JohnDF
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Thanks. The Jeep is one of my other hobbies. It's like my third kid.Sounds like a great time! (Good looking Jeep, too! )
Thanks. The Jeep is one of my other hobbies. It's like my third kid.Sounds like a great time! (Good looking Jeep, too! )
They didn’t even qualify for the tournament.Looks like you had to have a red, white and blue flag to make it to the World Cup soccer finals . . .
What happened to US ?????
Best part of camping for me is getting up early, enjoying a hot cup of strong black coffee, and listening to all the quietness...
Campfires and coffee are so peaceful!
I completely agree with you; the mornings are my favorite part of camping.
Just got back last night, trip went well 10 people on the trip caught 596 fish, my boat (3 people) caught 144. Here’s some pictures. don’t Have any pictures of fish on here but will have one of the other guys on the trip send some. will post later.
I've been kind of in and out around these parts lately. I drop by and peruse a few threads, but have been busily occupied with a renewed passion. As a younger person I was an avid cyclist, but smoking, motorcycles, and other life things got in the way and for many years I did not ride. Five years ago I gave up the smokes, and a few months back my wife mentioned she was thinking about getting a bike to ride around the neighborhood. Well, I grabbed the bull by the horns and picked up a used mountain bike and started riding it around the neighborhood, as we have a one kilometer loop which is perfect for getting a little exercise in doing laps.
We then got her a bike and we started riding together in the neighborhood, and I came across an older Trek road bike in need of a little TLC...built circa 1995.
View attachment 944533 so there she is all fixed up and taking me on 20-25 mile jaunts on a very peaceful green way trail I found that starts about five miles from our house , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuse_River_Trail. It's a beautiful trail with lots of wildlife, wooden planked bridges, and vast fields and woods meandering along the Neuse River. I kept eyeing and even older bike in the shop, built probably in 1981 in Austria, it is a Austro Daimler Olympian, and I finally picked it up today...it still needs a little TLC before it is ready for any serious riding, but she's a beauty...
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I have been trying to ride every day, when the weather cooperates, it puts my head in a more peaceful place.
There is a bit of knife content to this tale, the Austro Daimler was acquired by trading a few knives from my collection that I had done some customizing to, I had gifted one to my bike shop guy a while back as a thank you for helping me with parts and advice along the way, and he really liked the Buck 112 I had put exotic wood covers on, so he wound up with three more beauties from my hoard. I have been still carrying a traditional knife with me every day, but I have switched to pretty much only SS for obvious reasons...rust never sleeps.
Thats a nice bike. A couple of years ago, while visiting Santa Fe my wife's brand new specialized mnt bike was lifted off the roof of our F350. Thule rack system locked. The enterprising thieves used bolt cutters taking bike and rack in one piece. I had a heavily used Scott Ransom on the other side which they turned their nose up at. I was grateful for their discriminating taste.Nice bikes, Duane. I particularly like that Trek.
I have a Specialized Crossroads that I bought in 1999 but I'm sorry to say that I haven't ridden it in probably almost 12 years. It's just like the one in this pic but with a different seat, an LCD speedometer, and a little bag on the seat post that looks exactly like yours.
I rode it a lot when I was single but married life has brought on activities of a higher priority.
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Oh absolutely, Dwight, it’s all time well spent! Much as I love my Hilleberg Soulo tent, if I’m in the bush or mountains in fine weather, far away from light scatter, I look forward to packing my swag, so I can lie there, looking up at the stars. In the desert, they seem so close and intense, it’s like you could reach up and touch them. That wild feeling of tiny vertigo you get, looking up and out at the brilliant, spiral strewing arm of the Milky Way is an incomparable experience...Chin that certainly looks like quality time in the right places. I like mornings myself but I'm pretty fond of sipping bourbon in the dark watching the stars swim upstream.
My wife is a gift from GOD. Tough as nails but soft as cotton. She has a servant's heart and has never been afraid of hard work. Selfless, she always considers herself last and will take what ever is left after others have chosen, regardless of the subject. When the kids got older she started her education and became an RN after they were adults. She's a good one too since she's smart and tough and selfless. She's one of the most generous souls I know too, whether it be with time or resources. She senses a need she looks into it. She sees and need, she does what she can to fulfill it.
Yesterday she called me on my commute home stating there was a package that arrived from an antiquities dealer in Jerusalem. I asked her to not open it until I got there. I had purchased a small bronze coin minted the the Holy Land over 2000 years ago and recently mounted in a Sterling silver cradle as a pendant. A bronze prutah or lepton of Alexander Janeaus, King of Judea. Otherwise known as a Widow's Mite.
I gave it to her yesterday evening before supper telling her how she's a living example of Jesus' lesson of the Widow giving her two mites as recorded in Mark 12 and Luke 21. She immediately put it on the silver chain she wears daily with the grandkids' birth stones.
I hit a home run with that one.