Author: Chance

  • Am I one of those sorts

    Am I one of those sorts

    I was down in the relics room, outside now blowing snot, dusty snot, I don’t spit on the ground,are brothers and sisters buried there, no matter where “there is”, total disrespect. Dusty snot is different, it’s not like normal snot. Found a small box, must be 20 of them in there.

    Metal soldiers

    It’s then I remembered what was said in the black swamp.

    Sell them?, yeah that’s an option, better option, baby Conan is now 4 years of age, about the size of a 6 year old. When he turns 5, I’ll tell on his Birthday, here, you take of these for me, they are not to be eaten. Ya gotta keep an eye of 5 year olds, I’ll give an example. Had this other one come into the kitchen, with my dress blues blouse drapped over him, dragging on the floor, “can I have this”? NO! take off and put it back. Kid came back out to the kitchen, I took him by the arm, kinda sternly voice but not to stern, he’s 5. Listen kid, you want that, you gotta earn it, not go outside. I went to his graduation at P.I, standing there next to him and his D.I. Damn kid says, ” I earn it”, his fingers by the chevron on the collar.

    D.I. says ” so you’re the one” We shook hands, damn kid remembered I said.

    With the Conan, I’ll have to sternly remind him not to eat the metal soldiers.

    He should be fine.

  • Don’t know if you know this, so I’ll tell ya

    Don’t know if you know this, so I’ll tell ya

    Marines love cake! Happy Birthday Brothers & Sisters!

    And another thing

    cussing is like a second langauge

    You squint? Let me see your squint

    fuck that nonsense

    Not long ago, was sitting across from my 3rd cousin, (through marriage), said these references won’t work, wthell you talking about. ” Who are these people?”. they are mostly all Vets, all branches they hangout on the Milvets. ” What’s Mlivets?”. So my 3rd cousin (though marriage) declined my loan application, gee thanks you useless fucks.

    A little closer to home, she would have been 101years young today.

    Armydog called, says hold on, then I hear ” hey hun, can you go outside for a minute” he doesn’t swear in front of his wifey. ” Chance you still on the phone?”. yeah… ” Happy Birthday you fucker” Thanks dog

  • Meanwhile in the front yard

    Meanwhile in the front yard

    Men of the lake tryin to sneak by without me knowing, not happening.

    Sips coffee, rather balmy out here with a slight breeze which a natural occurring item, not climate change.

    I try to leave poltics to others, that way I keep the swearing and cussing to a minimum. Doesn’t mean I don’t pay attention

    Random thought:

    Think God has a sense of humor, I think He does, well… I hope He does because I really don’t wanna go around Purgatory wearing rollarskates.

    On the subject of TACT

    How to tell a bunch of fucking commiepinkcobastards to fuck off without really saying fuck off. I give credit where credit is do.

    there’s always the alternative:

    A group of Baboons is known as a Congress

    Ever see something and you cannot help but smile, I do that times why? because everyday,

    the STUPID gets more STUPIDER

    Sips coffee with a small prayer offered

    Let me not be sheltered from the dangers

    but to be fearless in facing them

  • Cry Havoc, loose the dogs of war!

    Cry Havoc, loose the dogs of war!

    Look man, I don’t know if you know this so I’ll tell ya, the Marine Corps birthday is approaching so brace yourself. Sips coffee… Having some unpleasant business to attend to takes me away from where I wanna be.

    Was talking with the ratdog, was telling him, I should become a teacher, that way I can start secretly baptizing the kids without the parents knowing. Sips coffee.But no, I have to deal other stupid shit, want an example. Look lady, I have no business in a nuke facility, I’ve seen enough military bases, and if I gotta fly there, I’m not going there, keep your G’damn yellow star.

    Just getting there should earn me a beer, whenever it starts to snow, people forget how to G’damn drive, I got no reason to visit airports and see brawls, plenty of action on the roads. Sips coffee, here, I’ll tell ya short story of a Former Ranger I knew, that guy had a pet rattlesnake, bit so many times he was immune to the venom, crazy bastard, he also like using a blowgun. Go over there and he blow darts at you with a shiteating grin

    He was a little out there, good guy over-all, you’d like him. Not all my friends are dead or in jail. He moved outwest, could be dead, maybe in jail.

    Yea, I know what ya mean Brother

    Music calms me down

  • Pop Quizz,G’damn democrats also fits

    Pop Quizz,G’damn democrats also fits

    Don’t know how you grew up, an hour of Saturday cartoons was about we got, other than that, outside! Now books, books were everywhere, all kinds. Come to think of it, I never heard once “Outside” when I had my face in book. It’s not like I grew up with a shopping mall down street, there still isn’t a shopping mall around here.

    Good

    Tomorrow, I have this bookworm/buyer coming to look at some books, a good way to look view books, “would I burn a koran?”

    No, no I wouldn’t, I’d do what Thomas Jefferson did and go a step farther, he had it translated word for word so he fully understood what the world was up against. I’d translate it and have it on display so people could understand fully, what it means to be from the West. Marathon, we still live with what happened there so long ago.

    Going through some books on her shelves, I was smiling at the thought, seeing the G’damn democrats clutching their pearls, setting their hair on fire looking like Richard Prior running down the street.

    Maybe this one

    No matter what they say, what they do, they cannot change their stripes.

    It’s not that I have to many books, it’s more like I’m Shelf-deficient.

    This whole album is worthy of your time

    even Sodapop
  • Hurry up & wait mode

    Hurry up & wait mode

    Sips coffee, more like chomping at the bit for today’s excitement, until then I some time to spend sorta and somewhat.

    Let’s see if you’re more like me than not, like music, I like music

    Some people have ( throws ) on the back of couches, like a small blanket, I don’t, I got the fur of former animals, with Ratdog as proof, I like some animals more than others, I betcha you’re just like that yourself. And another thing

    dogs belong on couches, not chains.

    See, we’re not so different.

    Video break:

    I can hear the conversation already

    “what the hell are you doing”

    Screw Peter at the water bill company Paul is raising prices on ammo the bastard

    I was baking some Bacon and I remembered I once put out add .

    Wanted: Woman who can chew hide, sew, clean fish and know gun oil , I got one response from the Marand area, that’s over there by the Soo. ” I can cook” she was what I classified as an instant scratch-off. One and done, no more adds.

    Video break:

    A note from my toolbox came to mind

    why, don’t know just did

    nothing was given to me, earn it, take care of things you have

    Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

    Met a woman in a Piggy Wiggley store down in cheeseland, she asked me if the chicken in the can was any good, Mam, there’s no chicken in that can, that’s Crisco, used for frying chicken. Never forgotten her.

    John Prime was right

    “One day you’re up, the next day you’re down, that really is the way the world goes round”

    I should pick up the game of golf, doesn’t look to hard to learn

  • It’ll be ok, just different

    It’ll be ok, just different

    It’s something I find myself repeating, I don’t like to repeat myself, there’s an exception to just about everything. Ole Ratdog knows his road, starts in getting all kinds of excited when I pull in her drive. Open the door, he goes room to room still looking for his friend, after 10 minutes or so, lays down and whimpers. Get back in the truck, he looks at the house until he cannot see it. Odd situation I find myself in. Being older doggo, beginning to wonder if he’ll just go over the Rainbow bridge because of a saddened heart.

    He’s stopped trembling inside at my place so that’s a positive and he likes bacon. Took a walk early the am, with Ratdog on my lap, some music is needed to see who’s been tresspassing.

    I look at the headlines, the world has gotten mean, it’s gotten ugly, I really don’ want many part of it,out here I don’t find loneliness, I find solitude.

    Am I rich? That depends on your definition of rich.

    I do count my blessings

    that I do

  • Has Life really changed all that much ?

    Has Life really changed all that much ?

    It’s a question I asked Ratdog while driving back, and as his SOP he payed no mind to me, with his head out the window. Ratdog I’m going to give you a history lesson about your position.

    Ratdog see, once upon a time, the American west was very sparsely settled, and between the few towns there were lay hundreds of miles of wild animals, criminals, desperate ex-confederate soldiers with raging ptsd and more ammo than food, and semi-nomadic first nations bands who at any moment might be at war with the us government, each other, and/or local landowners, or just looking to make their name by taking some trophies and bragging rights.

    so if you wanted to get mail, goods, or passengers from one place to another, you better be prepared to defend yourself and run like hell at the same time.

    enter the shotgun rider.

    see in the picture, the fella that’s not holding the reins has a long gun over his knee? he must be confident, that’s a bit longer than the usual coach gun. you’d load with shot instead of slugs because you wanted scatter – aiming from a galloping coach isn’t easy even for a sharpshooter, and the intent was to deter, not kill. you’d aim for your attackers’ horses if you were smart. a man with buckshot in him might chase you harder in anger, but a horse with a peppered flank was goddamn done with your nonsense.

    Of course, such exciting episodes weren’t going to occur on every trip. so as a matter of practicality, while keeping watch for attackers, the shotgun rider was also navigator, relief driver, snack-fetcher, and in charge of entertaining you so you didn’t nod off and drive your horses in a circle all night.

    the modern usage is sometimes just ‘dibs the front passenger seat’, so i see how it became just for claiming stuff across the pond. but the general connotation is also that you’re the main support guy. the co-pilot, the map-decipherer, the one who phones ahead and asks mom if you need to pick anything up on the way back. it’s not just about getting to ride up front, it’s about being in charge of stuff, which is very appealing but also a responsibility.

    and that’s why you don’t call ‘shotgun’ for things other than driving. because that’s the only situation, really, where you’re calling dibs on being somebody’s right-hand guy for a task.

    driver still picks the music, though. that’s a cosmic law Ratdog

  • Road trip

    Road trip

    Ratdog, you ain’t Charlie and I ain’t Steinbeck, get in the truck (picks him up). Going down road, now he thinks he’s the Big cheese now because I fashioned a seat boaster so he can see out the window. So we pull up to the candystore, dog you stay, walking in I wonder if I was feeling like Bert when he went to his favorite candystore.

    ” Nothing wrong with your eyes is there?”.

    How many ask to see this, hold it, fondle it then put it back?

    “there been a few” I can tell by the hairline scratches it’s been more than a few, what you wanting for this Lupua

    (bla bla bla)

    You’re right Carl, there’s nothing wrong with my eyes, try again.

    Having seen ma in action, I know a thing or 2 about haggling. Some young fella off to my left down the counter, watching (learning). After some back & forth we can to an understanding. Went to the pull behind, got Ratdog from the truck, made a couple venison tacos. Having tacos with the dog, he was to busy stuffing his face to hear what I said.

    Who’s the Big cheese now

    I know it, I just know it, Lisa from over the fence will start yappin : that ain’t pistol!”

    Lisa, listen to me, the barrel is long so the chainsaw can be attached, and this bolt slide thingy, it’s built in such a way to accept the bayonet, you know, incase the moose attack!

  • Trollman

    Trollman

    I needed break, finding boxes of white candles, not talking those packages you get 2/4 candles per box, I’m talking about 5 cases that contain packages of 4 each, 24 packages per case. Was she a prepper, let’s just say, she been there, done that, knew all about hard living. Thinking she could have made Patton’s 5th Army warm and cozy with a full belly. I checked the email at 5:30am, what’s this. A picture from a former E-5, with a note. “Chance, I was up by Mac city bailing out a friend thought you’d like a picture of the bridge”.

    I figured some tit for tat was in order.

    Got a coffee

    Trollman

    I know you’re trying to get under my skin, ruffle my feathers, that wasn’t your best, try again, I got faith in you man, don’t let down.

    Back in 21 I was under that monstrosity.

    Wanna know what I thinking Trollman, The good Judge came to mind

    “The best thing that could happen to the U.P. would be for someone to bomb the bridge”.
    —John Voelker, former Michigan Supreme Court Justice  and Yooper
    .

    He wasn’t wrong Trollman

    nothing but trouble down there, just look at those clowns in lansing for proof.

    Break time over

    Pro-tip:

    Hey mister, you have a light?

    Believe you me

    There’s a difference between a package and a case, that’s a package, 8 cases of matches, well one thing is for sure, I won’t be needing to look for sulfur. it’s Atomic number is 16, ok ok, so I like chemistry