Memorable Day

[DMS42]

My mother would have been 101 today.
57 years ago I was discharged from the Army.
Mom thought that it was a nice birthday present.

[dryheat]

Happy Birthday of some sort. My dad would be 124 today. Numbers.

[Vern Humphrey]

My mom would be 107, Dad would be 116 -- he was born in a log cabin in Oklahoma Territory.

[Allen]

My mother died at 91. Now would be 101.

My father died at 57 from lung cancer. Would be 105 now.

My mother's father died of lung cancer @ 64. Was badly wounded during WW1.

To put a different twist on things. I'm 12 years older than my father (at time of death) and 5 years older than my grandfather. A very disturbing reminder for me of their short lives.

[Vern Humphrey]

So far, I've outlived my father for 19 years.

My brother and I have a pact to outlive all the men in the family.

Grandfather Humphrey was 49 -- he was a motorcycle cop, chasing a speeder and someone backed out in front of him.
Dad was 62 -- died of kidney failure and an enlarged heart.
Grandfather Clooney was 72 and died of a stroke.
Great grandpa Humphrey was 80 -- I don't know what he died of
Great grandpa Clooney was 87, and walked three miles two days before he died.

I've outlived all but one of them.

[Allen]

I've outlived all but one of them.

Not a good feeling is it?

They died young compared to us.

[Vern Humphrey]

Not a good feeling is it?

They died young compared to us.

My daughter kids me about my "girlfriends" -- very few of my male friends are still alive.

[lyman]

My mother died at 91. Now would be 101.

My father died at 57 from lung cancer. Would be 105 now.

My mother's father died of lung cancer @ 64. Was badly wounded during WW1.

To put a different twist on things. I'm 12 years older than my father (at time of death) and 5 years older than my grandfather. A very disturbing reminder for me of their short lives.

a good friend and one of the guys that got me into shooting Service Rifle, told me a few years before he passed, that he was then 20 yrs older than his dad when he passed
from heart issues,

Mike lasted a few more years, before the heart gave out ,


sadly, his son, who was in his early 20's, and grossly overweight (part genetic on his mother side, part due to eating and drinking too much , he was also a chef) passed a few months later,
no indication he had any issues, had a heart attack (thinking he was 25) and was released one morning after a short hospital stay, then passed the day after he was released
hid mom went out to get some groceries and came home an hour later and found him dead

[dogtag]

My ancestors used to kill Wooley Mammoths

[Vern Humphrey]

The Man and the Deer


The squirrels are rustling the leaves
The birds are beginning to sing
I sit freezing in the dawn
To see what the morning will bring

I have spent many a frozen morning
In a tree or on the ground
Listening, silently listening
For a stealthy sound

For I am a predator
As was my father also
And his father before him
As far back as you can go

This is how we fed our families
When our spears were tipped with stone
And we moved through the forest
Silent and alone

Then we used to hunt in groups
On the frozen ground
And we used the atlatl
To bring the mammoth down

The hungry children in the tent
Waited for what we?d bring
And so we sat silently
An arrow on the string

The instincts of a million years
Now guide my hand
And men with hairy faces
Are with me on my stand

He is coming, softly coming
Drifting like a wraith
I lift my bow in anticipation
And dare not take a breath

 
He disappears behind a bush
But I know where he went
And where he will emerge
And my bow is fully bent

He senses I am there
He looks me in the eye
As the string rolls off my fingers
And I let the arrow fly

My patience is rewarded
And my prey goes down
I approach him with reverence
As he lies silent on the ground

I look down on my quarry
The beauty of nature is there
I have used skill and patience
And I have killed my deer