The_Kansan Forum Posts (3,395)

RE: gardens

Count Jackson and I in, although in a minor way. Since her property is mostly timbered hill side and ridges, I've had to make a couple of 4X16 terraced gardens under the powerlines. We wanted more and hopefully next year, it'll happen. It's just that between all the roots, stumps and clay and the fact that I'm doing everything by hand, it's kinda' slow going. Still, I've got 2 beds ready and we've just come in from planting corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, leeks, chives, parsley, dill and okra. The asparagus went into the ground last week and we're looking forward to next year's crop! Yummy!!!

RE: Not me

I've done both, for varying reasons: When taking part in living history events, the etiquette of the 19th century demanded that the lady always be on the gentleman's right arm. In the not so polite regions of the American West, it was often reversed so as to allow the gentleman ready access to his side-arm while simultaneously (ideally!) pushing his lady out of harms way with his left arm.

In real life, it seems that my lady and I switch sides according to whichever is most comfortable for one or the other or both of us.

RE: if you were force to be somebody else..who would you be..and why ?

Well, while I kinda' like who I am, if I were FORCED to be someone else... I reckon I'd have to choose my great Grandfather.

Born in Illinois, he went west as a young man and spent several years as a cowhand, civilian Army Scout, buffalo hunter and part time minor outlaw. He rode (briefly) with Cody, knew the Earps and Masterson and played poker with both Hickok and Hardin. He then returned to Il. and married his boyhood sweetheart, settled briefly in Northern Oklahoma and ultimately homesteaded in Alaska. All in all, he had a long, happy and (by all accounts) interesting life. He was equally at home while yarning around a campfire while on the dodge from the law, or with his wife and sons in the safety of their cabin in the wilds of Alaska. He was a man who loved life and lived it to the fullest, whether by tricking Grizzlies into helping him clear his land (true story!) or teaching his sons that they could be strong and capable and yet remain gentlmen.

I suppose that, next to my dad and the lady I'm engaged to, I probably admire my great Grandfather more than anyone...

A riddle!

COOP, dammit! chicken COOP!

SHEESH!

(Where's the thread about embarassing moments when you need it?!!)

Mood rings...

I bought my fiance', Jackson, a mood ring so I could monitor her emotional swings.

After a week of her wearing the ring, I've discovered that when she's in a GOOD mood the stone on the ring turns green. But when she's in a BAD mood, it leaves a big f'ing red mark on my forehead!


JUST KIDDING! (It actually leaves a small purplish knot on the back of my head!)

A riddle!

Why does a chicken coop have two doors?

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Why does a chicken have two doors? (Just in case you'd forgotten the question with all the scrolling.)

Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan!

RE: whats your most embarresing moment ?

Too many and too to mention -

Although one of the minor ones involved the back seat of a crew cab (4-door) pick-up and a trip to an autoparts store. (Few things more embarassing than arguing with the parts guy about how knowledgeable you are when it comes to vehicles, then going out and accidently climbing into the BACK SEAT of the truck and not being able to find the ^$&%&*! steering wheel! - I covered by reaching down on the floor boards and grabbing a first-aid kit and calmly placing it in the front seat, just as if that were my intention all along! )

RE: How many of you have smelly things in your drawers?

Believe me when I tell you that you really, REALLY do NOT want to know my own personal answer to that question!

RE: can someone help me?

Your profile looks fine to me. Fairly well written in fact.

They say that the best way to receive is to first, GIVE. Granted I don't know anything at all about you except what I've read in your profile and seen in your posts - and, who knows, you might be blanketing the general population with e-mails and flowers - But I'd respectfully suggest that if you want to RECEIVE flowers and e-mails, that you send a few to folks who interest you.

Good luck and hang in there! It'll happen when it's supposed to.

RE: Books that became movies.

The Wizard of Oz

Gone With the Wind

Crossfire Trail

The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Grapes of Wrath

RE: What was the last book you read?

Robert Fulghum - Maybe (Maybe Not!)
Patrick McManus - The Good Samaritan Strikes Again!
Louis La'Mour - Reilly's Luck

All three were very thought provoking in their own ways.

RE: Stand by me...

Ben E. King

RE: if you had three wishes what would they be

1. For all of my fiance's health problems to permanently cease and desist.
2. To be financially secure and independently (in a moderately comfortable way) wealthy.
3. 10 more wishes!

RE: * Forum changes will be installed tonight *

Takes a little getting used to, but the changes are good ones! And certainly easier on my tired old eyes!

RE: If you had one day to live what would you do ?

I'd spend 12 hours writing "Goodbye notes" to be read after I'm gone, 2 hours apologizing for having to leave the one I love, 8 hours showing her how MUCH I love her and 2 hours reflecting on the life I'ved lived... Then I'd die... Regretfully, but happily.

Retirement Investment advice

Retirement Planning

If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1000.00.
With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.
If you had purchased $1000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, You would have had $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

It's called the 401-Keg Plan.

RE: Hungry

Eat a live toad for breakfast - And nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day!

RE: Free money!

1. What time is it?: 7:22 P.M.
2. Your name: Don
3. Nickname: JustMe, Kansan
4. Piercing: Left ear
5. What is the most recent movie you've seen: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
6. Eye colour: Green
7. Place of birth: Larned, Ks.
8. Favourite foods: Anything cooked over an open fire.
9. Ever been to Africa?: No
10. Ever been toilet papering?: Yes
11. Love someone so much it made you cry: Yes
12. Been in a car accident: Yes
13.Croutons or bacon bits: Sunflower seeds!
14. Favourite day of the week: Saturday
15. Favourite restaurant: N/A
16. Favourite Flower: Toss up: Roses & Moonflowers
17. Favourite sport to watch: Golf
18. Favourite drink: Lord Calvert & Coke
19. Favourite ice cream: Breyers Mint Chocolate chip
20. Disney or Warner Brothers: Disney
21. Favourite fast food restaurant: Wendy's
22. What colour is your bedroom carpet: Blue
23. How many times did you fail your driver's test: 0
24. Before this one, from whom did you get your last email: Bank of America
25. Which store would you choose to Max out your credit card: Cabella's
26. What do you do most often when you are bored?: Read/write
27. Bedtime: Varies
28. Who will respond to this e-mail the quickest?. ?
29. What the hell happened to 29? It was eaten by the 30 something blues!
30. Who are you the most curious about their responses Questionnaire? Me!
31. Favourite TV shows? Thank God you're here! -- Sunday Morning w/Charles Osgood
32. Last person you had dinner with? My fiance'
33. Ford or Chevy: DODGE!
34. What are you listening to right now: The wind in the tree and traffic on Clinton highway.
35. What is your favourite colour: Blue
36. How many tattoos do you have? 0
37. How many pets do you have? 5
38. Which came first: What? The Rooster!

Becoming a Monk...

Story of my life!

Becoming a Monk...

A man is driving down the road and his car breaks down near a monastery. He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, "My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?"

The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, even fix his car. As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound. A sound unlike anything he's ever heard before. The Sirens that nearly seduced Odysseus into crashing his ship comes to his mind. He doesn't sleep that night. He tosses and turns trying to figure out what could possibly be making such a seductive sound.

The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say, "We can't tell you. You're not a monk." Distraught, the man is forced to leave.

Years later, after never being able to forget that sound, the man goes back to the monastery and pleads for the answer again.

The monks reply, "We can't tell you. You're not a monk."
The man says, "If the only way I can find out what is making that beautiful sound is to become a monk, then please, make me a monk."

The monks reply, "You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of grains of sand. When you find these answers, you will have become a monk."

The man sets about his task.

After years of searching he returns as a gray-haired old man and knocks on the door of the monastery. A monk answers. He is taken before a gathering of all the monks.

"In my quest to find what makes that beautiful sound, I traveled the earth and have found what you asked for: By design, the world is in a state of perpetual change. Only God knows what you ask. All a man can know is himself, and only then if he is honest and reflective and willing to strip away self deception."

The monks reply, "Congratulations. You have become a monk. We shall now show you the way to the mystery of the sacred sound."

The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, "The sound is beyond that door."

The monks give him the key, and he opens the door. Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man is given the key to the stone door and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. And so it went that he needed keys to doors of emerald, pearl and diamond.

Finally, they come to a door made of solid gold. The sound has become very clear and definite. The monks say, "This is the last key to the last door."

The man is apprehensive to no end. His life's wish is behind that door!

With trembling hands, he unlocks the door, turns the knob, and slowly pushes the door open. Falling to his knees, he is utterly amazed to discover the source of that haunting and seductive sound......
































But, of course, I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk!

RE: New to this....

Howdy and welcome to the best dating site in existence! Sometimes the natives get restless and go a little bonkers, but that's what makes things interesting!

There's a good chance that you'll meet your soulmate here (I did!). ...And a good chance that you won't! In the meantime, it'll be fun if you let it be, sad if you're a genuinely humane human, boring if you're intelligent, frustrating if you're not feeling all that smart and sometimes both over and underwhelming... In short, it ain't quite life, but it's often a good imitation and there are a lot of similarities to it!

Welcome!

RE: Ok gotta question here about men!! lol

Glad I could be of service - You'll have to excuse me for a bit, as I need to take a shower... Because I need to run to the store... Because I'm almost out of cigarettes... Because I got busy earlier and forgot...

RE: Ok gotta question here about men!! lol

I obviously can't answer for ALL guys, but in my own particular case it's because of the way my brain works: As a rule, I'm not trying to be deliberately vague, deceptive or mis-leading - But my mind is constantly whirling with anywhere from 6 to 600 different thoughts on as many different subjects.

The way my logic pathways work, my fiance' might ask me if I need cigarettes (because she's almost out) and before it's over with, I will have gone from thinking about a trip to the grocery after smokes, to thinking about the time I ran out of smokes while on a backpack trip in the mountains, which gets me to thinking about camping, which makes me think about fishing, which reminds me that I need new line on my ultralight rod, which is buried under a pile of stuff in the back of the Ramcharger, which reminds me that the canoe is still on TOP of the Ramcharger, which makes me think about my rowboat still sitting in the back of my trailer, which needs to be unloaded so that I have room for the old chair that I fully intended to take to the dump last week, which reminds me (because of where the trailer is parked) that if it ever stops raining, I need to get back to cutting underbrush, which reminds me that I need to sharpen the axe and that reminds me of the time when I was a kid that my Dad slipped with the file while sharpening an axe and nearly cut his finger off and Mom had to take him to the hospital to get stitched up, which reminds me that I still need to stitch up a couple of spots in my canvas tent, but I don't really want to tackle that particular chore when I'm almost out of cigarettes!

All of this takes about 10 seconds to go through my mind, but takes me 5 minutes to sort out enough to give an answer to the original question which I may have entirely forgotten by this point... And I usually respond with, "Hey, do you need anything from the store? I'm almost out of smokes!"

Did that help?

RE: Hi there!

Welcome to the asylum! Pull up a stump, get comfortable and prepare to be amazed, amused, dazed, confused, thrilled, chilled, sometimes slightly disappointed, but otherwise thoroughly entertained!

There's quite a few good folks here and sometimes you get lucky and find the one you've been looking for your whole life. ...And sometimes you just goota' remember the old maxim: When life gives you a lemon - Make lemonade! ('Course, I've always figured that if life gives you a lemon, you should not only make lemonade, but then should find someone who's life gave them vodka and have a party! )

Again, welcome!

RE: I Dare you All...Be Honest If you Can...

Well, I recently moved slightly more than 1,100 miles (Western Kansas to East Tennessee) to be with my fiance' (whom I met HERE!) -- Does that count?

RE: Who Is on...

Thank you Ms. Gizzardbutt! We who were in need of a laugh salute you and others of your kind!

RE: Who Is on...

Jackson & I are here, off and on.

I'd like to be so bold as to suggest that everyone on here tonight (who hasn't already done it!) go to my thread and post their new names for the rest of the world to experience and enjoy!

RE: new to the site

"all the horror stories i have heard about dateing sites. hope they aren't true"

Some are, some aren't - Applies to the happily ever after stories as well.

As a totally free dating site, I would have to say that CS ranks head and shoulders above the majority - And I'm not saying that just because I met my fiance' here!

At any rate, even if you don't find love, there are some great folks here and I am proud to consider not a few of them friends!

Good luck and welcome to the asylum!

RE: Oooops....Wrong Number!

I've gotten several "wrong number" calls over the years. Most uneventful and short, some that were down right funny. One of my closest friends and I only had one digit difference in our numbers for several years - mine was 9495 and his was 9496 - The greatest (funniest, most embarrassing) wasn't a wrong number, but a case of mistaken identity:

It was dark and I was at a local celebration in the city park in the town of Victoria, Ks. The dance had started about an hour earlier and the beer garden had been open all day. As I was walking across the dance area, on my way to the restroom, a very pretty (and slightly intoxicated!) young lady approached me from behind, grabbed my shoulders and spun me around, saying "Hey Cowboy, I've been looking for you all night!" Then she planted a kiss on me that damn near made my toes curl. Then, still holding my arms, she stepped back, looked at me more closely and exclaimed, "HEY! You're not Scott!!!" I started laughing and said, "No Ma'am - But I will be for tonight!"

My (now ex) wife had been standing about 20 feet away and witnessed the whole thing and when I told her what happened, she cracked up! For weeks after that, she would come up behind me, grab me and say "Hey, you're not Scott!" and walk away cackling to herself.

RE: Do Long Distance Relationships Work? YES!!

"It's a scary option and not I feel a decision to be taken lightly."

Jan,

Truer words were never spoken - But they could be applied to life as well and whoever said that a journey of 1,000 miles begins with the first step pretty much summed it up. As did the one who said "Tis better to have loved and lost than never loved at all."

I packed up up and moved slightly more than 1,100 miles to be with the woman I love and while we both feel that it's going to last forever, we also discussed what would happen if it didn't. The long and short of it is that the possible benefits far outweighed any ultimately negative aspects.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I am a Westerner; I've spent nearly my entire life roaming and exploring the American west and I love it like no place else on earth. But I finally feel at HOME here in East Tennessee. Possibly for the first time in my life. And in a way that's hard to explain, except that home really IS where the HEART is and mine is here in Tennessee.

To borrow part of a line from an old John Denver song; "For all the time that you're with me, we will be at home..."

...Seems like maybe Suzy's home is where Ken is and vice versa...

It takes very special people to beat the odds and from what I've seen, Ken and Suzy already have a wonderful head start!

Congratulations you two! All the best!