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Talk about global warming! We set two major weather records in Chicago this year! Longest streak of days without measurable snow 290(old record 280) and latest 1st measurable snowfall of winter of Dec 20(old record Dec 16) If I could live another 50 years this may be the tropics! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY BROTHERS!
Glad it’s livable in Chicago, Raining alot in Seattle (surprise!) but not white much. Yes, the hat came today, thank you. Expect a call b-4 x-mas. Hope all of us have a great Holiday, though I doubt any of us gets a Santa Claus Fly-by in a Huey this year!
Darned ole Nerone put on Santa and took the beer off the chopper. It’s a wonder Santa didn’t get shot for taking the place of beer!
Hey Terry,
No big deal with the storm in Grayslake as we got about an inch of snow. It got cold as hell thpugh and the wind chill with the high winds today is supposed to be in the single digits. Did you get your hat?
Snow in Seattle, here it comes in Chicago, LT!
newtown ct.
i`d say accuracy in some 1s aim
I’d say your right.
But, hey! Don’t knock it! They send me a check for it every month. LOL
know i don’t get on very often but i have something to say////MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL…..
What would ya say to a guy who sent you a T-shirt, right out of the blue, which said, “Beau Coup Dinky Dau” on it?
I’d say, “Thanks, LT.!” 🙂
Tooch…….You look a bit like Steve Van Zandt of the E Street Band and the Sopranos.
All is quiet on the Western, Eastern, Northern, and Southern fronts.
Larry, I have some issues with that photo of me posted on the website. It looks like I am having a problem with a cattle prod.Tooch
LT: Global warming? Ooops….I mean….uh….Climate Change? 🙂
Hey Guys and especilally you Chuck,
We had 70 degrees officially in Chicago yesterday which is only the 3rd 70 degree temp recorded in the month of December since records have been kept which is around 130 years. We missed the record by one degree. Snow coming in the next week or so though but that is Chicago weather for you.
Terry,
Thanks to the Seahawks for holding it together and beating the Bears! They gave me an anxious moment when they let Cutler throw a 56 yarder to Brandon Marshall and tie the game.
Gary,
Well said!
Bill: I consider my beach ball as the biggest investment I’ve made in my life. There’s no doubt I’ve put more money into that than my house or 401K combined. And, like any investor, I don’t want to see it dwindle away. 🙂
The 155 pounds was her…..
I look at my “beach ball” as a symbol of pride. Just like an athlete it took me years to reach this shape. I have the heart attack, open heart surgery, and diabetes as evidence of my accomplishment. Sorry about the divorces. Gary came back and here is hoping the best for you Chuck.
chuck–bummer about the divorce. hope you 2 can still talk some and all works out as ok as can be.
if i lost 155 pounds i`d owe the crematory 20 pounds. hope i can recognize you now—then again——–.
Chuck: I dropped 60 lbs when my wife of 30 years and I divorced. It’s not a weight reduction plan I’d recommend. LOL
On the bright side…when we re-married 2 years later, I got it all back! 🙂
let me try to cheer everyone up after that. i just lost 155 pounds over the past couple of months… How you ask….. I got divorced after 39 years….. I feel so much better after dropping that weight.
Looks like everybody shut down after the beach ball comment. Everybody get depressed because Gary hit too close to home?
Chuck: You oughta see me leaning over this beach ball I’ve swallowed, and unable to breathe, as I tie my shoes. 🙂
Where DID that young stud who could hump a pig up and down mountains all day long go?
Gary
Back then our bodies would alow such manuvers. I now need a 2 foot shoe horn and a wall to lean against if you know what I mean…..
I always took my boots off at night and sat them right by my feet, with the socks stuffed into them to keep out creepy-crawlers and snakes.
And, I too had a few occasions to put them on in the dark, which is more difficult than I thought. With tracers flying around right off the ground, sitting up to put on your boots is out of the question. So is lying on your back and lifting your leg….if you want to keep your leg!
Gary,
You were a world traveler. My best friend from Vietnam went to Germany after Vietnam.
We were told never to sleep without our boots. I always carried a dry pair of socks & t shirt in my rug sack and slept in them whenever I got wet without my boots on. Figured if ever got attack at night could fight without them. Had a few occasions to put them on, not tied, but nothing serious.
Chuck Missar. From a Nov. 16 post, you asked if I (infantry aka Jim Intravia) was there with 90mm and friendly fire from chopper. I guess not. I’m pretty sure i would remember though Captain Morris used to commandeer the 90 fairly often-he loved shooting it.
The only friendly fire incident I remember was we were on a hill during monsoon season, had just gotten dry socks and we started getting shot at by 50-cal from another hill, where the Marines were set up, petty permanently I guess since they had a 50. It took awhile to get them called off but no one got hit. I remember the 50 tracers looked like friggin meteorites or something. It wasn’t the first time I saw tracers coming at us but the first time they were that big. I always remember that every tracer shot at us seemed to be coming right at me. I also remember having dug a foxhole with a foot of water in it and deciding to stay out of it when the marines were shooting at us because I didn’t want to get the socks wet. I think I’m a little smarter now.
Whenever I cheerfully encounter a marine these days, I tell them the story and than end with “it’s Okay. They didn’t hit anything, which is what we expected since they were marines.”
Gary Gibson. I remember you well and we are fellow Long Islanders, though people in Queens and Brooklyn might argue the point. You were from Jamaica, Queens, right? And as mentioned on this board once before, I believe it is unanimously agreed that you could be a Carl Weathers look-a-like. The first time I saw him in a movie I was sure it was you and that the muscles must have come later. I wondered why you changed a perfectly good and easily remembered name.
Anyway Gary. Hi and I hope you remember me (90mm guy in country July69-April 70).
Still on Long Island?
“aint gonna be no rematch. Don’t want one.” (Rocky Vs. Apollo Creed line! or, Gary!)
Short round: My very first night on bunker line at Hawk Hill, I tried sleeping inside but the rats were as big as house cats, so I moved up onto the roof. I figured my chances were better with a dink sniper than they were with engaging in hand to hand combat inside.
BILL–i gave up trying to sleep on bunkerline also–due to rats walking on me
Bill: Speaking of bunker rats….Slim Stravens and I manned a bunker one night on Hawk Hill and he spent about an hour or so laying booby traps for the rats. He used MA trip wires with just the blasting caps and baited them with C-rations. He actually got one!