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Offline BUGEYE

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Good to be home
« on: June 12, 2022, 01:58:12 PM »
We've been gone for a few days, went up to Bryson City NC to the fly fishing museum.
Three years ago I donated my Grandpa's E, C. Powell split bamboo fly rod and each year we go back and see it on display for all to enjoy.
Then, we drove down to Blairsville Ga. and spent a couple of days in a BandB that had a view to die for.
Each evening we sat out in a porch swing and watched deer feed across the lawn with a high mountain behind them.
GOD made some pretty stuff,

Anyhow we were there for the Highland festival games and other festivities, and Nancy being a King and having traced her ancestors back to the Scottish Gregor clan, she was among kinfolk.
There was a bunch of clans there but the Gregor clan was the honored clan and Nancy could have marched in the parade with the Gregors but she said her stubby little legs wouldn't have kept up. :)

We stayed off the main roads the whole trip and we traveled some mighty steep and twisty roads and was great fun.
Now if I could talk her into buying another motorcycle. :o
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Re: Good to be home
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2022, 03:06:30 AM »
 It is said that some highland games in America, such as at Grandfather mountain, NC (40-50 miles NE of Asheville) .... are larger than anything held in Scotland itself !
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Re: Good to be home
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2022, 04:47:50 AM »
It is said that some highland games in America, such as at Grandfather mountain, NC (40-50 miles NE of Asheville) .... are larger than anything held in Scotland itself !
Yeah, we are considering going to that one next year or after.
But Nancy will have to squeeze it in to our other travels.
We have a bunch of day trips planned plus a cruise in Dec. and a horse show in Ocala in Feb.
Nancy won't hardly let me sit down, she's either trying to keep me from vegetating or she's trying to kill me. :)
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Re: Good to be home
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2022, 12:05:25 PM »
It is said that some highland games in America, such as at Grandfather mountain, NC (40-50 miles NE of Asheville) .... are larger than anything held in Scotland itself !
Yeah, we are considering going to that one next year or after.
But Nancy will have to squeeze it in to our other travels.
We have a bunch of day trips planned plus a cruise in Dec. and a horse show in Ocala in Feb.
Nancy won't hardly let me sit down, she's either trying to keep me from vegetating or she's trying to kill me. :)

  Probably Nancy's plan is best oin the long run..
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Re: Good to be home
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2022, 02:35:22 PM »
It is said that some highland games in America, such as at Grandfather mountain, NC (40-50 miles NE of Asheville) .... are larger than anything held in Scotland itself !
Yeah, we are considering going to that one next year or after.
But Nancy will have to squeeze it in to our other travels.
We have a bunch of day trips planned plus a cruise in Dec. and a horse show in Ocala in Feb.
Nancy won't hardly let me sit down, she's either trying to keep me from vegetating or she's trying to kill me. :)

  Probably Nancy's plan is best oin the long run..
You're probably right.
Here's a poem I wrote for her 2 years ago which explains Nancy to a "T"
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Twas the night before Christmas and I lay as though dead
I had just finished building my wife a She Shed
The pain was intense, much more than in the past
As bad as it was I prayed it wouldn’t last
I had taken pain meds but they hadn’t helped
I didn’t want to look sissy or I would yelped
I was in such despair I wished I were dead
I didn’t want a future laying in bed
But miracles happen, and one did appear
My beautiful wife grinning from ear to ear
She said I love you and I love my shed
Now quit feeling sorry for yourself and get out of that bed
What she said next brought me to tears
She said I’ve got enough projects for thirty more years
And that’s one of the million reasons I love her 😍
Give me liberty, or give me death
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Re: Good to be home
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2022, 04:55:11 PM »
Wouldn't have figured you for a poet Bug. That was good, and read like it came from the heart.
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Re: Good to be home
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2022, 02:26:16 AM »
Wouldn't have figured you for a poet Bug. That was good, and read like it came from the heart.
Heh, family are always having me write poems for certain occasions, but I'm not a poet by any means, I'm just good at making things rhyme.  ;D
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Re: Good to be home
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2022, 02:48:57 AM »
Your too modest ;)
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