Over The Hill Gang , Old Farts with Young Cars

[Normagene]

Originally Posted by RubyCamaro

Well We had a productive day. I painted the swing & the mail box post. Mike & I both cleaned up our Camaros a little (just a whore bath to get the bugs off). Then Mike cooked steaks & I cooked some zucchini, some broccoli & some garlic toast to go with it & prepped some crook-neck squash to freeze. I decided to wait to go see daddy tomorrow since I will have the whole day off to deal with the Chevy dealership about messing up Ruby's radiator flush & sign off on the sale of the homeplace. And there was a hard rain in Clarksville & did not feel like driving in. Oh, and I got my hair colored. Here are a few pics from the day.

The food looks great, but the portions are not correct if you're trying to get your body in shape. The meat should be cut in half, and the other 3/4 of the plate should be veggies. Double the amount of veggies! Two pieces of bread is a sure way to add pounds.

You will actually be adding More Food and yet it will make you loose weight. Protein should be about the size of a deck of playing cards, then a mountain of veggies. That's without any sorta heavy cream/cheese sauce of course.

I know I'll catch hell for my comments, but you always complain about your weight and gett'n in shape. So this is just a suggestion on portion control. Eat eat eat, all you want when it's straight from Mother Nature!

[69supersport396]

Originally Posted by Normagene

The food looks great, but the portions are not correct if you're trying to get your body in shape. The meat should be cut in half, and the other 3/4 of the plate should be veggies. Double the amount of veggies! Two pieces of bread is a sure way to add pounds.

You will actually be adding More Food and yet it will make you loose weight. Protein should be about the size of a deck of playing cards, then a mountain of veggies. That's without any sorta heavy cream/cheese sauce of course.

I know I'll catch hell for my comments, but you always complain about your weight and gett'n in shape. So this is just a suggestion on portion control. Eat eat eat, all you want when it's straight from Mother Nature!

Kinda like what the Paleo Diet is all about.

[RubyCamaro]

Originally Posted by Normagene

The food looks great, but the portions are not correct if you're trying to get your body in shape. The meat should be cut in half, and the other 3/4 of the plate should be veggies. Double the amount of veggies! Two pieces of bread is a sure way to add pounds.

You will actually be adding More Food and yet it will make you loose weight. Protein should be about the size of a deck of playing cards, then a mountain of veggies. That's without any sorta heavy cream/cheese sauce of course.

I know I'll catch hell for my comments, but you always complain about your weight and gett'n in shape. So this is just a suggestion on portion control. Eat eat eat, all you want when it's straight from Mother Nature!

I did not eat the whole steak. I used over half of it to make me 2 lunches for work along with some of the veggies. I ate more veggies once there was room on my plate.Of course the bread was gluten free & healthier than it looked but I still probably did eat too much of it. But I worked hard outside all day & had not eaten a lot other than a good breakfast & just a bit of a snack.

[Normagene]

I get it. The only point I was trying to make is that how you eat is the key to your success. Exercise tones and builds muscle, but proper food intake is the only way you can reach your goals.

It has to become a lifestyle. Sugar is the worst. Eat it the way mother nature made it. The more man has processed it the more unhealthy the end product.

[RubyCamaro]

Well, the papers are signed on the house/farm. It's all over now except the crying as the saying goes. I am sad but I doubt there will really be any crying. I will think a lot as I always have, about all the work, play, pets, family & growing up that happened there. I'm sure I will still drive by often just like I do by both my grandparents houses & farms that were sold quite a number of years ago. Farm life was good. I had a great family life. No regrets. Another chapter closes.

[69supersport396]

That will pass. I no longer feel the need to drive my by childhood home. The memories and photos are good enough for me.

[dianeokie]

Originally Posted by RubyCamaro

Well, the papers are signed on the house/farm. It's all over now except the crying as the saying goes. I am sad but I doubt there will really be any crying. I will think a lot as I always have, about all the work, play, pets, family & growing up that happened there. I'm sure I will still drive by often just like I do by both my grandparents houses & farms that were sold quite a number of years ago. Farm life was good. I had a great family life. No regrets. Another chapter closes.

I know this was a difficult step for you all, but I'm sure it will be easier without the maintenance.

Originally Posted by 69supersport396

That will pass. I no longer feel the need to drive my by childhood home. The memories and photos are good enough for me.

I don't know. I still drive by my childhood home anytime I'm in Oklahoma. Think it's really dependent on the person. My dad, grandma and mom's ashes are all buried close by. Same for my grandparents and their home. My late husband is buried near our first home, so I drive by all those places. I'm the only one still around in my wedding photo, no grandparents left, no parents left and no brother left, God be with them.

[69supersport396]

The new owners are changing so much that it longer pleases me to drive by. Our next door neighbors are gone and that house and property have changed even more.

I do make a point to drive by my old house in Bel Air, MD though.

[L&M CAMARO 6]

Morning all, Ruby I will be going through the same thing soon. My father passed in Oct. of 2014 but mother is still n the family home. She is now 95 but still going strong (for a 95 year old). Being the eldest I will need to keep it together, get the house ready for sale. This is where I lived from age 9 until moving on my own.
Hang in there Ruby.

[RubyCamaro]

Good morning. Off to Nashville today. I will have to make do with the few books & supplies I keep in Nashville since I was unexpectedly off yesterday & could not plan & select materials to bring for the clients scheduled for today. That's okay though. That will give me the chance to bring more stuff back to Springfield as I will have more room in my trunk & won't have to make 2 trips back & forth to the car. Have a good day everyone.

[Normagene]

Originally Posted by 69supersport396

The new owners are changing so much that it longer pleases me to drive by. Our next door neighbors are gone and that house and property have changed even more.



I do make a point to drive by my old house in Bel Air, MD though.

We went by my hubby's parents house, first time since his dad passed, and that was about a decade later. Very difficult for my husband. A builder bought it and added/built three new McMansions, the driveway is now a street.

I know things change, that's just the way life works, but sometimes it's difficult to face. If my husband could have a do-over I don't think he would stop by. The memories are now sorta tarnished. He'd rather have kept it in the past.

[Norm Peterson]

Originally Posted by RubyCamaro

Well, the papers are signed on the house/farm. It's all over now except the crying as the saying goes. I am sad but I doubt there will really be any crying. I will think a lot as I always have, about all the work, play, pets, family & growing up that happened there. I'm sure I will still drive by often just like I do by both my grandparents houses & farms that were sold quite a number of years ago. Farm life was good. I had a great family life. No regrets. Another chapter closes.

Hang onto the good memories, because no matter who takes over the property any of us grew up on, they will make changes that wouldn't have been made back in the day, or changes that you'd ever make. And they will look "out of place" to you, through the filter of what you do remember.

This will happen even if the old homestead ends up with a family member. By agreement and as part of the distribution of Dad's assets (I'm the executor) my sister and her hubby are now the owners of the house that she, I, and our brother grew up in, Dad having passed a little over 3 years ago and Mom a couple of years before that. I know that there have been changes made that Dad would never have done, and not just the disposal of stuff with little obvious or immediate value.


Norm

[skipinminn]

Recently I had a chance to walk the halls of my Junior High School. The halls seemed so big back when I was a kid now everything seemed so small LOL < Brought back many good and not so good memories. I once read we remember more GOOD times then bad. <

[Normagene]

Subject: Grammer is important.

On his 70th birthday,
a man was given a gift certificate from his wife. The
certificate was for consultation with an Indian medicine
man living on a nearby reservation who was rumored to
have a simple cure for erectile dysfunction.

The husband went to the reservation and saw the medicine
man. The old Indian gave him a potion and, with a grip on his
shoulder, warned ‘This is a powerful medicine. You
take only a teaspoonful, and then say: ‘1-2-3.'
When you do, you will
become more manly than you have ever been in your
life, and you can perform for as long as you want." The
man thanked the old Indian, and as he walked away, he turned
and asked: “How do I stop the medicine from
working?" "Your partner must say ‘1-2-3-4,'
he responded, "but when she does, the medicine will not
work again until the next full moon."
He was very eager to see if it worked so he went
home, showered, shaved, took a spoonful of the medicine,
and then invited his wife to join him in the
bedroom. When she came in, he took off his clothes and said:
"1-2-3!"

Immediately, he was the manliest of men.
His wife was excited and began throwing off her
clothes, and asked: "What was the 1-2-3 for?"

And that, boys and girls, is why we should never end our
sentences with a preposition, because we could end up with a
dangling participle.