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To: TLindt who wrote (322)10/21/1998 4:12:00 PM
From: AugustWest  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3689
 
Yeah, enjoy it brudder, and keep one in the frig for me. Looks like I'm at work for a few more hours.

Probably would have gotten everything done in two hours if they would take this computer out of here.



To: TLindt who wrote (322)10/22/1998 6:33:00 PM
From: jbIII  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3689
 
Words of wisdom from our patron saint #reply-6121357

phssssssst



To: TLindt who wrote (322)10/24/1998 11:59:00 PM
From: AugustWest  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 3689
 
Phssssssst

Wow, Just got home from a birthday party for my wife's sister...She turned the big 40 today. You know, I'm enjoying getting old. Sure, I'm only 35, but I lived mid-life crisis at 28. The trauma is over, now it's just up to those two little girls and older son not to give me a heart attack before I can be senile. I suppose I'm already obnoxious, but I managed to get my Sis-in-law a little buzzed, and we all had a good time. mamma drove home.

Since you're talking tractors, The 3 year old was driving the '78 Cub Cadet yeasterday on my lap. It was great, letting her steer through the fruit trees. She'd yelp out screams of fear and joy at the same time. I could see the exileration on her face.

Reminded me when I was about 12, and my dad taught me how to drive a jeep in the fields at my grandparents farm. Lots of grinding, and bump-and-goes, but I'll never forget the high I got when I figured out how to shift a gear smooth, and the smile on my dad's face.

My older brother wasn't so fortunate. When he learned how to drive a snowmobile for the first time, he froze down on the throttle and drove it straight into a tree. Dad got stitches from the windshield, and my bro. got a huge lump on the head from the stearing bars. Sled was totaled, but his(dad's)friend raced them, so took the 440 engine out, and put it into a 299 sled, with an N2O booster. We bought it off him about 6 years later, and I'd run that thing at about 80 down these once deserted roads.

Well that's a story, no beer at the time when I was learning to drive, but a great time just the same.