I rode his Missouri mule to drag fallen trees down from Corn Pop Holler in d’Ozark Mountains to where we could somehow load the soon to be lumber onto our oil belching truck to transport to the sawmill. A sawmill is where a wee lad learns to stay focused.
Lumberjacks are environmentally conscious people – oui?
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
Your Grandpa was awesome 🙂
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Rolled his own, took no lip, and died too young.
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They are! (Environmentally conscious)
The entire Pocono Plateau was lumbered in the late 19th early 20th century. They were no trees on our property when my Grandpa bought it. And all our scenic lakes up here were man-made, to create splash dams where the lumber floated down the streams would pileup beside the sawmills.
Then when all the trees were gone, the Ice man cameth. The lakes were used for harvesting natural ice until refrigeration came in in the 1930s
Sadly, while we have films of the ice guys strutting jerkily over the frozen lakes, there are no films of the lumberjacks,just a couple of stills of a buncha hunky guys hanging out in their camps.
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I am more chunky these days than hunky.
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Not true! And you just posted a picture to prove it. You look great 🙂
HYPATIA!!!! SIMON HAS POSTED A PICTURE!!!
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Thanks but I remember me when I was fit.
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Lol 🙂 I can totally relate. I complain about how I look, but really, I look pretty good for my age. But I remember what I looked like at 19, and it depresses me. When you look in the mirror, and start thinking things like, “Well, I look pretty good for my age” that in itself is depressing.
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Stop thinking no good right now.
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LOL 🙂
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I paraphrase but one of her rules is to never date the grandson of a lumberjack.
She violates that rule at each and every opportunity krap
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? Are you talking about your current girlfriend? 🙂
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No, some NCIS TV dude’s X, I think.
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Nanda knows.
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HYPATIA!!! SIMON HAS POSTED A PICTURE!!!
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Are you shouting?
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I guess. 🙂 Just trying to get Hypatia’s attention, will I be banned for this? 🙂
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I must tell you sometime about the fist fight I had in Busch Stadium while trying to pour myself out of the stadium after a baseball game between the Cardinals and Blue Jays.
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I think you may have already told us about that one, but I might be mixed up on that 🙂
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My younger bro started it but made me finish it. He was always lazy.
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Yup, pretty sure I know about that one. 🙂 You knocked out a much bigger guy, right?
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He was taller than bro who is 6′ 3″
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Broke my right hand on the dudes head.
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Guy had a very hard head!
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I was using his head as a speed bag until the fuzz chased me out of the stadium.
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“the fuzz” You are so cute 🙂
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A 3d witness, Frog, is Teutonic so not of the same clan.
He became a successful dentist.
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“Successful dentist” Not sure if that is good or bad, although I guess being a successful dentist is far better than being an unsuccessful one. Dentists scare me. One of my cousins is a successful dentist. He scares me 🙂
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Frog is chill. Baby Bro and I moved into his house in our misspent college days.
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Uncle Z, the horse whisperer, was certainly a role model. Drafted into the Vietnam era Army and served that one and only enlistment honorably as had Uncle X, the chemist.
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Lol 🙂 Is there an Uncle Y? 🙂
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W, X, Y and Z.
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Lol 🙂
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