Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Four

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MattB101

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Wife and I enjoy them too. We lived in a cabin when we were younger, gravity flow water, kerosene lamps, wood heat, wild game... So even when there is a fakey scene we can pretty much fill in the blanks.
Hi all BTW, hope everyone is having a great Holiday season.
Howdy Disallowed. Hope you had a nice Christmas.
 

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I am a former Ice Road Truckers addict..... American Pickers and Pawn Stars too. Burned out on all of them. When I start becoming hypercritical of the hokey stuff it's time for me to stop watching. Sometimes that takes just a couple of minutes but sometimes it takes many episodes.
Loved Pawn Stars but like you, burned out on them. Chumlee is so lazy he shouldn't be able to draw breath. Too much like work! :lol: I like the "beard of Knowledge" (museum guy).
 

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And BAMM, here it is! The multi quote, you all knew it was comin!:)
Hi, disallowed! How ya been? Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, a happy New Year to come! Ahhhhh, to be able to do some of those things again!
They been keepin the wheels turnin, haven’t had much spare time for the past couple months, obviously a little behind on my reading, lol. Christmas was great, and planning to stay awake till midnight for new years for a change! :)

Hey long time no see. You lovin the snow. I'm hatin it.
Heh, I got stuck sitting on Snoqualmie pass for a total of 11 hrs so far. When ya start hating the snow just think of the forest fires the last two years, thats how I managed to keep my spirits up so far, good to see you buddy, gonna shoot ya a pm later.

Going the war route? Dirty dozen. We were soldiers.
"Apocalypse now" Had Martin Sheen in that one, the one that could act! ~California Kid~

Howdy Disallowed. Hope you had a nice Christmas.
It was great! I was home, so thats a plus, lol. Hope you had a good one too, friend.

And hello back ... yep had / having a nice holiday time. Just got home from a Christmas party w/ some folks we've been friends w/ since high school days. Feel fortunate to have had such good friends for such a long time.

Well we weren't as rustic as you we had electricity. Back in a younger incarnation of ourselves my wife an I lived in a small 2 room, plus tiny kitchen house in the middle of 50 acres of woods. I lived a split personality back them. Durning the day I worked designing and implementing a state of the art computer graphic system. he, he, state of the art back then was monotone green on green screens and 2 dimensional graphics with a computer bigger than a tractor and tailer truck to run the programs.

After work and weekends I live my woodsman's life. Grap the chainsaw and a length of rope. Go cut down a dead tree, drag the sections back to the house, size it and split it with a maul. Needed that wood as the the house was heated w/ an old Ashley wood burner. The house was a 1/4 - 1/2 mile down hill along a very rough 'driveway' from the paved road. Dang w/ a good snow it was totally unpassable so we used to leave our cars at the top of the 'driveway'. Oh yeah and we could only get the cars to within 100 yards of the house. We used a wheel barrow to shuttle groceries and such along a path from where we parked the car to the house.

We really liked living there but when Janet got pregnant we thought we should live a more 'civilized' life so we left our cottage in the woods and move on.

Yup our backwoods days ended with a pregnancy too! Cars were parked on the main road, sled or wheelbarrow was used to haul things to and fro.
Had a young mother bear who would rummage through the compost pile some nights, and I also spent a lot of time cutting wood and anything else that would get me in the woods, we both loved that place!
We have some old friends too, and spent Christmas eve reminiscing about things kids dont tell there parents about, lol. Glad you had a good Christmas friend!

Im not to good with the multi quotes, if I missed anybody I will be sure and be double the PITA on a one on one basis! ;)

Foot Doctor appointment Jan, 6th, then most likely will have the surgery they tried to lay on me in October, lol, so you see, you are stuck with me for a while BUWAHAHA...
 

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Can I get a shout out for "Cool Hand Luke", "Papillon" .. "True Grit" (either one) .. "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia" .. ?? oh, and throw "Kelley's Heroes" in there for good measure ..
Oh yea, Kelley's Heroes! Really enjoy the spaghetti westerns, too. Another good book was Battlefield Earth and the movie really sucked!

hit a milestone today. tobacco free for one year thanks to vaping. I did cross over to the dark side and now am using a subtank with rebuild able deck.joined the sub-ohm crowd L.O.L
Congratulations on your one-year milestone.
 

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Can I get a shout out for "Cool Hand Luke", "Papillon" .. "True Grit" (either one) .. "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia" .. ?? oh, and throw "Kelley's Heroes" in there for good measure ..
All of the above + The Great Escape, & Patton, Midway, Bridge Over The River Kwai.
 
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hit a milestone today. tobacco free for one year thanks to vaping. I did cross over to the dark side and now am using a subtank with rebuild able deck.joined the sub-ohm crowd L.O.L
Congratulations, & welcome!
 

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hit a milestone today. tobacco free for one year thanks to vaping. I did cross over to the dark side and now am using a subtank with rebuild able deck.joined the sub-ohm crowd L.O.L

That's great - keep it up. Sure is a good feeling isn't it...
 

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reminiscing about things kids dont tell there parents about, lol.

He, He, I remember many a times - me sitting around as an adult - telling my mother all the things that I got away with as a child - she always reminded me that I would never be to old for her to turn over her knee... :cry: Ha - never happened... :D
 

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hit a milestone today. tobacco free for one year thanks to vaping. I did cross over to the dark side and now am using a subtank with rebuild able deck.joined the sub-ohm crowd L.O.L
Congratulations! :rickroll::banana::rickroll::banana::rickroll:

Foot Doctor appointment Jan, 6th, then most likely will have the surgery they tried to lay on me in October, lol, so you see, you are stuck with me for a while BUWAHAHA...
Hope all goes well, and we are not "stuck", we are treated to your presence! :lol::lol::lol:
 

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We served up about 400 meals yesterday, handed out a good amount of gifts to the kids .. I set up a small PA and ran some Karaoke for the kids (and a few adults) to sing along with .. later, I tagged along as some delivered gift bags to around 300 older folks that live alone and some nursing home residents .. it was quite gratifying .. many that were served or got a gift bag were touched to tears, and many stated "It is just so nice to be thought of .. " ..

I have to admit, I don't get much, if any, contact on a regular basis with kids, and to witness the joy and happiness even a small act of kindness elicits made it difficult to not get choked up on the spot ..

While I don't discuss my personal medical issues all that much, the day ended up being "The best of times, the worst of times .. " .. last night, around 10 PM, I began to experience some fairly severe chest pains, bad enough to go to the ER, since even a couple nitro pills did not seem to help .. thankfully, they determined I was not having another heart attack, kept me around for observation for a while and suggested I schedule a cath ASAP .. on my GP's advice, I stopped taking Plavix (blood thinner) last year, but I still have a supply, so the ER Doc seemed to think it might be a good idea to go back on them until I had further testing ..

As with anything, I prefer to remain as positive as I can, although I will admit I don't look forward to it .. and, oddly, it's not the procedure that bothers me at all, having been thru it more than once in the past .. it's the time in the ICU with a clamp on my leg and having to either have a catheter to wee wee or have a Nurse assist and wee wee in a bottle .. on the flip side, it's fairly easy to get a morphine drip .. :)

Willie, I must a doofus in training, cause I'm just responding to this now. That's what happens when I read in spurts.

I'm so happy that an attack was ruled out! Do what you must to see if there is a problem so you can address it. We need/want you here for a VERY long time.
 

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I love Deadliest Catch. Now that's interesting television. Course one of the guys on the Northwestern opened a couple of vape shops up in Washington state and PBusardo was all over it. Even got to tour the Northwestern. Those videos where a couple of hour of life I'll never get back! ;)


I KNEW I liked you for a special reason Matt!!!!

As I think you'll wanna know who's my favorite captain...well, being a young hot-to-trot- woman:eek::D

it's Wild Bill of course!
 

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Slept in late this morning and am still enjoying my wake up java. All the family festivities have worn me out a bit, but not enough that a few more days of LIGHT partying would be off my radar.
NYE is going to be quiet with the exception of hubby going outdoors with a spoon and pot to create a scene with the neighbors who are usually cuddled up in bed at that time.

Oops, a good morning to all Porchers!

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Actually Busardo was correct in jumping on celebs opening a vape shop. If more celebs endorsed vaping openly it would change the perceptions of the mass public on vaping.
We are after all programmed to follow and obey the tube.
Well most of us anyway ;)

I watched Deadliest Catch once...
 
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