I fell in love with a girl fresh from Germany in college. She was so much different than 'American girls'. Like wow...
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I fell in love with a girl fresh from Germany in college. She was so much different than 'American girls'. Like wow...
Ha! So did my dad - he got stationed over in Stuttgart in the early 70's and met my mom; they married in '74, my brother was born in '75, and I came along in '76. He got stationed in Carlisle, PA right after I was born, so we moved there and then went back to Stuttgart in '79, and moved back to the States in '86. He retired in '89. I've been back a few times to visit family over the years, and a LOT has changed. I went to where we lived, and checked out some of the trees that I used to climb when I was a kid, and I was thinking "Its not that tall after all!"I fell in love with a girl fresh from Germany in college. She was so much different than 'American girls'. Like wow...
Yeah, that last bit, ain't that a kick in the head?
The wife and I went for a drive-by of her grandparents house in another city several hours from here. I remember in the day, that house looking HUGE! The trees were huge, everything was huge. I loved driving there, staying over before major flights out. (She snuck into the frilly four-poster bed in the 'guest bedroom' and woke me up one morning there
That was a treat. Frilly sheets, frilly lace canopy, massive pillows and a down bed) Oh, where was I...So we drove down to the area. I always land marked the roads I had to turn down, and counted the streets and did the requisite turn and drove right by the house. Nothing looked right. Nothing. We drove by three times before she squeals 'THERE IT IS!!!'. It looked small. Anemic. Ordinary... Such a disappointment. Such a shock. Wow...
Sometimes it's best just to leave your memories there and not try to revisit them. 🥲 (I think I need a beer)
Got some Nutter Your Business in the local store's cutout rack. We don't get much from Michigan.
EDIT: Not enough peanut butter flavor. *shrug*
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Now thats a good lookin' brew right there!Yeah, that last bit, ain't that a kick in the head?
The wife and I went for a drive-by of her grandparents house in another city several hours from here. I remember in the day, that house looking HUGE! The trees were huge, everything was huge. I loved driving there, staying over before major flights out. (She snuck into the frilly four-poster bed in the 'guest bedroom' and woke me up one morning there
So we drove down to the area. I always land marked the roads I had to turn down, and counted the streets and did the requisite turn and drove right by the house. Nothing looked right. Nothing. We drove by three times before she squeals 'THERE IT IS!!!'. It looked small. Anemic. Ordinary... Such a disappointment. Such a shock. Wow...
Sometimes it's best just to leave your memories there and not try to revisit them. 🥲 (I think I need a beer)
Got some Nutter Your Business in the local store's cutout rack. We don't get much from Michigan.
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I just did a Google Earth search on Robinson Barracks...yeah, its not recognizable if I was on the ground. More roads, more trees (thats a good thing!), solar panels on the building that we lived in
I spent my elementary education years in Fort Bragg, NC, and I tried to find 13-B xxxxx, and it's completely gone. The water tower is gone. The school is gone. The whole area is completely changed, like erased. Weird. The only thing still there is a much more contained creek that the neighbor kids used to swim in. But it looked like it what I remembered had never existed.
That place was weird too. In a way I guess I'm glad it's gone. So much emotion in that one location. And the hospital is long gone too. I spent time there, being a kid on an army base.
1 day late but happy national stout day y’all 🍻
Yeah, no kidding! I took a knee in the back during a football game and got a bruised kidney. Freaked out when I used the bathroom and saw blood in my urine. I spent a couple days in the hospital and was the coolest kid on the playground when I came back to school; highlight of my 8 year old life to that pointI spent my elementary education years in Fort Bragg, NC, and I tried to find 13-B xxxxx, and it's completely gone. The water tower is gone. The school is gone. The whole area is completely changed, like erased. Weird. The only thing still there is a much more contained creek that the neighbor kids used to swim in. But it looked like it what I remembered had never existed.
That place was weird too. In a way I guess I'm glad it's gone. So much emotion in that one location. And the hospital is long gone too. I spent time there, being a kid on an army base.
The last time I was there, at that hospital, I saw a little girl whose father brought her in after she had an accident on her tricycle. He brought it with him because she somehow got her leg, up past the knee, caught in between the fork and wheel. She was just sitting there, not upset at all, in a condition I now would call 'shock', and she needed help IMMEDIATELY. But back then, the barely used x-ray machines, and when I 'rang my bell' in a local grudge football game, I needed an MRI and maybe some meds, but at that time, in the medical dark ages, no one knew what could go wrong. If it was bad enough, you died, or had 'racoon eyes', and even then, with the later, you likely got Tylenol and some time off work.
I hope she was okay. Thinking back on it, I was shocked, but glad to be leaving. Ouch...
There was a small brewery around here that that released a 'Special Christmas Beer' that was supposed to be awesome and combine the holiday goodness into a magnificent concoction. And most people seemed to think it tasted like something that passed through a dingo's kidney. It was horrid. It was actually funny to me, and I hope they bring it back. (Come to think of it, I don't know if they're still in business) Hmm...
It had cinnamon and nutmeg and cranberries and something that was supposed to taste like gingerbread, and sugar cookies. AND be an actual IPA. I don't know whether it died in the can, was meant to be a joke, or just snuck past their tasters.
Not a sour fan by any stretch but I'd buy that one just for the can...
Sour is an acquired taste that's for sure. I am not sure I would drink this one year round but it's nice in the fall/winter. It goes with all the baking that occurs this time of year at home.
And 'sour beers' can hide a lot of sugar.
Stone Fear Movie Lions! I'm sure everyone has tried it? Love it, my go-to tasty IPA.
Stone Brewing. California and Virginia(?). I've seen it in quite a few places, but it doesn't get nearly the distribution that I feel it should. Maybe after selling out to a larger corporation, they will get more attention. *shrug*
Anyway, I like it. Sam Adams used to have an 'east coast IPA' that was also delicious, and FML was different, more earthy, less of a fruit subtext. But Sam Adams, to my knowledge, dropped theirs, sadly...
Not sure if it's available outside of the Dallas area, but this is all I buy anymore.
Lakewood Temptress - delicious heavy dark stout with 9.1% ABV
Lakewood Temptress - delicious heavy dark stout with 9.1% ABV