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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: ... 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. Commercialization has ruined them. 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. 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. 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. 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. Also applied for a managed hunt in another park which I get in on every 3 years or so. 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. |
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