I was indeed born poor. I did walk to school uphill. Although I wore shoes in the winter. I won a card game at age 10.. which gave me ownership in a hay truck.. which, through sweat and hard work, hired helpers and ran a hay operation that paid for flight school and college. That card game investment, developed into other business ventures.. some aviation related, that generated both large investments and large income supplying parts for airliners and business jets repaired by overhaul shops I had a stake in. Other business opportunities were taken, along with attendant risks.. so in effect it was still a poker game... all in, win or lose. Land, Lumber, Livestocks, Materials & Equipment, Worldwide. Keep track of that for a while and you wake up tired most days. Success is 90% perspiration, 10% inspiration... 20 hr days and 7 day weeks. No vacations, ever.
I bitch about the Sister of Satan ex.. but truth is.. I was never home.. my mistress was business and profit. Women have a short storage shelf life. Being surrounded by acreage may seem exotic... but the attraction to me is it's quiet.. there is no phone to ring 24/7, and I don't have to deal with people. There is no grass to mow, no HOA to fight. Just over friendly rattlesnakes and desert..... and taxes.. can't forget those.. Hendrik is writing the screen play.. Gary will play the "naked fat biker" part, I believe.. Don't have a clue how he will handle the mutant snake thing.. Looks like I'll have the recluse eccentric part pretty well sewed up.. With your kind permission.. this is the part where I kiss my horse and ride into the sunset.. Grant... On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 08:55:27 -0700 G Mann <g2ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Seriously folks.. enough about me.. can't we go back to bitching about > > Trent.. or maybe an oil thread.. ;))) > > Well, Grant, we are only interested because your living arangements are > most unusual to the rest of us. Some of us would like to live on 36,000 > acres, sans the mine shafts and rattlesnakes. And you haven't answered > all our questions, like how did you come into your spread? > > Let's not go back to Trent. We have had enough of that. > > > Craig > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
