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Posted by CDNRatMan
- October 31, 2012, 11:52:38 AMQuoteoh please let me have this one.......Geez, now i really feel old... joined the Navy right after my 17th birthday.
in time to be a cabin boy for Chris........Chris Columbus.......... 
Posted by 49Reo
- October 31, 2012, 11:03:52 AMWhat year?
Posted by chief
- October 31, 2012, 11:00:01 AMGeez, now i really feel old... joined the Navy right after my 17th birthday.
Posted by 49Reo
- October 31, 2012, 10:47:25 AMI was 11 in '68. Hats off to you, Troll; and to all the other Vietnam Vets; that was quite the "war". My sisters boyfriend was over there too, I think in '68 as well. He doesn't have much good to say about it.
Regards and such,
49Reo
Btw, Ratman, on the subject of "gray": I have been gray since my early 40's, when I get razzed about it, I just tell them,"the older the violin, the sweeter the music!!" 
Posted by CDNRatMan
- October 30, 2012, 21:12:20 PM I was 13
Posted by pcarrell
- October 30, 2012, 18:16:53 PMI would have been 3......kid
Quote from: Troll on October 30, 2012, 17:53:04 PMThank you for your service......that was a tough one!I was in Viet Nam in '68
Posted by Troll
- October 30, 2012, 17:53:04 PMDefine "kid"....I was in Viet Nam in '68
Posted by pcarrell
- October 30, 2012, 17:28:24 PMThe gray is for wisdom, not age!
I was a kid in '68.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- October 30, 2012, 17:09:27 PMI have the same OEM badges on my ride, kind of like them and I will leave mine in place .........
don't think you can kidnap your own thred 49 but we will stand united...lol......68 eh! You were a youngster...eh! I was a teenager and pcarrell was an adult by then judging from all the grey on his face........ooooooooohhhh
Posted by pcarrell
- October 30, 2012, 14:59:16 PMWhen I first got my ride she looked pretty naked, but not as naked as Ratman!
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Drifter/IMG_0453.jpg
Posted by 45 Bravo
- October 30, 2012, 14:49:26 PMOne of the po's of mine sanitized the bike it has the Vulcan badges, but Kawasaki is only on the white neck label. No where else.
I kinda like it.
Posted by pcarrell
- October 30, 2012, 09:13:50 AMYou know, I never got to see the badges on my ride. The first owner stripped them off and the second owner mostly just let the bike sit for 2 years until I got it.
Posted by 45 Bravo
- October 29, 2012, 23:48:33 PMThis is just to remind us what has brought us together on this forum....
And a toast to sunny days yet to come.
45 Bravo
Posted by 49Reo
- October 29, 2012, 22:13:58 PMI enjoy winter; even enjoy plowing once a week or so; kind of a bummer right now, I have to sit and watch the wife plow with the 4-wheeler; she doesn't want to try the plow truck.
When we (my family) moved to Canada in 1968 (I was a kid then) we were homesteading in Northern B.C., near the Halfway River country, we were literally 'snowed in' from "too deep to drive" until after things dried up after spring break-up. We had to build 8 miles of road from the last oil-patch lease road to our homestead; literally a trail dozed through the bush and trees, build a bridge to cross one river (the Cameron) and ford a creek (Blair Creek) about 150 feet from the house. (That was our running water,btw) So, all in all, being "snowed in" for a couple of days is kind of a lark now, in comparison. It was a great way to live while young, but wouldn't be so much "fun" now.
Sorry to kidnap a thread; (gotta keep the rabble-rousers mollified, don't we, Ratman?)
Regards and such,
49Reo
Posted by CDNRatMan
- October 29, 2012, 16:35:22 PMthat last sentence is so true, I lived in CO, in Colorado Springs for 5 years and I really misse dthe snow the first 3 years then the last 2 years we actually got snow in the city to a decent amount and one that knocked the city off its socks....lol....but I like the winter but do wish it was not so long for the most part, the cold is not so bad I can deal with it. I used to work the local ski hill and at -20C on a wind swept nite it was a long shift outside....but we learn to dress for it.