Blake Clark

Yeah, I know what you mean, cant wait till mine is old enough to learn to shoot, hunt and fish, and wrench on stuff.

madhat

Teach them not to drink or use tobacco products, or send illicit text messages to their little girl friends, (read that in readers digest last night) (not that we let them have cell phone, or get on the computer unsupervised.) How to open a door, shake hands (I got that one, I think)... you know.

Basically, not to turn out like their old man.

Red3quarter

Morning DTR, it's very muggy outside today. Got some much needed rain overnight. Maybe the yard will go back to green again.

Blake Clark

Cant be that bad...

Ive got the Yes Sir/Ma'am, No Sir Ma'am, Please, Thank You, Excuse Me, down pat. Handshake too. I think that manners and disipline are important. I cant stand smart mouth little heathens. I do believe in spoiling them though, to a certain extent. I want my kids to learn the value of hard work and its rewards.

Thank God the girlfriend part is a long way off yet. Dont know what Im gonna do if I have a little girl.


Morning Matt

old dog

Morning Ye`all
Matt & Blake
It Goes Something Like This >
Son Starts Wrenching At 10-12 On Bicycles (they Leave Wenches In Drive Where They Used Them)
12-14 You Become Dumber Than A Rock (wrench Don`t Fit -pound It On With A Hammer)
14-16 You`ve Got Them Under The Hood With Ya -YOUR TAKING TWO LONG-(TURN AROUND & THEIR GONE)
16-17 YOU`VE LEARNED A LITTLE BIT -BUT THEIR FRIEND TOLD THEM TO DO IT THIS WAY
17-18 THEY CAN STRIP ANY BOLT THEY TOUCH - AND RUIN 50% OF THE TOOLS THEY DON`T LOOSE
18-19 DAM ITS AMAZING (YA MUST HAVE SECRETLY GONE TO MECHANICS SCHOOL BECAUSE YOUR ACTUALLY GETTING SMARTER
19 AAH-THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT (YOUR SO INTELLIGENT YA MUST HAVE WRITTEN THE BOOK ON REPAIRING THINGS ) THEY ACTUALLY ASK YOUR ADVICE & TAKE IT

DURING THE 10TO18 PERIOD YOU ACTUALLY ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION TELL THEM ( I BROUGHT YOU IN TO THIS WORLD & I CAN TAKE YOU OUT & MAKE ANOTHER JUST LIKE YA !) OH & THEIR REPLY > YEA AND YOU CAN GO THROUGH THE SAME! THING OR WORSE WITH THAT ONE
CLAUDE

Blake Clark

Claude,

Aint that the truth.

Funny little story. Last Christmas my FIL gave me a nice set of Blue Point tools. I was in Dad's shop working on my truck and noticed I had a hand full of tools missing out of the set.

Go outside to fine my old man making my son throw them in the yard.

Asked him just what he was doing, he said "I'm just teaching him to take care of your tools the same way you took care of mine"

Parents....

He still thinks its funny!

old dog

JUST A THOUGHT> FROM THE TIME MY SON WAS 15 HE & I WENT ON SOME ADVENTURES TOGETHER > GOING OUT OF STATE TO PICK UP CARS TO WORK ON > AT 16 MY SON LEARNED HOW DO DRIVE THE DODGE WITH A TANDEM AXLE TRAILER ON IT > WE WOULD GO ON ONE OR TWO TRIPS A YEAR > JUST THE TWO OF US >HE CAN NOW HANDLE A TRUCK & TRAILER WITH CONFIDENCE >SO IT WAS A GOOD LEARNING EXPERIENCE & ITS TIMES THAT NETHER OF US WOULD EVER FORGET > HE HAS DRIVEN MANY MILES PULLING A TRAILER (AND I AM VERY CONFERTABLE RIDING WITH HIM)
ALL THAT BEING SAID HE KNOWS THE DODGE IS MINE AND HAS NEVER DRIVEN IT A MILE WITH OUT ME IN THE CAB (BECAUSE ITS MINE > I HAVE DRIVEN HIS CARS >BUT NEVER WITH OUT HIM IN THE CAR > ITS CALLED MUTUAL RESPECT !
CLAUDE

Red3quarter

I keep my tools locked up around dad. He has the habit of leaving them out or losing them. He just gets forgetful sometimes and understands why I lock them up too. I have alot of money tied up in them and I use them to make money. Only thing he really uses though are my impacts, other air tools, and my larger wrenches and sockets


16 is when I started driving the truck with a trailer behind it. Dad bought a tandem axle but had never really used a trailer much before so he asked if I wanted to drive it home. I taught myself how to drive and back up with it. He uses the trailer on his own sometimes but usually waits until I can drive with him. He likes when i drive instead, less for him to worry about.

cincydiesel

This will happen to me soon enough.. Dad's always talking about me losing his tools when I was kid, rightfully so. I can still remember him telling to "go get that thing next to the other thing in the garage." I would stand there dumbfounded at what the heck he was talking about. When I got a little older I was able to read dad's mind as of what he wanted. He still does it to me to this day.. "Hey son could you get that one thing over there by the other thing?"

Totallyrad

Now I'm really starting to get scared, Claude's making sense! Figured you'd rather hear it from me instead of you-know-who.

That's just funny, good story!

old dog

CAREFUL RICK>YOUR GOING TO RUIN MY REPUTATION

Totallyrad

Na, I won't steal your thunder.

ofcmarc

Mornin' All!

Busy weekend up here. Spent Saturday helping my mother move furniture and what not in to her new place. Sunday was spent workin' on the house. I have now officially now changed EVERY light fixture in this place. Not a bad way to spruce up an older home. The last one I did was the chandelier in the stair well. The man who invented the quick-connect for a chandelier is a genius! After that I borrowed the neighbors pressure washer and washed the outside of the house and the underside of my truck and Mama's Jimmy. I now stand a chance of not changing colors while working under them......Oh and I loaded Firefox on my PC. Shoulda done that a long time ago. Puts IE to shame......

Kids went back to school today. The oldest started 2nd grade and the little one starts Kindergarten on Thursday. Time is flying by. With both of them in school this year, I may actually have some time to myself on occasion. That's gonna be strange. No Mini-me attached to my hip all day long.......

Blake Clark

Well another day down,

See yall later,

Making a mad dash in the pouring rain to the camper.

Blake

Red3quarter

Evening DTR.

Dinner tonight is Sea Scallop and Shrimp scampi. Not seeing the GF tonight so I can cook some seafood. Found a gift to buy her, gonna get her a Marlin 795 .22lr rifle so we can go shoot together. My .308 Rem 700 is a little much for her. Local Cabelas has the Marlin on sale for $99 (sale price +rebate). Sale price is $120, normal price is $149. She's gonna be excited when she gets the gun. Speaking of guns, I might go shoot thursday afternoon.