Hey old farts..how many over 50 yrs?

gr865

gr865

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too larry said:
Yes I am. I'm blessed with a wife who is also a saver, so we have no friction there. But the dream has had some scary parts the last few weeks. My retirement plan is toothpicks today.
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71 here
Where was that?
My son and I loaded all our cooking equipment, left Texas on Oct. 15th and went to Bluntstown, FL to feed as many people as we could till we ran out of food and monies.
My son called on the 14th and said let's go, he was gathering the equipment and I was to find the location. I started calling the Emergency Management in each county starting with Gulf, an worked my way up the coast left messages when I could get in touch with anyone or a lot still did not have service. When I saw the name Bluntstown I call my son and said I found it. LOL.
Anyway we fed over 125 gallons of soup, plus we had a guy bring us 80 lbs of deer meat, his freezer was out. We made at least 30 gallon of deer chili, also beef stew, chicken and sausage jambalaya. We weren't planning on serving hot dogs but people stated asking so we ended up serving around 900 hot dogs, a meat truck came through and we were able to get them from him, as we had totally bought out the only store open for miles.

It was a great experience, met some wonderful folks and made friends with a lot of them.

We have purchased a truck and trailer and plan on going to any area in the Good Ol' US of A to feed folks after future Hurricanes. We had many folks donate to our cause an we love them for it.
Oh, but my PTSD came back when we returned home, FECO works folks!
 
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gr865

gr865

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My heart rate! LOL
Which is a good thing, pacemakers are great.
Went from 19 bps to 80 in one operation. Was almost dead, but had too much to do, so decided to stick around for awhile!

Have had 7 good grows since then, making some good FECO.
 
too larry

too larry

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gr865 said:
71 here
Where was that?
My son and I loaded all our cooking equipment, left Texas on Oct. 15th and went to Bluntstown, FL to feed as many people as we could till we ran out of food and monies.
My son called on the 14th and said let's go, he was gathering the equipment and I was to find the location. I started calling the Emergency Management in each county starting with Gulf, an worked my way up the coast left messages when I could get in touch with anyone or a lot still did not have service. When I saw the name Bluntstown I call my son and said I found it. LOL.
Anyway we fed over 125 gallons of soup, plus we had a guy bring us 80 lbs of deer meat, his freezer was out. We made at least 30 gallon of deer chili, also beef stew, chicken and sausage jambalaya. We weren't planning on serving hot dogs but people stated asking so we ended up serving around 900 hot dogs, a meat truck came through and we were able to get them from him, as we had totally bought out the only store open for miles.

It was a great experience, met some wonderful folks and made friends with a lot of them.

We have purchased a truck and trailer and plan on going to any area in the Good Ol' US of A to feed folks after future Hurricanes. We had many folks donate to our cause an we love them for it.
Oh, but my PTSD came back when we returned home, FECO works folks!
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I'm not too far from Blountstown. I second what the sign coming into town says, "Thank you Friends, near and far. You're Heroes."

I didn't get any warm meals from there, but did eat at some of the other towns in the area. After working all day, it was good to be able to run to town and get a couple of plates. Cooking with no power is a pain. I did it on the grill until the roads got opened up. {also ate a lot of MRE's. Still eating MRE's as a matter of fact. It was hard to go to town and not come home with a couple of cases}

These storms bring out lots of good folks. I've had interactions with a non-profit heavy equipment operator working with Americorp chainsaw crews. He's from the midwest, but the crews have been from Cali, Colorado and Washington state so far. They helped me out cutting trees and getting them out to the road so they could be picked up. Got more done in four hours than I had done in four weeks. {trying to grapple with hurricane cleanup without a grapple is rough} They are still here, cutting trees out of folks driveways and what not, with no charge to the residents.

Thank you for what you did. You see so much fussing and fighting online, it makes you worry. These disasters show you there is still some good folks out there.
 
Budley Doright

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too larry said:
I'm not too far from Blountstown. I second what the sign coming into town says, "Thank you Friends, near and far. You're Heroes."

I didn't get any warm meals from there, but did eat at some of the other towns in the area. After working all day, it was good to be able to run to town and get a couple of plates. Cooking with no power is a pain. I did it on the grill until the roads got opened up. {also ate a lot of MRE's. Still eating MRE's as a matter of fact. It was hard to go to town and not come home with a couple of cases}

These storms bring out lots of good folks. I've had interactions with a non-profit heavy equipment operator working with Americorp chainsaw crews. He's from the midwest, but the crews have been from Cali, Colorado and Washington state so far. They helped me out cutting trees and getting them out to the road so they could be picked up. Got more done in four hours than I had done in four weeks. {trying to grapple with hurricane cleanup without a grapple is rough} They are still here, cutting trees out of folks driveways and what not, with no charge to the residents.

Thank you for what you did. You see so much fussing and fighting online, it makes you worry. These disasters show you there is still some good folks out there.
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That’s an awful lot of destruction Larry, hopefully you get back on track man.
 
too larry

too larry

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Budley Doright said:
That’s an awful lot of destruction Larry, hopefully you get back on track man.
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I'm blessed. All I lost was barns, sheds and timber. My house is good. I do have year's worth of work ahead, but I can't bitch about not having anything to do. lol

Driving down the road, most houses have blue tarps on the roofs. Many, many folks are in a world of hurt. My boss is getting insulation blown into her house today. She lost her roof, so everything in the house got ruined from water. They just got the roof dried in a couple weeks ago. They bought a travel trailer to live in while they work on the house. They both work full time jobs, so it will take them forever to do the work. They are in their 60's, so travel trailer payments was not on their to do list.

One of my board members had a brand new house that was badly damaged. He's in his 70's so he's having to hire everything done. But he does have money. With money all this is just a very bad inconvenience. If you're broke, it's a f-ing disaster.
 
raratt

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gr865 said:
We have purchased a truck and trailer and plan on going to any area in the Good Ol' US of A
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Thank you for stepping up and doing what you do. I have family that lost everything in the Camp Fire in Paradise and the outflow of support was amazing. Our family was fortunate enough to be able to borrow trailers from friends and family for temporary housing for them, and my daughter, sister in law. and I put together thanksgiving dinner for everyone on short notice.
 
raratt

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I have the first legal grow in a town full of rednecks, we have come to an agreement...lol. Sometimes kids will surprise you with what they do, my daughter stepped up bigtime to help out the family when it mattered, because it was family.
 
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too larry

too larry

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gr865 said:
Well it open these ol' eye's to a different world. My son is such a dear loving person, you meet him in a bar, you say oh what a fucking redneck, and he is so proud of it. But he has the soul of a saint.
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I've met several like that. We ate pancakes and sausage at lunchtime one day. Folks from south Georgia {I think} had set up in the Tractor Supply Store parking lot in Marianna. It was a church group, but the guys were rednecks. Lots of deer sausage. I took on a feed that day.

The tractor driver {for the non-profit tree removal guys} got nabbed for an interview on channel 13 out of Panama City. They ask him why he came down to help out. He has the midwest way of talking. He said, "well I've operated excavators all my life, and now that I'm semi-retired I had a bit of time on my hands. And you folks looked like you could use some help."
 
Budley Doright

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JohnDee said:
No Budley...not a good thing. Was your heart rate regular or more erratic. Two of my sibs have supra-ventricular tachycardia. Fairly controllable with medication. Should talk to your Doc though...
JD
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I’m going Monday to see him but it’s only happened once that I know of and I’m not smoking that particular strain for a bit.
 
Aeroknow

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raratt said:
Thank you for stepping up and doing what you do. I have family that lost everything in the Camp Fire in Paradise and the outflow of support was amazing. Our family was fortunate enough to be able to borrow trailers from friends and family for temporary housing for them, and my daughter, sister in law. and I put together thanksgiving dinner for everyone on short notice.
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Man, i’m sorry about your family in P-town brother. It sucks, I know. I lost my beautiful home there too :-(.
I’m living in a 5th wheel now. It sucks, but I’m alive! That’s what I keep telling people. Or, could always be worse! Lol

Oh shit, I’m not quite 50 yet btw. Sorry for posting here everyone lol :oops:

@BarnBuster
I’m not sure if I told you this yet, but one thing I did grab with the very little time I had to get out was my Grandpas canteen you helped me get. Like I always say, “it could always be worse”.
That would’ve sucked so bad if I forgot to grab that bro!
 
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BarnBuster

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@BarnBuster
I’m not sure if I told you this yet, but one thing I did grab with the very little time I had to get out was my Grandpas canteen you helped me get. Like I always say, “it could always be worse”.
That would’ve sucked so bad if I forgot to grab that bro!
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I so wondered about that but didn't want to ask in case it added to all the pain. That's great you were able to save it.
 
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