Intheswamp
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Post by Intheswamp on Nov 15, 2015 8:20:28 GMT -5
HEY!!! That ain't a humpback on Buzz, that's "the stoop"...like the punks do with the chicken walk, bouncing their head back and forth.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Nov 15, 2015 15:27:59 GMT -5
Jim glad u r doing some better! I miss yall! Anybody out there know how to hound Marfa Tx give me a shout? Chips is still traveling great! He got to spend the nite loose in a round pen last nite. Amazing place Mineola Nature Preserve. Full service campground for horses. For me to primitive camp is free, Chips costs $5 per nite. Good on you Bill. You were a pleasure. Wife cried when ya left. Think you've had some practice with those stall gals, Bill slick. She says I'm getting more of a silver tongue than silver hair. Must be really silver. Us old farts have to learn how to talk since nothing else works. Am 10 times better, healing well and thanks. sorry I was so helpless. Thinking about how nice Chips would be to take on a slow ride through the desert rock hunting. Bet he can do some serious maneuvering. Maybe a rock cart behind him; or better yet a cart for me and the rocks so he doesn't have to carry my carcass around. Finished burning that pile today. had to restock it a bit, nice to do some movement. Gotta take a close look at those rocks you left. Looked like it was gathered from all corners. Stone Canyon-oh yeah. All the hunters gone today, too quiet. |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 15, 2015 15:52:06 GMT -5
Gettin' old definitely not for sissies. I'll piggyback on to what you said.... Young guys, beware...that old man in the mirror is closer than he appears...just blink. No doubt about the oldtimers working us into the ground. I had a neighbor who farmed until he died shy of 90. Our house was broken into back during the 1st Gulf War. The next evening I saw him down the road from us working on replacing a fence (cresote poles...none of this t-pole stuff) and thought I'd ask him if he saw anything the day before. He was at least 80 when this happened. When I drove up he was giving some post-hole diggers a good workout. Laying beside him was a sign that he'd dug up. I asked him why he dug the sign up and he responded that it was in his way of replacing his fence. No arguing with that. I just wonder if he called that number on the sign about "Call Before You Dig!!!"...thankfully widespread telephone outages were not reported.  Hardworking?...yep Respectful of modern technology?...who needs stinkin' technology. <grin> My father was another one...made his first crop when he was 8. The guys at work would tell *anybody* that he'd work'em into the ground. Something about the genes, the water, the discipline, the respect, the backbone,...so many things that are vanishing from much of today's society. Never saw it in the city. But 30 years out in the boonies taught me a bunch about folks that use their bodies to make a living. Have a hateful father and adopted my elderly neighbor as my Pop and that was one of the best moves I ever made. Always in a pair of overalls and elementary education and can fix or weld anything that moves or passes electricity. His truck has 500,000, mine 350,000 miles, so we keep stuff running. Stopped by to meet Sammy when I first moved here. He sent me up to his potato patch to help myself. I returned and said they had all been picked. He started laughing when he figured out I did not know they grew in the ground.(really laughing). I showed him: ended up being a water plant farmer and he got quite jealous when he saw the money I got on my little 3 acre crop. He taught me about all I know about rural living and the wilds. He was one of Eisenhower's body guards. Some wacko was hanging around the helicopter Eisenhower was to board. Sammy told him to leave. Sammy chased him around the helicopter for a few minutes, then told him he was going to shoot him. The man did not listen so Sammy pulled the ole 45 issue and shot him in the thigh. The army had a hearing and found him guilty of armed assault and sentenced him to a week of vacation and a $1 fine. |
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Post by captbob on Nov 15, 2015 16:05:06 GMT -5
Buy your wife a horse ya big meanie! She will take care of it. really...
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Nov 15, 2015 23:05:35 GMT -5
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Post by orrum on Nov 16, 2015 16:17:56 GMT -5
I offered to give Denise a nice mare, broke to death and a daughter of Chips!
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Post by captbob on Nov 16, 2015 16:23:28 GMT -5
James = horseophobic meanie  |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 17, 2015 4:47:13 GMT -5
I offered to give Denise a nice mare, broke to death and a daughter of Chips! Bead drawn |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 17, 2015 4:48:37 GMT -5
James = horseophobic meanie No No No Content being horse Grinch |
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Post by captbob on Nov 17, 2015 9:01:37 GMT -5
I offered to give Denise a nice mare, broke to death and a daughter of Chips! Bead drawn It's good to start the day with a hearty laugh. That was funny! |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 17, 2015 9:15:15 GMT -5
Just a lowly Mossberg 12 gauge pump, but very accurate.
Pumping a round in the chamber has a distinctive sound of persuasion.
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Intheswamp
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Post by Intheswamp on Nov 17, 2015 9:59:13 GMT -5
Hmmm, one of my daughters' ex-boyfriends heard that sound a year or so ago...the sound really echos in the "still of the night". Add five or six sets of bluelights whirling out in the country and I bet he really thought it was a surreal atmosphere. His problem was that I *knew* it was real...very real. But yeah, I think the sound of a shell being pumped into the chamber is similar to Morse code...it's an international language. |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 25, 2015 6:27:55 GMT -5
Hmmm, one of my daughters' ex-boyfriends heard that sound a year or so ago...the sound really echos in the "still of the night". Add five or six sets of bluelights whirling out in the country and I bet he really thought it was a surreal atmosphere. His problem was that I *knew* it was real...very real. But yeah, I think the sound of a shell being pumped into the chamber is similar to Morse code...it's an international language. My friend used to write his daughter's date's name on a 12 gauge shell and hand it to him when picking her up. Maybe a motion sensor triggering that sound about a hundred feet away from the house in the bush would be a nice approach to tickling a robbers ear. |
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Hardworking?...yep Respectful of modern technology?...who needs stinkin' technology. <grin>
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