How old a feller are ya?

mrsrobinson said:
I thought it had more to do with money/wealth. I had zero of either until my mid 30s, which is when I purchased the first boat, a 18' Maxum bowrider, for cash non the less :)
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True, however there’s always someone that’s going to have a boat or a bigger boat at any age. ;)
 
53 years old (knees feel approximately twice that age, rest of the body - 40ish.)
The admiral has been tolerating my existence for 24 years now. No kids - 2 really deeply disturbed cats.
 
I'll play.

I'm 36 and have been married 15 years as of this fall. She's 36 and had a one year old boy when we met, so for all intensive purposes he's my son. Hard to believe he's 17 now! We have two additional kids - both boys, 4 and 9.

I had a jetski when we met and quickly sold it for a bowrider. We moved up to a cuddy cabin the year after that and into a 27' cruiser the following year. Since then we've had a 33', dropped to a beautiful 24' bowrider when we had our third child, then came to our senses and moved to a 37'.

I'm definitely the exception, not the rule! Our goal was to pay off the house before 40 and it'll be gone well before then. Now we're on the hunt for 15-50 acres in the sticks... which is proving to be more difficult than finding the perfect boat...
 
northshore said:
53 years old (knees feel approximately twice that age, rest of the body - 40ish.)
The admiral has been tolerating my existence for 24 years now. No kids - 2 really deeply disturbed cats.
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Doc has been telling me for 4 years that I need to have both knees replaced. I refuse to do it until I can't walk on my own anymore, and I'm years from that (I hope). I hate hospitals.
 
JayhawkCurtis said:
Here is kind of a funny pic of our family photo a couple years ago. It was between pics and we were relaxing and the photographer snapped a pic. My sons wife left him and his 2 girls just a couple of months before the pic which is why he is alone in the middle back holding his girls.

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Great pic! It says it all. A family that cares about each other! Well done!!
 
spikedaddy99 said:
Ollie, where? M
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I 'd like to be around the Siren area. Maybe as far north as Danbury / Webb Lake. My job requires me to spend time in ND, so I want to be 4 hour'ish from Fargo. I'd go as far south as New Richmond. We also want to be closer to Cornucopia where the cabin is. Currently its a 4 hour drive with stops.
 
OllieC said:
I 'd like to be around the Siren area. Maybe as far north as Danbury / Webb Lake. My job requires me to spend time in ND, so I want to be 4 hour'ish from Fargo. I'd go as far south as New Richmond. We also want to be closer to Cornucopia where the cabin is. Currently its a 4 hour drive with stops.
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Cool. My furthest office West is Rice Lake. Our boys just played Siren in basketball.
 
JayhawkCurtis said:
Ill tell my story real quick, since we are all friends here. I never had girlfriends growing up, my mom (God rest her soul) always told me that when I met the right one, I would know it right away. So I am a senior, big football hero and it is homecoming week, I am walking down the hall with a friend, Still remember his name Colin Hockett, and I see this girl walking toward us, Colin said hi to her like he knew her, after she passed us I grabbed him and demanded her name. Well I spent the rest of the week in the freshman hall, I was in love deep with a 14 year old.
Fast forward to March, her POS dad ran off and left her and her mom, they had no family around northern Kansas, so they were going to move back to east Texas. So I loaded them and all their stuff, along with my motorcycle into the back of a U-Haul and took a week off of high school and drove them to Texas, and moved them into a house. I spent a couple days getting them settled, and then rode my motorcycle 13 hours back home.
So I graduated high school, turned down a football scholly to Hutch Juco, and moved to Texas. Job situation was tough in East Texas in the middle 80's, I worked what I could find but was miserable doing industrial roofing on the Kelly Springfield tire company plant in Tyler. My brother told me he had a job for me in SW Kansas if I wanted to move up there, I asked Denise and her mom if we could marry and move back to Kansas, we did, and that is history. We had nothing those first few years, but we were happy, and now 36 years later we have been blessed beyond my belief.
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There is nor enough money in the world to get me to live in Hutchison. I spent a month there one night.
 
spikedaddy99 said:
Cool. My furthest office West is Rice Lake. Our boys just played Siren in basketball.
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Rice Lake would be great. I have a few friends that live there, but unfortunately that may be a little too far from the border for work.
 
53, but I had a heart attack while walking my dog last month, so I'm currently feeling much older.

I'm on-course to lose 25 lbs by boating season, at which point I hope to resume consuming at least SOME alcohol and having some fun. I'm going to miss salty foods - they're simply no longer an option.

I'm not sure I've completely processed the fact that I nearly lost my life doing such a mundane activity, but I'm trying to make the best of it. The weight loss was overdue, and I will never again let un-used vacation days slip away or decide to reach out to friends and family "later". Later isn't guaranteed.
 
RollerCoastr said:
53, but I had a heart attack while walking my dog last month, so I'm currently feeling much older.

I'm on-course to lose 25 lbs by boating season, at which point I hope to resume consuming at least SOME alcohol and having some fun. I'm going to miss salty foods - they're simply no longer an option.

I'm not sure I've completely processed the fact that I nearly lost my life doing such a mundane activity, but I'm trying to make the best of it. The weight loss was overdue, and I will never again let un-used vacation days slip away or decide to reach out to friends and family "later". Later isn't guaranteed.
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Wow...thank you for sharing. Scary...but glad you're here to tell that story!
 
RollerCoastr said:
53, but I had a heart attack while walking my dog last month, so I'm currently feeling much older.

I'm on-course to lose 25 lbs by boating season, at which point I hope to resume consuming at least SOME alcohol and having some fun. I'm going to miss salty foods - they're simply no longer an option.

I'm not sure I've completely processed the fact that I nearly lost my life doing such a mundane activity, but I'm trying to make the best of it. The weight loss was overdue, and I will never again let un-used vacation days slip away or decide to reach out to friends and family "later". Later isn't guaranteed.
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Glad you made it. When my dad died suddenly of a heart attack in 2009 I realized that tomorrow is a gift and not a guarantee. I plan for the future and live for the moment. Work now always takes a 2nd seat to family.
 
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