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  1. My company asked for images of us vets for a project they are doing. Emphasis on “home” for the pics. I found this one in an old photo album. Christmas 1985, my brother had just come home from boot camp for Christmas break, I had been in a little over a year at this point. This is the only picture of us together in uniform.
    15 points
  2. I am hitching up the camper!!! First time this season. Taking off tomorrow as soon as Em gets home from school. Hell, I might even go get her early. Headed south for a softball tourney. This is the first time I will get to officially use Big Whitey as well. I am excite.
    9 points
  3. I have my Great, Great Grandfather's pocket watch from the 1870s. I also have a wooden tall ship with leather sails. It was a gift to my great uncle from his friend Sir Maxwell Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), who was a member of Churchill's inner circle during WWII. My great uncle had a riverboat and Aitken was a big sailor, so they spent many evenings over drinks debating sail vs. power boating. Aitken would send my uncle gifts several times a year, and they always were sailboats. It sat in the same place in their house my whole life. My great aunt left instructions for it to go to me because she said I loved it my whole life. It sits in my living room.
    8 points
  4. I have a bottle of Electric Shave in my medicine cabinet & I don’t even have an electric razor. My wife stopped asking me decades ago about it, I finally told her I bought it for my dad for Father’s Day but he passed a few days before Father’s Day so I never gave it to him. So I just kept it, since 1981...
    8 points
  5. I tend to be sentimental, so it's hard to narrow it down to one thing. When my parents were recently married, my Dad saw a pin he wanted to get for my Mom. It was a gold circle pin with a pearl and he thought it was lovely. But they were young and didn't have much money. He walked by the store that had the pin in the window many times on his way to work, really trying to decide if he could afford it. After much evaluation, he got the pin and my Mom always loved it. I'm sure he eventually purchased jewelry that cost more for her, but probably nothing that was such a hit to the budget at the time. When he talked about it decades later, I could still hear his worry and excitement about the purchase. Some time after my father died and we were discussing household things, I mentioned to my Mom how beautiful I thought that story was and that I didn't care about other jewelry but I'd like to inherit that at some point. The next time I visited she gave it to me, saying it's better to give it with a warm hear than a cold hand.
    8 points
  6. My grandfather Griffin had a little ceramic wiener dog that sat on his dresser. The head would hold a watch and the tail your rings. The middle was where you put your wallet. It's all I wanted when he died. My mom got it for me.
    7 points
  7. I guess it's sort of like giving your bike to the team leader after he flats.
    7 points
  8. What is the one special possession that you have that you would hate to lose? I have a little stone that my youngest gave me when she was like three. She said, this is for you, it si a love rock.
    6 points
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  10. When my Mom moved from the big house to the one bedroom apartment, I scanned in tons of pictures and put them on a digital frame for her. I made copies of the usb for each of my sisters so we all have backups. That digital frame was oddly mesmerizing. We'd go over for lunch and find ourselves staring at the pics like something out of the Twilight Zone.
    5 points
  11. A little "book shelf" I made in woodshop class back in middle school. It contains the American flag I got when my grandfather passed. The local VFW gave the flag to me when they rolled out to salute the passing of another WWII vet. The flag has never been flown nor unfolded.
    5 points
  12. Oh yeah... This is my favorite. She painted it for me as a house warming present when I got my first apartment. It is atypical of her work. She usually painted flowers and some china dolls. She didn't think I'd like a flowery vase because she thought I'd think it wasn't masculine enough. She painted the wintery branches for me though. This pitcher is my typical of her work.
    4 points
  13. ? Don't wait until fall. I picked these out for her. Practical for moving stone or loading the storage container.
    4 points
  14. ...to work on East Coast time from the West Coast, but it is hard to beat being done for the day at 2pm with another 4 hours of daylight!
    4 points
  15. 4 points
  16. My sanity. Whoops! Too late!
    4 points
  17. My family and friends pictures and video collections - print and digital. I was very fortunate to recover them intact from the house fire.
    4 points
  18. But as I said, I'm sentimental and keep a lot of things because of their emotional value. I still have the teddy bear I got on mu first birthday and my childhood Raggedy Ann and Andy. I have a few of the pictures that hung in our house when I was a kid. And the paintings that my parents did at some art classes put on by the church one year. And some pictures that a dear sweet old lady painted for me. I thought she was an incredibly nice person and I loved her enthusiasm for all sorts of little things. Those paintings remind me of her great spirit and excitement for life. I also have the replacement for my beloved blue clock. I saw the clock in the window of a stamp redemption center that we passed every time I went to the orthodontist as a kid. It had a glimmery blue face and I thought it was beautiful. But our local store didn't give those redemption stamps. So my kind parents spent a summer driving to stores far away to get enough stamps for me to get the clock. Eventually the clock got lost over time. It probably broke after I went to school but somehow it was gone. I later found the same clock on ebay and had a reserve bid for an incredibly high amount for an old, dated clock. My Mom had a "lucky bracelet" that she wore for pretty much every important event in our lives - exams, medical procedures, travel etc. I feel oddly obligated to wear it when my nephew gets married. I could keep going which partly explains why my house is messy.
    4 points
  19. I don't get too tied to possessions so I would have to think about this. My dad worked commercial construction for many years and had a nice (very nice for the time) hammer drill from the late 60's. It's industrial grade in a nice metal case with lots of masonry bits. He gave it to me in 1984 when I was building my first house and he had recently retired. I use it maybe once about every 2 years and I certainly appreciate the hammer power when I need it.
    4 points
  20. This has to be the smoothest change over ever after a string brake.
    4 points
  21. I typically pick my nose before touching the door knob not the other way around.
    3 points
  22. Hording toilet paper worked exceedingly well at easing peoples concerns.
    3 points
  23. 5 long years I wore that uncomfortable hunk of metal, up my ass...
    3 points
  24. I have a bunch of hand drawn birthday and fathers’ day cards from my kids when they are little. I was looking at these last night, this will be my answer. I don’t think I have anything from my father. His watch was “lost” in the hospital at the time of his death. I’ve worn one watch for about 25 years. For my 50th birthday I was given a new one. I plan to pass these on to my two boys when the time is right.
    3 points
  25. It is a beautiful ride with one of the best descents I've ever ridden.
    3 points
  26. If you can't differentiate between a fish and a dolphin, you've got problems!
    3 points
  27. A hand made nail from the cabin my ancestors built when they came to Texas in 1847. A ratchet wrench that my grandfather made for himself. I hope to inherit my grandfathers Dallas Fire Department badge from my parents. My brother has his fire helmet that he inherited from our uncle when he passed.
    3 points
  28. I am also sentimental..and love old family stuff..but having lost my mom 40 years ago..the people and memories are more important than things...but that said I have lots of "treasures"...DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE.
    3 points
  29. Are you sure they didn't mean to use this picture?
    3 points
  30. It's why I work on explosive power at least once a week. Gotta get the wattage up well over 1000 to risk that sort of thing, but also remember to choose the correct gear combination! Nothing worse than trying to power up for a bridge jump and being caught out not being able to get on top of the gear!!!
    3 points
  31. I came here to show that vid! but instead of switching guitars, you could just change the string?
    3 points
  32. I started smoking at age 13, and by 16 I was hooked. The only way I could afford the habit was to roll my own, so I was well acquainted with the feeling of paper stuck to my lip and spitting out tobacco shreds. My trucking career began shortly after, and smoking was just a natural thing to do while spending hours behind the wheel. By the time I was in my early 20s, I was feeling the effects. Shortness of breath and all that. I made countless attempts to quit, but never made it through the first day. Then, on April 1, 1977, having gone to sleep in my truck the night before wheezing and coughing, and vowing to quit once and for all, I gave away two full packs of smokes to the kid who was loading my truck, and never touched another cigarette. So after 44 years, I think I pretty much have it licked.
    3 points
  33. Employee Assistance Program It is a separate entity (third party) that is HIPA compliant and completely anonymous. Through them I have secured an update to my living will & trust with the attorney that wrote it originally, scheduled 12 sessions with a family grief counselor for myself and wife (mostly to help her), and a financial planner to help plan for the end and hopefully make sure the wife and child are secure when I go. I know I have time and of course there is the maybe, maybe, maybe concept where I win and this doesn't kill me but I only have 10 years or so (max estimation by my Oncologist team) before it comes to a head. With that kind of time I can either ignore the reality or face it. I've got the easy job; I'm just gonna die, but the family has to survive and hopefully prosper after me. 10 years puts my daughter still in high school, lots of expenses and unknowns up to and after that. Biggest questions goes to the Finance guy. We have 18 years left on the mortgage and the rate is super low, 2.2%, do we pay it off early (amount is around 160k) or let it ride as the mortgage cost is less than renting a single room apartment in the same area. I'd also like to set up some passive income like rental properties or something similar beyond standard investments. Hopefully the person is well rounded enough to figure it out. All of this was provided free by my companies resources and they don't know the why/who so it makes it easy to take advantage of it.
    3 points
  34. When my dad worked shift work, we liked 3 to 11pm. That gave him time to get adequate sleep and we had the mornings for fishing in the bay.
    3 points
  35. How could someone that awesome come from Texas?
    3 points
  36. Rather than wait until fall, you could always send DH some pre-programmed timed-release miniature dehydrated energy-dense immature plant forms now. Or maybe you could send her some seeds.
    3 points
  37. I walked my brother's dog Jake 3 miles, got back to his house, and my brother said, "Let's go to cousin Eddie's bar for corned beef and cabbage." So I had it after all!
    3 points
  38. 12 miles indoors. Hoping to get outside soon.
    3 points
  39. Quit December 7th 1990. I just passed my 30th anniversary.
    3 points
  40. I know this was a kangaroo, but I couldn’t think of anything other than Butch’s speech to Fabienne when you posted.
    2 points
  41. I need a wide-view camera lens to do that, there are a lot of boxes! A shocking amount, actually!
    2 points
  42. Am I the only one who’s a nervous wreck about what to wear?
    2 points
  43. Probably a P38 (military rations can opener) my oldest brother gave me before I left for basic. I have carried it with me on my key chain for 37 years. Some years ago I was going through a screening at a court house. The screener wouldn’t let me take the P38 in and told me to remove it and he’d hold it for me. The hell you will, I’ll put it in my car. You will have to wait in that line, you may miss your hearing, just let me hold it for you. I’ll take my chances... Something tells me I would never have seen it again.
    2 points
  44. Why aren’t those BCGs?
    2 points
  45. I first read that as attitude and thought you were being a little harsh to our Hip.
    2 points
  46. I think we'd need about 18 more Forumites to reply to this thread to get to 23 characters altogether. Unless people agree I have no character, then the number would be 19 more.
    2 points
  47. I bet RG's new neighbors think he gets an awful lot of mail!
    2 points
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