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#1,804
#1,804
itchy feet::;;;

I just saw a property for sale in southeast Mo. that would fit all my bells and whistles. 80 acres big house small shop/barn, lots of water/ponds/creeks cattle fenced. Just what an old farm boy would love..

Now I just need to go back in time a few years to when I was young enough to enjoy the work it would take to keep it going. :(

nice to dream about though.
 
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#1,805
#1,805
gule said:
itchy feet::;;;

I just saw a property for sale in southeast Mo. that would fit all my bells and whistles. 80 acres big house small shop/barn, lots of water/ponds/creeks cattle fenced. Just what an old farm boy would love..

Now I just need to go back in time a few years to when I was young enough to enjoy the work it would take to keep it going. :(

nice to dream about though.
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mine is to have the view I have
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with the financial ability to fully enjoy it
 
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#1,806
#1,806
Good luck Gule with that Time Traveling thing.......
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#1,809
#1,809
I know that Tower very well my good friend....I once mostly carried my "late wife" up there...It was one of the last things she wanted to see/do before the clock struck 13 for her...There were some wonderful hikers that helped me when I stumbled...

A lot of beautiful memories of her are running through my mind right now son....You're a good friend Coach and the rest of this board are aces too; the best people.
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#1,811
#1,811
the coverage of the Miss State game included a cameo of Caldwell with PHS during her playing days. Nikki commented on her "look" during that period. During her playing days my wife and I sat third row behind the bench and just for "several seconds" I witness my former active cheering self.
(my real example of Potpourri)
 
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In honor of Coach Kim's soon to be here baby, a quick story of my first delivery...

I was a new employee (about 2 weeks) of the Ambulance Service and hadn't even finished my first aid training yet, much less my EMT training, when I was assigned to be the attendant in the "late night unit"...My co attendant was even newer than me because the older veteran had gone home sick...It was me, and Kenny, the even newer newbie than me.

Around 4 AM we get a call to a country home, took about 25 minutes to get there.... OBGYN in process....Hurry, baby on the way!!!!.....I went into a dimly lit house to the loud sounds of screams and moans...The husband was yelling at me to get in here, his wife was delivering now!

I tried to act like I had done this many times before, but when I saw the lady in full vaginal dilation, and the head of the baby beginning to protrude....I almost lost it....

Now, this was a very stressful moment, but I had to act calm so as to not alarm the woman, or husband, any more than the event was doing so naturally......I actually told the husband to boil some water, I had seen that in some movie...

I positioned myself in the receiving position to help her deliver, and to encourage her to push and breathe.....I was so relieved when her mother burst into the room to help us...The husband had called her for help when his wife's contractions had gone ballistic...

It took quite awhile, with lots of yelling "push" but together (grandmother and me) we delivered a healthy baby girl...

The mother was as fine as could be expected from such a happening, and the husband kept boiling that water....He ended up making for us lots of instant coffee with some of the boiled water...

My attendant had left the scene and he quit the job that night....He just walked away, could not take the moment...Talk about a moment defining a person.

Through the years I kept up with the family, and I was their guest to watch "the little girl" graduate from high school....She introduced me to some of her friends as her special uncle.
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#1,819
#1,819
GameTime said:
This is how you define a moment.....
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A real pro.

Beautiful rendition, made even more poignant without the canned music. And demonstrative of American can-do spirit!

[see edit below before reading the next bit]

(Only flaw was that Carrie succumbed to the common substitution of "purple mountain majesties" for the original words "purple mountains' majesty.". Very common error.

Now, 'scuse me while I kiss this guy.).

EDIT: Well, turns out the Carrie was right and (as usual), I was wrong.and had it backwards. I remembered from the past that the lyrics were often sung incorrectly, only I couldn't remember which phrase was right. The moral of the story is to always check first before "correcting" someone else. 🫢
 
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#1,821
#1,821
Do we need a VN poll? possible name choices for baby Caldwell

#1 Galen George Caldwell
#2 Fabius Eugene Caldwell
#3 Justin Tyme Caldwell
#4 Even Steven Caldwell


add your choices .....

:)
 
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