[Larryandlinda]

My husband is too modest to post this so I will - last week he rode 100 miles on one of the old-fashioned high wheel bicycles. The kind with the big wheel in the front and the little one in the back.

[Castle Keeper]

I have been chosen to be on the Antiques Roadshow that was recently filmed in Biloxi, MS 7/21/10. I took a family heiloom which I thought was a pirates sword and found out it was a Jeff Davis Artillery Civil War sword/bowie knife. It was appraised at $6,000 and will be aired on the upcoming Roadshow series in 2011. What a fun trip!!!

[bkcunningham1]

Originally Posted by Castle Keeper

I have been chosen to be on the Antiques Roadshow that was recently filmed in Biloxi, MS 7/21/10. I took a family heiloom which I thought was a pirates sword and found out it was a Jeff Davis Artillery Civil War sword/bowie knife. It was appraised at $6,000 and will be aired on the upcoming Roadshow series in 2011. What a fun trip!!!

We tried unsucessfully to get tickets to several Antiques Roadshows in areas near where we've been. I bet you were excited!! What fun.

[ribil]

I married the most beautiful woman in the world. :-))

[swrinfla]

Being on Antiques Roadshow is on my Bucket List! Unfortunately, I think the only stuff that might have qualified me I gave up before coming to The Villages!

SWR

[BogeyBoy]

Got close enough to a wolf to have it lick my face.

[getdul981]

Originally Posted by swrinfla

Being on Antiques Roadshow is on my Bucket List! Unfortunately, I think the only stuff that might have qualified me I gave up before coming to The Villages!

SWR

My son and his girlfriend have tickets to the Antiques Roadshow in Washington, DC on August 21.

[The Great Fumar]

Originally Posted by ribil

I married the most beautiful woman in the world. :-))

Your a Classy Guy ........

Fumar


PS wish I had tought of it first.....

[BlueHeronFan]

During my bartending days in college, For 3 hours I talked with, and served drinks to Soap star Josh Taylor. (really a nice guy, but drank like a fish)

With my wife, hit a small jackpot at the Bellagio Las Vegas. While waiting to be paid, one of the employee's told us we were playing right next to the private Blackjack table with Whoopie Goldberg, Kevin James, and my favorite....Catherine Bell, and some other celebrities I did not recognize. Played the whole time and never noticed them until told.

[Avista]

When I was a student nurse in Chicago, I scrubbed with Dr Loyal Davis (Ronald Raegan's father-in-law and Nancy's father) while he was doing brain surgery.

[bestmickey]

Originally Posted by BogeyBoy

Got close enough to a wolf to have it lick my face.

Me too! I (very) briefly dated a guy that had one as a pet, treated it like his dog. He was 6' 7" and a strong guy, so I always figured he could protect me from the wolf.

[bestmickey]

Originally Posted by getdul981

My son and his girlfriend have tickets to the Antiques Roadshow in Washington, DC on August 21.

What item are they bringing to show?

[getdul981]

Originally Posted by bestmickey

What item are they bringing to show?

They didn't tell me that.

[sandybill2]

In 1986, I went "drudging for orsters"--(dredging for oysters) aboard the Skipjack Sigsbee with Capt. Wade H. Murphy. The Sigsbee was built in 1901 and Capt Murphy had owned her in the past but his Skipjack, The Rebecca T. Ruark (oldest skipjack in existence now- built in 1886) was undergoing repair in Deltaville, Va., and he had borrowed the Sigsbee to "drudge" that day. We have an adventure loving friend who had talked to Capt. Murphy and we were invited to join him and his crew on a very cold November Saturday morning. We (myself, my husband, friend and his girlfriend) left Richmond, Va., after work on Friday evening--got to our motel in Tilghman Island, Md around 1:00 am.--had to be up and on the boat at 4:00 am-- My husband and friend actually helped cull the oysters, and even drove the boat. Capt. Murphy seemed at ease letting them do so--even when they grazed a floating buoy in the darkness!!!! He was down in the small cabin entertaining us ladies. When you "drudge" you do so under sail. Our reward for the day--in addition to a once in a life-time experience---was a bucket of fresh oysters. John Barber spent time with Capt. Murphy and has prints of the Sigsbee and also the Rebecca Ruark. If you are ever in Tilghman Island, I think Capt. Murphy is taking passengers out on the Rebecca Ruark for a sailing experience. (I added a few photos if anyone is interested--just go to albums.)

[K9-Lovers]

We lived on the Chesapeake Bay for 20 odd years and miss seeing those skipjacks and working watermen, and the smell of the marsh and saltwater, and cloudless days when the small swells make the water look just like puddin'.