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WELCOME Fellow Geriatric Stoners!

zunny

Member
Welcome Fellow Geriatric Stoners!


Share your thoughts & Dreams....

Tell us about the Grandkids...

Lay a few "Back in the old day" stories on us!...

What do you think of all these new Genetics popping up?


Come on all you old Farts! Sit down, kick your feet up, take out the hearing aid, turn up the music and share some of that Stoner Wisdom and Advice!

If nothing else.... Tell us about yourself....
 
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BushyOldGrower

Bubblegum Specialist
Veteran
*Glides in on a Shiny New HoverRound...

*Glides in on a Shiny New HoverRound...

Check this ride out dude. :p BOG

Why walk when you can ride?
 

zunny

Member
High Old People! My name is Gunny and I love Marijuana...

A little bit about me…

I enlisted in the USMC in 1977 at the age of 18. I spent my entire career in the Intelligence field, specializing in various forums of Cryptology. I spent time in just about every Non-Warsaw pact country. My favorite duty was the three years I spent in Scotland working with elements of the Royal Navy. I achieved the rank of Master Gunnery Sergeant but use the handle Gunny because it was my favorite rank. The two promotions after that were mostly pushing paper and dealing with idiots.

I retired in 1998. Took a six month vacation and entered the civilian work force for the first time in my adult life. I work for a International Corporation as their Commercial and Retail Liaison. I am either visiting different clients or work out a small office in my home. My boss lives almost 1900 miles away… Hence, as long as I am accomplishing my mission, I work on my own… I love it!

I have been a single parent to my 15-year-old daughter since she was six months. We have not discussed my love for cannabis yet. The room where my grow is has been off limits. We are open about everything and when the time comes, whether it is her, or me initiating I will be honest, truthful and patient.

I started smoking marijuana when I was 16 years old. I also smoked quite a bit during the first four years in the USMC. In 1981, the Military commenced “Operation Golden Flow” (aka Piss Tests for THC). My smoking between 81-98 was cut drastically averaging about only ¼ OZ a year.

One of my retirement presents (from another USMC retiree) was a nice 8" one hitter bong and an Oz of weed…. Thus another chapter in my life had begun.

I began growing a few plants in the back yard the year I retired. Just ol’ bag weed seeds. My best harvest was in 2000 when I got about one pound off four plants… I think it was sometime during that fall when I discovered OG….

I no longer grow outdoors. I am a simple indoor dirt farmer. My veg chamber is 4X4X4 and I use a combination of compact and tube floros. I maintain small 4X3X4 flowering chamber I call the “Torture Chamber.” It uses twin 150 HPS. I only use organic ferts. I use the five set (1 gal) bubble bag set to make hash.

I don’t sell any of my harvest. Obviously there isn’t a whole lot there… LOL I do enjoy trading and giving it away with a small circle of trusted friends.

My hobbies include, Guitar, Banjo, deep sea fishing (I live on the SE ICW), Carving wood and soapstone, chasing butterflies and of course gardening…

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

Semper Fidelis (USMC motto meaning “Always Faithful’) and Stay Safe my friends.
Gunns.
 
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Dutchgrown

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Veteran
Okay, okay Gunny....but just because YOU aksed....LOL

I definitely remember when White Rabbit wasn't something running through the fields. Oh, I remember also having 'fallout' shelter drills in school where we had to get under our desks and put our hands over our head.....like that would have prevented any harm...LOL

Yeah, I'm a lady who decided early on in high school how much fun it was to grow (back in early seventies). Somehow I was a wiz in school, learning came easy (I was one of those 'honor roll' kids) :p The 4.0 gpa got me placed in an accellerated academic program where I completed 1 year of college concurrent with my senior year in high school. whewwww, that was tough, and at the same time working weekends at the Tasty Freeze serving munchies in the drive through window to all my pals who were stoned while I was stuck working :sad: But, that was the agreement I made with my father, he bought me a car, but I had to pay the insurance (his idea of teaching me financial responsibility...lol)

What was my college major....what else.....Botany and Agriculture Science. I opened a retail florist and greenhouse, propogating my own plants....and that's how it all started.

Bored yet, Gunny? :D
 

Dutchgrown

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Veteran
Hummm...chapter 2 requires a nice glass of bubbly and a bit of neville's haze bubble hash.....get back to ya shortly, or longly...but it could be a ramble...LOL

dg
 
Hey Gunny-

I'm a wood carver and an avid outdoorsman. I carve my own duck decoys. Its a great winter pastime.

DutchGrown-

I remember the nuclear attack drills in grade school. Like the Soviets were going to target the grade school in a town of 800. The teacher would draw a front view of an ICBM on the black board so if we saw one out the window we could get under our desk. I literally had nightmares for years.

Pot cured me of migrane head aches. The pain would be so intense I'd vomit. When one was coming on a couple of tokes eliminated it immediately. Better than Demerol or (yuk!) a seconal supository. No rectal rockets for this boy.

I just completed the mid point of a masters degree program. The 20-30ish Yuppie scum ain't got nuthin on me. I'm otta room.
 

riverlady

New member
hello there :) ...i also remember thouse grade school drills ,,,,,now they got the kids doing evacuation drills walking to a "safe" place in case of a terrorist attack ...yea thats going to work real slick

i am also a lady type person as u probably already figured out and i was NOT an honor roll student i was always in some sort of trouble ...but i grew up on a small farm where my parents where into growing organic food for the 9 of us ....worked my butt off helping in the garden, which at the time i was quite put out about , but has since paid off ...

i love the out doors, camping fishing hikeing swimming snorkeling ....i enjoy art ...play with it a bit now and then ...i think of my yard as a big canvas and i fill it with living colors and textures ...

am a do it your selfer ...started growing when i could not find any weed...i had no idea what i was doing but hey its a plant ...must wrk like any other plant ..i poped a few seeds in some dirt and away i went ...ordered a couple books and grew some of the best bud i ever smoked ....was very glad to find other people doing the same thing last summer ...I started making pipes now because is hard to find them too ....there are quite a few of them floating around out there now ...in 4 countries on 3 contenents :cool: hope yall are doing great ...hugs from the river
 

CANNALINGUS

New member
GERIATRIC!!!

GERIATRIC!!!

OK YOU GOT ME....I'LL CHECK IN TO THE OLD FOLKS HOME....IT WAS FUN OUT THERE WHILE IT LASTED.....I GOTTA GET SOME REST:eek: ......I CAN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING THOUGH?
 

HyGradeChronic

Active member
HIGH, i love marijuana too!!!!!

HIGH, i love marijuana too!!!!!

..... GREAT, I SEE A FEW familiar faces/handles here. nice to see y'all.:p
..... gunny you a great storyteller, i enjoy your bio for sure. semper fi.
..... i was born at camp le juene usmc and consequently endured 18 yrs of boot camp. lol!!!!! i had a medical deferment, 1-Y that kept me outta the nam, and those 18 yrs w/crusty ol staff sgt/dad were enough for me. hence, no military service for hgc. but, i became a freedom fighter of sorts, w/some wild excursions in south america and me he ko!!!!! but all the mj i've consumed over the yrs sorta made me forget mi espanol. pero, puedo hablar un poco, mejor dicho, bien bastante por hablar con la gente que fumando marijuana. me entiendes?????:cool:
..... so yea, i fought the war in the streets, fact, i'm still fightin' it, ....., LEGALIZE!!!!!
..... was married once back in the early '80's, but, freedom fighting and living w/woman whose idea of roughing it while camping, was not bringing along a long enuff extension cord for her blow dryer. consequently, i got the boot. now i just chase young girls and get snubbed for being a callous degereate old fart, but, it's strange, they do like me ganja.
..... i been growing herb outdoors since '68 or '69 w/some success, but i got tired of planting enough for the ground hogs, the thieves, and leo. so i switched to indoor gardening.
... had some success there, but i was basicly doing it like a blind idiot until somebody suggested i go online and learn how. lol, the rest is history. i love growing and smoking and i can't wait until i can do it legally in my home state. i got injured on the job back in '89, i do structural ironwork, lol, WHEN THE ECONOMY is such that peep wanna build stuff. but, you know how that is, as a result, i've had a lotta time in the last couple of years to refine my growing skills. for sure. as a result of that injury, i am into a pain management type thingie, and, IF, i lived in cali, i could/would grow some mean ganja, LEGALLY THANX TO PROP 215??? I think thas it, but, they drive too fast out there for me.
..... anyways, i'm sure i bored y'all to tears, so i sign off and let the next oldster step up to the plate and give ya his/her's life stories, and possibly another trip down MEMORY LANE. kind of a crowded street, at least 'round here... :rolleyes:
..... peace
..... HGC
..... LEGALIZE!!!!!
 

fupDuck

New member
I am a USAF vet who got out in the late 70s, went to college, and have been a software designer/developer for 20 years

I am a sculptor (wood, clay, paper-mache) and make all my pipes out of gunstock walnut

I suffer from major depression, and weed keeps me sane ... especially during these dark days in america
 

BushyOldGrower

Bubblegum Specialist
Veteran
49 year old Alternative Medicine convert

49 year old Alternative Medicine convert

OK, I was a smart lad who never had to try hard in school to do well but I didn't want to work for a's so I was just a good student who occasionally was a disciplinary problem. Nothing has changed :)

I spent 5 years in college with no degrees earned but I have held several Licenses and Certifications to do different jobs.

Married at 18 to my HS sweetheart we have been intimate for 35 years now and we are very tight today still. We have one 28 yr old son now and he has 2 little kids and a wife now.

I was a trucker, owner-operator of 2 semi trucks and i hauled swinging beef, Chickens and frosen food as well as all types of dry frieght. Quit trucking and went back to school to become a paramedic and worked in same hospital for over 16 years. My work was in the ER and out on the Ambulance so I learned the basics of medicine and I was fully ACLS certified administer advanced life support.

My work broke my heart however and I worked in Psych later which also broke my heart. My quad bypass was the point when my life changed. Quit smoking and became a fitness freak for years and I am a good skier. Now I am in Montana which means Mountain and I live in my dreamland.

No longer do I sell my buds but just my seeds for BOG Seeds through SeedsDirect but I started growing back when I met my girl in 1969. The summer of love...we were 15. I love her so much to this day it hurts to say...

We have had ufo encounters that were real in 1974 and I have had telepathy with an alien once as a child. My greatest question has been what are the ufo's? I think it is the question of our age actually.

I am a liberal politically but I have many family values. My family values aren't threatened by the values of others however. I mind my own business as far as what people do. I like freedom and my sympathy lies with labor and the poor of this world. Hopefully real change for the better can come in the new age.

Startind growing indoors after 7 years outdoors in about 1973 when the ufo's came I was already growing under 8 ft high output grow floros and my jamacians were lush as hell back then but my buds were always loose and I could never get good indica genetics. I experimented with my own lines for many years and I still have my first MH light from about 1974. It still works and is Hydrofarm. They should put this light in a museum. me too... :D BOG
 
This will be a little hard - as I am not extroverted normally. I grew up in a Texas city with an AFB. Back then we had B52's and so yes I can completely relate to the insane "duck and cover" drills. I was always inquisitive at a young age and wondered why I couldn't get an answer when I asked why we were cowering under our chairs - If the "bomb" was able to destroy everything within miles...... Being the heighth of the cold war, and that we were supposedly in the top 10 places to be hit first they were going to hit us with numerous warheads. I didn't see the point.

I served in the Army and then Air Force. It was enough for me to understand that I didn't like being the loyal soldier, when in essence, it was the morons in Washington that were giving the orders instead of the Military.

I had smoked before the military, but the pee test ended my smoking for years.

I spent the next decade or so working with computers. I am presently a systems engineer and sysadmin for a group of medical centers.

MJ helps me in numerous ways, from helping me not be uptight and extremely anti-social(eat your heart out Zoloft!) to dealing with some physical issues.

Most people in this forum are compassionate and helpful and almost none of them are judgemental. I wish I could say the same, of the local churches I attend less frequently than I should.
I would, that one day we could all meet, smoke and share together without pretense or animosity.

BP
:cool:
 
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G

Guest

Got room for another old fart...???

Got room for another old fart...???

Hello everybody. :)
 

BushyOldGrower

Bubblegum Specialist
Veteran
Hi Old Friend

Hi Old Friend

Those are the best kind ya know. :) *BOG jumps up out of his LazyBoy* Dowzer have my chair... *BOG Lights a Hooter for Dowzer*. I was hoping you could help us out here dude.

How's them dungeon vampires of yours doing? Sorry the posts won't pic for now but we will have it fixed soon. Welcome sir.

Will you moderate for us or would you rather laze in the glory of your laurels? ;) BOG
 
G

Guest

Thanks for the nice welcome, Bushy...

Thanks for the nice welcome, Bushy...

The layout of this place is eerily familiar...;)

Thanks for your kind offer, but I think that I'll just hang out for now. I've got a case of "Mod Burnout" that may take some time to run its course. LOL!

BTW...germed some of the LSD #1 and the Blue Moon Rocks last week. 100% germination rate with all of 'em in under 36 hours, and they're happily swaying in the breeze under the flouros right now. :D
 

Lather

New member
55 and still alive

55 and still alive

Am a proud USN vet, last of the two year enlistments.1967-1969

Got my handle from a Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) song.

met my girl in 1970 lived together untill we married in 1976 and been together eversince.

We did our first real garden down by the Erie Canal summer of 1971. Our first garden was for fun, now it's for meds..lol
 

BushyOldGrower

Bubblegum Specialist
Veteran
Sweet

Sweet

Lather, my wife and I met in 1969 and have been tight ever since. We started growing too and now we just couldn't manage without our meds. ;) BOG almost 50 we are...
 
G

Guest

Now I relly feel old

Now I relly feel old

I just find out I'm gonna be a grandpa again twice over, two of my daughters are expecting. This will make no. 3 I wish they'd stop the kids wear me out!

Skag
 
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