This is Casavant. How ya'll been doing?

[Casa2]

Hidee ho, friends and neighbors. Man, it's been a little while since I've been on the boards. I hope y'all didn't have too many sleepless nights wondering what became of me. LOL. J/K.

I went too long without accessing my "Casavant" account (again), so I just went ahead and registered under a new name.

I'm posting from a friends computer here in the town where I bounce, but I've been living out in the sticks in a deer hunting cabin in the middle of nowhere for a few weeks now. It's rather interesting. I have electricity, but no running water... gotta haul it in 5 gallon containers from a spring-fed well. Let me tell ya, taking a shower out of a 5 gallon bucket full of lukewarm water while standing outside on a 3' x 4' piece of tin in 20 degree weather raises a goose bump or two. It's all good though; most of my childhood was spent roughing it in a similar manner. In fact, the cabin I'm living in is on a 327 acre piece of land that my dad owns. The main house is a couple of hundred yards away... I was born in that house (midwife and the whole deal) back in 1980. So, almost 24 years later, I'm living just about exactly in the same spot where I plopped out into this world kicking and screaming. Ain't that some shit? I kid you not.

So how's everyone been doing? Hot diggity! I'm excited to be back on here!

 

[chewyxrage]

wow, that is a cool "birth" story.

i would cherish that place till death

 

[Casa2]

wow, that is a cool "birth" story.

i would cherish that place till death

Thanks man. My parents have always been the type to live a lifestyle that's a little off the beaten path, so to speak.

My pops still lives up there in the house and takes care of quite a few horses- registered American Saddlebreds, mainly. Beautiful animals. He rides around the place on a two-wheeled donkey cart that's pulled by a donkey named "Daisy". It's his version of a utility ATV, I suppose. Damn, it's a funny site! I helped him feed hay a few days ago, and he invited me to hop on there with him (I only rode on level ground so Daisy didn't have to pull my big sorry ass up any hills. We're very conscientous about the well-being of the animals). Anyway, I wish we'd had a picture... my dad is 70 years old and stands 5' 5" and weighs in at a whopping 120 pounds. He's got a great big old mustache that droops a couple of inches below his chin. LOL. I'm 6' 3" and am weighing right at 264 right now. So there we were, bumping along side-by-side behind Daisy the donkey. What a trip.

 

[Imnotdutch]

How come you moved out into the sticks? Sounds like it would be cool for a while though........quite literally at this time of year.

 

[Casa2]

How come you moved out into the sticks? Sounds like it would be cool for a while though........quite literally at this time of year.

Well, there were a few reasons. I can live out there rent-free and pay up on some debts. I can retreat a bit if I need to and get away from everyone and think- something I desparately need to do a lot of at this point in my life- instead of having a bar or some other form of distraction (not to mention money vacuum) just a couple of minutes away and/or end up at some 4am after-party and totally fucking my body around on a regular basis. My family's situation has changed and my father is living alone and more isolated than ever up there on the hilltop, so I can help him do chores (he gets a kick out of watching me flip and drag those 500 pound square bales off the trailer), as well as give him some company and moral support and be around a little bit in the event that he were to get into some kind of an accident with those big ass horses and need some help (it's happened numerous times before... for example, he got kicked in the kidney by one of them a year ago and pissed urine that was so dark with blood that it looked like coffee).

All in all, it just seemed like the thing to do.

 

[chewyxrage]

Crazy-

admiration is going your way for treating your family the way you do.

I can relate because my grandparents were farmers.......and even when my dad was 35 working as an engineer he would drive 3 hours home to the farm(and bring me with him) and help harvest driving a combine for 16 hours a day.

now they are retired and i am so insanely happy to see them stress free and living out the rest of their lives - i swear when we visit it is the highlight of their lives. mine too.

 

[RADAR]

Woah!!! Hi Mang!!! I'm the new Sheriff in town. Holler if you're gonna stay and we will get your account back running!


RADAR

 

[Casa2]

Crazy-

admiration is going your way for treating your family the way you do.

I can relate because my grandparents were farmers.......and even when my dad was 35 working as an engineer he would drive 3 hours home to the farm(and bring me with him) and help harvest driving a combine for 16 hours a day.

now they are retired and i am so insanely happy to see them stress free and living out the rest of their lives - i swear when we visit it is the highlight of their lives. mine too.

Thanks man. I appreciate ya.

Yeah. My pops would literally rather die than live somewhere in town and not get to work with his horses. It's his lifeblood. He's a magnificently intelligent person and we have some very good conversations up there on the mountain. He's lived a whole lot of life in his 70 years on this earth... from riding broncs to teaching Spanish at VMI, ISU, and others, to running a school of horsemanship up on the farm back in the seventies, to taking my mother and my two older sisters and I on an 800 mile trip by horse-drawn covered wagon all the way to Maxwell, Nebraska (back in 1980 when I was just a wee baby) where we lived for four years , as well as fathering nine children (2 with his first wife and 7 with my mother), and the list goes on. LOL... he's a real character.

 

[Casa2]

Woah!!! Hi Mang!!! I'm the new Sheriff in town. Holler if you're gonna stay and we will get your account back running!


RADAR

What's up man?!

Yeah, I'd love to get my account back up and running! I feel a little disembodied at the moment. I don't have access to a computer on a daily basis, but I can get on at least a couple of times a week and plan on doing so (for real). I miss this place and a lot of the different characters around here a lot more than I would have imagined.

You can email me at the account that I have listed in my profile if you need to or PM me or whatever. I would really appreciate that!

 

[danielson]

hey dude