at my wife and say I love you often enough....

[Claymore]

Yeah, I met her at the Fort Hood, Texas Parachute Club.

I was an Instructor and the Club Rigger with something over 350 jumps. This mouthy 18-year-old blonde with about 10 jumps walked in, and my bachelor days were numbered.

I tell folks that, as her family came from Mississippi, she didn't get her first pair of "store-bought" shoes until she joined the Army.

[RRCmdrBennett]

Is that what drew her to the army?

[Claymore]

Vietnam Era G.I. Bill.

After doing 4 years in the Army, she went to the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and graduated with a 3.96 GPA (she had all "A's, except for 1 "A-").

[RRCmdrBennett]

What was her major?

[RRCmdrBennett]

Things are heating up in my hometown of Baltimore. Keep them in prayer my sister and some extended family live in the Baltimore County jurisdiction but it horseshoes around Baltimore City so its not too far.

My supervisor in Meats was asking me questions about getting a concealed handgun license due to the recent civil unrest. Though she like everyone else calls it a ccw. I haven't a clue how I have become the go to guy for firearms and carry advice...

[Claymore]

What was her major?

Physical Geography and Computer Cartography.

[RRCmdrBennett]

They go hand in hand.

[joecool]

Things are heating up in my hometown of Baltimore.

People need to realize that their beef is NOT with the police. It would take pages to explain. But the short version is that Democrats have been in charge of big cities for decades upon decades. Their philosophy and policies have ruined it for all, but especially for minorities.

[ccm2361]

Its sunny, warm & our house is being built!

[RRCmdrBennett]

Things are heating up in my hometown of Baltimore.

People need to realize that their beef is NOT with the police. It would take pages to explain. But the short version is that Democrats have been in charge of big cities for decades upon decades. Their philosophy and policies have ruined it for all, but especially for minorities.  

Yes, so true Democrat policies have ruined much of cities. There are other factors involved like the war on drugs is a never ending cycle.

[ccm2361]

72 today

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