CHAT Raggedies celebrate 24 years today

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Dm19cm

Contributing Member
Congratulations to you both and best wishes for many more happy years together! What a lovely couple you make. Hubby and I are celebrating our 43rd anniversary in July. It goes so quickly when you get to spend each day with your best friend. Blessings to you both:chg:
 
jward

jward

passin' thru
Awww : ) She's even More booful than the story, and that is saying a lot!!
Thank you for lifting us up and sharing those smiles. I wish you both many
many more lifetimes o' love!
 
Seeker22

Seeker22

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Raggedyman said:
today we Raggedies celebrate 24 years of wedded bliss. we lived together for 8 yrs prior to being married - so that's 32 yrs of "togetherness" - HALF of our lives. it was I that WASN'T going to get married again – EVER. after all you can only divide your self in half so many times. but she was patient and I finally realized that SOME THINGS were just meant to be.

Trust me - this is a sainted woman. a Scotts Irish lass and a natural red head married to a full blooded, hard headed Italian. Now that's a potful o' temper and 'tude if there ever was one. not only am I very thankful for her, I am very PROUD of her. She was and is an excellent step mother to my two children – a loving caring grandmother to our 5 grandchildren. I have to brag on her just a bit now. She started from scratch and maintained her own very successful business selling fasteners, tools and fence - a male dominated specialty area - which she she KNEW exceptionally well and where her expertise in terms of application was highly respected.

We're still the very best of friends. we've always done everything together. when we lived in central Florida we fished together constantly; often 5 out of 7 days. If not on the lake fishing bass, we were off to port Canaveral fishing snook under the shrimp boats at night, in Mosquito Lagoon fishing trout and red fish or jumping tarpon under the bridges at New Smyrna. When we weren't in central Florida we were down in the keys poling the flats, chasing dolphin offshore or down in SW Florida drifting the passes. We've fished bonefish, permit and tarpon all over the Caribbean and we've fished salmon and halibut in Alaska – Ketichican and Anchorage.

The single exception to that “togetherness” has been her photography. She loves to shoot landscapes and wildlife. bear and birds in particular. Photography is something I never got involved with; she's so damned GOOD at it. We're both naturally competitive; heck - we competed when we fished together - and I never wanted to crowd her style with “suggestions” or compete with her in something that she truly loves so much.

What an INCREDIBLE life partner I've been privileged to share my life with. I am TRULY a blessed man.

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Little Cayman Island - 5.10.97

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What I am seeing in these images ain't "raggedy". You two are beautiful and your beautiful sweet spirits shine through in these photographs.

I am so happy for you! Enjoy the day. And many more.
 
Raggedyman

Raggedyman

Res ipsa loquitur
Seeker22 said:
What I am seeing in these images ain't "raggedy". You two are beautiful and your beautiful sweet spirits shine through in these photographs.

I am so happy for you! Enjoy the day. And many more.
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you're too kind kid! she has always been able to smooth my rough edges and bring out the best in me. Lynrd Skynrd's masterpiece "Simple Man" (7:13) says it all about BOTH of us. the one before her was a Country Club Queen . . . that was never my style - and it NEVER will be


on the other hand this was the Queens theme song - the Eagles had her in mind when they cut it (4:20)

Busy Being Fabulous

 
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there

Senior Member
Congratulations to you both and may you have many more happy years.

Yes red heads are saints I know that for a fact.

I am one.
 
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there

Senior Member
hunybee said:
See?

I knew I loved you. You are smart
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I'm a red head and that says it all.

Will contact you tomorrow hunybee to give an update. Us red heads are hard to kill off.

It is bed time where I am down under. Love you too and thank you.

Sorry for the thread drift Raggedyman. By the way in Europe I met a lot of really nice Italians and learnt to cook some wonderful food from a lovely Nonna, that I still cook today many years later.
 
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