Damn Rusty I didnt know about that, REAL glad to hear everything is ok. Hey Tony my lawn needs to be mowed...
Troy, you take care out there this week. No worries mate!! Reba, I'm so happy to here you're ok. Sandy says take care also and God Bless. Reba I'm always here so, ya need something just call ok? Hey Rusty, After you mow Reba and Troy's and Tony's lawn, Just come on down Y, stop in and I'll have the mower ready for ya. ----------------------------------------------------------- "OPOSSUM BENDERS" Central Missouri Chapter
Greezy, I am glad your wifes doing well. Its amazing how we take one another for granted. We always feel there's going to be a tomorrow. Only when they're gone to we realize what we've done or not done. Here's a good story...wordy mind you.. but good thought on this issue. Subject: 1000 Marbles The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable. A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the basement shack with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning, turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time. Let me tell you about it.I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning swap net. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice.You know the kind; he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business. He was telling whomever he was talking with something about "a thousand marbles". I was intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say. "Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy with your job. I'm sure they pay you well but it's a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. Too bad you missed your daughter's dance recital." He continued, "Let me tell you something Tom, something that has helped me keep a good perspective on my own priorities". And that's when he began to explain his theory of "a thousand marbles". "You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years. Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3900, which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now,stick with me Tom, I'm getting to the important part. It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail", he went on, "and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round up 1000 marbles. I took them home and put them inside of a large, clear plastic container right here in the sack next to my gear. Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away. I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focus more on the really important things in life. There is nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight. Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign-off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure that if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time.It was nice to meet you, Tom, I hope you spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the band. 75 year Old Man, this is K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!" You could have heard a pin drop on the band when this fellow signed off.Guess he gave us all a lot to think about. I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going to meet up with a few hams to work on the next club newsletter. Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss."C'mon honey, I'm taking you and the kids to breakfast."What brought this on?", she asked with a smile."Oh, nothing special,it's just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids. Hey, can we stop at a toy store while we're out? I need to buy some marbles.... "
Troy, I met you at the Sedaila swap meet last summer (the one I blew my first motor coming back from). Glad to hear your wife is doing fine now. If you need some help on the weekends, let me know. If I'm not picing back my '54 I'll come down. If I'm really put out with the '54, I'll come down just for an excuse to get away from it... r
Petejoe that's a really amazing story. I'm going thru a rough patch with mrs SB at the moment, and I left the house to go to work without giving her a customary peck of a kiss goodbye. We had a less than pleasant conversation - where she was bagging comething I'd done. All this talk about ILL wives and reality checks makes this selfish old bastard feel like a real arse!!! especially for focussing on his Hot Rod all the time and not watching the kids grow up, and finding better ways to be a dad and husband!!! My reality check is complete!!! Mrs SB was diagnosed with cancer and had it removed when our first born was 6 weeks old, and you'd think I'd learn from that!!! Nah, I'm too fuckin stupid for my own good!!! Guys, we gotta that all our wives,GF's and family - 'cause without them we ain't go no meaning to our lives!!! Mrs Greazy - glad all is well.
I'm glad to hear that you wife is Ok.. I just went through a scary bout with my husband. He was accidentally given a prescription that he's allergic to and ended up being hospitalized. Very scary stuff. Stacey
wow! thats the scariest damn thing i've ever read. got me to thinkin' about my own situation. thanks for the enlightenment. and petejoe thanks for the marble story.
you know i've only been on the hamb for 6 days and in those six days the hamb has made me mad, it's made laugh, and now it's made me almost cry. damn hamb.
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