There are many reasons for being at home with your parents. I went to
college and after getting laid off from my second shift factory job I
moved in with my parents with a wife and baby for about a month. I have
went and stayed with my mom when she had medical needs for a couple
months with a few nights off to go home to my wife and kids. I had alot
of people ask if we were splitting up during that time.

The thing I look at is are they able to work and if so are they going
to school(tech/college) or are they working. You have to be either
disabled, in school, or working(could be like I was and in between jobs
for a short time). Jobs are everywhere it just depends how low you are
willing to work for and how nasty the jobs are. So you can not tell me
you are out of work for 3 months or more and not be in school or have a
disability/medical need. McDonald's is hiring breakfast help nearly
always. The hours are bad(4am-11am), you never get 40 hours, and the pay
is just above minium wage. But it is a JOB. I once shoveled horse manure
for a living. It was hot, nasty, smelly work for little pay, but it kept
my daughter in diapers and her other needs like a HOME. Can ya tell I
can not stand people who will not work("will not" not "can not"). Now
being a house wife is hard work so yall know I am not downing people who
stay home and take care of the family and home.

Yes I would marry again and actual plan on finding someone. That is why
I am on a site like this. I am not in any rush but I think there is a
person out there for me.

Drunks! I am not talking about someone having a few drinks. I even like
getting tipsy. But when you push it further than getting a buzz and have
to try to crawl to the bed if you can make it that far type drunks get
on my nerves big time.

I have a few of those ear hairs. My father does not trim his and it
bugs me. I have to admit I forget to trim them from time to time but
they never get so long they stick out like a bush. I feel the same way
about people with nose hair that sticks out that is not trimmed. So far
I have not had to trim my nose hair but I have plucked a couple wild
ones.

A true cowboy works on a farm, or atleast did at one point in time. A
farmers work is never done. We learn to keep at something till the job
is done and done right. I think of myself as a disabled cowboy. I could
break horses, lasso goats(never needed to lasso a calf), pull calves(in
other words deliver a baby even by C section where the cow was nearly
dead or died to save one of them), milk goats/cows, haul hat from
daylight til daylight(got to get it up before it rains) and much more.
Without this experience you do not learn the patients a cowboy has or
what drives him to keep doing what he does when there are better paying
jobs out there. We are a dieing breed. I was hoping to raise my son on
the farm. My oldest daughter misses that way of life but the second one
is glad it is gone for us.

About the comment about putting the horse up wet, your right in that a
horse should be walked until it is cooled down and then showered before
putting them in a stall as they can get muscle cramps to the point of
injurying themselves. I put my wet/worked horses in a small barn lot
and/or round pen so they could walk it off most of the time. I had a
couple horses which were turned out to pasture after working as they
where pets and came right to you when called but I hate working to get a
horse to ride to work so it was just a few that got this treatment.

If you take his comment sexually as I think he meant it to be taken
then you still need to be a cowboy and wipe her down and cool her off
before leaving the bed, LOL.

Spammer be gone!

I had that happen. I rented a nice older home and the yard was really
over grown. I mowed the yard and found a chevette without wheels sitting
on the ground(not on blocks). But then again I am a red necked country
man(no longer a boy LOL).

I have dated both short and tall and those in the middle. I do not find
height to be a problem unless they are to one of the extremes.

Age issue does have limits. When you are older(30 up) most of us have
settled down. A 30 yo can easily have a great relationship with someone
in their 50s. I know a couple couples like this. But when you get below
30 it really depends on how mature the younger person is. I have seen a
few 18 yo in my life time that were done partying and sowing their wild
oat and ready to settle down and showed they could be mature. But this
is rare. At 25 yo most are ready to settle down but a few are not.
Ofcourse you have to click, be attracted to each other(not 100%
physical).

NONE coffee is nasty. Now tea is a different story, LOL. I love a cup of
hot tea. I have about 4 types of tea. I drink a gallon or more of iced
tea a day. It is normally lipton as I could not afford the good brittish
tea for all the tea I drink.

It will come to past because the bible says it will. But I do not think
the world is quite ready for it. We would need a real reason to unite
like a common enemy from another world at this point in time to even get
people to really think about it.

But under a single goverment with all countries being more like
states and a set minium wage the out sourcing problem would come to an
end quickly. I remember when Levis jeans were 100% made and processed in
the US. I lost my job at a place that stone washed and bleached(acid
washed) jeans for them before NAFTA. Once that was past the company I
worked for built a new plant in Mexico and moved the jobs to Mexico. To
the people in my area NAFTA was the worst thing to ever happen to our
economy since the great depression. Carrier AC company moved part of its
company to mexico and moved the rest to I think MS from a local plant.
Now the supporting company for them(made motors) is closing/moving.
NAFTA cost my county over 3000 jobs in rural TN where the loss of just a
couple hundred jobs is felt. There are not any jobs here unless you are
in health care or other special feilds.

We are in a global economy. I purchase goods from China, Mexico, and
many more countries. In turn these other countries buy goods from us and
that is normally food crops like corn, soybeans, or wheat. The problem
is these goods are not making much if any money for the farmers. When
you go to sell nearly any goods people look to the global market and see
where they can get it cheaper. I am a beekeeper and honey has a global
price. The packer will pay a bit more for US honey for 2 reasons. One is
the shipping cost are less. And 2 is many countries do not have
inspectors to regulate what goes into the hives(mite treatments, and
other pesticide and such that are used on crops). They have to test each
lot before using it and if they find the levels of certain chemicals to
high it is a pain to return the product for a refund. The bad thing is
selling honey in bulk us beekeepers only get roughly $1 a pound. Yet a
one pound jar in the grocery store will cost you $3 or more for imported
honey and $4 for blended honey(where US and imported honey are mixed)
and $5-7 per pound of US honey. So I put my honey in quart canning jars
which weigh roughly(no certified scales) 3 pounds of honey for $8 and
specialty honeys like poplar(tree bloom which is source of honey for 2
weeks) I get $12. It pays to market many products as locally
made/produced. But when you get into clothing which is light weight to
ship and the labor here is double what it is over seas you will never
compete making standard T shirts. 5 years ago I bought a gross of shirts
in different kid sizes(6 months to 5T I think) for $5.60 a dozen with
mixed colors. We bought an assortment of iron ons for 50 cents each. We
had the press to put them on and made them up and sold them at the flea
market for $3 each. Shirts and iron ons where made in China and Taiwan.
The company we bought the iron ons from sold shirts with the prints on
them but they were about $2 each this way. We had less than a dollar
each in them when we did this 2 minute step ourselves. This opens
another option which many products say made in the USA on are only
assembled here. I sold fireworks and the lot I rented for this was at a
furnature store. Many of the pieces he sold said made in the USA. He
bought this stuff from China. You know how table legs can be held on
with screws or bolts. All you have to do is buy this furnature
completely made but not assembled without the bolts to put it together
and it can legally be called made in the USA. I helped him unload the
container truck and assemble a few pieces. The card board boxes said
product of China but the furnature said made in the USA on the under
side. He said it is because I have to furnish the nuts to put the legs
on the tables and the screws for the chairs. But if they are packed with
the hardware it says made in china. Weird rules but it is a way of
making something made in China according to me legal to call made in the
USA.

I worked to hard today to get back and pick up my photos and the photo
cd. I get to the store and they hand me 2 rolls of new film and said
they were training a lab tech at the developer and they exposed my whole
roll of film. So bare with me a little longer as I will have a pic put
up soon.

Yep I believe in it but finding a woman that is not coming off a bad
relationship which is looking for you to hurt them is hard to do. But
there has to be an attraction and I do not find most black ladies
attractive. But hispanics, european and asian ladies have a chance.

Black Sabbath, ACDC, Metallica, yah I am a metal head as well. We do
not have a local heavy metal station though so I am kind of out of touch
with the newer groups. I miss our metal station that sold out and went
to country music.

Spiders are our friends they eat the annoying bugs like flies and
skeeters. If it is not in your way(like you need to walk through there),
I would leave them alone. If it was a brown recluse(fiddle back) or a
black widow it would be best to kill it as they are poisonous enough to
do harm to us. The rest get left alone. Just like I will never harm a
rat snake but depending on where I find it I may kill a rattle snake.

Well I did not feel like doing anything but made myself get up and
start rolling vines. The work is done now I have an evening to get on
line or do what ever in. To bad a migrain hit so I have been in bed for
about 3 hours. I would have already had dinner cooked if the migrain
would not have come along.

Someone asked whats for dinner. Here it is going to be baked chicken,
blackeyed peas, green beans, and stewed taters.

I would buy me a farm with a couple walking horses so that I would
never have to worry about rent again. Also a farm will produce income
from which I can support my family better. Another plus is a farm
produces food(garden and harvesting animals). Then would come a truck,
van, and car for each of the older girls. I do not want anything to
fancy even if money is no problem.

Poor Vandy never gets respect. Ya know that college has alot of pre med
don't cha. It is odd to find people with brains and strength, LOL.

I was at the horse show(more on that in another thread coming soon). As
I was getting out of the car to make my rounds about the stables they
were tossing the coin for the UT game. UT was beating Cal the last I
heard 35 to 18(from my tired mind). I do not have cable and can not put
up an antanea where I rent so I am unable to watch but the radio works,
LOL.

I agree with your thoughts about do not worry about it. I do not worry
about but feel I could be missing out on a few good ladies because they
will not give even a short bio. The pic thing is another matter. Some
libraries will not let you use their computers to load pictures to
upload on the net. And some people only use the library computers. So
these people would be left out if a picture was required. But hey I got
mine dropped off so maybe by Tues. I will have one posted if I make
another trip into town Mon.

I was 16 and had a short lustful relationship with a woman that was
very well kept at 52. Best BJ I have ever had as she had no teeth and
could use her gums. So do not knock it until you try it, LOL.

I find some very intertaining and other just stupid.

Survior, Amazing Race, and American Idol in that order. Now if only I
had cable again so I could watch them. Oh well I get more pleasure and
use out of the internet and can only afford one.

No cable since the ex split so not seen many commercials lately. Those
Red Stripe beer commercials are silly.

One of the best shirts I have seen a few years back is "I see Stupid
People". It came out right after that movie(6th sense) where the little
boy whispers I see dead people. Or another that reads " to keep an idiot
busy see back" on the front and sort of repeats itself "to keep an idiot
busy see front" on the back.