A great quote

[JiminMaine]

I wake up before my Wife. I have never needed an alarm clock. It's dark when I get up winter or summer. "IF" she has to get up early and it's still dark it freaks her out to this day that I'm in my chair drinking coffee in the dark no lights. She has begged me to stop doing that when I retire (FRI 29MAY26)....but I don't think I will be able to. I'm just more comfortable in the dark. Sometimes I will sit out on the deck and watch the sun come up if I have time, and listen to the deer, fox and other critters wander through before the sun and the birds wake up the woods.

I'm not afraid of the light....the dark is just more relaxing and I think better in it.

That come from all those years in the Navy where you were treated like a Mushroom. Kept in the dark and fed horsecrap.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

That come from all those years in the Navy where you were treated like a Mushroom. Kept in the dark and fed horsecrap.

I'd give anything to be back to those years...aside from a few things. As for the feeding....sometimes I get a hankering for pancakes, egg on top with a side of chili-mac and a glass of bug juice. If I don't finish the glass I will just use it as gun solvent. I still enjoy MRE's as well....

 

[blume357]

one of the best MRE's I ever ate was in a tent at -5 degrees after hiking up the side of a mountain most of the day in freezing rain and then crossing a swollen creek and having to strip down naked in the sleet and snow as the temperature dropped to put on dry clothes I had packed (I was a Boy Scout at one time) ... man that food was good. Then the next week at home I decided to fix up the same thing... (it pretty much tasted like horse crap back in the real world .... and no I've never actually tasted or tried horse crap ... for you smart asses.... but I have tasted some other things probably pretty dern close)

 

[vito]

"Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for anything but they can bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs."