not so pros

[beaglebriar]

Morning guys.

Good morning Mr. Lee

 

[Stihl working Hard]

So you had four generations together, that's awesome.

Oh yeah boys love mud. I'm not sure we ever get over that. My two knuckleheads are 8 , 10 and they still like a good mud puddle. Lol

Enjoy your time at home you don't ever get those days back.

Never a truer word spoken DJ they grow up so fast don't they,our grandkids are 9.8.4 respectively I don't know where the years have gone

 

[Stihl working Hard]

Looking good here. Gonna warm up into the 50's today and tomorrow.

How are you Todd?

Can't complain gardening all day

 

[beaglebriar]

Can't complain gardening all day

Sounds good ,what kind of veggies do you grow over there?

 

[Stihl working Hard]

Morning dj,

Running the dogs today?

Hope you get some great time with your boy my friend

 

[Red97]

So you had four generations together, that's awesome.

Oh yeah boys love mud. I'm not sure we ever get over that. My two knuckleheads are 8 , 10 and they still like a good mud puddle. Lol

Enjoy your time at home you don't ever get those days back.

Yep, 4 generations. My little one is the only guy to keep the name going on our side of the family.

Drunk uncle was over too, he is about 6'5 and loud, little one tried to cut him down to size with a swifter duster lol

Good morning Joe how are you today

Evening Todd, waiting for everyone to wake up, momma and I are running away for an overnight trip today.

Morning guys.

Morning /evening

Gonna wrap that project up soon?

 

[mdavlee]

Yep, 4 generations. My little one is the only guy to keep the name going on our side of the family.

Drunk uncle was over too, he is about 6'5 and loud, little one tried to cut him down to size with a swifter duster lol



Evening Todd, waiting for everyone to wake up, momma and I are running away for an overnight trip today.



Morning /evening

Gonna wrap that project up soon?

Yep. Down to 5 welds left to make. They're just in the highest radiation area in the room

 

[Stihl working Hard]

Sounds good ,what kind of veggies do you grow over there?

Sorry no vegetables in our garden just a few weeds and lawn to mow .I think the farmers grow everything everyone else have the fruit and veg markets are always brimming with fresh produce

 

[Sty57]

I'll add to your list Carling's Black Label(The Black Death), Go-Go Goebel, Fox Deluxe 400 to the get it in and let it do its job on the cheap beers, and jug of Kessler's if ya really wanted to get squirrely (that stuff will make ya crazy). You knew things were pretty tight when all you had was a bottle of Mad Dog 20-20 wine. Those were the days alright!

Always had a soft-sided flask with 20/20 when ice fishing & snowmobiling just in case.......

 

[Stihl working Hard]

Yep, 4 generations. My little one is the only guy to keep the name going on our side of the family.

Drunk uncle was over too, he is about 6'5 and loud, little one tried to cut him down to size with a swifter duster lol



Evening Todd, waiting for everyone to wake up, momma and I are running away for an overnight trip today.



Morning /evening

Gonna wrap that project up soon?

 

[Stihl working Hard]

Always had a soft-sided flask with 20/20 when ice fishing & snowmobiling just in case.......

You never know when your going to get thirsty

 

[Stihl working Hard]

Yep. Down to 5 welds left to make. They're just in the highest radiation area in the room

Yikes send in the apprentice

 

[mdavlee]

Yikes send in the apprentice

I wish it was that easy

 

[Red97]

I wish it was that easy

Not allowed to stay in those areas long.?

 

[mdavlee]

Not allowed to stay in those areas long.?

Nope. We get so much dose allowed per trip.

 

[Red97]

Nope. We get so much dose allowed per trip.

That was what I thought. Them 5 welds could drag out a while.

 

[mdavlee]

That was what I thought. Them 5 welds could drag out a while.

Yes. We're all past what they originally said we would get on dose as well. I'm 50% above and a few others are right behind me. We're going to see what they can offer to convince us to finish. Some plants won't let you in over 1k millirem. I'm at 770 now.

 

[Red97]

Yes. We're all past what they originally said we would get on dose as well. I'm 50% above and a few others are right behind me. We're going to see what they can offer to convince us to finish. Some plants won't let you in over 1k millirem. I'm at 770 now.

I'd be getting a fire proof space suit...

 

[mdavlee]

I'd be getting a fire proof space suit...

That wouldn't work. It's too tight to fit in there.

 

[Sty57]

I was a young product of my older 10 brothers and sisters back in them days. I was 12 yrs old having sex with my older sisters galfriends, smoking cigarettes for the first time, drinking with my brothers for the first time. I won't never forget the day my older brothers and friends were cooking mushrooms with grape Kool-Aid, and they said...'let Jason have a shot of it, let's watch him trip.' I couldn't even ride my bicycle in the yard, I actually crashed my Huffy bike in the ditch...went head over the handlebars right into the ditch. Then they took me, knowing mom and dad would be home shortly, across the street to the woods...where all the older idiots had their own 'pits' built. They kept trying to get me on my Huffy, knowing I was *f-worded up, I kept crashing into the sticker bushes and chit, just getting tore up. Finally ended up at the house that evening with a couple of older brothers telling mom and dad I crashed riding the dirt trails we ride dirt bikes on. Thank God at that time we had two Honda XR75's, that mom and dad bought for us kids. I was kinda skint up from the crashing in the ditch, sticker bushes and chit, from the shroom juice...but I never dropped the dime on my brothers. Never! They used to make me smoke the hemp too back in those days, a toke here and there. Hell, I thought I was being like them...being cool.

I went through some crazy ass upbringing with my older 10 siblings...I didn't know no better at that time. Just trying to be like them....it was the norm fellas.

I saw a heap of chit well before I should've ever seen it in a world where folks don't grow up with so many older brothers/sisters who go back to the 50's/60's growing up. I think I could write a book on this chit and probably get it published. No doubt. You wouldn't begin to believe what I've seen with this crew.

I'm just glad fellas I had sense enough to show up on Paris Island back in Jan '86...of my own decision after graduating HS. I've spent my time in pure hell in combat for years...now after leaving active duty...working DoD civil service on C-17's for our fine military...and I do my job to the best of my ability every single day I'm on that flightline. Those planes ain't worth a chit sitting grounded for heavy maintenance that's required. The C-17 fleet is getting older everyday...they take more and more maintenance every year based on flight hours.

I enjoy my job fellas...some of these same C-17's ferried my Jarhead ass along with many others, to the other side of the planet. They simply let you off like a big ass taxi...and you hope you're alive to get back on one for the return trip. Too damn many men, brothers had to be loaded onto them. That was the absolute ass kicker.

I live now, and for many yrs after my first and only 18 yr marriage that dissolved in '06...for my kids. I've never faltered on that deal. Son is aboard the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, daughter is in Ga Southern University. The kids have been my focus ever since. Ex and I talk a few times a week/text many times a week, no *frenching with the kids mentality. They deserve the best of what I and she can afford them. Because we couldn't hold the marriage doesn't mean our investment, the kids, have to suffer. And that's the way the Jarhead will have it. No time for cheap BS. The ex and I live 8 miles apart...and have never had a bad word btwn us since the divorce. She actually comes here to my home for the fine smoked/grilled groceries quite often. I ain't got no problem with that. They ain't no sense in it fellas...she knows how I smoke and grill the groceries...and if she's wanting to take some groceries for the next few days to snack on, more power to her. I could give a damn less. I want my grilling/smoking to get eaten. And I've been told my chit's as good as the competition fellas do.

I guess bottom line fellas...I'm glad I'm where I'm at on this planet. I went through a lotta chit that I never would've thought would've gotten me here today.

Do me a favor fellas, all I ask of ya...don't ever forget the brothers/sisters we had to physically load up on the return trip. They are the true HEROS and WARRIORS in all these many years. They deserve our absolute HONOR guys. Good, bad, different/indifferent...they came home the wrong way...not on their own feet. After a rotation...to see the wives, children, etc, when we eventually touched down back in the States at Dover, was a heartbreaking deal back in those years...to tote the flag-draped coffins off that *f-wordin plane...It was as real as life and death as you've ever knew it. And I toted the flag-draped coffins off the back of that airplane with discipline...shedding tears the whole time.

Didn't mean to write another novel fellas. I'm glad I have you crew as a sounding board, I can do a little talking, if you folks don't mind. ...I'm ok in life, thankful for where I'm at with my crazy ass growing up past, and my Corps experiences...my son who's doing great aboard the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, my daughter who's at Georgia Southern University, and where I'm at now kicking ass DoD with those govt C-17's.

You saw junkies have a good night....got my Boston Butts rubbed down for the Traeger at sun up. Gonna be some good pulled pork, low and slow, tomorrow afternoon.

Talk all you want Sir.


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