Tinkering, fishing, loving everyday..

[snyper316]

Well here lately I have seen a lot of post about off the wall things... One thing that had caught my eye. I probably get laughed at but more often I am told how awesome PJ is. I have to agree I waited and waited till I found the perfect bicycle for what I wanted to do. So far I have had a blast with it. I enjoy it I can pedal when uncle artie lets me and if I don't have the umph to go up hill I have help. I have put an average of 100 or better on .5 gallons of fuel. But it takes me back to my younger years when I would hop on my bicycles and ride for miles and miles. Which brings back some nastalja of smelling that country air, evergreens, cedar and red dirt roads. I guess maybe that's why I find myself feeling some of these country songs.. Yeah I am a country boy I grew up there. My hole point is I am really starting to miss being in the country. Roasting hot dogs and marshmallows over a 🔥 and I have always loved the smell of wood, sawdust, or burning. I had a place in town while back actually its been years. I would find myself at my buddies house in the country. Fish fries, bbq's, shooting guns at targets. The simple life I would wake up crack of dawn and go over to his grampas and drink coffee with him and just sit there and watch the sun come up or laugh my ass off when gramma would shake her cane at him. The arguments they had were hilarious never violent or anything just fun loving ones. I remember a few times I got in trouble right along with him. Gramps loved the drink. Hell all I know is it was good times... But never felt out of place we were like family still are to this day only now there is no gramma and grandpa. Crazy thing I remember about gramps is when the trade centers were hit.. How fast he came down to tell us to change the channel. The day I had taken a detour to get on I 44 to head back to Aurora something told me too.... I did.... The next day got a phone call telling me had passed.... There wasn't a dry eye in that funeral parlor, but there was also laughter remembering him... So back to what I am getting at I have been pretty home sick lately there is things you can do in Gods country you just can't do in town... But I tell ya there is nothing comparable to anything on two wheels...and God's country...

 

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[bongobobny]

Awesome story Snype! We all should make it a point to enjoy life to the fullest and get out and enjoy the world as much as possible! To quote an old song, these ARE the good old days...

[snyper316]

But you know @Condor started it with his guns and boats and what have ya. Think me and @cowpuc need to race our pedal pushers.... See how fast that ol man is...

 

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[saddlebum]

I feel you brother I so miss not living in the country. So many of my friends say "but there is nothing to do in the country" and yet I can find more things to entertain me in the country than I do in the city. Guess it depends on what you enjoy doing.

[snyper316]

I feel you brother I so miss not living in the country. So many of my friends say "but there is nothing to do in the country" and yet I can find more things to entertain me in the country than I do in the city. Guess it depends on what you enjoy doing.

Don't know if you have those pretty red foxes really any kind of wildlife. I have been finding myself going to the creeks in the middle of nowhere. A friend of mine showed me a picture of my favorite bird so I will have to look for him where I go watch the aquatic creatures I will just have to look up. There is also supposed to be an eagles nest there also.

 

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[snyper316]

The bald eagle used to be on the endangered species list too, the conservation department brought one to our school at that time the let the kids feed it. And had them do a fly over too. It was pretty neat something I'll never forget.

 

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[saddlebum]

One good fortune is that though I do not live in the country I also do not live in the city so I still get to see deer, foxes, coyotes, Raccoons, opossums,skunks, squirrels, rabbits and and abundance of birds inc Hawks and eagles. Don't have Bald eagles in our area though. plus its only a short trip north and 2-4 hours and your into some great wilderness camping country which draws me my sons and now my grandsons into some great back country canoe trips. last year I learned two interesting things. My loon call is good enough to draw a male loon into coming right up to the canoe and challenging me with counter calls and displays of aggression water dance over territorial rights, which had some in the party laughing and others terrified. The second thing we learned is bears love mint toothpaste and will tear your gear apart to get at it, so don't take tooth paste if your camping in bear country, use a bit of salt instead. We also do not have far to go for some good fishing. as close as 10 minutes from the house all depends on what you want to catch and whether or not you want to catch and release or if you want to eat it. We dont care to eat the fish we catch close to home due to pollution but the fish north of us is good eat'n.

Edited June 3, 2017 by saddlebum

[CaseyJ955]

Im definitely an outside the town/city guy and you drew a great image right there. I excused myself from the rat race years ago. There really is nothing like keeping things simple. .

[cowpuc]

Yep,, I miss country living too.. Raised our family on 20 acres surrounded by over 5 thousand acres of State Forest = a virtual playground!! The only hard part was there was just under 5 miles of gravel road to get to our home and once the kids started driving (they grew up driving junk cars on two tracks and power lines = their "go carts" so drivers training was a breeze) car maintenance became a real chore = career opportunity wrenching on 6 cars that were being destroyed by wash boarded gravel roads..

This old Blueberry patch (C Video) was part of a HUGE farm that the state of Mi bought out. There were miles and miles of dirtbiking/snowmobile trails all around this Patch..

Living here in this resort like area near our State Park does have its benefits for us older folks now BUT - just like the rest of my friends here = I am still a lop eared country boy varmint at heart too = Tip is too,, she still says that our little wood burning stove provided wayyy nicer heat then this natural gas furnace does

 

[snyper316]

Yep,, I miss country living too.. Raised our family on 20 acres surrounded by over 5 thousand acres of State Forest = a virtual playground!! The only hard part was there was just under 5 miles of gravel road to get to our home and once the kids started driving (they grew up driving junk cars on two tracks and power lines = their "go carts" so drivers training was a breeze) car maintenance became a real chore = career opportunity wrenching on 6 cars that were being destroyed by wash boarded gravel roads..

This old Blueberry patch (C Video) was part of a HUGE farm that the state of Mi bought out. There were miles and miles of dirtbiking/snowmobile trails all around this Patch..

Living here in this resort like area near our State Park does have its benefits for us older folks now BUT - just like the rest of my friends here = I am still a lop eared country boy varmint at heart too = Tip is too,, she still says that our little wood burning stove provided wayyy nicer heat then this natural gas furnace does

 

Wow you got a variety of two wheels. I found myself last night eyeing two Chinese scoots.... Just don't have the extra cash if I want that scoot in Texas. Its purple and a beauty!!

 

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[Condor]

Yep... Grew up in East Amherst, NY, and back in them days it was in the country. Not to far away from Bongobob's. I imagine now-days it's all condos?? But boy the memories I have stored are priceless... Eating warm tomatoes off the vine in the garden, jumping out off a beam in the barn into a pile of hay, stuffing our face with 5 day old pastries destined for the hogs, churning milk, parking the tractors under a tarp and over a hole full of stall muck and covered with dirt to keep them from freezing during the winter, ice skating on a pond in the winter, bucking hay in the fall, coming home from church at night with fresh fallin' snow in the front yard.... and the stillness over everything that came with it, watching the first TV in town out in the back yard so all the neighbors could watch too, filling a wash tub with cat fish and having a corn and catfish feed for the neighborhood. And it goes on... Those were the days my friend...

[snyper316]

Yep and kids with all this technology would not have lasted a day.... Sometimes I wonder how I survived my childhood the way they let on.. I would give anything to go back. I remember when I was going thru a faze where I didn't want to live in the country.... Then after moving to town being told you can't do this and you can't do that here.... Are you kidding really I did this and that where we lived. Couldn't go get the mail without an audience or go ride my bike without an audience. Got my motorized scooter out cops were there as if some member of said audience made a the call. Nosey neighbor lady lol.

 

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[rbig1]

well I will stay in the city. all the part stores and eating places are close. and don't have to breath gravel dust or manure

[bongobobny]

Yep... Grew up in East Amherst, NY, and back in them days it was in the country. Not to far away from Bongobob's. I imagine now-days it's all condos??

Actually, Jack it is one of the more prestigious areas to live in around Buffalo, it's where bank presidents, Buffalo Bills players, upper management, etc settle into. There are a lot of really nice homes there, with a lot of subdivisions! It's not the farmlands and fields you would remember from the 50's and 60's...

[Condor]

Actually, Jack it is one of the more prestigious areas to live in around Buffalo, it's where bank presidents, Buffalo Bills players, upper management, etc settle into. There are a lot of really nice homes there, with a lot of subdivisions! It's not the farmlands and fields you would remember from the 50's and 60's...

 

Whoda thunk?? You're more than kind Bob... Let's try back in the late 40's....

 

One more thing I have in the memory bank. As kids we'd take off and be gone all day. The only time I knew that dinner was on and it was time to come home was when Dad would whistle... and he could whistle very loud... Try that today....

Edited June 4, 2017 by Condor

[snyper316]

well I will stay in the city. all the part stores and eating places are close. and don't have to breath gravel dust or manure

 

Well since you want to put it that way there is hardly any roads anymore that are gravel, but yes at times the manure would blow with the wind in the wrong direction but i still could stand the smell of H()gsh!t in the morning. I think I was more into smelling there pig pens, the mud slop and such. Kind of miss the sweet smell of the feed in the morning, and was it a sweet smelling corn something or was it more of a grain cant remember...

[bongobobny]

OK, Jack, I was born in 1947...

 

My dad made up this aluminum wedge thingy with a wax paper reed that someone would whistle, and you could hear it about a 1/4 mile away or so...

[snyper316]

I knew it was time to go home at the first site of lightning bugs..

 

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[saddlebum]

Yep and kids with all this technology would not have lasted a day

Yup I call it the electronic cocaine......As far as not being able to do stuff I had some young buck chastise me for scaling the tire rack to toss some truck tires down...some fool thing about being 64 and hurting my self. told him that was not going to happen and he bluntly said I don't know that. My reply was you may not but Iknow because growing up I climbed real trees, poles, cliffs and side of building instead of virtual ones.

 

Whoda thunk?? You're more than kind Bob... Let's try back in the late 40's....

 

One more thing I have in the memory bank. As kids we'd take off and be gone all day. The only time I knew that dinner was on and it was time to come home was when Dad would whistle... and he could whistle very loud... Try that today....

Yup the whistle is how Dad called us and how I called my kids and how my Grand children call me...except there whistle is a high pitched whooo whooo imitating a whistle, Cute as can be. But now there are these overly sensitive people who think its just soooo wrong and frown on you for it.

 

well I will stay in the city. all the part stores and eating places are close. and don't have to breath gravel dust or manure

I will take the fresh country air filled with the sweet smell of fresh cut hay on a country breeze, the earthy aroma of cow or horse manure, even the strong scent of pig or chicken manure over the the automotive and industrial stench of city smog any day. The open cool dirt roads over crowded hot city streets. The laid back coziness of a country store over the hustle and bustle, pushing and shoving of the City any time.

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[Condor]

Well since you want to put it that way there is hardly any roads anymore that are gravel, but yes at times the manure would blow with the wind in the wrong direction but i still could stand the smell of H()gsh!t in the morning. I think I was more into smelling there pig pens, the mud slop and such. Kind of miss the sweet smell of the feed in the morning, and was it a sweet smelling corn something or was it more of a grain cant remember...

 

LOL!! That reminds me of traveling down CA I-5 in the summer time... The Harris Ranch cattle feeder lot is located right next to the freeway, and during the summer there's no escaping the odor. 80 mph is not fast enough to get thru it holding your breath.... A genuine gas attack... Which also reminds me...Traveling South on Hwy99 there used to be a sugar cane plant in Livingston that dumped their silage in a big open field next to the highway... During the heat of the summer you couldn't breathe passing by the fomenting sugar cane. Take a breath and you die.. :-) So..where am I going with this?? It proves gas attacks can happen anywhere. You don't need gravel roads...