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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shorthairman" data-source="post: 321204" data-attributes="member: 6223">I'll go...in 2007, I started out with a 1984 Lund with a 90 HP merc, had an older 12 volt minnkota on it.  Had two young kids that liked to go along, but I didn't trust that old merc to take us too far from the ramp for fear of not getting us back.  Used that boat for 10 years, it had rivets that leaked, sometimes the bilge worked, sometimes it didn't, sometimes the aerator worked...sometimes it didn't either, one time I was pulling our daughter on a tube and the steering all but locked up and had to shut it down in the middle of the lake (never did quite figure out what happened as a few hard cranks back and forth on the wheel, and it worked itself out), then there was the time had wife and both kids out and the wind/storm came up on us, boat bounced around like a tin can back to the ramp and all 4 of us had shaken baby syndrome from the ride.  I'm now the proud partial owner of a '17 Ranger (I say partial because the bank still owns some of it).  I am dam glad the wife let me buy that boat because there were days we have been out that there was no way I would have taken the family out in that old 84.  Have also had some great times with the kids and their friends, or just the wife and I cruising around. I don't spend money at the bar, I don't spend money at the casinos, I spend as little money on clothes for my teaching job as I possible can, so that I can spend money on hunting and fishing stuff, and if I end up having to have the bank help me out, at least I am able to enjoy it with my family while they are young enough to be around and enjoy it, and I am still able to enjoy it also.  As someone said, I might not live long enough to enjoy some of this if I wait until retirement.  Nothing against anyone who owns better stuff or worse stuff than I have...it's how you choose to do things vs how I choose to do things...and to each his own.  I have always tried to live by (and teach my kids), "yet he who is without sin cast the first stone", don't judge anyone for anything, that is not up to you.  Also, I just recently came upon another quote that I have taken a liking to and that is "Comparison is the death of joy." However...I am jealous EVERY dam time Dirty posts a picture with his dogs and a pile of pheasants...thank God its not hunting season anymore or I'm not sure I could handle it!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</blockquote>

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