Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of the neat things for me regarding age is tell people a moment or two of happenings at certain ages during my wild and crazy life! :-) Most people freak out when they hear. In my thirties a major car crash on a half-mile dirt track while driving a brand new first time out, "Sprint car!" Flipped it in the air and it came down off track and across a ditch upside down! Where I dropped out of car into a ditch! NO SEAT BELT!" :-( oh cut up a bit!. Nothing broken, but a bit bloody looking! :-) 1/ I did my first solo parachute jump a few days after my 65th birthday! Jump Master said go! Hell I went and it was a magnificent experience. My biggest fear after landing was when Irene asked me how I was? SHE DIDN'T KNOW I WAS GOING TO DO IT! Until number one son drove her to the airfield! :-) My endorphins were bubbling wildly and I said. "It was wonderful!" Until she "OFFERED!" "I'm glad. But let me assure you, that if you ever do it again and even land safely? I will kill you!" With ice cold expression and beautiful steel blue eyes! Then smiled! :-) HOWEVER I'VE NEVER DONE IT AGAIN! :-) On my 76th birthday day I flew in a USA P-51 Mustang WW2 fighter plane shooting down imaginary German fighter planes while twisting turning, rolling over and over in the heat of the imaginary air battle. I do have the first selfie photo of plane and me completely upside down at 3000 feet over Olympia, Washington. USA! :-) I won the battle! :-) And the last? What some might consider a foolish bit of effort for my 80th birthday. I began January 20th to work up to 80 sit-ups on my 80th birthday day May 27. Began training twice a day and by the last 3 weeks twice every day I could do 100 sit-ups! A piece of cake! You just make your mind up, kick ass and do it! I reached the goal and at a great big birthday party I was on the floor and knocked off 80 without blinking an eye! Oh someday I'll put up the fighter plane selfie. :-) Those of you who have the bio book of me.... "TED GRANT: Sixty years of Legendary Photojournalism." can find the picture in it! Cool image, "SKY-GROUND ME AND PLANE!! I SMILE EACH TIME I LOOK AT the photo AND IT REMINDS ME THAT AT THE COMFORTABLE AGE OF 86 :-) ........... If I DON'T THINK ABOUT IT? "I can still kick ass if need be!" :-) It's called the attitudes of life and kick ass when need be! In other words? "If I'm shooting? Just don't stand in front of me!" Have a nice day! cheers, Dr. ted -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Richard Man Sent: July-02-15 8:22 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Family snapshot Most people never come close to guessing our age ~_o On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 8:14 PM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote: > > > On Jul 2, 2015, at 10:55 PM, Susan Ryan <skalte at icloud.com> wrote: > > > > have behaved appropriately for my age up to now > > can think of few things more overrated > > > > . Time to change that shit. > > GOOOD FOR YOU!!!!! > > ric > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus