Ironscarf wrote:
That looks absolutely cracking Tantz! The dramatic lighting really sets the tone, great job.
THANK YOU!
Ironscarf wrote:
That looks absolutely cracking Tantz! The dramatic lighting really sets the tone, great job.
bravo1102 wrote:
Just got off Facebook and saw some of old Army buddies sharing a photo remembering one of the other guys from the unit.
Looked at his feed, he'd passed away. We were the same age and came into the unit around the same time. Sad stuff. He was was around my age. We're all getting old.
ayesinback wrote:Amazing part it is, most of the real old timers are still alive and you just wonder. Though Don was a chainsmoker and had breathing problems the last fifteen years. At one point about twenty years ago I built a model of his tank. That was just before Ski passed away. The young kid in the crew is now a retired major and the gunner a just retired first sergeant.bravo1102 wrote:
Just got off Facebook and saw some of old Army buddies sharing a photo remembering one of the other guys from the unit.
Looked at his feed, he'd passed away. We were the same age and came into the unit around the same time. Sad stuff. He was was around my age. We're all getting old.
Learning of a contemporary's death is not necessarily about getting old; it's tough at any age,
I'll recall our times together and cycle through that–sometimes it can get rather trippy. Yeah, I know, it's a numbers game: as we age the losses grow and the sadness is exponential as the good-byes accumulate.
In that way, being fortunate can become a sad affair. I recommend getting some fresh air; it helps me remember that the departed wouldn't want me to be sad as I think of them.
lothar wrote:You're right!!
Haha, I think we are only one time zone apart, Ozone.
Ozoneocean wrote:
The charro suit fits almost perfectly, but the thighs are just a little wide. I believe it was made as a high quality costume for a wealthy American woman back in the 1950s or 1960s, rather than being made for a mariarchi, at least that's what the seller thinks. It was from a deceased estate.
I like knowing a bit about the history of my clothes :)
Ironscarf wrote:Haha, Thankyou!
That charro suit looks amazing on you. I like to think the wealthy woman who owned it was a mariacha fanatic who formed her own all female group back in the sixties, a precursor to the group I posted about the other day in the good things that happened thread. They were no doubt the toast of all the society and show biz events back in the day, inspiring Herb Alpert to create the Tijuana Brass.
Ozoneocean wrote:No, they're really not. Already, Elon Musk is living up to exactly what he promised, in allowing hate speech to thrive and spread throughout the platform again, not to mention he has been attacking and even banning people who say anything that happens to piss off his delicate and fragile ego from AOC to Mark Ruffalo to Kathy Griffin. He apparently is even starting to charge people for accounts now. All of this is exactly why the American people did not want him to buy Twitter - they knew he would do shit like this to ruin the platform.
The Twitter stuff is so silly. People's reactions are a little over the top, aren't they?
J_Scarbrough wrote:Because the whole world is Southern California. 🤣
You know what I've come to realize? More but Valentine's Day is a winter holiday: even if it takes place in a region where it doesn't usually snow (like down here in the southern US), the trees should still be bare, and characters should still at least be wearing long sleeves, or maybe even a light jacket).