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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: CG6468 on August 08, 2012, 01:34:20 PM
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Pics from my wife Dianne's family reunion near Buffalo, NY, on 8/4/2012.
Some of the ever decreasing group. It gets smaller each year; it once numbered over 200 people.(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/lowfreeboard/Reunion%202012/DSCF1271.jpg)
Her cousin Joann, who hosted this.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/lowfreeboard/Reunion%202012/DSCF1276.jpg)
Cousin Mark was relaxed.
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Her brother Terry, his wife Bonnie, and cousin Kay.(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/lowfreeboard/Reunion%202012/DSCF1317.jpg)
Cousie Eddie, who lost both legs in Viet Nam.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/lowfreeboard/Reunion%202012/DSCF1284-1.jpg)
Eddie doesn't like Obama.....
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MISC....
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It's nice that you guys had a chance to get together. :cheersmate:
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Yay you are back! :yahoo:
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Eddie doesn't like Obama....
Understatement much? :lmao:
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Understatement much? :lmao:
You shoulda been there! I was under orders from headquarters to NOT bring up politics! (She knows...) So I didn't. But.....
Eddie did! I had to jump in, and he and I, with some others were on the same page, crapped all over the libs in the group, and everyone departed friends after the fights!
Eddie is even more violently against obastard than I am.
Great time was had by all!
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Yay you are back! :yahoo:
I'm front, too! :lmao:
But I might have to get back in the truck and go out to Tucson (A probable 3-day, 1800 mile trip, when I'm alone and now that I'm so friggin' old.). My sister may have cancer, and she's going to be scheduled for surgery soon. She and I are all we got. Her husband is a great guy, but he has no clue about these things and cannot handle it. I, on the other hand, am a loud SOB who demands answers and takes voluminous notes, and I have a direct line to my wife, who's a ICU/CCU nurse with LOTS of experience.
If necessary, my wife will take a plane there, and then I'll drive back home. Or whatever....
I do know that no ****ing "hospitalist" will kill my sister like the one who did that to our mother. When I got there for our mom, she was already comatose and didn't even know I was there. When I tried to ask the "hospitalist" WTF was going on, he turned to walk away from me. I let the incompetent son of a bitch have it with both barrels, and I was really loud about it. I yelled at him, "Don't you DARE walk away from ME! You might have everyone else snowed, but not ME!". All the nurses hated him, and they smiled as they looked up at the ceiling, as if thinking, "It's about time someone did this!" Her regular doctor didn't even know she was in the hospital. It was too late for my mom, though; she died 2 days later in hospice. After going in for back pain, she left feet first. I won't bore everyone with the rest of the story............
Shit is always happening in the family.... :(
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Understatement much? :lmao:
Haah. Good one forum buddy !
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Can the lounge be viewed by lurkers? just asking because the license plate is visible.
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Can the lounge be viewed by lurkers? just asking because the license plate is visible.
I thought about that, but Eddie wouldn't care. He's ready, if you catch my drift.
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I thought about that, but Eddie wouldn't care. He's ready, if you catch my drift.
Oh so much odd memories of family reunions up in Yankee land.
First ones I remember going to were held under a tent with a big wood pole in the center. We kids would try to climb up the pole but were yelled at. All these scrawny ancestors females that resembled Turkeys for all the flesh hanging from their necks, seated and watching the younger generation, say my grandma or my Mom for something to criticize.
Food was a table of cucumber sandwitches and perhaps ice tea to wash it down.
My Dad hated to go to this once a year gathering, but he MAN ed up each year for a few hours, Mom went only as an obligation to her mother.
What fun fast forward a few years, someone in the family tracked down all the decedents of the family name and sent out invites for the reunion. To their surprise over 200 people from coast to coast arrived, and say Howdy did they ever. they brought in coolers of Beer, portable BB Q's and heaven help us their boom boxes.
What a fun time, unfortunately my grandma was the last living descendant of the original family, we had to bring her in a wheel chair, and she loved every minute of the Whoop TE Do.
She Passed later in that year and the reunions came to a halt. Sad but generations do get scattered over time.
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I thought about that, but Eddie wouldn't care. He's ready, if you catch my drift.
That's fine then, as long as he wouldn't mind. Awesome bumperstickers! :lmao:
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That's fine then, as long as he wouldn't mind. Awesome bumperstickers! :lmao:
I especially liked the "Does this Ass make my car look big" one! :rotf:
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I especially liked the "Does this Ass make my car look big" one! :rotf:
:lmao:
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He told me that he has about 50 more at home! :-)
Eddie does not like blammo! :lmao:
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He told me that he has about 50 more at home! :-)
Eddie does not like blammo! :lmao:
I see that sanity runs in the family.
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I see that sanity runs in the family.
In most of it, anyway! But there are some who hate Romney more than they hate blammo, and guess who they'll vote for.
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In most of it, anyway! But there are some who hate Romney more than they hate blammo, and guess who they'll vote for.
Well, from my POV, Romney is the lesser of two evils.
Then again, you gotta be insane to want to become president anyway -- and Mittens has been after that gig for many, many years now.
Punching those tickets. Movin' on up. Payin' dues.
It's what Mittens is all about.
But at least he's willing to do that. Blammo? Not so much. He's so accustomed to having the world cater directly to him (why that is, I have no ****ing idea), so why work for anything when he can just steal it from the government?
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Fine looking family, CG!
I went to a family reunion last weekend as well. Here's my bouncy. I'm chatting with this older couple for a while, not a whiff of politics in the air at all. They get ready to go, we're milling about the cars. The guy says, "Mary, come over here, I need help." My husband said to him, "I'll say you need help. You've got an Obama 2012 sticker on your car." :lmao: Something was mumbled that I couldn't hear, and they drove off. I called my husband a teabagger. :-)
(These were his relatives not mine, and he's never been political in his life until now).
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Well, from my POV, Romney is the lesser of two evils.
Then again, you gotta be insane to want to become president anyway -- and Mittens has been after that gig for many, many years now.
Romney is NOT my choice, but when faced with the alternative, the ONLY option is to vote for Romney. I do NOT want to live in a communist country.
I think you have to be nuts to want the job, anyway. Why would anyone subject him/herself to all the lies, insults, and investigations into his/her family's history?
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Great looking family. I'd be related to you guys in a heart beat!
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Great looking family. I'd be related to you guys in a heart beat!
Are you being put up for adoption ?
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Are you being put up for adoption ?
Would you take me in?
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Great looking family. I'd be related to you guys in a heart beat!
You'd also be most welcome and fit right in!
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Glad you are back CG, missed ya bunches!!
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Glad you are back CG, missed ya bunches!!
Thank you!
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Would you take me in?
Well, yeah, but I thought you had your eyes on the CG family ?
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I'm front, too! :lmao:
But I might have to get back in the truck and go out to Tucson (A probable 3-day, 1800 mile trip, when I'm alone and now that I'm so friggin' old.). My sister may have cancer, and she's going to be scheduled for surgery soon. She and I are all we got. Her husband is a great guy, but he has no clue about these things and cannot handle it. I, on the other hand, am a loud SOB who demands answers and takes voluminous notes, and I have a direct line to my wife, who's a ICU/CCU nurse with LOTS of experience.
If necessary, my wife will take a plane there, and then I'll drive back home. Or whatever....
I do know that no ****ing "hospitalist" will kill my sister like the one who did that to our mother. When I got there for our mom, she was already comatose and didn't even know I was there. When I tried to ask the "hospitalist" WTF was going on, he turned to walk away from me. I let the incompetent son of a bitch have it with both barrels, and I was really loud about it. I yelled at him, "Don't you DARE walk away from ME! You might have everyone else snowed, but not ME!". All the nurses hated him, and they smiled as they looked up at the ceiling, as if thinking, "It's about time someone did this!" Her regular doctor didn't even know she was in the hospital. It was too late for my mom, though; she died 2 days later in hospice. After going in for back pain, she left feet first. I won't bore everyone with the rest of the story............
Shit is always happening in the family.... :(
So sorry to hear about your mother and I hope your sister turns out to be ok.
Great pictures of the reunion!
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So sorry to hear about your mother and I hope your sister turns out to be ok.
Great pictures of the reunion!
Thank you, for the wishes and for the compliment. I appreciate it.
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Thank you, for the wishes and for the compliment. I appreciate it.
My family is very small. You can adopt me into that group!
I was adopted at birth and some of the old school family thought that since I was not "blood" I was not family.
In the past year I have seen my sister once. I see my mom almost every day.
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I would love to be a part of anyone's family in this group!! :blowkiss:
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I would love to be a part of anyone's family in this group!! :blowkiss:
We are Family, Sister Sledge...
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBpYgpF1bqQ[/youtube]
Get up everybody and sing...
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My family is very small. You can adopt me into that group!
I was adopted at birth and some of the old school family thought that since I was not "blood" I was not family. That's just terrible. They should have been happy to include you.
In the past year I have seen my sister once. I see my mom almost every day. Does your sister live far from you? Biological sister?
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My sister lives in Nebraska. She was also adopted at birth three years after me. (non-biological)
My mother also helped another family adopt children that could not have kids. They adopted a boy a year after I was adopted and a girl a year after my sister was adopted.
Then it only took around a year to adopt a child right here in the United States. That is when young couples or underage couples were more likley to put the kids up for adoption rather then go on welfare or have an abortion. Not that there is any thing wrong with that. :-)
I still remember what I was doing when my mom asked me if I wanted a brother or sister and I said "sister."
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Wow. Just wow.
The only adoptee in our family is my dad's brother's son, but my uncle was a severe wimp and allowed his hawkish wife to turn him against the rest of the family. I know nothing about his adopted son.
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Wow. Just wow.
The only adoptee in our family is my dad's brother's son, but my uncle was a severe wimp and allowed his hawkish wife to turn him against the rest of the family. I know nothing about his adopted son.
There was some family politics on my dad's side of the family and my mom's side of the family all owned taverns and spent most of their time there... The exception was my mother's parents who were awesome and owned a salvage yard and a used parts business and her childless Aunt and Uncle. They were great people and very missed.
My dad's father died when my dad was in high school. My dad was the youngest son so he had to quit school to run the farm for his mother. My dad ended up being a very well known diesel mechanic for a very large trucking company that shipped for John Deere.
My family reunion is a few times a week when I have lunch or dinner with my mom. Works for me.
I don't tell many people this story. Now CC knows a little more about me. O-)
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There was some family politics on my dad's side of the family and my mom's side of the family all owned taverns and spent most of their time there... The exception was my mother's parents who were awesome and owned a salvage yard and a used parts business and her childless Aunt and Uncle. They were great people and very missed.
My dad's father died when my dad was in high school. My dad was the youngest son so he had to quit school to run the farm for his mother. My dad ended up being a very well known diesel mechanic for a very large trucking company that shipped for John Deere.
My family reunion is a few times a week when I have lunch or dinner with my mom. Works for me.
I don't tell many people this story. Now CC knows a little more about me. O-)
It's a good story. FWIW, my family reunion is pretty small too.
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It's a good story. FWIW, my family reunion is pretty small too.
Mine is nonexistent on this side of the pond. Me and my dad. :(
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A couple of more pics taken at the Western New York Tractor Pull in Langford, NY, from my wife's cell phone.
My wife, some stranger, and our niece Tammie.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/lowfreeboard/Reunion%202012/IMG_20120805_174831.jpg)
Tammy's friend Michelle, Tammy and Tammy's husband's relative. (Michelle and I always are happy to see each other.......and yes, my wife knows! She loves Michelle, too! :-) )
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/lowfreeboard/Reunion%202012/IMG_20120805_170527.jpg)
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Great pics, great thread, I enjoyed reading it and glad I was able to read it. Salt of the earth human beings pictured in this thread. My kind of people. Reminds me of my Family get-to-gethers.
I'm new here and don't want to barge in 'cause I don't know ya'll yet, but I thought I'd post a pic in honor of Eddie who lost his legs in Nam, if you don't mind.
(http://i47.tinypic.com/zv7uiq.jpg)
I always greatly appreciated that pic up there and what it means.
Jack.
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Thank you, Jack. Eddie would appreciate it.
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Great pics, great thread, I enjoyed reading it and glad I was able to read it. Salt of the earth human beings pictured in this thread. My kind of people. Reminds me of my Family get-to-gethers.
I'm new here and don't want to barge in 'cause I don't know ya'll yet, but I thought I'd post a pic in honor of Eddie who lost his legs in Nam, if you don't mind.
(http://i47.tinypic.com/zv7uiq.jpg)
I always greatly appreciated that pic up there and what it means.
Jack.
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Jack, an H5 from me.
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Love that Veteran's day pic, suffice it to say.
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Thank you, Jack. Eddie would appreciate it.
My pleasure, CG glad I had the pic on hand.
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Jack, an H5 from me.
Thanks, BlueStateSaint.
Love that Veteran's day pic, suffice it to say.
Me too, obumazombie.
They did another one that day in the stadium that is worth posting, same spirit, just a slightly different wording.
Here it is in case you'd like to have access to it, and maybe pass it on to your friends.
(http://i47.tinypic.com/6s6uxj.jpg)
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I had seen those before, but it appears that I can't get tired of seeing them again!