Northern Life

Just goes to show you don't have to be a bum living in a cardboard box to have problems.
 
HAHAHHAHAHA SUCKERS!!!

Some people bitchh and moan about the rain here... but we have a VERY MILD climate. C-O-L-D around here is like 25-30F...hot is 90 and above. It's very typically around the 50-65 mark...

And Jeff... if you're wife is wiggled around to a point that she has her toes on YOUR BACK... you should NOT be complaining!!!! :D
 
OK Gang......Here goes nuttin'...........

Born and raised in Alabama
Lived in Colorado for 6 months
Lived in Japan for 1+ years
Lived in Germany for 3 years (Cold)
Lived in North Dakota for 1 year (The true definition of Cold ! )
Lived in Panama City, Florida for 1 1/2 years
Married a gal once from New Hampshire (she still lives there) and visited there several times (both summer and winter - is there a difference?)

Those "lived in" were compliments of the New-Nited-States-Air-Force. Air Force Rocks:D

Long story short - Been there....done that.......Ain't nuttin like livin' in the south.......4 very discernable seasons that take very little adjusting to.

When you get ready to take the plunge, come on down to Ala-bammy.........Work is available for good craftsmen, and it is a fairly short drive to the beautiful beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, or the Mountains of Tennessee/Georgia.

Did I mention that the Air Force Rocks?..........Explosives (46170) kinda guy here.......taught me a lot about "Following the Rules", cause we were allowed only 1 mistake, and that was the last one:)

My $.02..................Robert
 
Greg Covington said:
Yes...it is the infamous and fairly recent mugshot from his unruly arrest for "extreme drunk driving".....looks like he needs some of IG's HT relish....

I must admit though that it isnt very nice of me to post it....I always loved his music....

Damn shame what alcohol can do to people....
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dang it looks like he had some of some of IG's HT relish kind of like higgie pup
:eek: :)
I liked a lot of his tunes too.
yeahup the booze will getcha sooner or later..
stuff that makes you feel good isn't good for you...:confused:? why does it have to be that way? :grumpy: :)
 
Roosko said:
Did I mention that the Air Force Rocks?
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Yeah you DID! :D

Actually it was the USAF that gave me my taste for warmer weather. I was a 43151 - crew chief. :thumbup: I crewed the planes the weapons crews hung your bombs on!
 
jhiggins said:
Yeah you DID! :D

Actually it was the USAF that gave me my taste for warmer weather. I was a 43151 - crew chief. :thumbup: I crewed the planes the weapons crews hung your bombs on!
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well I was Navy, we won't talk about that:jerkit: , but My oldist boy is in the USAF right now:thumbup:
 
I woke up this morning to -22 below. 0 degrees sounds pretty good.

My shop is froze up so bad, I have to warm it up for two hours before the grinder, drill and saws can move. I am probably going to have to install a propane heater with thermostat to keep it warm this winter.
 
well i sure would move if it started getting that cold here
-22 you can keep that its 21 here now and snowing thats cold for me
 
This thread made me so aware of the weather; reading about everone freezing their asses and getting there toungs stuck to things, that I purchased and installed one of those "wireless" weather stations, that tells you about all you want to know about the weather. So now I don't have to stick my head outside to see what its doing out there. I was hoping someone would jump in here with some of those real weather related :eek: horror stories :p. Like true adventure tales. I'll start a [winter adventure] thread in this forum. Tell me a good one! :eek::eek:
 
I worked a night shift on a drilling rig out of Lusk, (locally called Lust) Wyoming in December 1978 when it got down to -55° F plus there was a wind. You can't put on enough clothes when it gets that cold.

That same winter in February it got down to -45° F in the Green River desert of northeast Utah in a drifting fog. Those days cured me of enjoying winter sports for good.
 
I painted the bullnose of a Navy ship in my underwear inside the Arctic circle

I cant say what I was doing off the coast of Russia, or I'd have to kill ya :D
 
Snowing again here today. The weatherman is saying 3-6" and that means 5-8" right where I live. :(

Linda and Patrick are both playing the "snow-day" card to play hookey today from their respective jobs. Looks like I'll get a LOT of work done today...

:rolleyes:
 
If fuel prices keep going up, we'll all be living in the great state of Alabama.
I'll fit right in, I love football and rabbit hunting. Can you raise potatoes down there? Fred:foot: :cool:
 
Fred.Rowe said:
If fuel prices keep going up, we'll all be living in the great state of Alabama.
I'll fit right in, I love football and rabbit hunting. Can you raise potatoes down there? Fred:foot: :cool:
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Come on down Fred....... We raise taters,, turnip greens, and some of the best maters on earth.

Robert
 
I should head on down to Alabami with a banjo on my knee. What IS IT about the South? Blues. Delta Blues. Bluegrass. These form the theme music of my life. A couple Sundays a month I get a powerful craving for some grits an gravy. Give me a decent biscuit or some cornbread and some beans or stewed okra and I'm a happy boy.

It aint just to food, neither. It has to be the people. Maybe I was a coonass in a former life or something? Maybe I died at the Alamo? Was I shot with a derringer under the table for cheating at cards on a riverboat so many years ago? Did I pass away quietly of old age with a fishing pole in my hand while dozing in the shade of an old mossy willow on the banks of the Mississippi?

I wonder. ;)
 
Ah....Come on down Higgy........ We got the best food you can find, (Picture this......... For Breakfast...... Scrambled Eggs, Homegown spicy hawg sausage, Grits with lots of butter, salt, pepper, Cataloupe, fresh home-grown "maters", Mater Gravy on those Grand-maw style buscuits..........Shut my mouth..........I am starvin' to death.

We got our share of problems like everybody else, but neighbors take of each other, family always comes first, life is realitively easy-going, and we believe in the "Red-White-and-Blue".

Ain't nuttin' like it...........The term "Laid Back" originated HERE............

We even try our best to accecpt them "damned yankees" and make 'em feel at home. (if'n they act right):D

R. D.
 
Dan Gray said:
do you still have the 1964 Chevy?
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No Dan, but I sure wish I did. It was probably one of the best "Congo-Cruisers" that I ever owned..... Good old 327 that had plenty of "Juice" when you needed it. Got around 21 mpg (of course that was when gas was less than $.30 cents a gallon in North Dakota....Even bought some for $.19 cents a gallon once during a "Gas War".

Damn...........This nostalgia is killin' me..........Wish I could go back with what I have learned to this point, and do it over.......... Wouldn't change much though ;)
 
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