Yesterday

[BigRed]

Nice old Mossberg!

Old?

Heck. That gun there is almost new!

LOL

 

[BigRed]

Bulk .45ACP for less than a couple dimes a round.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Five years since my Pops passed on. Sure miss the guy.

Every now and then, I think about things forgetting he is not physically present.

Example:

I was not able to get out much last deer season. I thought I was going to get skunked.

On the last day of gun season I was blessed with a buck that walked out of a tree line on the opposite side of a field I was hunting. I estimate it to be the longest shot I've taken on an Indiana deer. That, along with the good chance of going scratch had my adrenaline pumping like a boy on one of his early hunts.

I pressed a round and the buck kicked up on his rear legs like a fighting stallion. I saw him take flight back into the woods.....and drop about 30 feet in. In that moment, what went through my mind was "Wait until I tell Dad about this......". followed by, "damn". No doubt he knows any how.

I am one of what seems to be an increasingly rare group. A man who was raised by a great Dad along with a great Mom that taught me the value of things that may seem intangible in the short run...and are invaluable in the long.

Thanks for all you did and continue to do, Dad.

I do that a lot. Wanted to tell Uncle Dick how cool it was shooting his mauser. But, of course, the reason I have it is that he's not here anymore. With Dad it happens all the time.

 

[grillak]

I miss my mind, of all the things I've lost.

i didn't loose mine...i traded it for a bucket of crispy fried chicken...i forgot to get the biscuits

 

[IndyBeerman]

i didn't loose mine...i traded it for a bucket of crispy fried chicken...i forgot to get the biscuits

Evidently you forgot the honey also, it holds those dry things they call biscuits together.

 

[grillak]

Evidently you forgot the honey also, it holds those dry things they call biscuits together.

dammit!

 

[JCSR]

Back when TV was good. Bewitched.........

 

[foszoe]

I love all the digital TV channels now. Watched MASH, Andy Griffith, Green Acres, and up next Hogan's Heroes!

 

[actaeon277]

i didn't loose mine...i traded it for a bucket of crispy fried chicken...i forgot to get the biscuits

 

[grillak]

Back when TV was good. Bewitched.........

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love the sweater

 

[JCSR]

love the sweater

That's how to properly wear a sweater!

 

[yeahbaby]

I love all the digital TV channels now. Watched MASH, Andy Griffith, Green Acres, and up next Hogan's Heroes!

We get the 3 Stooges @9 on Saturday mornings. Love it, great way to start the day!

 

[grillak]

We get the 3 Stooges @9 on Saturday mornings. Love it, great way to start the day!

the addams family

 

[Nazgul]

That's how to properly wear a sweater!

Sat next to a girl in HS Drivers Ed class. She could wear a sweater!!
The sweater had big knits.....

Don

 

[BigRed]

Good bird hunting areas.

 

[BigRed]

I miss my Grandfather and my Father...and friends of theirs I got to know.....

but when I get some decent fish and smoke them right, it's like they are right by me!


(This was a good dinner)

 

[BigRed]

Baseball day games with my little girl.....

When she was in grade school - highschool I would show up in the morning to pull her out for what the "principal" would call an "unexcused absence"... BFD.

All these years later, it comes around....

She got a couple of tickets for a day game this week and then called tonight to tell me.

"I'm supposed to be working that day."

"Sounds like you might have an unexcused absence."

"Yep!"



So it looks like I may be blessed once again to be in a ballpark with that little girl who has grown much...both of us caring less about "excused absences" than more important time.

 

[BigRed]

Unexcused absences are still the best!

 

[tomcat13]

Fishing & Shooting w/Dad. He's been gone 10+ yrs & I still miss him Every day. If Yours is still around, call Him right now.
RIP SSGT RMM

 

[BigRed]

Fishing & Shooting w/Dad. He's been gone 10+ yrs & I still miss him Every day. If Yours is still around, call Him right now.
RIP SSGT RMM

Solid advice right there, Sir.