Good morning!!!!

[jbrumberg]

I致e always had a large number of female friends, a lot of men can稚 grasp being friends with women. I致e never understood why it mattered. My wife never had a problem with it, in fact we were both friends with a lot of them. I never had a problem separating friendship from romance. If all your friends are male, the conversation can get pretty stale.

"If all your friends are male, the conversation can get pretty stale."

Well posted.

It comes down to maintaining mutually respected safe boundaries which is not always easy.

 

[300UGUY]

Great day here, a little cool, and windy, but at least some sun. I got a bit more stuff done, cleaning up after the last weeks projects.

 

[300UGUY]

"If all your friends are male, the conversation can get pretty stale."

Well posted.

It comes down to maintaining mutually respected safe boundaries which is not always easy.

Strange things happens when people make the wrong assumptions.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

RNG, a buddy at church just today told me about his riding buddy. His buddy has a sister that (prior to getting hooked up) rode her BMW bike solo to all 48 continental states. SO THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE.



No close female friends here, unless a shared friend with my wife. Many at work that I would consider a friend, but no lunch dates and such.

Church was great. We had a guest pastor who had a really good message. I saw him tear up during a great song performance by our band which was led by 1 adult accompanied with 3 high school youth members.

 

[toppop52]

RNG, a buddy at church just today told me about his riding buddy. His buddy has a sister that (prior to getting hooked up) rode her BMW bike solo to all 48 continental states. SO THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE.



No close female friends here, unless a shared friend with my wife. Many at work that I would consider a friend, but no lunch dates and such.

Church was great. We had a guest pastor who had a really good message. I saw him tear up during a great song performance by our band which was led by 1 adult accompanied with 3 high school youth members.

Don’t misunderstand, I would never have gone to lunch with a female friend when Lynn was alive unless she was invited. In fact that kind of stuff was just understood. My late cousin was just incredulous over it, he thought if you friends with a woman, you had to be bedding her. I’m going to lunch with my friend Joyce, in N.C. next week, haven’t seen her since late December, we’ve been friends since first grade. We did have a couple of teenaged flings, but we liked being friends, so we took the complications out of it.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 40F this morning for the start, partly cloudy, light wind. Sky mostly clear all day, light to moderate wind, high temp of 67F. Made it to Chapel, then started in on wife's phone, it died overnight, would not boot. Got her a new phone, ATT store took care of SIM card, now working on data recovery, and new phone otterbox.

 

[txdon]

Good evening! Back from a 10 day cruise with a bunch of doctors, cooks, athletes etc... Medical Continuing Education credits were given for attending the lectures. The one thing they all had in common was that the whole food plant based food was the best for health. Of the 3800 people on the ship 2,000 were in our group.

One of the passengers that was not in our group had a heart attack, the cardiologist Doctors ran out of a lecture to try to help but he was dead. I think he was in cold storage till we got back to Florida.

Two people in our group did not make it back on when we stopped at our last stop. Still have not heard from them. They were left on Gradulupe Island.

Whipper was missing when we got home. She had not been seen for 7 days, probably looking for us.

I went to my cousins property 7 miles away where we found her last time and called for her in the dark tonight, as I was walking back to the truck I almost tripped over her. Good girl. She is sleeping next to my while I am typing.

Very tired, see you again late morning. This cruise was really good not only because we had our own cook but because of the people, they reminded me of the Good Morning Thread, we had lots of Instant Pot stories to tell.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, a buddy at church just today told me about his riding buddy. His buddy has a sister that (prior to getting hooked up) rode her BMW bike solo to all 48 continental states. SO THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE.

It's a nice thought, Kyle. Hasn't worked out well with any of the three lady friends that were motorcyclists in my past, though. While we may have shared a common interest, I've gotten to the point where I really don't enjoy group motorcycle rides, or even rides with other, even well seasoned, riders. Just too much that can go wrong, and I've cleaned up way too many messes. I suppose that extends to the rest of life as well. Challenging enough to pilot my own course, let alone worrying about someone else's. Selfish? Lazy? I think I'm just tired of dealing with the drama.

Nice drive down to Colfax today. No freeways, all back roads. Very light traffic and didn't feel pushed to go faster than a big truck on narrow twisting roads allows. There were no hidden gems in my friend's shop, so we settled on just hauling away anything his widow didn't want to deal with. That was good news for my neighbor, and his son who has been working on an old '80s Toyota 4WD. I was able to bring back most of an engine, a transmission, hood, tailgate, and several boxes of parts that'll help him with that project. Also most of three BSA A65 motorcycle engines for his father, who lit up like a Christmas tree when I dropped the tailgate at his barn door. My reward in all this was a nice piece of freshly smoked salmon my neighbor had just made, a very satisfying morsel to snack on for the next few days. Oh, and a really tasty bowl of curried potato soup, also with smoked salmon, from my friend's widow. She's excited to be shopping for a small motorhome, something along the lines of a Sportsmobile or the smaller Ford Transit in a conversion. The factory is in Fresno, and she intends to visit them next week. She said she felt a bit guilty spending $60K on a vehicle, having never had one new before. I told her none of us is getting any younger, and she might as well spend some of that money moldering away in the bank while she's still able to. And that made her smile. That alone was worth the trip.

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-02-26, 0312

30 right now...high in the mid-40's so the light coating of snow we got yesterday should be gone this afternoon.

 

[Jim Shooz]

She's excited to be shopping for a small motorhome, something along the lines of a Sportsmobile or the smaller Ford Transit in a conversion. The factory is in Fresno, and she intends to visit them next week. She said she felt a bit guilty spending $60K on a vehicle, having never had one new before. I told her none of us is getting any younger, and she might as well spend some of that money moldering away in the bank while she's still able to. And that made her smile. That alone was worth the trip.

Tell her " at her age a dollar saved is a dollar wasted" (that's assuming she is a mature woman) I have a friend whose husband died after a long battle with cancer. She bought a new motorhome early Feb and I haven't seen much of her since.