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20 things I love.

Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by buckeye, May 28, 2012.

  1. buckeye

    buckeye Grizzled Veteran

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    My son and family.
    Archery whitetail hunting.
    Ohio State Football.
    Cookouts.
    Chipotle.
    Pizza.
    Early Autumn.
    Vintage cut clothing.
    BBQ.
    The 4th of July.
    Christmas.
    Thanksgiving.
    Chicken breast.
    Music from the 90' and early 2000's.
    The Outdoors.
    Mexican food.
    Windows down, truck stereo up.
    Shooting guns.
    Funny movies.
    Vintage Americana.

    You?
     
  2. Matt

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    I could just about say ditto...and add snow. Oh and take out OSU fball ;)
     
  3. Iowa Veteran

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    1. God
    2. My wife
    3. My daughter
    4. My son
    5. Archery
    6. Guns
    7. Hunting
    8. Fishing
    9. Asian Food
    10. Photography
    11. Chess
    12. Breathing
    13. Working outdoors
    14. Avoiding Honey-Do's
    15. Mel Brooks Movies
    16. Stephen King books
    17. Mowing
    18. Driving
    19. Boating
    20. Hating OSU
     
  4. Justin

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    With the exception of Ohio State Football, I think you are I are the same person. :eek:
     
  5. Sticknstringarchery

    Sticknstringarchery Grizzled Veteran

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    1. God
    2. Family (all of them)
    3. Archery
    4. Whitetail hunting
    5. Turkey hunting
    6. Motorcycles
    8. Boats
    9. Trucks
    10. Fishing
    11. Being outdoors
    12. Hiking
    13. Animals
    14. Our land
    15. Our house
    16. Improving out home
    17. Clay pigeon shooting
    18. Plinking
    19. R/C cars
    20. Just plain life in general.
     
  6. dprsdhunter

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    Life......
     
  7. MechDoc

    MechDoc Weekend Warrior

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    1)My Higher Power
    2)My Family
    3)My Pets
    4)Bowhunting
    5)being in the woods
    6)Back straps
    7)T bone steaks
    8)Cat Fishing
    9)Metal Fabrication
    10)The U.S.A
    11)Lots of engine horsepower
    12)80's to early 2000 rock
    13)Camping
    14)friends
    15)the internet
    16)American made products
    17)My tools
    18)Rum and coke
    19)Damascus steel
    20)Shed Antlers
     
  8. Ben/PA

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    1. God
    2. Wife/Son
    4. My father's love for my family.
    5. The close relationships within my family.
    6. Where life has taken me both good and bad.
    7. My in laws
    8. Our house
    9. Our hill.
    10. My old truck.
    11. My chainsaw.
    12. My wood furnace.
    13. The river.
    14. The mountain.
    15. Late September.
    16. Early November.
    17. After having a son.........the beach.
    18. The feeling of releasing a perfect arrow.
    19. Finishing anything.
    20. Starting a project.
     
  9. TJF

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    1. Wife, kids and spending time with them
    2. good friends
    3. The wife's cooking
    4. shedhunting, scouting and bowhunting deer
    5. FORD trucks
    6. Music from the 70's, early 80's, 2000 and newer. (90's sucked... bad !!!!!!! )
    7. MT. Dew
    8. Marlboro lights but that is coming to an end
    9. burger and fries
    10. Rubbarb cake
    11. Apple crisp
    12. Chicken
    13. Jelly rolls or anything pastry
    14. Summer nights
    15. The calm after a storm ( don't know why but that always makes me feel good )
    16. Sweet talking the wife into getting something I don't really need with the sweet talking being more fun then actually getting it.
    17. The house mutts
    18. Planting crop and watching it grow
    19. humor and giving others grief
    20. Being around non whiney people that aren't share happy with their problems. For some unkown reason... people I know or even just met ( strangers ) will spill their guts and tell me their problems and go into way more detail then I want to know. It has always been like that. When someone asks me how I am... I say good. When I ask you how you are... it's a friendly courtesy so please just say good and spare me the details.

    Tim
     
  10. Muzzy Man

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    1. The entire Godhead
    2. My wife
    3. Family
    4. Church
    5. Hot Showers
    6. Hot Coffee (Black)
    7. Comfortable Socks
    8. Bow Hunting
    9. Bass Fishing
    10.Swimming
    11.Working Out
    12. Drizzling/misting rain on a 35 degree day.
    13.The Beach (stingrays swimming in the surf)
    14.The Smoky Mountains (moss in a running stream)

    15. Friends who want nothing
    15A. Being able to give to friends because I want to

    16. The smell of freshly mown grass
    17. Shore lunch
    18. Giggles of a child discovering what lives inside rotten logs or under a stone in a stream
    19. True stories that make me laugh
    20. Funerals for people who lived their life without regret (may it be said of me)
     
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  11. Hooker

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    1. My wife
    2. My family
    3. My home
    4. LSU football
    5. Trail running on a cool, crisp morning
    6. Running a topwater across glass water in the late spring.
    7. Cooking creative and new foods
    8. Eating good food made by people that care
    9. People with a passion for something
    10. That feeling right before you touch the release
    11. That feeling right after you see the arrow hit it's mark
    12. Crawling back in bed after you had to get up for something in the middle of the night
    13. Getting lost in places I've never been
    14. Being in the wilderness, and knowing that you are absolutely alone
    15. The sound of the world waking up in the early morning
    16. Sitting on my deck, drinking a good beer, watching the sun go down behind the trees each evening
    17. Watching my wife dance
    18. Giving people food from my garden
    19. Discovering a new band
    20. Watching a truly great movie that makes you feel some type of emotion
     
  12. Rick James

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    Except for wife/family/pups.....there is no particular order here.

    My wife
    Family
    Our pups
    The Adirondacks
    The big boat (Can't walk by w/o staring, can't go a full day w/o touching it....it's kinda weird, my wife calls it my mistress :lol:)
    All day sits in the woods
    That anticipation of waiting for first light on opening day
    Guns
    Competing in just about anything
    Beavis and Butt Head
    Great Sacandaga Lake
    When you can see the fish as it smacks your lure
    A really really good jig bite
    Watching a big fish swim away after you caught it
    Peeing outside
    Camp Muga Pines
    A med/rare NY Strip
    Anything else cooked on the grill
    My in-laws family parties
    The anticipation and butterflies in your stomach when waiting for blast off with 100+ other boats on tournament mornings
     
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  13. Afflicted

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    God
    Wife and family
    America
    Christian and non Christion friends
    Bow hunting
    Traveling
    Inshore fishing
    Motor Cycles
    Vipers
    Club racing
    Formula One
    My Christmas decorating business
    My home
    My wife's cooking
    Red wines
    Business in general
    Living the
    American Dream
     
  14. Siman/OH

    Siman/OH Legendary Woodsman

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    1. Emergency Medical Services
    2. Fire Departments
    3. Hunting ethically
    4. Swimming
    5. Summer nights
    6. Girls in white shorts
    7. Bikinis
    8. Guns
    9. Trucks
    10. Friends
    11. Movies
    12. Books
    13. Beer
    14. Music
    15. Quads
    16. Campfires
    17. This website
    18. Facebook
    19. Family
    20. My cell phone
     
  15. Vito

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    Thats a pretty good list.

    In no particular order.

    1. Surprising my kids.
    2. Watching my kids experience something for the first time.
    3. Watching my wife perform or lead endurance events.
    4. Watching/listening to nature waking up.
    5. Fly fishing.
    6. Water.
    7. Moving water.
    8. My siblings and parents.
    9. Food.
    10. Boobs.
    11. Taking a piss after holding it for a long time.
    12. Crawling back into bed.
    13. Beer.
    14. Listening to live music.
    15. Scouting land for the first time.
    16. My dog.
    17. Watching a large fish swim away after releasing it.
    18. Being at my cabin.
    19. Taking my kids fishing.
    20. Dan
     
  16. rybo

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    1. Family
    2. My Dog
    3. A good run
    4. Elk hunting
    5. The 1st snowfall of the year
    6. A frosty november morning
    7. Seeing a fish slam your lure
    8. The feeling that you are the only person around for miles & miles, even if tehcnically you aren't
    9. Good food
    10. Good beer
    11. That feeling right before you touch the release
    12. Juicy watermelon on a hot summer day
    13. Guns
    14. The rocky mountain states
    15. Hiking thru huge unbroken forests
    16. Ice cold "mountain" streams
    17. Military jet flyovers
    18. Snakes
    19. Good friends
    20. Chicks in cowboy boots & sun dresses
     
  17. virginiashadow

    virginiashadow Legendary Woodsman

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    BBQ
    Being a "soccer Dad" and watching my kids play soccer on the weekends after working hard all week.
    A strong cup of coffee even on a hot summer day
    Seeing my breath in the cold morning air while hunting
    My wife and three children
    Fishing from sun-up to sundown without a sense of time, then drinking a good brew
    Dragging a deer out of the big woods in the freezing cold
    General Tso's chicken
    Chasing my scantily clad wife around the house like a buck in rut
    People who stand up for things they believe in, even if they are the only one who believes in something
    People who show passion for the things they do
    Taking my kids in the woods with fishing poles in hand. Destination....some body of water
    Not working a standard 9-5 job
    Walking into a huge block of woods and becomming a needle in a haystack
    Supporting my wife so that she may accomplish her dreams and goals
    A good workout
    Travelling to the western states around New Mexico, because for some reason I feel a real connection to the earth in those spots
    Seeking justice for others who were wronged
    Living in the USA
    Being with my wife in a quiet spot and relaxing together with nothing on the horizon
    Fishing with plastic worms and feeling that hit on the end of the line
     
  18. Backcountry

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    In no particular order...

    1. Family
    2. Friends
    3. Moose Drool (Beer)
    4. Fall mornings
    5. Heavy snow storms
    6. The backcountry
    7. Montana
    8. Cutting meat
    9. Smell of Elk Piss
    10. Corned beef hash
    11. Smell of rain
    12. Setting into a trout on a dry fly
    13. My job
    14. Faygo Pop
    15. Shooting my bow
    16. Buying new gear
    17. Tying flies
    18. John Wayne
    19. Brunettes
    20. The feeling I get every time I cinch my pack straps and haul out a load of meat from the hills. Providing for myself and my family is an incredible high.
     
  19. jjnowak

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    1. My family
    2. Watching my 2- 1/2 yr old reel in a bass
    3. October
    4. Pond hockey
    5. My truck
    6. The smell of oak leaves and dirt
    7. Bourbon
    8. Campfires
    9. Building stuff
    10. A good run
    11. Any kind of hunting
    12. Having great parents
    13. Wood baseball bats
    14. My Lyman boat
    15. Backstrap on the grill
    16. Being alone in the woods
    17. Watching my wife with our kids
    18. A good pair of boots
    19. A hat that fits just right
    20. Tropical vacations
     
  20. Muzzy Man

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    Waking up 30 minutes early, then being late for work anyway!
     

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