Based on the outcome... It would have been better to lease.
Tell me your journey
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My fiancé drew a 400-mile circle around our hometown of Huntersville, NC (Near Charlotte) that was the acceptable radius to live away from home. When you're young you that's a weekend trip home. 36 years later I'm still here (she is as well but has a different last name now, so it goes). Raised two wonderful children. Love the mix of high tech and country, will probably remain after retirement.
I am an Ancestry nerd, and when I did my Son In Law's tree (From Mississippi) it lead me right back here, he has relatives buried around St. Mary's City chapel somewhere. Always thought that was beyond cool.
I am an Ancestry nerd, and when I did my Son In Law's tree (From Mississippi) it lead me right back here, he has relatives buried around St. Mary's City chapel somewhere. Always thought that was beyond cool.
LightRoasted
If I may ...
If I may ...
My journey began with taking that first step forward.
My journey began with taking that first step forward.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
I was born on Ft Bragg, NC.. after I was born my dad was sent to Germany, while my mom had to wait until I was old enough to travel. The following year my mom, with three young kids, boarded a troop ship (USNS Rose), by herself. I'm told I learned to walk on the ship, and had my first birthday on it.
We spent just short of 3 years in Germany, before returning to the states. Gets confusing from here as my Dad would deploy to Korea or Vietnam and we'd head to my Mom's hometown, Seymour CT so we were around family, in between my Dad was stationed in NH as an Army Advisor to the NH National Guard, until his unit was deployed to Vietnam.. couple if years of being without my dad, then being in Portsmouth, NH and back to Germany, where I attended 2nd and 3rd grade in a Quonset Hut, and 4th grade in a barracks building with the craft shops.
5th grade we headed to Ft Lewis Washington.. then a few years later back to NH as dad finished his career as a State Army Advisor and I got to finish High School in one place, Pinkerton Academy, Derry NH.
Senior year I enlisted, and left Octover after graduation.
We spent just short of 3 years in Germany, before returning to the states. Gets confusing from here as my Dad would deploy to Korea or Vietnam and we'd head to my Mom's hometown, Seymour CT so we were around family, in between my Dad was stationed in NH as an Army Advisor to the NH National Guard, until his unit was deployed to Vietnam.. couple if years of being without my dad, then being in Portsmouth, NH and back to Germany, where I attended 2nd and 3rd grade in a Quonset Hut, and 4th grade in a barracks building with the craft shops.
5th grade we headed to Ft Lewis Washington.. then a few years later back to NH as dad finished his career as a State Army Advisor and I got to finish High School in one place, Pinkerton Academy, Derry NH.
Senior year I enlisted, and left Octover after graduation.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
After 20 years in the Army as a Scout/RECON, (2 more trips to Germany) and a Recruiter, went back to college. Graduated college (Clarion, PA) at 41 and went to a job fair at Penn State. Had interviews with Raytheon, USN and the Army.. Navy offered the best deal, and off to SOMD in Jan 2003.
Navy helped with getting my Masters, and my Doctorate.. and helped me meet BadGirl on an abandoned runway, in a Marine Corps Base-X tent.
After nearly 20 years with the Navy went to the FAA, and now fighting to return back to the Navy.
Navy helped with getting my Masters, and my Doctorate.. and helped me meet BadGirl on an abandoned runway, in a Marine Corps Base-X tent.
After nearly 20 years with the Navy went to the FAA, and now fighting to return back to the Navy.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
My mother's side, so the story goes, my Great Grandfather and his family (grandpa was 7 or 8) was rescued from Persia by Methodist Missionaries and came to the US. His family ended up in CT..
My dad's family dates way back, how far no idea, but came from England/Scotland and settled in Maine and NH.. he grew up in Northern NH. His first job was a pinsetter at the local alley.. He was drafted, with a 6th grade education, and renlisted for 6 years in Basic.. he had TWO pairs of boots and a pair of shoes, no way life could be any better than that!!
My dad's family dates way back, how far no idea, but came from England/Scotland and settled in Maine and NH.. he grew up in Northern NH. His first job was a pinsetter at the local alley.. He was drafted, with a 6th grade education, and renlisted for 6 years in Basic.. he had TWO pairs of boots and a pair of shoes, no way life could be any better than that!!
Grew up in P.G. County, Hyattsville to be specific, although lived at various short periods in Riverdale, Oxen Hill and Landover. Family moved to Southern Maryland in the mid-70s, went from Northwestern HS to Chopticon, it was half the size it is now when I went there.
Moving to a rural area was a bit of a culture shock all its own but adapted quickly and learned to appreciate the space and diminished number of people.
Worked a series of jobs or career false starts in my 20s, went into electrical utility construction and repair, aka Linework, started doing IT work on the side and when I hit 39, changed careers again and started in IT professionally.
Moving to a rural area was a bit of a culture shock all its own but adapted quickly and learned to appreciate the space and diminished number of people.
Worked a series of jobs or career false starts in my 20s, went into electrical utility construction and repair, aka Linework, started doing IT work on the side and when I hit 39, changed careers again and started in IT professionally.
buddscreek
Active Member
fathers family got off the boat in the 1650's at cedar point in the potomac, as indentured servents.
we've been in the newburg-chaptico area ever sense.
moms family was from charles county as well, but higher up the pecking order. one ancestor was on washingtons staff and his brother
signed the declaration of independence.
wife's family unloaded from the arc and dove.... i know there is an inbred smib joke somewhere in there
we've been in the newburg-chaptico area ever sense.
moms family was from charles county as well, but higher up the pecking order. one ancestor was on washingtons staff and his brother
signed the declaration of independence.
wife's family unloaded from the arc and dove.... i know there is an inbred smib joke somewhere in there
ontheriver
Well-Known Member
My late husband's family came over on the Ark and Dove also. Love the history.
My dad was a pinsetter when he was a kid back in Springfield, MA., so was his younger brother.
Once they were adults, bowled together on the same team for nearly 40 years, candlepin, of course.
Uncle Ed was ambidextrous and would carry 2 bowling balls, right one rolled first, 2nd to usually pick up the spare.
glhs837
Power with Control
The one and true bowling....
So, quick question.
Mom, not from here.
Dad, not from here.
Me, born here when Dad was AIMD in 64, they left in I think 65 or 66 for San Diego.
Raised from about 69 til I left for the Navy in Mass.
Am I Marylander? More importantly, when my wife, who was born in DC but raised in Country Lakes, and I discuss exactly who the Northern Scum is, who is it?
Back to our, or my story.
Moms English side traces back to John Alden on the Mayflower, and a man named Walker who emigrated in Boston1635. Also, interestingly enough, her "Scottish" Macleod side not only traces back to some Scots who emigrated to Nova Scotia during the Clearances, but also some former Colonists from Long Island and South Carolina who took the amnesty and went to NS after the Revolutionary War. So I had relatives on both sides of that. One relative built the first "neighborhood" in Brookline Ma, and it still stands today.
Dads side, lots of southern there. Born in an Alabama mining town that's only a place on the map now, I can only trace his name back to the mid 1800s, there I lose it in a mess of bad record keeping and the TVAs shoddy record keeping when transplanting cemeteries. I think my missing link was a third son to a plantation owner in Fairfax born around 1810-1820. His dad appears to have been married in Charles County in the 1780s
Which would make for quite a circle. Me, left MA for the Navy, ended up here for my last tour, never left.
Grumpy
Well-Known Member
Bowled duckpins in tournaments from Mass down to Norfolk back in the 80s. Bowled in a house in Tewksbury, MA(Wamesit Lanes, I believe) that was half candlepins and bowled a few games with friends, very different rules, actually liked bowling with dead wood on the lane..
black dog
Free America
Tell Elvis that his pants go on the outside of his work boots...
buddscreek
Active Member
LOL... will do
Part of the tactics in the game is how to use the dead wood to help knock down the rest of the pins.