So today we all piled into the family car and headed for the mountains. We rode and rode and rode and I drove and drove and drove and by the time we made it to our hiking spot where we were gonna walk to the waterfall I was overly ready to hike! I felt like my fat a** was welded to the leather car seat. It was so bad, I felt actual relief to get out of the car into the 93 F degree and 70% humidity weather to start our hike. Not just a hike, but a hike in kinda rough terrain and I carried the baby the whole way, and carried an old Army backpack full of snacks/dry socks/baby accessories AND while carrying a gallon jug of water in one hand. I got a workout! By the time we reached the top of the waterfall I thought I was ready to have a heat-stroke! We hung out at the waterfall for a while and took some pictures and had an even better but seemingly faster hike back to the car. I was really feeling alive after carrying a 15 pound baby with a 15 pound backpack and a gallon jug of cold water. Alive wasn't hardly the word for it... like that feeling when you're wore out but just caught a second wind and feel like walking another 2 miles just for the pure hell of it? That's the feeling I had. And I loved it. HA! Hours after we were home, I took the kids and went walking around the neighborhood. They wanted to be outside with me but couldn't behave so we went for a walk. By the time we got back I was carrying one son and pushing the other one in his baby stroller and both older kids were just plain wore out. That felt good but not as good as the hike. Pretty good for an out-of-shape dude with a bad knee :applause: For the first time in a long time I was... proud of myself. That felt strange to say. I was proud of myself for walking a total of probably 4-5 miles today, carrying kids and stuff, in sweltering heat. AFTER doing my daily push-up routine of 100 push-ups with 50 of those having the older two children on my back. When we got home from walking around the neighborhood, I needed a shower in the worst possible way. I'll be walking bowl-legged for the next few days, I'm sure. I'm thoroughly chafed on my thighs and man-parts :crying: But it was well worth it. I'll post some pics from our trip.
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^Sounds like a great family day out, jc. :thumbup: (apart from the heat and chaffing, ouch!
mgGreat pics too!
^Sounds like a great family day out, jc. :thumbup: (apart from the heat and chaffing, ouch!
Great pics too!
Thanks, Blue! I took off the pack for the pictures but good grief do I look fat! I look like a walrus in combat boots in them pictures
Tried to take the kids to the park today, the cops were there and wouldn't let anybody in the area. As I was turning the family car around, a cop walked up to the driver's window and told me they were dragging the lake for bodies. Human bodies. Said they were positive there had been two bodies dumped in the water near the overflow. I thanked him for giving us an explanation. I reckon he could see the disappointed faces of the kids as I was turning the car around since I had the windows down. I felt bad for the poor guy, he looked pretty sunburnt and there in the road where he was positioned there was no shade whatsoever so I gave him a Gatorade. He thanked me for the drink and as I was pulling the car into gear I said "Good luck bobbing for bodies, dude!" He chuckled and waved and we drove off. I just said it without thinking. Not that I would make light of a situation like that but I really don't have much of a filter. The old lady poked at me all the way home about my comment. "ONLY YOU!... ONLY YOU could say something like that to the police and keep a straight face! You're a heathen! 'bobbing for bodies'? God, you've got the manners of a savage!" Later in the evening I took the kids walking around the neighborhood and an old couple that lives up the street were setting on their porch and hollered and asked me what was up with all the cops down the road at the park. Before I could say anything, my darling daughter spoke up and said "Them cops are bobbing for bodies!". Well that old man and woman about cracked some ribs laughing at my girl! They thought that was hilarious. We wound up walking almost two miles this time. I love getting the kids and being active. When we got back and after draining an ice cold bottle of water, I changed the oil in one of my lawnmowers and sharpened the blades in my garage. Just a little normal maintenance. I'm gonna make my lawn look like a golf course tomorrow for the upcoming 4th of July. I like my yard looking good and the flag flying high in my front yard for the 4th. I'm also grilling steaks that day before we go watch fireworks that evening. Contemplating putting red mulch in the flower beds tomorrow after I cut the grass. Maybe before I cut the grass... decisions, decisions.
Buy some what?
Well I made my lawn look like a golf course today. Went and got a truck load of red mulch to put in the flower beds and around my trees and mailbox. My place now looks like one of them "Garden club YARD OF THE MONTH" type places. I need some of them naked baby statues in my yard, them real creepy ones. I also got sunburned like a seared steak while push mowing my 2 acre lawn and shoveling mulch for several hours. Then I took the kids to the park. On the way home, we picked up two pizzas so the wife didn't have to cook. Then we watched some early fireworks from the front porch after dark. All in all a nice day. :thumbup:
I love it Hoppy! Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha
So in my quest for a work truck, i went today and test drove a chevy flatbed and the Ford dually i looked at yesterday. The ford would be the better one if the dealer would drop the price a bit. I'm looking for cheap and dependable here, not pretty. The good thing is that the car dealer wasn't very enthusiastic and the other seller i contacted through craigslist seemed motivated to sell his. Tsk tsk the saga continues.
TreeBones
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TreeBones
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You put cheap and dependable in the same sentence! haha.
Sounds like a foreign car would be the best choice, but you don't seem like the Toyota or Honda type ahaha.
I want my cake and i wanna eat it too! Don't pay any attention to my incessant ramblings. I owned both a Toyota and a Nissan at separate times. Good vehicles but the ones i had were too underpowered and not enough room inside but they did their jobs. It was the Toyota truck that i tried teaching the wife how to drive a straight shift in. I gave up after a few hours of listening to her grind its gears. Reverse would always grind if you didn't let it come to a complete stop and let the engine idle down. She was grinding every gear and wouldn't listen to me. Now that basically every vehicle is an automatic i reckon it don't matter much though. Well, all except my car and old truck ha ha ha
I'm about to start wearing a loincloth too so........
MikeyC
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Pics, please.
TreeBones
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hahaha, ohh yeah I forgot you were looking for a truck.. I wouldn't buy a used honda or toyota truck either (used, I forgot to mention used, otherwise buying a new one of those would probably not be worth it) I don't know if you're looking for a new or used truck but my pops says that chevy is the way to go. (not that he or I would know, we've never owned a truck haha, for the most part my dad is the magazing reading, internet researching, dreaming type when it comes to experience)
Good Luck though!!
Pics, please.
Fat kid here in a loincloth? Pics? Are you crazy? Nobody would get online again. .... ill post pics ha ha ha ha
I value yours and Mr. Treebones input. Around here i can get a used chevy cheaper than a used ford. Dodge? Meh. I can take em or leave em. I do like the Japanese vehicles but they simply dont offer one heavy duty enough for what i need. Yeah I'm looking at 90's models and older due to price and ruggedness. I found a '71 ford flatbed and a '75 chevy flatbed I'm going to look at both this weekend, both are around $2000 or so. Same size and basic features. This won't be my every day vehicle, but rather one to pull the tractors with and pull my father-in-law's camper with and haul firewood and occasionally lumber. The kind of stuff i refuse to subject my two pretty trucks to. Just a work truck.