JACKHAMMER
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Bernie and I have travelled a fair bit...infact its becomming a habit..every couple of years we seem to get on a big silver bird and fly somewhere. For some unexplained reason the dam plane always seems to land in Las Vegas either comming or going
Bernie and i have seen abit of the USA.as we have of alot of other places. Places like Italy and Germany Ireland France Canada . We have a few left yet to see..WE have seem the sunset over the Grand ditch....where Wyat and his brothers cleand up the Clampet clan and Dave Crockett copped his at the Alimo we have floated up the Mississippi and seen the battle fields of the civil war...we have seen the Twin towers before the were hit and we have shaken the hands of cops and firemen(the heros) after they came down.But we always end up in Las Vegas now Bernie and I love Vegas we just like to wander the Strip and just LOOK see a show play the odd slot...tell the peddlers of erotica..To shove it up their nose, the usual stuff.HOWEVER the reason that we end up in Vegas is DOC..This particula trip we had oganized to go on abit of a fishing trip for a few days as most of u would know.I was abit short on clothing not wanting to carry a bloody great coat around the planet .I decided the best idear was just to buy one when i neaded one.Doc and i went shopping to this and that store....i had in mind a a canadian type lumberjacks coat something i could use out in the bush backhome in oz in the desert in winter where it gets below 0 at night. Well we couldnt find one...it was out of season or out of stock or some other reason so i settled for an off the shelf cheap coat that would just about serve the purpose of keeping me walm 100 ks out to sea fishing for tuna....it did but only just .Anyway After leaveng Vegas and on our way to some other place and arriving home i completly forgot about the canadian lumberjacks coat...We had been home about a month and had decided that in september of 09 we would do it again and was asking DOC what sort of fish they catch in lake Mead and he asked me what my coat size was...i hadn,t a clue what he was on about...he does that goes off on tangents usually i just nod and grunt...anyway i just said about the same size of his sons.And forgot all about it. Late January this box had arrived from the USA...and after checking for white pwder and any ticking sounds i decided it was safe to open.
LO AND BEHOLD a bloody great coat my size and walm and just whats neaded in the oz bush...ruggared in design and no frills just a dam good coat and ya cant have it back...i was speachless.
Beyond anthing i could ever say or write Doc i appreciate the GIFT more that words can say. And no when u come to Aussie i want to see a Marriage certificate before u are allowed to sleep in the same room as that lovely lass diana that has born u 3 kids and that u have been living with for 37 years. All i can say DOC i,m proud we are mates.....ya make a fine Aussie
JH
Bernie and i have seen abit of the USA.as we have of alot of other places. Places like Italy and Germany Ireland France Canada . We have a few left yet to see..WE have seem the sunset over the Grand ditch....where Wyat and his brothers cleand up the Clampet clan and Dave Crockett copped his at the Alimo we have floated up the Mississippi and seen the battle fields of the civil war...we have seen the Twin towers before the were hit and we have shaken the hands of cops and firemen(the heros) after they came down.But we always end up in Las Vegas now Bernie and I love Vegas we just like to wander the Strip and just LOOK see a show play the odd slot...tell the peddlers of erotica..To shove it up their nose, the usual stuff.HOWEVER the reason that we end up in Vegas is DOC..This particula trip we had oganized to go on abit of a fishing trip for a few days as most of u would know.I was abit short on clothing not wanting to carry a bloody great coat around the planet .I decided the best idear was just to buy one when i neaded one.Doc and i went shopping to this and that store....i had in mind a a canadian type lumberjacks coat something i could use out in the bush backhome in oz in the desert in winter where it gets below 0 at night. Well we couldnt find one...it was out of season or out of stock or some other reason so i settled for an off the shelf cheap coat that would just about serve the purpose of keeping me walm 100 ks out to sea fishing for tuna....it did but only just .Anyway After leaveng Vegas and on our way to some other place and arriving home i completly forgot about the canadian lumberjacks coat...We had been home about a month and had decided that in september of 09 we would do it again and was asking DOC what sort of fish they catch in lake Mead and he asked me what my coat size was...i hadn,t a clue what he was on about...he does that goes off on tangents usually i just nod and grunt...anyway i just said about the same size of his sons.And forgot all about it. Late January this box had arrived from the USA...and after checking for white pwder and any ticking sounds i decided it was safe to open.
LO AND BEHOLD a bloody great coat my size and walm and just whats neaded in the oz bush...ruggared in design and no frills just a dam good coat and ya cant have it back...i was speachless.
Beyond anthing i could ever say or write Doc i appreciate the GIFT more that words can say. And no when u come to Aussie i want to see a Marriage certificate before u are allowed to sleep in the same room as that lovely lass diana that has born u 3 kids and that u have been living with for 37 years. All i can say DOC i,m proud we are mates.....ya make a fine Aussie
JH