So in anticipation of hunting season coming up, I dragged out my hunting clothes and boots. Had to throw the boots away as they were rotted and falling apart. Not too shabby considering I've had them since 2002 and walked a lot of miles in them. Time for a new jacket though, my current one has shrunk from repeated washing and is now too tight in the shoulders. I'll gift it to my wife :sarcastic: We shall see if decade old camouflage compliments her usual Dolce&Gabanna and Hollister clothes (yes, she still dresses like she's 17). Dragged the rifle and handgun from the dark depths of the gun safe and gave them a quick cleaning. Ammo? Check. Binoculars? Broken since my last trip to the dripping rock lookout. Bummer. Time for a brand spanky new set! Nikon it shall be, merry Christmas to ME! Rifle sling still serviceable? Check. Shoulder holster for pistol? Double check. Hmm...tsk tsk... Hunting knife? Still as good as new, albeit with some scuffs and scratches but will still shave the hair on my forearm. Looks like I need to replace some gear. It happens when stuff gets used. Lets see, hunting license will be around $100, binoculars $300 and up possibly, boots $150. That'll give me something to save money for. Too bad I have to wait until October :sad:
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Just found out tonight the wife's friends are throwing her a baby shower here at my home Saturday afternoon. I WILL NOT be here for it. I'll take my son and we'll head to the mountains and do some scouting around my hunting areas. I don't expect him to stay here for a feminine activity that I won't attend. I figure if I were here while it was going on, my testosterone level would drop at least 50-75% 
So that'll be a great time for me and my man-cub to go do some man stuff. I will be there when the baby is born. This will be our 3rd child and during the first two births I never left my wife's side except to use the head and go downstairs to eat. I changed the first diapers and cut both umbilical cords. When my daughter was born I was barely 21 and I didn't know anything at all abut babies or the birth process so when the doctor asked me if I'd like to cut the cord, I pulled my knife from my pocket, opened the blade, felt of it's edge on the ball of my thumb, and wiped it clean on the leg of my Levi's blue jeans... The doctors and nurses had a total fit! The doc said "This is a sterile environment!" I said, "Well, when I cut somethin' I use a knife. What do you use?" I was handed a pair of surgical scissors to use, silly me. :idontknow: Since then I've learned a lot about babies due to trial and error and a patient, understanding wife. As a younger man, I just figured every teenage girl/grown woman knew how to care for a baby. Little did I know that my wife had to learn too, I figured she knew most everything about it because she always knew what to do. I learn so much from her! I have to say I couldn't have a better mother for my children. have a nice day, everyone! :bigsmile:
So that'll be a great time for me and my man-cub to go do some man stuff. I will be there when the baby is born. This will be our 3rd child and during the first two births I never left my wife's side except to use the head and go downstairs to eat. I changed the first diapers and cut both umbilical cords. When my daughter was born I was barely 21 and I didn't know anything at all abut babies or the birth process so when the doctor asked me if I'd like to cut the cord, I pulled my knife from my pocket, opened the blade, felt of it's edge on the ball of my thumb, and wiped it clean on the leg of my Levi's blue jeans... The doctors and nurses had a total fit! The doc said "This is a sterile environment!" I said, "Well, when I cut somethin' I use a knife. What do you use?" I was handed a pair of surgical scissors to use, silly me. :idontknow: Since then I've learned a lot about babies due to trial and error and a patient, understanding wife. As a younger man, I just figured every teenage girl/grown woman knew how to care for a baby. Little did I know that my wife had to learn too, I figured she knew most everything about it because she always knew what to do. I learn so much from her! I have to say I couldn't have a better mother for my children. have a nice day, everyone! :bigsmile:
MikeyC
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That's really cool, mate. Thanks for sharing. I also have this thought that women intrinsically know how to care for a child, since it was in her womb for nine months, and men are the ones who have to learn, but it does go both ways.
Sounds like you really love your wife, too.
Sounds like you really love your wife, too.
That's what I thought too LOL! I figured after all these countless thousands of years it was firmly set in a female's DNA that any one of them could care for a child. ... Then my sister in law had her baby... She proved me very wrong! She was feeding my nephew solid food when he was two months old, and giving him Mountain Dew to drink in his bottle
We had words over that...Where to begin? Some of us had to be at work early today to meet with a corporate lawyer over something that we witnessed a long time ago, no big deal just another boring meeting with some old guy in a suit spouting off legal psycho-babble...or so I thought! Wrong! The corporate lawyer is a she and she is very easy to look at, a couple years older than me and very smart. It was an absolutely pleasurable hour long meeting. I love conversing with other smarter-than-average humans, especially when I have to make myself stop looking at them! The interviews with personnel were done one on one in a conference room, the first 10 minutes it was all the legal junk but the last 50 or so minutes we were just conversing and I'll admit, I really enjoyed it. I don't know why I enjoyed it so much but I think she did too as she gave me her business card with a handwritten personal cell phone number on the back... with a smiley face! I saw her writing on it as we talked but I didn't think much of it until she handed it to me. I was just enjoying a non rushed polite conversation, I didn't say anything out of the way (I never do), and I wasn't trying to flirt. Honest! Everybody else's interviews with her were over in around 10 minutes each, but mine. An hour or a little longer. She just started talking about random stuff and I talked right back to her though I noticed when she stopped talking work related things and shut her folder thing she just kept on talking. At the end of the conversation she said she needed my personal phone number in case I will be called on to testify she can give me a heads-up. So I gave her the number. After I got out on the floor another worker or two was asking me what took so long and I brushed it off and asked them if they gave her their home phone numbers or their work phone numbers because I just gave her my cell phone number. They just looked at each other and looked back at me and said "she never asked for anybody's number" with an odd look on their faces. I just walked off :idontknow:. I believe she assumed I was being flirty and very skillfully exchanged phone numbers with me. How does this happen to me? I wear a big, wide, gleaming gold wedding ring! Well, I guess if I'm gonna be sort of hit on I'd rather it be from a smart, good looking woman. I was being professional, or trying to be because she is the corporate lawyer for my place of employment, not just some random chick. I think the smart girl pulled a trick on me! In fact, now I'm certain of it! I'm not mad or upset over it and I kinda feel good in a way since I can obviously attract that type of girl even though I'm happily married. Weird huh? I'd definitely like some opinions on this. Did I do something wrong? :question: As a side note, I can carry on intelligent conversation but I choose not to most of the time because I don't really like my co workers and people in general but there are times when I can talk to certain people for quite a long time. Please chime in with your thoughts on this one.
I handled the last situation I spoke of a few days ago. That was a load off my mind. I'm finally off for the weekend and after a hot bath and a shave I'm starting to feel halfway human again, feel even more human after I devour this supreme pizza and a couple beers and have my nicotine fix after that. I love being home
I think that wearing a wedding ring can be attractive to some girls, and it shows that you are a catch if someone married you.
She gave you her personal number for you to call her socially, not for law matters.
She sent me a text earlier, the lawyer girl. She said "Hi (jc972), what are you doing"? I had to text back and say "who is this" even though I knew who it was because she called me by my first name and anybody that knows me well enough to have my phone number knows I absolutely loathe my first name so it was almost a dead giveaway. I was very forward in telling her that I am happily married and I'm not gonna mess it up. I said "we can be friends and you seem nice but nothing more than friends". This apparently wasn't what she wanted to hear because she sent me a naked picture of her and at the bottom of the picture message it said "See what you'll never get? Goodbye (jc972)". I must admit that the picture left me at a loss for words so I decided to let the conversation stop there. Thank goodness for will power! I love my wife and I'm not ashamed one bit to admit it, in fact I'm proud of it.
MikeyC
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This kind of stuff never happens to me. :sad: Good on you for rejecting her advances, though.
MikeyC
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I'm sure she'd totally send a random Australian sexy pictures. :
:I'm sure she'd totally send a random Australian sexy pictures. :
It'd be like "G'day, mate! I'm naked for ya! That's not a knife...Now this is a knife!" I'm out of Aussie cliches now, but there are some absolutely gorgeous women there.
It rained here today and the wife's baby shower lasted until 9:30 p.m. so i was here for several hours of it. What interesting things one learns from being in a house full of women discussing childbirth, such as after a decent amount of sour mash whiskey you actually grasp what they're saying to one another. I retreated to my garage to do some guy stuff in relative peace until the ordeal was over. What a wasted day.
kihira
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Still plenty of teeth to go! Will you do the tooth fairy thing?
Is it odd that I'm ambidextrous and that I have a right handed daughter and a southpaw son? I find it highly weird. Maybe the one that's gonna be here next month will be a green eyed ambidextrous boy like me I get weird looks from people when I get tired of writing with one hand and switch to the other. I've noticed that I do different things with different hands though such as:
LEFT HANDED:
eat
shoot a handgun, but use the sights with both eyes open
throw a punch
paint
RIGHT HANDED
sharpen a knife
shoot rifle/shotgun, but close my left eye
use a screw driver
draw a picture
Do keep in mind the above is only a partial list. I've really never understood this and when I was in grammar school the teachers tried to make me write with only my right hand instead of both. Are any of you like this? If so I'd like to hear about it.
I get weird looks from people when I get tired of writing with one hand and switch to the other. I've noticed that I do different things with different hands though such as:LEFT HANDED:
eat
shoot a handgun, but use the sights with both eyes open
throw a punch
paint
RIGHT HANDED
sharpen a knife
shoot rifle/shotgun, but close my left eye
use a screw driver
draw a picture
Do keep in mind the above is only a partial list. I've really never understood this and when I was in grammar school the teachers tried to make me write with only my right hand instead of both. Are any of you like this? If so I'd like to hear about it.