All posts in category Thought for the day
While watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Irish Woman had the following thought:
The reason that Mrs. Claus is always urging Santa to eat is so that she can fatten him up on carbs and high-fat foods. Her hopes are probably that he’ll take off in that sleigh, and under the stress of the Christmas rush, he’ll have a stroke and crash. That way she can inherit the entire North Pole How much do you want to bet she has a double indemnity life insurance policy on the fat man?
Yes, it’s no mystery why I love her so much. She’s my soul mate.
Posted by daddybear71 on December 4, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/12/04/thought-for-the-day-35/
Marriage is the state where a person strives to a better person for the sake of another adult, while at the same time resisting the infrequent urges to drive the car into a bridge abutment as a reaction to the actions of that adult.
Posted by daddybear71 on December 3, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/12/03/thought-for-the-day-36/
This morning I shared the road with thousands of people who enjoy playing Russian Roulette with a 1911.
Posted by daddybear71 on December 2, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/12/02/thought-for-the-day-37/
One flaw in the new world of digital news delivery is the loss of a father’s plausible deniability gained by hiding behind a newspaper as he reads it. Now there’s no excuse for not knowing about all of the madness that goes on around me every evening.
Posted by daddybear71 on December 1, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/12/01/thought-for-the-day-38/
- You never know how truly loved you are until you try to strain the bones out of an extra large batch of turkey broth in a home with three cats.
- Cats are true socialists. What you have, they want, be it food, personal space, or body heat.
Posted by daddybear71 on November 29, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/11/29/thoughts-for-the-day/
- Mental note – Do not store the chili powder and cinnamon in identical receptacles next to each other. Although chili powder french toast might have tasted OK.
- I have a very talented wife. She was somehow able to burn her lips on a hair dryer. No, it wasn’t intentional contact. No, I don’t understand it either.
- Thanksgiving math – a 21 pound turkey + 4 adults + 2 college students + 1 teenage girl + 1 Boo = 1 pound leftover turkey stripped from the carcass.
- Bourbon – It’s not just for breakfast anymore
- It is a great compliment when your friend tells his wife that your roast turkey and gravy is better than hers and she agrees with you.
- It is truly amazing how quickly a day of house cleaning can be ripped to shreds.
- When you ask your daughter what she’s thankful for, and she says “My Dad” your allergies can act up something fierce.
Posted by daddybear71 on November 24, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/11/24/thoughts-on-the-day-11/
Here in the U.S., today is Thanksgiving. This is the day we set aside to gather together, celebrate a good harvest feast, and remember to be thankful for the things we should be thankful for every day.
Here’s my list for this year:
- I’m thankful that my family is together, safe, and healthy.
- I’m thankful that Irish Woman and I have been able to stay employed this year, when so many have not been so fortunate.
- I’m thankful that I’ve been able to meet so many great people in the blog world this year, both in person and on-line.
- I’m thankful that I’ve been able to contribute back to the soldiers that are protecting my family.
- I’m grateful that, while things are tightening, my family has everything it needs.
- I’m grateful that my ancestors didn’t settle for what they were given, and gave up everything in order to come here and try to have more, both for them and for me.
- And finally, I’m grateful that all of you humor me while I rant, go off on tangents, and tell bad jokes.
I hope that all of you enjoy your holiday, and I look forward to doing this for a long time.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted by daddybear71 on November 24, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/11/24/giving-thanks/
I think Boo might be a wizard, in the vein of Harry Potter. He seems to only know one spell at the moment: “Accio Crap My Father Doesn’t Want Me To Have”. No matter what I take away from him, how high I put it, or how well I hide it, he always manages to have it again within minutes. He’s not able to overcome locks yet, so the gun safe is still secure, praise be.
I live in fear of the day he starts turning the cat into a teacup, though.
Posted by daddybear71 on November 21, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/11/21/thought-for-the-day-41/
- Fort Knox is a beautiful place to hunt, as always. There is little to no activity in a lot of the areas except for Army training, so it’s not a park.
- Having limited access to your hunting area before the day of the hunt means lots of work done with maps and satellite images.
- Pro-tip – Maps and satellite images are not a substitute for good scouting. What looked like a hay field in 2006 turned into 6 foot high brambles and brush by 2011.
- Driving into your hunting area and seeing “Impact Area” signs off the side of the road gives you a good excuse to have the “If you didn’t drop it, leave it alone” discussion with the kids.
- A friend goes hunting with you. A good friend changes his plans to come and pick you and Girlie Bear up when your truck refuses to start two days before the hunt.
- It’s called hunting, not harvesting. I saw precisely one deer all day, and that was a buck that was too small to shoot. Hunting Buddy’s daughter saw a doe, but her dad didn’t get a shot off. All of us still had a good time.
- Animal count for the day: 1 buck, 27 bluejays, 4 cardinals, and 27 squirrels the size of a Yorkshire terrier.
- Sitting in the woods and listening to an armor unit go through a tank range a couple of miles away is pretty cool, actually.
- Doing a full day at the urban warfare center followed by a full day of walking up and down hills then sitting still for several hours at a stretch makes for a very sore DaddyBear come Sunday morning.
- Getting your daughter away from the TV, radio, little brother, older brother, friends, and homework for a day to just sit in the woods and talk quietly is worth more than any amount of meat in the freezer.
Posted by daddybear71 on November 21, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/11/21/thoughts-on-the-hunt/
- I have come to the realization that I loathe artillery simulators.
- Reverse Mozambique – Two to the chest, one to the dangly bits
- Speaking of which, taking a 5.56mm wax bullet to the dangly bits may be nature’s way of telling you to slow down.
- Virginia, I don’t know if there’s a Santa Claus, but there is indeed a Bogeyman. He shot me twice today.
- The pirate versus ninja debate is over. I was swaggering around like a pirate, and a couple of guys who would make a ninja proud put a couple through my X ring before I even knew they were there.
- Pro tip: When you are observing a cease fire, make sure the other side knows about it before standing in a window.
- Unass – Verb – The act of getting out of a place quickly, without thought to where you are going to go or grabbing anything not already connected to your body. Example: When the other guys lobbed three flashbangs into the window, I unassed the room and headed outside.
- It’s humbling to think that a misunderstanding about what I was going to do today caused so many people to take time out of their days to let me know I was in their thoughts. Please keep the young men and women who trained with me today in those thoughts. Very soon, they’re going to be in a very bad place, and they could use all the help they can get.
Posted by daddybear71 on November 19, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/11/19/thoughts-on-the-day-12/
DaddyBear’s Den 