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    Struggling To Open A Jar Lid

    We keep these laying around the Kitchen. There is beaucoup types available and they are all basically the same thing. We got these off of Amazon Do recommend
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    Eighty-Four Years Ago Today

    Only 12 Survivors left. And none were able to attend this years anniversary in person. Here is a very good article - do recommend. https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pearl-harbor-remembrance-survivors-anniversary/2025/12/07/id/1237383/
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    Are you familiar with Home Equity Investments?

    I would be very cautious about taking out a Home Equity Loan. Some very near and dear friends of ours sounded like they were in a similar situation as to what you described. Unfortunately for them, the last few years have been unkind to them financially and now they are on the verge of...
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    Which direction do you sleep in bed?

    Head of Bed is pointed North, so.... On my side holding ms gamboolgal tight. I hardly move at night but ms gamboolgal flops around a good bit. I don't sleep as good when she is not near to me.
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    Remember these torture balls?

    Dam Goat Head Stickers is bad in Texas, especially West Texas. We got a Hotel Room one night in Austin and some Peckerhead had pulled off a bunch of Goat Head Stickers and they was all in the carpet. I found them by stepping on the dang things. I pulled a couple dozen out of the carpet with my...
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    Guys - Do you dye that grey right out of your hair?

    No, I earned the gray hair. When I was working offshore at Mobile Bay back in the latter 90's, one of the men who was in his early 40's and had Salt/Pepper hair. Well one day after days off when he came back Offshore his hair was Jet Shiny Black. He was laughed at and made fun of for awhile -...
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    Books! How do you read and what do you read?

    I am just a couple chapters into the follow on book from Eugene Sledges son, Henry, on Eugene Sledges book on WW2 - With The Old Breed. Henry had access to the original 800 + pages of the original manuscript for The Old Breed. The book from his son has excerpts from the original manuscripts in...
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    Have you saved any love letters?

    I am glad that Grampa Don started this thread. ms gamboolgal and I have them somewhere. Our Daughter read some of the ones I wrote to her Mother when we were dating and after we had married. To say that I was under ms gamboolgals spell is an understatement - ha ! While it was abit...
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    Have you ever had a hankering for ...

    Most every morning I have a hankering for good Breakfast Taco's with some Hot Sauce and Jalepeno's. But I usually eat the plate of Rabbit Food that ms gamboolgal has prepared for me - it is healthy for sure. I don't do much in the Kitchen, but making our own Breakfast Taco's is something I...
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    Notes from my patio

    You have a gorgeous Patio and back yard. We fired up the Gator Pit this morning. It's gonna be hmmm..good...
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    The Blackberry & The Plan

    The Blackberry I will try to tell this best I can. Warning as a Grandbaby story follows.... ha ! Our little 21 month old Granddaughter, Mercy, melted my Heart this evening. We keep her 3 or 4 days per week as her Mom (our daughter) is a single Mother and worked as a Paramedic at a Hospital –...
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    For those of you who didn’t grow up with money or privilege…..

    I grew up like Leave It To Beaver living in Mayberry. I had it easy compared to so many of the Posts herein. I guess my folks was middle class and I did not have the hard times and adversity so many others did. I am very thankful for that. However on both sides of the family - they all came...
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    What you'all look like now?

    ms gamboolgal & I - summer of 1979 when I had met her when she was 17 year old and i was Roughnecking for Delta Drilling company in East Texas. Just the blink of an eye ago... ms gamboolgal and I in August 1981 after I had asked her Daddy if I could marry his Daughter. This is us last year
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    Will you get a flu shot this year or next?

    We got ours a couple of weeks ago. We have always got the annual Flu Shots for as long as I can remember.
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