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That is hilarious. I had a friend that worked at BNSF. I couldn't believe how much salt he put on everything. Salted the heck out of bananas and nothing entered his mouth without getting a royal coat of salt.

That's the sad thing about large bred dogs, they don't last long. Little breeds last twice as long. Every time I lost a Doberman or German Shepherd it was like loosing a family member.

Very pretty. 🐶

I prefer Pepsi over Coke! Both give me acid indegestion now so its H2O.

Have fun Sgt. I don't know this group either as I've never paid attention to anyone past the 70's. Yep, I'm an old dog. Wife & I still are still from the 60's and 70's. That British Invasion when they could all could write great music and songs about the war. We just saw 3 Dog Night a few weeks ago. She got to hear "Out In The Country," Her favorite from them.

I used to have a banjo as a kid. sold it when I got married. Never learned how to play it well though. After I retired, I bought another acoustic and learned to play Dueling banjos. I would play both parts on the guitar, with the Banjo parts on the Bridge. Sounded pretty good Lol.

When we had my sons dog while he was in the Navy, He hated anything that went Bang or Pop and would run and hide under the bed. So I had a kids toy cap gun. Whenever he was naughty, all I had to say was, "SMOKEY, Do You Want Me to Shoot You In The Frickin Head?" He would take off running for the bed or to Debbie for protection. It was hilarious. She would say, "NOW WHAT DID YOU DO?" Actually loved that dog. He was like my shadow, followed me everywhere. But he could be so naughty. Anyway, a cap poping of the toy gun would send him off hiding. He knew he screwed up!

Yep. its one bullet I often carry. My carry guns change. Actually I hardly carry anymore at 70 now. Just when I go downtown at night or in bad places. Also carry at the lake walking the dog. They have spotted Cougars there several times in the past. I may go S&W Performance Shield in .45 or .40. FNS .40 S&W. My favorite is FNX .45acp. It shoots 15 rounds. I can conceal it ok. But Winchester Ranger T .45 is great too, same ballistics. My Kimber was my favorite gun till it broke. I could put 7 rounds in the bullseye at 35 feet. I often bought victim targets with a shooter behind the gal. I practiced shooting the guy in the head in the triangular shape, The brain stem shots. and got very good at it.

When I went through that brain tumor cancer, (all what they did to me, as I was an experiment back then in the 70's, not expected to live.) My taste for salt was magnified. Still remember getting out of the hospital and going home. My wife made me chipped beef on toast. I took one bite and spit it out. I said, "What did you do?" "Dump a whole container of Mortan Salt on top?" No way I could eat that, like licking the salt flats. Then my Chemotherapist told me he did that to me. The chemo drugs I had were 7 of 8. Still don't use salt to this day, They put plenty enough in foods. More than what you need.

A couple years back I wanted to do a test on .45 acp HST ammo. I wanted to test the spread of the bullet. I filled a trash barrel full of water and let it sit. On the fourth, while everyone was shooting off fireworks, I went back to the motorhome by the garage and fired the round into the water. No one knew a thing. I got the bullet out the bottom and the spread was almost one inch. So close it almost was an " The bullet performed great. Rob also wanted to hear how it spread, and I told him.

Oliver is laying down in front of my desk on his rug. Looking around at the sounds exploding. Outside, it bothers him and he won't go potty till its over. He runs for the house door. It never bothered my other dobermans. But they heard my guns before. We have a 11:00 shut off to but everyone ignores that rule and shoots them off till 12:30 to 1:00. That has been going on here for a week now. If it goes on one more day, I'm half tempted to start firing some of my big guns off.

I was very fortunate. At 16, my uncle in the Air Force, gave me a whole tool chest full of tools. Craftsman and I added Snap on to it in my racing days. I had more tools than I needed so my wife gave me a very large Tool Chest to hold them all several years back. Now full of metric and standard. 2 drawers just for hammeres. Have a gardening tool drawer, one for scissors, Kineves, Automotive like oil wrenches, timing light, All my battery chargers are in the top and it has outlets for them and plugs to a 110 with a on/off switch.

by the way Ken, How is the smoke up there? That Mackinac Island tour for September still hasn't canceled and Iv'e wondered how bad the smoke was there? Of course its still 3 months away.

Guess it was an inside joke among teachers. They all said it. I was invited to a lot of teacher parties way back. They had some pretty hilarious teachers.

Many still race in their 70's. John Force still races Funny Cars at 74. I heard Don Garlets is still at it as well as others. It is very dangerous. Iv'e known several who lost their lives. Sorry to hear of your loss. I raced 3 cars in the NHRA. It was fun while it lasted. If I had another car? I'd be doing it all over again. I'm 70. It's the risk you take.

My wife was a teacher. They had a saying, "Never teach a Pig to sing, It both wastes your time and annoys the Pig." Always remembered that. At BNSF I had a friend that was serious about wanting to learn how to play chess. I spent 3 months basicaly trying to teach him how the pieces move. Trying to get past that, I was always going back saying, Thats an illegal move! You can't move that way. Anyway, That's what I ended up telling him. Lol. Chess was NOT HIS GAME AND HE COULDN'T LEARN. No wonder, every single day he had to be retrained at work I heard.

Our son gave up his bike long ago. He claims Omaha is the worst for riding bikes. Pot holes, chuck holes and sand is all over all the streets. My Uncle had a bike when I was a small kid. He would give me rides on it. He would play Evil Knievel and try jumps and stuff on it. I fell off that bike many times, Him screwing around on it. So I grew up hating them.

Thats one thing that has bothered me. NO CASE. My son bought a custom Ephi, for $900 & some with no case. Just not right.

While nobody can tell you exactly what you should do, I thought I would never buy a Ephiphone. My first was a Standard and I was shocked how well it played and looked. My next one was a Casino and now I have 3. I have never had a problem with any. To me, If, I can afford the Gibson, Gibson it is. If not? Then why not Epiphone? We can't all be Warren Buffet.

I used to do a lot of things I don't do anymore. Racing my car down the quarter mile. (I was Points leader.) The car went on a wild wheel stand off the line breaking the wheelie bars, and my wife kept pressuring me to quit. Tried surfing, Been up in helicopter rides, Used to do roofing and painting when I was laid off from the RailRoad. I've painted Commercial, Residential, Apartments. Don't go up on ladders anymore. If I had another race car? I would try it outLol. Would not go out in the ocean anymore. Mostly my wife put an end to most things. I hardly do Art work anymore. Still play one chess game everynight on my Kasparov computer.

Yes, You do awesome work and it looks great.

I bet it does. I have a Jumbo that needs a new bridge. It's pulled away. I plan on getting it repaired just to see what it sounds like? Over 40 years old. The wood should be well aged.

When our son was stationed in Pensacola Florida, he wanted his car. So Deb & I drove it down to him. There was 2" of snow on the road at the most. No body seemed to know how to drive in that Lol. Cars were in ditches everywhere, Semi Trucks jackknifed on ramps on the interstates, and in ditches. We had my sons Cougar with no problems whatsoever. We did have to find an alternate route as it took us most of the day to go through that mess. They might cancel that trip if smoke is still down at Mackinac Island this September?

I have several pedals and a multi effects amp. Never use the pedals anymore.

It used to snow many times here per year at least 10 to 18 inches. Still remember shoveling 13" of snow in April on Easter at the other house. Now it hardly snows much or even gets over an inch. Maybe two " at most.