15 Years

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[quote]Avoids Roids wrote:
Nice story. My wife and i have over double your years and still going strong.

BTW, are you still a feed lot cowboy or still invloved in horses? My wife and I raise QH’s and T’Breds for fun. We also spend two weeks each September in the mountains of Montana helping family friends move their cattle down from the high summer pastures to their more temperate winter pastures. Nothing beats driving several hundred head of cow/calf pairs straight down a ravine and them trying to crawl out the top! Better than a full body workout!!![/quote]

I love gathering cattle. There is something about watching a sunrise via horseback that words just will not capture. But with two kids and a wife - buying groceries takes priority over watching sunrises.

I haven’t worked cattle since 1998. My first job out of grad school was as the finacial manager for a company that owned 6 huge ranches in Big Bend area of Texas. I left there when I purchased a tax practice up here in the panhandle.

I still work with farmers and ranchers - I specialize in farm/ranch tax issues, and I do a lot of consulting work for these guys throughout the year. It’s ironic that these same guys won’t pay more than 80 bucks a day for a top hand to work for them - but they will gladly fork over 80 bucks an hour if I can save them money, or help them make more.

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[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
Congratulations! As the two of you are good people in the truest sense of the phrase, I wish you more of the same riches you currently enjoy. My wife and I are at about 1/10 of your progress in married life, and I hope we can do things as well as you have.

To give you something to shoot for: My grandparents have been married for 66 years.[/quote]

Thanks BB. It’s a journey. More like a never ending adventure - but that’s probably my fault, as I have spent a good part of these past 15 years getting in trouble. Poor Jana never knows from one day to the next what I will attempt to pull.

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Rick,

I thank God that He led you to me. I can’t imagine what my life would be without you. Thank you for everything you have done for me & for our family. The hard times were worth it.

Here’s to another 15, baby! I love you more than I will ever be able to show you!

Jana

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[quote]rainjack wrote:
As for my son - he thinks of me like every teen-aged kid thinks of his dad: He wishes I would just disappear.

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Big time congrats to you and Jana, RJ! I love hearing these kinds of stories - they restore my faith in humanity a little bit whenever I hear them.

And Skyler seems like a great kid (at least as far as I can tell from having played a bunch of Halo 2 with him on XBox Live).

Ya done good, cowpoke.

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Congratulations both of you. :slight_smile:

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Awesome. And nicely written.

20 years this past July; definitely Fate; still stunned sometimes at how it all turned out.

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Your post is so sweet, like the chick-flick of posts! Awwwwwwwwwwww!!!

Congratulations on your 15 happy years! May the next 15 bring you even more happiness!

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Congrats RJ and well done.

Good solid relationships take patience and work and you need to put the other person’s needs ahead of your own sometimes.

You guys got it figured out.

I’m guessing your going to get laid tonight since your sweetie read this post :slight_smile:

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[quote]pushharder wrote:
Congrats, Jack!

Coincidences:

We celebrated our 23rd anniversary yesterday.

I was cowboying when I married my wife although not in the feedlot. It was a traditional cow/calf operation on a 60,000 acre Montana, high mountain valley ranch.

We married 4 1/2 months after our initial meeting.

We are in love, big time.[/quote]

You forgot one - you and I both married WAY out of our league.

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[quote]hedo wrote:
I’m guessing your going to get laid tonight since your sweetie read this post :)[/quote]

Her reading of my posts here is no guarantee of sexual favors either now - or in the future.

But I try. Lord how I try.

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Congrats RJ, that’s good stuff.

My folks got married when my older brother was 3 years old. (They were both young widows and I hadn’t been concieved yet). It took awhile for me to appreciate the kind of sacrifice Pops made back then, but now I fully respect the kind of man he is.

In hearing your story I respect you more too.

B.

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[quote]rainjack wrote:
hedo wrote:
I’m guessing your going to get laid tonight since your sweetie read this post :slight_smile:

Her reading of my posts here is no guarantee of sexual favors either now - or in the future.

But I try. Lord how I try. [/quote]

Congrats to you both! A long-term marriage is an accomplishment. May you continue to grow up together.

Good luck tonight Rainjack.

Jana, put it in his pooper.

DB

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[quote]rainjack wrote:
It was July 4, 1991. A guy that worked with me had set me up on this ‘blind date’.

I had never seen her before, never talked to her on the phone. Three days ago I didn’t even know she existed. I know that the same held true for her. Especially the phone part because…well, I didn’t have one.

I didn’t know what to expect as I drove up to her house that evening. I left the keys in the ignition becuase my wranglers fit a little tight, and I wanted to be able to haul ass and make the quickest get away possible - if needed. Fumbling for the pick-up keys was just going to slow me down.

Don’t get me wrong. I was under no illusion that I was a catch by any stretch. Hell - I rode a horse all day, and lived in a shit hole 3 room house that smelled like a dead mouse. Everything I owned was infused with cow shit.

But dammit - I did have standards - and I was not going to spend the 4th with some toothless nag. Besides, how good-looking could this girl be? She was willing to go on a blind date with a feedlot cowboy sight unseen?

I walked up to the door, and was met by her mother. We visited for a moment - exchanging pleasantries.

Then I saw HER. I can’t remember what Jana was wearing. I know that never in my life had I seen eyes so big and so blue.

I don’t remember what we talked about that night. But I do know that I have not spent a day apart from her since then.

That was July 1991. In September 1991 she gave birth to our son. Yes - Jana was 7 months pregnant when we met. But I cried when she asked me to be the father of record on Skyler’s birth certificate.

We were married November 16, 1991. If there are any math people out there - that’s 15 years ago today.

People want to send money to self-help gurus, or spend a lot of their time looking for the “answers”.

I found mine.

I spend most every day trying to feel like I have earned the right to be in the same room as Jana. I married WAY over my head.

I just wanted to post this as a public “Happy 15th Anniversary” to my beautiful wife.

But I still keep the keys in the ignition because I found out the hard way Jana has a right hook like a Mack Truck.

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Hey man it’s been a while since I spoke to you. That’s just an awesome post RJ. Hope you have 115 more!!

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Rainjack - I had no idea you had a sensitive side. I also married out of my league. I have no idea why my wife stayed around for 15 years either. Congratulations.

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[quote]MikeTheBear wrote:
Rainjack - I had no idea you had a sensitive side. I also married out of my league. I have no idea why my wife stayed around for 15 years either. Congratulations.[/quote]

I appreciate that.

Believe it or not - I am an expert in all emotions. I just prefer being an asshole.

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Congrats Rainjack.

I can tell that you two have maintained a great amount of respect and admiration for each other.

I am going to try that soon. I finaly found one that hasn’t run screaming from the house after a few months.

Thanks for showing us that it is possible.

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You wifed a pregnant chick? Wow…

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[quote]Roy wrote:
You wifed a pregnant chick? Wow…[/quote]

No - I married the greatest woman on the face of the earth.

I don’t know if you intended it to come out the way you did, but your comments were not funny, nor were they clever.

If you want to disrespect my wife - I suggest you nut up and come do it to my face.

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[quote]rainjack wrote:

Believe it or not - I am an expert in all emotions. I just prefer being an asshole. [/quote]

And I thought I was the only person that did that. Damn.