John turns 40 today and his age now matches his hairstyle. :p
Happy Birthday Brother! And thanks for all you've done to help so many in the trad realm. :thumbsup: :campfire:
Well then, may I be the second to say Happy Birthday John.
Happy Birthday John. :wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Happy Birthday John. Your wisdom of things in the bentwood realm have helped me a bunch over the last year and a half. Thank you.
Happy birthday John, lot's of great people born in March......
David
Dang you don't look near that young. LOL
You got a ways to go before you are an ol timer though.
Mike
You don't look a day over 39 364/365. Have a good one!
Happy birthday :clapper:
Welcome to the 40's John! I may be fat but I still have more hair than you! LOL Hope your Bday is a good one!
Happy Birthday John, I hope you have a great one.. Jim
Happy Birthday John!!!!!
And Darren is obviously jealous of our hairstyles as well!!!!
Happy birthday John. Hope you have a great day.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN!!! :thumbsup:
AND MAAAAAAAAANY MORE!!! :archer: :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
young pup :wavey: happy Birthday John
Happy Birthday, John. May you have many more. Jawge
happy bday John! Still waiting for ya to get up here, got an open spot for ya, just say when! moosies here we come.
Happy B-Day John! :wavey:
Your catching up to me John!
Happy Birthday bud :thumbsup:
Happy B'day John..... I hope we get to share a fire one day..... Terry
Thank you all. That is very nice of you. I am truly blessed with great friends all over the world. I hope to share a fire with all of you some day.
I had a good weekend. Friday, my wife rescues me from work (with the boss' permission) and drags me away for some couple time in Downtown Indy. Then we hit an awesome Greek restaurant with my brother and sister and their significant others. Then we go duckpin bowling.
Saturday, I get up early for the boy's Cub Scout pinewood derby. I won the Dad's class! Then we spent the afternoon riding our bikes, playing in the creek, getting chased by neting geese, rastling snapping turtles and so on. I even got to spend a couple hours in the shop working on a cool sinew-backed yew flatbow with lacewood tip overlays. It's gorgeous. I'm putting prarie rattlers on it. Family cookout last night followed by Peyton Manning on SNL. Peyton and I share a birthday BTW.
Today was more fun with fried chicken and all the fixins plus chocolate mayonaise cake. Overall, a very blessed weekend.
Thanks again,
John
He aint 40, it's the 11th anniversary of his 29th.......Happy Birthday bud, sounds like you had a great weekend, I think the pinewood derby is what I miss most about Scouts......
Dave
Was out of town and missed this blessed event. Happy Birthday to my old time osage cuttin buddy :thumbsup:
John,
We have discussed our "connections" in prior posts, wife names, kid names, etc...
now I log in and find we share the same birthday!! I celebrated my 38th on saturday, spent the day installing fencing on one of our new backstops at our little league fields. The "perks" of being board members, we get to volunteer our saturdays/sundays preparing for a new season....my wife did take me out to dinner- so I couldn't complain too much.
Also, I did get the new stave, but have just finshed winter basketball (as the coach) so I haven't even started yet. Now little league is starting and I coach 2 teams for that, but the days are longer and will get started soon.
Thanks again, and Happy B-day.
Dave
Thanks again.
DRR, that is spooky man. Are you familiar with the concept of multiverses where there are multiple universes happening at the same time separated only by tiny little variations? In these, we all exist as unlimited different but the same people with minor variations based on small changes. Makes ya' wonder if we were supposed to be living in parallel universes but the space:time continuum had a little blip and the wormhole of the Tradgang has linked us together. I bet if we ever met in person we would throw the whole thing off and be responsible for the breakdown of time as we know it :)
John
Whuded he jes say?
Sounds like he's been watching too much Star Trek. Happy B-Day! How's it like being f-f-f-fourty? I've only got a month left... :scared:
The time/space continuum could be thrown off, but it would be worth the risk, we will meet at some point in the near future, just have to keep abreast of trad events and plan on attending one.
Dave
Cloverdale in June.
Wow, I figgered I'd already missed yer 40th. The "do" really had me thrown off! Is that how ya hide grey? lol
Happy belated B'day, John. Best wishes for many more.
Dang, Scifres is older 'n me? Whoda thunk it!
Happy birthday John. Hope you and yours are doing well.
Happy Birthday! Congrats<><
I think John just went down the Rabbit Hole.... :D Terry
Jeff Struberg....
Yeah, but we're all still younger than Ferret.
Ah yes....Cloverdale in June.....I can almost smell the Porta Potties now......
Otto;
I will be there early this year! Going to burn some vacation time to hit Cloverdale and Compton's rather than pulling the all night drive again.
Have to bring Scifres a birthday steak or sumpin'...
Ahhhhh,the sweet smell of porta potties on a fine Indiana summer day :scared: :scared:
Does anyone else imagine that Johns pinewood derby car may have been made out of osage? :bigsmyl:
Thanks to everyone. You really are making me feel good :)
I shaved my beard a couple years ago and then grew it back this winter. Pretty scary how much gray is there.
Joe, I seriously wanted to make the car from osage but I ran out of time. Next year I will though.
My kids are already talking about Cloverdale. Like every day. I think I've created some monsters. Lainey, the 6 year old, thinks she can handle the MOJam drive this year too. She brought it up again yesterday. And James was telling his friend all about Cloverdale this morning in the car on the way to school. I really don't think I'll need a birthday steak though. Maybe some birthday salad or fruit. Seems there is always plenty of meat floating around there - hehehe.
I can't wait!!!!!!!
John, My June is fully booked, my 12 year old daughter is on a tournament softball team and we have games every weekend in June....
I'm sure we'll meet someday..
Dave
happy birthday john :wavey: :campfire: real young pup
My wife and I decided no spring or summer sports anymore. There are too many things to do to limit our family to organized activities. We are gonna play in the creek, go hiking, camping and generally just play around. That's what I did as a kid and I turned out OK :)
Well...............um..........uh....sure John, whatever you say.
Been out of the office for a few days, finally got a chance to visit the gang again.
John, I know the feeling about the sports issues.
With 3 kids, this is my schedule...
April-July, little league, coaching 2 teams and a board member (ie: work like a dog on fields sat/sun, and running tournaments)
May-Sept, golf league on Tues nights
Aug-Oct, coach sons rocket football team
Oct-Dec, coach daughters middle school basketball team
Jan-March, coach other daughters winter b-ball team
The hardest part- the 20 minute drive from home to the school just about every night, sit down family meals are hard to come by...
The best part- being able to help not only my kids, but all the single family home kids that need the extra attention. I really enjoy being a parent that kids can look up to and seeing them grow and excel when they get the opportunity.
The other big reason for the summer softball league- my 12 year old daughter has some exceptional talent pitching. Don't want to boast on my part, my wife has spent many hours in the backyard with her. She has been going to a pitching coach this winter and he routinely sends 8 or more of his players on to play college ball. He has let us know that she is one of the top 5 pitchers he has coached in the last 40 years for her age. She has the dream of playing for MSU or Michigan, and has some very good potential, so we are trying to help her be successful at it. Growing up in this small town, my father and his brothers were good athletes (dad played small college b-ball), my older brother was a freshman starter at qaurterback, shortstop, and guard for the varsity teams, myself and younger brother were 3 sport athletes all 4 years as well. We kinda have a local reputation for being good athletes. I just want my kids to have the chance to do what they want in sports, and have someone coaching that cares about them, and teaches them the proper fundamentals of each game. They will benefit from it when they get to high school. Our school system is located in one of the poorest counties in the Michigan and anything I can do to help the kids grow and show them they can be good at something will help them in the future (all the kids). I wouldn't change any of it right now, yeah, I certainly get tired at the end of seasons, but after a week or two break, I am ready for the next one to start....
PS, I did convince the wife to purchase a used motor home a month ago, we need it to travel to Lyndsay's softball tournaments, and go camping on weekends.....
I did sneak it out Saturday night for a steelhead fishing trip with 2 buddies and 4 teenage boys. It was a great time and provided some well needed space for our 4 hour snooze break, that counts as camping I think :thumbsup:
I 'spose that depends on how you define "OK" ...
Happy belated John. You're proof that good guys really DO finish first!
The Other John
Don't even wanna hear it....
Got three 17 year old daughters. Been runnin' my butt off for the last 12 years gettin' 'em to all their sports and activities. Only good thing about the whole deal is that it's almost done with...
Oh, and I got three of the best dang kids you could ever hope for.