Life is good

June 02, 2019, 08:44 PM

rtguy

Life is good

I’ve been laid off since December. As a pipeline worker it was expected and I was prepared financially. I’ve been working on the yard and fixing up everything that gets neglected when I am on the road for 6+ months at a time. Today I slept in until about 10. I woke up and prepped a Boston butt from one of my pasture raised Tamworth pigs for the smoker. I got the smoker going and had the butt on at about noon. I also put on some burgers from a Black Angus Steer I had butchered. I watched the kids swim in the pond for a few hours while I set in the shade by the smoker. About dusk I put a line in the pond and caught me a catfish, had it cleaned and on the smoker in about 15 minutes. The kids are in the bed now and I’m currently sitting on the porch by the smoker sipping on a little Knob Creek eating catfish and listening to the frogs. I guess tomorrow I will start trying to go back to work but today life is good. I am thankful.

June 02, 2019, 08:50 PM

mr kablammo

A slice of Heaven.

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.

June 02, 2019, 08:57 PM

cruiser68

Nice!

June 02, 2019, 09:14 PM

r0gue

Well played sir.

June 02, 2019, 09:32 PM

SpinZone

The only thing more important than having a good life is recognizing that you have a good life.

“We truly live in a wondrous age of stupid.” - 83v45magna

"I think it's important that people understand free speech doesn't mean free from consequences societally or politically or culturally."
-Pranjit Kalita, founder and CIO of Birkoa Capital Management

June 02, 2019, 09:39 PM

Skins2881

quote:
Originally posted by r0gue:
Well played sir.

Yes indeed. Enjoy it before it's back to the grindstone.

June 02, 2019, 09:43 PM

Tooky13

Doesn't get much better than that! Your appreciation for what you have and positive attitude is commendable.

June 02, 2019, 10:43 PM

chellim1

Sounds like a great day!

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor

June 02, 2019, 10:51 PM

ZSMICHAEL

Nice to read something like this. Hickok 45 ends every video with this phrase. It is welcome in this day and age.

June 03, 2019, 05:48 AM

P-220

As Travis would say, "it's great day to be alive".

May you have many more days like it!

June 03, 2019, 06:31 AM

irreverent

This does sound just about perfect.
Thanks for putting the image in my head, and reminding me to be grateful for all I have.

June 03, 2019, 07:47 AM

9mmnut

Only in America.

June 03, 2019, 07:52 AM

Vanwall

Great post to read at start of my day.

Here’s to many “life is good days” for everyone.

June 03, 2019, 11:24 AM

SBrooks

Sounds Fabulous !!

June 03, 2019, 11:47 AM

Warhorse

“Life is good”

Indeed!

June 03, 2019, 11:48 AM

Jimbo54

I don't know man, but it sounds like you have passed away and ended up in heaven.

Those are the types of days that stay with you for a long time.

Jim

June 03, 2019, 08:03 PM

Wolfpacker

Well done sir.

June 03, 2019, 10:00 PM

FN in MT

Sounds like we both had good days.

I just sat in a chair, had a good cigar with some iced tea and watched as 5 mountain sheep worked their way down the hills and into my field to munch on grass. With my faithful Border Colliie laying at my feet.

I agree, life is good.