On 9/25/2017 9:47 AM, George Shirley wrote:
On 9/25/2017 7:26 AM, Frank wrote:
On 9/24/2017 9:26 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 9/24/2017 7:41 PM, Frank wrote:
On 9/23/2017 3:44 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 9/23/2017 1:22 PM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
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I seldom buy anything from Walmart, it seems that most of their
items
are from some country I never heard of and the items have a less
than 30
day lifetime.

Â*Â* they have a Made in USA push (sorta) going on
as we are finding more items made here.


My wife buys cloth for sewing up stuff for the grands and
great grands so she stays happy with cheap stuff they have and
the kids
don't keep the stuff long anyway. Heck, I have shirts and slacks
that
are over 20 years old that still fit and aren't worn out as my daily
clothing is a pair of cheap shorts and a tee shirt that is about
worn
out but feels good. I have good shoes that are older than some of my
grandchildren and no one knows the difference.

Â*Â* yes, the shorts i have on now are hand-me-downs
from someone else and i've got AC/holes through the
pockets and they are about see through from being
worn so much.Â* i don't wear them outside often as
i prefer to keep the direct sun off my skin most
of the time.Â* just a few minutes here or there for
Vit D and that's it.Â* t-shirt is a few years old
but a work shirt so it has a life span of another
five to ten years.Â* my shoes, i just added a good
layer of rubber to the gardening crocs so they
should last another 10-15 years.Â* i don't spend
money on clothes that often.Â* the used goods
stores are places i will go first.Â* i do need a
replacement pair of jeans for my old ones which
have lasted about 10yrs.Â* i only wear them when
we go out and about.Â* my work pants for the gardens
are hand-me-downs that were going to get thrown
away (i could have had another 15 pair but
compromised at five pair).Â* i suspect they will
last me the rest of my lifetime, very sturdy work
pants from a friend who's company was bought out
by another so they changed the uniform.
unfortunately the shirts were not to my suiting.


George, up early giving the dawg her meds, everyone in this
household
has a bottle of something the doctors said was good for us.
Tomorrow I
will be 78 years old and I don't expect any presents either. G I'm
aiming, eventually for 100 or more, yeah, that works, sure!

Â*Â* Â* congrats and all that on the BD and being
around and still kicking.Â*


Â*Â* songbird

I'm also very pleased by outliving most of my high school males in
my class. Several died in Vietnam and other fights, some just fell
over dead one day, and a few were deliberately killed by someone
who didn't like them. I liked most of my class mates but a few I
cheered when I read their names in the paper. Every small high
school seems to have a cluster of a-holes, mostly the jocks. Seems
most of the women in that small class are still alive, I don't go
to reunion's very often so don't see to many from 1957. Wife is on
a tear again so I'm laying low, she gets frantic about her garden
and yard and then goes wild. Tried to get her to let me hire
someone for that stuff but she insists on doing it herself, even
with grands and greatgrands two blocks away. Some of her ancestors
were Germans and you know how hard headed they are. G

George

I'll be 78 in a couple of months.Â* Went to an all boys Catholic high
school and for past 10 years there have been reunions for just the
guys but our 60th a couple of months ago included wives.Â* It is
bitter sweet to go their and last one, a classmate I recall jogging
in the park about a year ago was wheeled in by his wife now
suffering from dementia and Parkinson's.Â* Everybody now looks old
which means I look old too.
The guys that look best are those still working or very active.

The class jock, who is really a nice guy, now suffers dementia.Â* I
recalled him telling me that when he played college football, the
whole season he was in a fog.Â* His dementia may be due to that.
Pro football players are trying to get something to help out the
older players who are having lots of problems. I never watch
football, basketball, etc. with the exception of baseball, which I
dropped a few years ago when I found that they, too, were getting
lots and lots of money for playing a game. My Dad and I played in the
same league for folks that just liked to play baseball. Dad had
played baseball for money when he was in his teens. Lots of small
teams in Louisiana and Texas charge a a buck to watch the game and
the winner got the loot. Dad says in the twenties that was really a
good thing as he made less than a dollar an hour working in an oil
refinery and then go play baseball somewhere and get a bucket of
money. He told me that many times they had to run for their
transportation to not get beat up by the bystanders that cheered the
other side. Then I went to a high school that didn't have baseball.
Boo hoo. I played first base with the team from my first ship as we
sailors mostly liked baseball over anything else. That was fun and I
was also having fun going to the pistol and rifle ranges and doing
stunts with weapons. Got my first .22 rifle at 5 years of age and a
.45 Auto and a 12 gauge shotgun at 7. Got a whole rack of weapons
here in my office and the only loaded one is beside my bed, a .40
Glock, fine weapon and somewhat lighter than my old Colt .45ACP. I
can't hunt anymore unless I'm in a vehicle due to problems from
strokes years ago, runs in the family and I've got 20 good years so
far from the time of the strokes. Now my legs are starting to give
out due to damage to the nerves.

Gave up on following pro sports years ago.Â* Commercialization has
ruined them.Â* Back when I was a kid, we would go to church, Dad would
drive to Philly, we'd see a double header and be home in time for
dinner.Â* Today it takes that long to play one game.

I like to hunt and shoot but am giving up hunting as all I have access
to is public land and not being handicapped the easy stands to access
are for handicapped only.Â* I have use of all my facilities but as one
friend puts it, if it don't hurt, it don't work.

I have a Glock 23, .40 cal, and it is also hidden away, loaded if I
need it.Â* I hunted deer with a variety of weapons and only one that I
never got a deer with was a pistol. I really liked to bow hunt and
season is on now and lasts til the end of January but park I hunt does
not open until next month and I may try a day or two.Â* Also applied
for a managed hunt in another park which I get in on every 3 years or
so.Â* They drive you to the stand, pick you up for lunch and take you
back at end and even find deer and take them out for you.
Texas has a lengthy deer season, and, if I remember, hunters can take
several deer a season. It is not unusual to see deer grazing along
highways and we have deer come up to our back fence here in Houston
area. Seems a lot of Texan's no longer hunt deer, one of my grandson's
still hunts, the other never did hunt. My granddaughter's husband does
hunt and fish so some of that is still in the family. Grandson that
hunts is planning a trip for he and I as I have had a lifetime hunting
and fishing license since they first came out years ago. I will have to
go to the range and do some shooting before I can go as I haven't fired
a firearm in at least fifteen years, lived in cities to much I guess.
Grandson does give us a couple of packages of venison. We still like the
wild meat. My Glock is a 23, bought it used but it shoots okay. I'm
training my left hand to use the pistol as the right hand is partially
paralyzed, strokes again from years ago. I do miss my Colt .45 ACP, had
it since childhood and then gave it to my son. Many male Texan's got
their first guns in early childhood and were taught by their father's
like my Dad. Nowadays the schools are trying to keep guns from anyone
for some ungodly reason. I'm glad we old people and their older kids
went to a different school system.

My daughters father-in-law also hunts, and he makes venison sausage!
She is usually given a generous amount of it, and she passes on some
samples to us. That stuff is yummy!

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Maggie