wow....I grew up here in grand ol Gtown.......born and raised on a farm....did a 4 year hitch in the Marines...got to see the world and ended up in Kansas for 16 yrs....married twice out there lost $250,000.00 in the second one, moved back to Gtown and married my first love....started my own busines...totally broke ...livin on a thread for now and never been happier in my life...beautiful wife, beautiful daughter....good solid pick up truck, roof over my head........amazing that it took me 22 yrs to figure out what life is all about for me...................I agree....Karma is a blessing and a bitch .....gotta love it....wouldn't change a thing ...Snowboss

amen to that man........and we definately,need to hook up if you get out this way.....we're 1 1/2 miles from the Hudson and I have a couple different boats to choose from if the weather is right ....we can take the pontoon out and hit a water front resturant or we can take the twin jet out and scare the crap out of ourselves...I'm always up for either ....and good company makes it all the better................Boss

Sounds like fun! I'll have my son, but he's a great kid and is really mature around adults, and/or depending on your daughters age he can hang with her. Adam is 8 and he's totally into science, fishing, and soccer, and he loves boats. He plays really well and I trust him. I haven't really been too into fishing lately unless it's catch and return. The last time I cut the head off a live trout it really traumatized me! I guess after keeping fish I've become a wuss about killing them.

That's funny. I used to put heads on and string up African hand drums as a hobby. I once went to a rendering service, a factory where they cut up and process livestock that have died in the field by disease or something, and they had all these cow, calf, and goat hides that I bought.

I bought like 4 cow hides, 20 calf hides, and 4 goat hides, and as the animals were dead for a while before skinning there was about an inch of meat still attached to the skins. I spent a day with all the hides out on a lawn carving the meat off them. I had to battle flies and all the little maggots eggs they were putting down. Pretty nasty. I salted like crazy and nailed them all up on the inside of a barn. They were cured after a few months.

I made the cow hides into a couple big JUN JUNS, big drums used for African drum ensembles to lay down the base rhythms. I used 55 gallon drums with the bottoms and tops cut out, had 4 steel rings made for each at a welders, and I wrapped the rings with cloth and strung the drums up with parachute line. The 2 heads were held on by sandwiching the skins, backbone of the animal's hide crossing the middle of the drum opening, between two cloth wrapped rings on each side exactly the way the African drum makers did, and the drums sold for $500 a peice.

Kinda off topic in an aquarium forum! Fun stuff though. These were some tough drums. I used to take a couple to big hippy gatherings and leave them out in the main meadow where guys would try to prove their manliness by pounding on them as hard and long as they could.

What memories!!!

Back to Aquariums!!!

my daughter will be 16 this summer and is going on 25.....lol ............beautiful young lady with a good head on her shoulders.....she'll get along fine with your son im sure ...........so it sounds like a boat day for sure man - -I'm on a job down in Clinton corners {4-5 yr developement} and they have 3 huge ponds that where stocked years ago and it's private property - - -i was down there last week doing some mowing and the tractor was right on the edge of the big pond and i'm looking down into the clearest water i've ever seen and at probably a 15-20 inch large mouth ....he was swimmin along side of me as if to see what the hell i was doing by his pond.........but i hear theres 20 pounders in there...........and i have a key to the gate ...................... ar ya gettin the picture here ...lol