[Earldw]

Choosing the Navy, specifically Submarine Service seems like it was a good choice on my part.

 

[roadkillbobb]

Lol, the best one I try to tell a story about and to this day, people tell me I am full of it but my squad buddy was just as impressed with it. He was as startled as I was. I was digging my fox hole ( in Vietnam by the way) on the side of a rocky mountain in the jungle when my entrenchen tool ( pack shovel) dug into a hole and a centipede about a two foot long and all different colors jumped out and chased me out of my fox hole.
Then one rainy night on ambush patrol,I was standing up in my spider hole ( round fox hole) and as the hole kept filling up with water and the mud started falling in from the sides,I looked down only to see a rather large black scorpion fall into my hole with the mud. I came out of that hole so fast,I don't even recall touching the sides.I laid flat on the ground the rest of the night. I don't know what I would have done if we had made contact that night with the enemy.
Then one time,back at base camp,we were tearing down a sand bag ammo bunker and building a new one when one of the guys picked up a sand bag to see a very large cobra laying in the hole. There we were,8 of us standing in a circle around this 15 foot cobra while he weaved back and forth trying to figure out wich one of us he was going to strike at. Finally, one of the guys came running through our little circle and beheaded that cobra with his shovel. The head still tried to jump around to get us. I could tell you more stories about the critters there but I might not be able to get any sleep tonight.

I believe the natives there call all that food..everything tastes better on a stick..lol..did you ever watch " bizarre foods with Andrew Zimmer "?..the stuff that guy eats from around the world would make your skin crawl..

 

[roadkillbobb]

Choosing the Navy, specifically Submarine Service seems like it was a good choice on my part.

one of my neighbors upstate was in the submarine service...hes long retired from that and does contracting now...

 

[Wil]

I believe the natives there call all that food..everything tastes better on a stick..lol..did you ever watch " bizarre foods with Andrew Zimmer "?..the stuff that guy eats from around the world would make your skin crawl..

Yes. I watched him. ouch! He's nutz.

 

[Wil]

Choosing the Navy, specifically Submarine Service seems like it was a good choice on my part.

My Dad was in the Navy in WWII in the Pacific. His ship was an LST. Dad and I used to watch old movies on television of the Navy in WWll. I especially loved the submarine service so when I went to enlist, I was on my way to the Navy to enlist and hopefully for the submarine service.I made the mistake of stopping in at the Army recruiter first and he seen my skydiving jacket and told me about $55 extra a month to go into the paratroopers. My life was never the same, after that.

 

[roadkillbobb]

I hate heights..so there aint no way I would be jumping out an airplane for any amount of $$..lol..as a matter of fact you wouldnt get me into the airplane in the first place..

 

[Earldw]

one of my neighbors upstate was in the submarine service...hes long retired from that and does contracting now...

Lot of us retired bubbleheads living in that part of the world. I was stationed in Groton twice and absolutely loved it.

 

[Gypsi]

We finally had to get her a life vest because she couldn't swim.

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not being able to swim is an issue, love the life vest

 

[Gypsi]

Yeah, my dogs, mostly the puppies, supplement their chow with whatever tool or personal item I have left unattended. Tie-wraps, screwdrivers, pruning shears and cell phone cases seem to have whatever nutrients missing from their diets. The odd rabbit, squirrel, snake, mole or inattentive bird make special appearances on the menu as well as one very decayed and smelly opossum.

Mine ate furniture when they were pups. My rottie mix Bronx was old and gray and had cancer when I gave the coffee table away to my daughter. I had intended to sell it, but a woman came to look at it and pointed out that all 4 lower corners had been chewed by dogs. The big dog teeth, when Bronx was still teething....I still miss that boy, he died in August 2017. But my Wulfwarro has stepped into the rottie spot, not that he is anything close to full blood, although his mother was supposed to be. I think daddy might have been a coonhound. he was headed for a shelter at 3 months, the girlfriend of mama's owner had him posted on Next door as a free puppy and I raised my hand by email and got him in August 2018. Got his name cuz he howled like a wookie when I crated him and left for work. Tug pic December 2019. I don't have the tall black shepherd mix anymore, but Wulfwarro is on the left, and my Shar pei mix Camelo is on the right. Camelo is 12 now, a remarkable age for a pei apparently.

2018

 

[roadkillbobb]

so far the new puppy is super good about not chewing anything but the toys and bones I give her to chew.... she must have gotten some training before getting picked up as a stray dog by the town...a friend up state bought a lab puppy about 9 months ago and he was a terror, each time I visit my friend his furniture gets more chewed up and everything else the dog could get ahold of..and his dog would chew the pee pads up, so he had to stop using them and the dog would pee everywhere..so far my pup is using the pads 95% of the time...
I dont swim and use a float vest whenever I go out in the water, I have a few big ponds on my property..my older sheppard mix went swimming no problem and summer ill let the new one go swimming and see how she does..

 

[Gypsi]

I just train to outdoors. I got Bronx in January 2009, he was my 2nd house dog and the first pup i kept indoors. I didn't buy enough teething toys. I became allergic to dogs in high school, it took years to not get pneumonia, and the shepherd type coat holds too much dander for me to have inside, too fluffy. Old dogs don't chew much but 2 of mine virtually inhale rawhide bones so I don't buy those anymore, I get Wulfie core strength bones from Kong, he makes a mess but he has a good time. They last a couple days. All my dogs eat diamond natural chicken n rice plus a good probiotic and turmeric paste. Bronx taught me a lot about health, inflammation and cancer. I take turmeric paste too.

 

[Wil]

not being able to swim is an issue, love the life vest

That's why I never understood why Dad went Navy in the war. He never could swim a lick either.
My Coy dog had a hard time swimming too. He fell out of the boat one time while trolling for muskys. He fell asleep and away he went. He looked like he was drowning trying to splash water all the way to shore. He made it and when we got to him,he jumped in the boat and wouldn't as much as looked at us,even for the whole 1
1/2 hours for the drive home.It took three days at home before he quit ignoring us. He thought we tossed him in the water,I think.

 

[roadkillbobb]

I use to make the turmeric paste and give it to my older dogs, I tasted it once and yuck, so I stick to turmeric in capsules,I know the turmeric isnt as activated as the paste, but some is better than none I started growing fresh turmeric and use that for cooking, it has a better taste than the dried stuff, next is to start growing ginger, thats also great for dogs and humans...

 

[Wil]

Sounds like you have Chef skills. I love cooking but I am not good at it.

 

[roadkillbobb]

I am a good cook, I also BBQ and have a few smokers for low and slow meats, I have a cold smoker so I can smoke cheeses and other foods that dont need to be cooked, also pressure caning to store foods and dehydrating to make my own jerky treats...for both dogs and myself..

 

[Gypsi]

I am impressed Bob. I am a good cook, I have canned peaches and pears from my trees, and I just got a dehydrator, possibly my younger rooster is going to be jerky, I'm not sure, He's kinda ornery and I do not want him to breed, his mom's genetics were poor, she died young and his sister died younger. I've been keeping him separate. while grandkids are gone so no one catches me I am considering removing him. I don't smoke much but I did buy a pig in 2013, skinned and quartered, made 2 hams, some bacon, about 30 pounds of sausage, and pork loins and what not, stocked my freezer and my daughters' freezers. I still have the grinder, but it's too much work when I'm working all the time and the daughter that helped me and her

kids moved farther away, we all work too much.

My coy dog turned out to be 25% australian cattle dog, 25% great pyrenees, 12.5% Australian shepherd, and the rest super mutt featuring chihuahua and pomeranian, we call him Teddy the nut job, he's a little crazy, 100% bonded to me, and I'd had him a year before I had the DNA run, he's kinda gray now, he's 9, but going strong. He doesn't like water, I don't know if he can swim because we don't go to the lake and my ponds are for my fish. Cici likes to get in the pond to cool off, I have a kennel fence around it to keep her out, and she has a wading pool most years.

Cici came from the same shelter Teddy came from, she was on death row for a bad case of kennel cough, I quarantined her for a month or so until antibiotics cleared her up, since Bronx died she is pack leader, and keeps the boys in line, squirrels out of the yard. Teddy bothers my allergies if I let him ride in the truck with me, but he loves to so sometimes we take the old truck for a cruise, Cici is a poor car rider, her favorite perch is with her head on top of mine, but you know she was a coddled pup of 6 months when she first got to ride. She is 10 now, showing a little gray. She is one of my chewers, I think she and teddy both nibbled on my bee suit when it was draped over their crates, I patched it up on the sewing machine and learned to hang it up. Catching Cici for a still shot is very hard, that girl moves.

 

[Gypsi]

I use to make the turmeric paste and give it to my older dogs, I tasted it once and yuck, so I stick to turmeric in capsules,I know the turmeric isnt as activated as the paste, but some is better than none I started growing fresh turmeric and use that for cooking, it has a better taste than the dried stuff, next is to start growing ginger, thats also great for dogs and humans...

I don't like the taste of turmeric paste, but when I run out I discover I have arthritis all over, hands wrists, knees ankles hips. I am allergic to nsaids. The capsules give me horrible heartburn. The paste made with plenty of fresh peppercorns and coconut oil, causes a little heartburn but with a meal it's tolerable and I don't know I have arthritis. I'm also a melanoma survivor. I take my turmeric paste. The dogs take theirs, Bronx lived almost 3 years bouncing around the house most of them with metastasized mast cell, he taught me quality of life is important and I started taking turmeric paste when he started bouncing like a puppy. Bronx with my Bonnie goat, 2012.

 

[roadkillbobb]

try using more fresh ginger in cooking, that is also online with turmeric for arthritis and is a great anti inflammatory..and tastes a heck of alot better than turmeric..

 

[roadkillbobb]

I had a koi pond on long island for over 20 years and most of my dogs stayed out of it, but one lab mix would end up in it chasing raccoons, and my friends golden retriever would jump right in anytime he visited...I moved all the fish upstate to my big pond to let them grow and live in nature, it just got to be too much trouble caring for the backyard koi pond..

 

[Gypsi]

try using more fresh ginger in cooking, that is also online with turmeric for arthritis and is a great anti inflammatory..and tastes a heck of alot better than turmeric..

I actually do cook with fresh ginger, and it's tasty, but without the turmeric paste I'm almost crippled. Better to be mobile. I grow some ginger, indoors, haven't managed to locate a starter root for turmeric yet.
I had one lab mix, learned not to have labs with ponds.