Post a Pic in Your 20's...Your Prime! :)

CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
I gotta say: I weigh exactly what I weighed in high school; but I have to watch my weight always, and it is very difficult to keep off the pounds as I get less and less active! As we age, we must eat less and less to counter less and less activity. It is so HARD to not just say: "To heck with it, I am old and am going to eat whatever I damn well please!!". Am fortunate to enjoy activities, can't sit around watching TV and on this computer all day like I do some days. Am looking for a new activity other than weight training and my trainer bike. Am considering taking up with some bicycle club; Tucson has 100 miles or more of just bike trails! Just can't do outside biking from April 15 to Oct 15 - the heat.
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Thankfully, I don't. I weighed 135 lbs. when I graduated from high school. I now weigh 157 lbs. but I work out so I'll attribute some of it to the muscle I didn't have in high school. I'm happy I was a skinny teenager because it allowed me to put on pounds over the years.

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Kadee said:
He said It was a Yahama 350 and it was 1968 so he was only 22

He mainly had BMW‘s most for the time we’ve been married … almost 39 years, he sold his last BMW in about 2010
He did many many trips on his bikes one was to Bunbury western Australia, via Darwin ….way out of his way to go via Northern Territory …and the big trip was to Cairns , Queensland

@Trade
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My bad... I was looking at the bike Inept had posted and thought I was answering that question.
I'll go stand in the corner now with my head down. :)
 
CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
Kadee: "Ape hangers".... Haven't heard that term for a bike for so long!! Thank you for the giggle! Have a vision of your DH being brought home from the delivery hospital - his mom and dad on a motorcycle and him in a little basket on the back!! Haha
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Yep his mother told me a story about his father sitting hubs in front of him …..and taking him for a spin on the motor bike and poor hubs came back with sore watery eyes from the wind , he was apparently about 18 months .
Apparently he was bought home from the hospital where he was born …in a basket on a push bike :ROFLMAO:
old at the time @CooCooforCoCoPuffs
 
CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
Aren't those your combat boots??..
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Yes, but these are "jungle boots". Black leather bottoms, green fabric tops. We DX'd the all-leather ones when we got to Vietnam.
CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
... the black leather ones we used to wear with what AF calls BDUs?
My Marine DH always scoffs at me and says: "What the H is a 'Battle Dress Uniform, Air Force"?? Leave it to the AF, "Dressing up for war...". LOL
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LOL! :D
 
Me being interviewed before my performance; smiling but very nervous. I entered the Hobbyist category and won. I believe I was 27 or 28. The heads in the second picture are of 2 of the judges for the competition. I believe there were four. The competition and all events were held at Mickey Rooney's Downingtown Inn in Downingtown, PA.

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OneEyedDiva said:
Me being interviewed before my performance; smiling but very nervous. I entered the Hobbyist category and won. I believe I was 27 or 28. The heads in the second picture are of 2 of the judges for the competition. I believe there were four. The competition and all events were held at Mickey Rooney's Downingtown Inn in Downingtown, PA.

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Holy cow! I am impressed! ❤️ I hope you played "Happy Organ" or "Rinky Dink".
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I forgot what I played to tell you the truth!
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Really?
OneEyedDiva said:
I've since become a professional with the release of two albums. One in 2003 and the most recent exactly a month ago.
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Wow!
OneEyedDiva said:
I remember those songs. Dave "Baby" Cortez, the artist who recorded them was fine! :love:
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You had a thing for Dave, huh?! I just checked and he's still kickin' at 86!

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I used to go to the roller skating rink when I was young. There was an organ player there. That's what the tune "Rinky Dink" was all about!
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Me being interviewed before my performance; smiling but very nervous. I entered the Hobbyist category and won. I believe I was 27 or 28. The heads in the second picture are of 2 of the judges for the competition. I believe there were four. The competition and all events were held at Mickey Rooney's Downingtown Inn in Downingtown, PA.

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You continuously put us all to shame with your talent. Well done!
 
Well it was good chatting to you 🤣 regardless to whom you intended to tagging 🤣🤣 chatting to

@squatting dog

I chat to anyone ,….. actually my daughter scolded me once ….for talking to people in a supermarket I didn’t even know
 
Inept said:
By the way, I was really heavy into the music of Jimmy Smith (and other keyboard artists such as McCoy Tyner) but that's probably not your style.
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Probably not my style?! Are you kiddin' me?! I got into Jazz in my mid teens. I used to listen to Symphony Sid who had a late night Jazz show. I had the portable radio sitting on the shelf of my headboard turned down low so my parents couldn't hear. I was into Jimmy Smits in my late teens and early 20s. He was one of the more popular Jazz artists back then. Remember he did Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Walk On the Wild Side and Got My Mojo Workin'. Then I got into Charles Earland. I was blessed to see him perform in person at a little Jazz club in a nearby town a couple of decades ago. Never got to see Jimmy live. Check this out:


Now McCoy Tyner played one of my favorite Jazz piano parts ever on My Favorite Things, which I bought because of him I learned to play his part exactly the way he played it, including the timing and phrasing. Wasn't the easiest. I'm sure his hands were bigger than mine thus easier to reach all the notes in the chords. I mostly listened to the track to hear his part. Damn...this is sounding so good right now!

 
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Inept said:
Yes, but these are "jungle boots". Black leather bottoms, green fabric tops. We DX'd the all-leather ones when we got to Vietnam.

LOL! :D
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Now I remember: "Jungle boots". My DH goes into every base exchange (post exchange...'Navy'exchange...and checks out the price of "combat boots". He goes off on tangents/tirades about prices of uniforms, boots, etc, how subcontractors are ripping off the military...on and on. Gives him something to think about and re-think about....lol. I keep saying: "But, honey that was 35 years ago, you got out; 55 years ago you got in...." and he always says: "NO WAY!!". I just laugh and giggle a lot. What else ya gonna do?
 

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