Christian Pipe Smokers

Real up-beat, optimistic chap, eh?

I can sort of relate. Well, I've felt like I'm engaged in a war for years, actually. But still, I enjoyed my 70th last Saturday, after an early morning duck hunt. My wife and I met our daughter and granddaughter for lunch of seafood gumbo and shrimp po-boys, and Italian Cream Cake afterward.

sweetandsour wrote: ↑26 Dec 2022, 20:09 I can sort of relate. Well, I've felt like I'm engaged in a war for years, actually. But still, I enjoyed my 70th last Saturday, after an early morning duck hunt. My wife and I met our daughter and granddaughter for lunch of seafood gumbo and shrimp po-boys, and Italian Cream Cake afterward.

I'm fourty-four and I've buried my share of friends and comrades. Someday they will bury me. It's a long-term war only the believer will win, and that through no merit of our own. May none of this company know the second death!

Happy birthday, Tim!

Hugo Drax wrote: ↑26 Dec 2022, 21:14

sweetandsour wrote: ↑26 Dec 2022, 20:09 I can sort of relate. Well, I've felt like I'm engaged in a war for years, actually. But still, I enjoyed my 70th last Saturday, after an early morning duck hunt. My wife and I met our daughter and granddaughter for lunch of seafood gumbo and shrimp po-boys, and Italian Cream Cake afterward.

I'm fourty-four and I've buried my share of friends and comrades. Someday they will bury me. It's a long-term war only the believer will win, and that through no merit of our own. May none of this company know the second death!

Happy birthday, Tim!

"It's a long-term war only the believer will win, and that through no merit of our own." This is quote worthy, and I've copied it down.

Thanks, and thanks for the birthday wishes.

Biff wrote: ↑26 Dec 2022, 19:52 Real up-beat, optimistic chap, eh?

With a sharp, arrogant tongue and a wicked temper, too.

Jerome is counted as brilliant among the Early Church Fathers for translating the Scriptures faithfully and for battling the Pelagians (who tried to kill him on several occasions, with some narrow escapes).

But Jerome is counted among the Saints because he spent the final years of his life living as a hermit, doing penance for his ill-mannered temper. He is depicted in art of the Middle Ages as gazing on a Crucifix, contemplating death, and beating his chest with a rock.

Go ahead... do a google image search for "St. Jerome penance rock." Lots of beauty to meditate on.

sweetandsour wrote: ↑26 Dec 2022, 20:09 I can sort of relate. Well, I've felt like I'm engaged in a war for years, actually. But still, I enjoyed my 70th last Saturday, after an early morning duck hunt. My wife and I met our daughter and granddaughter for lunch of seafood gumbo and shrimp po-boys, and Italian Cream Cake afterward.

I thought you were my age. I didn't realize that you are your age.

Happy Birthday!!!!

Geronimo was named after St Jerome.

Hovannes wrote: ↑27 Dec 2022, 17:04 Geronimo was named after St Jerome.

Shouting JEROME! as you jump headlong into an adventurous situation doesn't have the same kind of ring to it.

tuttle wrote: ↑28 Dec 2022, 06:47

Hovannes wrote: ↑27 Dec 2022, 17:04 Geronimo was named after St Jerome.

Shouting JEROME! as you jump headlong into an adventurous situation doesn't have the same kind of ring to it.

It must have been some kind of an Apache thing, you know