OT- bucket list

Nancy Howell

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Hey everybody, what are the top 3 items on your "bucket list"? Here are mine:

1. Retire and move to the farm.
2. Learn to drive a 6 up team.
3. Take a cruise to Alaska & see the northern lights.
 
Nancy I would not be in a hurry to go on a cruise after the one on the Gulf this week.


As for a bucket list.

1) Vacation to Australia. I have always wanted to go to the "Down under". Will not happen with the wife's health.

2) Would love to see The Holy Ground in the Mid-East but that will not happen with all the crazy people over there.

3) I guess this would be number one. Cure for diabetes. My wife is too young for the damage this dreadful disease is causing her.
 
I am already on the farm. SO. . .

1. Obtain full time employment.

2. Be able to afford a new shed and Ford 861

3. Live long enough to see how my son turns out.
 
LOL don't have to go to Alaska to see the nothern lights. We see em in MN sometimes.


1. Get VA to Finally give me a new knee.

2. Get VA to give me a new knee.

3. Get VA to give me a new knee.

Blew the darn thing out yet again this morning.

Rick
 
Diabetes is a horrific deasise.Susan has suffered with it for 26 years.It can/will really ravage the body.GOOD controll is the key.An insulin pump has vastly improved/changed our lives.Being married to a ('brittle')diabetic is hard.Need to talk,I am here. (970)417-1178 (c) Steve
 
I've always wanted to see Australia, too. Problem is you need about six months and a boatload of money.

Wouldn't mind seeing the Holy Land either, but won't go for the same reasons you mentioned.
 
my wife too, almost has destroyed her feet, she is type II had bariatric surgery Dec 26 and as of yesterday has lost 39 lbs, is off of insulin and one blood pressure med, it's not the sugar Mary's was never very high it's the complications. It's also very genetic, her dad had surgar and her brothers have to watch thiers closely has well.
 
find enough 'extra' money to build myself a new truck, note i dont like new trucks,and i wont buy one, my "new" truck is actually a 1948 diamond t 201, powered by a 12 valve cummins diesel and 6 speed transmission, ive built cars before so its possible if i find the money, 2 would be to move to wyo. or mt, 3 to live long enough to do 1 and 2
 
I'vebeen lucky. Been on insulin for about 28 years, last seven on a pump. I haven't suffered too much from any diabetic related symptoms, but watch my diet pretty close and get lots of excercise.
My Grandmother died in 1923 from diabetes (no insulin then) My oldest Brother and Father both died from diabetis related problems.

My bucket list? I think hitting the mega millions would pretty much take care of the rest...
 
1. Alaska has been on my list
2. Visit the rain forests for 30 days
3. Move to Wyoming, Montana or Alaska
 
1. Own a Shelby Mustang GT. Preferably a late 60's model, but would settle for a new one. :)

2. Go for a ride in a B-17, or better yet in a B-29.

3. Buy and restore the Farmall 560LP my Dad had way back when.
 
0. Raise my kids to be successful and independent.

1. Buy a helicopter.
2. 500 acres. 250 woods, 250 cropped. Nice little house, giant barn full of all the necessary equipment.
3. Build a 1973-90 Chevy 1 ton dually 4x4 crew cab, with a duramax.

If I could win the megamillions, all my bucket list would be solved, except for number zero. Money doesnt give you parenting skills.

Rick
 
At one time you could take a ride in the B-17 at Meacham Field in Fort Worth, Tx. That was a few years back and I don"t know if you still can.
 
Hmmm, well it won't happen unless Publishers Clearing House brings me that van load of money they have been promising! BUT, should the unlikely event take place, I would; Buy some acreage, build an underground house, and build a shop large enough to repair and restore my five trucks.
 
I'd like to us as humans , save wild animals and places instead of wiping the planet full of our nonsense crap. But we can all dream . Those new corvette stingrays look nice....
 
1. Eat only good chocolate
2.eat only good ice cream
3.own more tractors
4.have bigger shop
5.sell cow herd
sorry that's five,, oh well
 
Your list is very close to my heart, at least the first three.
Although, we did too well on the first one- they don't have much use for us!!!!!
I have an airplane I would trade for a helicopter. But I keep saying it will be the last thing I do, because I'll have to sell the farm to do it!
I own 250 acres, about 220 tillable. Would like to own more. Had hoped I would get some of the family land.
 
We did the Alaska thing last summer. Great trip! We didn"t do the cruise, but rather inland trips mostly by railroad. The Alaska Railroad sets up Travel packages.
 
1. Finish clearing and cleaning my 12 acres and the 5 acres/house I just bought next door for my daughter. Re-do the inside of her house.

2. Organize, scan and caption old family photographs and include them in family/personal history I am writing.

3. Photograph, catalog (with approximate values) all my guns, collectibles, tools and machines so my all-female family will have some idea of what it is and what it's worth. Otherwise they would sell it all at a garage sale when I check out.

4. Go on a long, slow solo tour of all battlefields and places my great-grandfather traveled and fought during the Civil War.

5. Build a pole barn and turn it into a man-cave.

I'm almost 72, so I'd probably better get cracking on these.
(Sorry, Miss Nancy, couldn't do it in three.)
 
1. Live my life to fill the bucket. I have.
2. Don,t kick the bucket to early. I haven,t.
3. Kick the bucket without being totally dependent on someone else. That is unknown.
 
1. Finish getting Pa Red's estate settled between myself and 2 sisters. Will be another month before I hear from the Indiana State inheritance tax division, the Marion County Probate Court and the Treasurer of Marion County if they need more inheritance tax money as if I didn't give them enough already.

2. Hope to retire in 2 years.

3. Get 3 sleeping Farmallittles back running. One H, 2 Ms.
 
1) I am diabetic also and been on a pump since Jan 4 2001. Unfortunately I still can't keep it under control no matter what I do. Would love to see a cure for diabetes but don't believe I ever will. Diabetes is a multi Billion dollar industry and with the corruptness and with everyone everyone relishing the dollar so much it will never happen.
2) Farm house and land with all the buildings and equipment to live self sufficiently.
3) Have some Prairie Giants there to play with.
 
1. Finish installing a tub surround in the bathroom. Started a semi remodel on the bathroom last February. Might get it done in three more days. 2. Get my new high speed internet antenna which was installed a year ago on the 28th of February, hooked up to my new laptop I bought two years ago which has never been out of the box yet. Might actually get that done by the end of the month. 3. Find a new wife who actually loves me and my cats and wants to stick around for more than four years. Been looking for thirteen years. No prospects in sight so far.
 
1. Do something meaningful with my photography.
2. Learn to drive/operate our Farmall Regular once it is running (that"s called: keeping up with the Nancys and the Susans on YT...Smile!).
3. Travel more - though will be tough as the other half does not like to at all.
 
1. Cut back on office workload enough to get caught up, and to actually be able to work less than full time, so I'll have time for #2 & #3.

2. Fix a bunch of tractors and stuff around here and get it sold, fix up the red '66 Cutlass convertible so my classy wife will have a classy ride- she deserves it.

3. Get to the point where I can relax a little bit and not feel guilty about it.
 
Strangly, since Dad was diagnosed with incureable cancer on monday ( at age 101) I"ve been thinking a lot about this.
1. get a sport pilots lisence.
2. see alaska again, (took dad there for 40 days the year after mom died)
3 see Mesa Verdie National park.
 
Make sure to fly around Mount Rushmore and take pictures! When I flew T38s into Ellsworth AFB, if I had enough fuel, I would hop over there and circle a couple of times. Back in the 1970s you could fly pretty low legally.
 
Mike I am getting there. They left my salary alone but I take less of the monthly profits. I was fine with that.
 
1 To bring myself to buying a lottery ticket
2 To actually win the lottery
3 To keep on farming until all the money is done!
Sam
 
Eat rattlesnake.
See Prairie Home Companion in person.
Quit my job making someone else rich and start losing my own money farming.
 
Nancy, I have fulfilled two on your list. I am retired, do a little farming, and last year did the Alaska land and sea cruise. Next will be to see my 3 year old Grandson grow up to operate my Farmalls. He is growing up in the city.
 
I can't really say I have one. We aren't shy about doing things when the opportunity arises. We usually don't know we wanted to do them til they're over.
We did one off ITDs list two years ago,saw Prairie Home Companion in person. We've been down New River Gorge in a two person inflatable without a guide. Did things some people wouldn't even belive if I told you,but we were all young once weren't we?
Don't plan to stop doing things on impulse,it's always better if you don't plan things. You can't be let down if you don't have long time expectations.
 
Nancy, check and see if you can locate Bob Lewis in Dublin, Tx, he has had quite a few big hitches over the years and is a great guy to know. I"ve used 4-up here on the farm but was never brave enough to add the other two. Some of the fellows we used to trail ride with would get brave and see haw many they could hitch up and drive. Was lots of fun watching them trying to get straightened out. I always wanted to go see the 20 mule hitch working. Wife and I flew up to Alaska and spent three weeks and cruised back to the "lower 48". She loved the cruise, not me, too many people.
 
Since I had total kidney failure 31 years ago I have had a head start on everyone. Been working at doing things for a long time now.

Not too many regrets. And I still got lot to do.

Gene
 
I would like to see Alaska also. I loved the scenery in that Anthony Hopkins movie when the plane went down in the wilderness. Words can't describe the beauty.
I want to sit right behind home plate just once at a major league game preferrably with the Cardinals.
Watch my daughter play in the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. She plays now in the Saint Louis Youth Symphony Orchestra. They have 90 some odd members and Powell Hall has to be experienced.
 

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