Dimensional Door - Freeople Thread 16

[null and void]

I've followed the advice from "The Graduate", I'm getting into plastics.

I'm designing plastic fixtures and tooling for the Biotech industry, still working as a consultant, but my main customer had a very good meting with one of their VC's Friday.

With luck they'll get funded and hire me.

[grannie9]

This is my granddaughter. Sorry I got it a little big. I'm tired. ;)

Have more but will have to post them later.

[null and void]

Here's your little girl:

[sweetliberty]

Pretty girl. How many do you have (grandchildren, I mean)?

[lodwick]

Twelve - believe it, or no...

[sweetliberty]

Wow. I'm impressed. I guess we know how Grannie spent her younger years. LOL!

[westmex]

We took the kids camping about the time they could walk...Had a 9X9 umbrella tent and some cheap sleeping bags, also a Coleman stove...Down on the coast in the dunes, can't do that anymore, up in the mountains, wherever.

The wife was the one I had to train..Being from Mississippi her idea of camping was to rent a cabin at a State Park....I'm sure I was a very trying person to her for a long while, but she got use to my lifestyle and enjoyed herself...Like going camping on a 10 speed touring bike..There are some other tales of trying times for her too....LOL

.....Westy.....

[westmex]

Well my quality of life now on a 0 to 10 scale is about a 1/16th,,,,Soooooo...LOL

.....Westy.....

[Mo1]

What are we going to do with you *L*

Well I'm off to my inlaws for dinner .. wish me luck

[westmex]

I wish you all the luck you think you'll need, bet it won't be much....lol

.....Westy.....

[Conservababe]

My brother just called to tell me that my nephew, DJ's reserve unit in Kentucky has been called up for emergency deployment to Iraq, for eighteen months duration.

He is in ammunition transportation. He will be driving in convoy from port to Bosrau (sp).

I have been crying for the last half hour. One reason is that our DJ is going. He does love the military and would have joined regular, but his wife was vehemently opposed to him doing so. He told his dad that he was afraid, but that he had a job to do and would do it.

The other reason I am crying is that my liberal, though lovable redneck brother, started ranting and raving about him dying in vain for an obscene war.

I told him that I would not discuss the politics of the war with him, but that he should not say these things to his son.

[Conservababe]

And how did a handsome yankeeman meet a beautiful southern belle from Mississippi and marry?

[westmex]

That's a heck of a bundle of news to get on Mothers Day...With a little luck maybe the bad stuff will ease off after the end of June....Think things are a litte quiter down in the southern part of Iraq, although the Brits have been having a few problems in Basra....

Hang in there Babe...Better days are coming....

.....Westy.....

[westmex]

I was stationed in her home town for a while during the war....Met her at a Methodist Church run USO....Got back in touch with her after the war...She hadn't married and one thing led to another....

.......Westy.....

[Conservababe]

Seems I remember you saying that the Methodist church women were the best cooks. Now, I know why.

So, are you saying that you met your belle, remembered her and went back to find her after the war?

[restornu]

Thanks for the greeting!:)


What did you do to Post #1966 ?:)

[westmex]

She was just a little wet nosed school girl when I met her...But she caught my eye and I had her address in my little black book.. I was sitting out in Calif. one Xmas with surplus Xmas cards so sent her one to the old address...She answered back and things went from there...I got a leave the next summer...Got in town one Saturday and got married a week from Sunday...Lasted for 38 years till she died..We had 3 girls, the second died in infancy, the youngest died as a young mother with one boy..The oldest is still around with 3 girls of her own.....

......Westy.....

[Conservababe]

But she caught my eye and I had her address in my little black book..

Ah ha, so you just knew she was the one for you, Westy. Thirty eight years of happiness because she remembered you, also. Okay, I don't like sloppy romance movies like 'Sleepless in Seattle', but I love your tale of marrying your wife after only a week back in town. You must have written some lovely letters to each other to know each other.

[lodwick]

I stole it from a Victorian card site, as is.

I thought it fit in with all Libby's Victorian houses...

Off to prepare some heavy-duty munchies for Mrs.L and her mom.

Laters and cheers, everyone.

[lodwick]

Nice - faint heart never won fair lass.