00W's AIO Smorgasbord

[ShakeyGizzard]

Good morning Jimmy!

Hey Kevin

 

[Calmwaters]

My wife was busy with your recipe this morning Amanda and that’s not all of it!

I love it!!!

 

[kevgib67]

We've never taken many pictures of us. It was the oldest photo of us I could find. But the cars were nice.

I forgot about the Mitsubishi 3000GT which was basically what the Dodge Stealth was.

 

[Calmwaters]

My story: I met my wife at 12. We started dating at 13 (the night she broke up with her boyfriend). Long story - she asked me if I would date her if she didn't have a boyfriend and I said yeah. A week or two later she called me crying that she and her boyfriend broke up and asked if I wanted to go to dinner with her family for her grandma's birthday. After dinner, "Remember you said you'd date me if I didn't have a boyfriend? Do you have something to ask me?"

Dated for 7 years, married for 25. Junior High, High School, College.

Another great story!!!

 

[Calmwaters]

Grubes Gorgonian. I have 8 different types of Gorgs

Its lovely!

 

[Calmwaters]

Hi everyone. Hit the bed early. Woke a little while ago, and now that I’ve caught up, ready to try to sleep again.
I’ll add a bit to my story and just say sometimes life is serendipitous and makes clear what is meant to be apparently. Back in summer of 1987 I went on vacation with my folks to Vermont. Since I only had a week off my plan was to ride back on my bike to home in Brighton at the time. So I got dropped off in Brattleboro in the morning and headed home. I went thru Lexington on my way home and unbeknownst to me I had gotten within a stones throw of where my future wife was living as I found out the next year. How I actually met her- she was working agency work and was hired to cover the vacation of one of my coworkers. The icebreaker was she found out I was a crazy cyclist and asked what bike she should get . After that we just clicked and when I went to her place for the first time found out how close I had been on my ride home the previous year.

Love it!

 

[Calmwaters]

Amanda,

These are for you. There’s 10 RFAs in my tank. One I named Phoenix because it loves the light. It crawled to the highest point amongst some SPS and hasn’t moved since the day it arrived. She, all my corals are “she’s”, sits in 400+ PAR for 5 hours during peak light. She’s also grown the largest so far.
The last three I was trying to show Phoenix and where she decided home is. The last pic is across 4 feet of tank since she’s hard to photograph where she is.

Oh my gosh I love them all!!!

 

[Calmwaters]

And just because…

Beautiful!!!

 

[Calmwaters]

Okay.

We met a little while after I moved to Massachusetts to teach computers in the late 70s. I saw her in a hallway and it was all over. I was offered a job overseas and took it. We reconnected in the early 90s and have been together since.

Here we are in 93 or maybe 94:

and here we are a few years ago at OdySea (a local aquarium).

Love it!!!

 

[kingranch2003]

I am guessing you made it out the other side all good? Do you have a standby generator or portable? I just snagged a pretty nice 6K dual fuel inverter for 450 bucks...it was a pricing error at walmart ha

Yeah everything was fine brother. I do have a back up generator and some battery powered pumps just in case.

 

[tharbin]

I forgot about the Mitsubishi 3000GT which was basically what the Dodge Stealth was.

That was the first one I thought of from your comments. The early 90s Japanese turbos were really good cars. I also had an 89 Probe GT which was Mazda under the badge. I didn't drive Dianne's car very often but when I did, it always impressed me. I had a friend with an RX-7 it was pretty sweet as well.

 

[kingranch2003]

Yes he is that kind of guy just like I'm that kind of gal. We both love helping people when we can. He's truly one of my biggest blessings in life. We both had given up on finding love and where just looking for someone to hang out with when a mutual friend introduced us. I told myself I never wanted to love someone so completely like my momma and daddy loved each other because I seen what it did to her when she lost her other half. But then I found him and I honestly don't know what I will do if he goes before I do. We met in 2016 got married in 2017 and he's my world.

Love this! A great start to the day for sure!

 

[kingranch2003]

Oh my gosh what an amazing love story! You guys look so cute together!

Thank you Amanda dear! You guys gave a great one too.

 

[Calmwaters]

Ugh I'm so full! We had pastor appreciation luncheon after church and I ate eay too much!!!

 

[kevgib67]

Yeah everything was fine brother. I do have a back up generator and some battery powered pumps just in case.

Howdy John!

 

[kingranch2003]

Awesome story John, something’s are just meant to be!

I couldn't agree more my friend. Good afternoon Kevin!

 

[kingranch2003]

My story: I met my wife at 12. We started dating at 13 (the night she broke up with her boyfriend). Long story - she asked me if I would date her if she didn't have a boyfriend and I said yeah. A week or two later she called me crying that she and her boyfriend broke up and asked if I wanted to go to dinner with her family for her grandma's birthday. After dinner, "Remember you said you'd date me if I didn't have a boyfriend? Do you have something to ask me?"

Dated for 7 years, married for 25. Junior High, High School, College.

Beautiful, and awesome stuff brother. You have a great looking family my friend, and as we say down South. "She's got her a real one in you"!

 

[kingranch2003]

My hats off to you my friend!!
Thank you for sharing this!
Side note, my wife said we look like brothers!
I told her we are!!

Sorry she insulted you so early in the day Rock!
You bet we are bro!

 

[kingranch2003]

Smorg,

I want to thank those who posted their story after I posted mine.
I knew this “family” was a special group.
This reinforces that I am proud and honored to have gotten to know all of you through our banter.
Have a great day Smorgs, each and everyone of you are special to me even though we’ve never met.

The positivity over the last few hours has been awesome to see. All of you being happy makes me joyous this afternoon!

 

[kingranch2003]

Howdy John!