You Know Your Spouse is a Keeper When ...

[SloopJonB]

She knocked me right on my ass - literally.

[Olaf Hart]

We met on a blind date set up by friends at university forty two years ago.

Married four months later, it still keeps getting better.

Probably helped along by her becoming a family therapist.

And we had both sailed since we were little kids.

Best sailing line, halfway across Bass Strait on the way to Tasmania in a thirty footer, she pops her head out the mainhatch and says "I see what you mean about a bigger boat now".

I asked her to write it down in the log.

[Cherie320]

She picked me out of a line up on the side of the road (checkpoint at a TSD ralley). She went with me to look at boats in the frozen North and helped me keep a broken car alive until we got it home. She insisted we get a bigger boat (16 ft was a bit small to take a young kid on the bay). She suggested we buy Cherie after 20 years without a boat. This month gets us to 40. Really special for so many reasons. Pat

[BeauV]

I met my wife in an unusual way. In 1979 I had just started a new job in an office almost entirely populated by young women - there were IIRC only 3 guys , one was gay and one was married. The woman who hired me (I found out later) had gone into the lunchroom and announced that she had hired a really cute guy for them, which created a bit of a stir and started some jockeying.

The day I started they weren't really ready for me so they handed me "The Manual" and set me aside for the day. I was sitting in the admin area with my feet up on the desk, reading it when my wife to be came strolling along, long legs, heels, tight red knitted dress, strawberry blond Farrah Fawcett hair and a Playboy Bunny necklace. She flashed me a big smile and at that exact instant my chair went out from under me and laid me on my back on the floor.

Would you call that destiny?

Absolutely Frigging Perfect!!

[kimbottles]

She picked me out of a line up on the side of the road (checkpoint at a TSD ralley). She went with me to look at boats in the frozen North and helped me keep a broken car alive until we got it home. She insisted we get a bigger boat (16 ft was a bit small to take a young kid on the bay). She suggested we buy Cherie after 20 years without a boat. This month gets us to 40. Really special for so many reasons. Pat

Oh NO! Not another Rallye Driver!! I only have rallye photos of Derek, my rally days were long before digital cameras......"Press on Regardless"!

[JoeP]

I've heard there's something about the Scandinavian Flick that's good for a relationship.

[derekb]

I've heard there's something about the Scandinavian Flick that's good for a relationship.

Wife is co-driving in the second photo... We met on the college sailing team - spent two years in a small boat together, a bit later we spent 2 months bicycle camping from Barcelona to Athens on $35/ day. Co-driving, Small Boat Sailing and Bike Tours will weed out the wrong ones.

[SloopJonB]

If I had ever met a girl who could get a car sideways on a dirt road, my life would have taken a different direction!

[kimbottles]

Derek's wife is an absolute keeper for so many reasons..........

[kimbottles]

...she has no problem with using a bucket......

[Ish]

...she has no problem with using a bucket......

I'm sure Armido would be delighted to hear that. I'm not going to tell him.

[kimbottles]

...she has no problem with using a bucket......

I'm sure Armido would be delighted to hear that. I'm not going to tell him.

He can't have her, she is MINE!

[Orestes Munn]

My wife will hang from a shroud or a backstay, but only when there's no one around.

[Ish]

My wife will hang from a shroud or a backstay, but only when there's no one around.

Is this on the same level as "if a tree falls in the forest with nobody there" philosophy?

[Orestes Munn]

My wife will hang from a shroud or a backstay, but only when there's no one around.

Is this on the same level as "if a tree falls in the forest with nobody there" philosophy?

I have heard and seen, but I don't count, so it remains a koan.

[Jamie]

I've heard there's something about the Scandinavian Flick that's good for a relationship.

Wife is co-driving in the second photo... We met on the college sailing team - spent two years in a small boat together, a bit later we spent 2 months bicycle camping from Barcelona to Athens on $35/ day. Co-driving, Small Boat Sailing and Bike Tours will weed out the wrong ones.

Well done!

[bob perry]

When she lets you invite a strange 16 year old kid to stay at the house for 16 days. And she likes it.

[kimbottles]

When she lets you invite a strange 16 year old kid to stay at the house for 16 days. And she likes it.

Jill is a keeper, lovely lady.

[Panope]

When she lets you park a big old boat next to the house for years and years.

Steve

[Boomer]

^^^
Your a lucky man!

Actually my wife asked me for a date in an unusual way. She wouldn't let me by in a narrow hallway unless we kissed, so I did, and she asked for a date.

It's been mostly bliss since then....and that was a long long time ago, in a land far far way......

[kimbottles]

^^^
Your a lucky man!

Actually my wife asked me for a date in an unusual way. She wouldn't let me by in a narrow hallway unless we kissed, so I did, and she asked for a date.

It's been mostly bliss since then....and that was a long long time ago, in a land far far way......

Good Lord Boomer!! The same kind of thing happened to me, I met SWMBO at a (Canadian Centennial) party and dropped her off at her apartment on my way home and she grabs me and kisses me out of the blue, I never recovered from that kiss almost 47 years ago. It has been virtually total Bliss ever since (I can't believe how lucky I have been, but I am not complaining!)

[Boomer]

Kinda odd how things work out Kim.....

I never planned on getting married from an early age, nor having kids. Now if I'd stuck to those plans, I wouldn't have had near a wonderful life that I did.

[kimbottles]

Kinda odd how things work out Kim.....

I never planned on getting married from an early age, nor having kids. Now if I'd stuck to those plans, I wouldn't have had near a wonderful life that I did.

Yup, so true!!

[Boomer]

Plus a gazillion Kim!

[SloopJonB]

Anybody who has any questions about, or is considering that concept should simply check out some old "confirmed bachelors".

Men & women are each 1/2 of a whole.

[Orestes Munn]

Anybody who has any questions about, or is considering that concept should simply check out some old "confirmed bachelors".

Men & women are each 1/2 of a whole.

Some of the most "centered" and generally impressive people I know, of both sexes, have lived alone for large portions of their lives. It's not something I would choose, but any of us could end up there. If genetics are determinative, I may outlive my precious and beloved wife by many years. It's very painful to think about, but I am learning, and she is helping me to understand, that it wouldn't be the end of my world.

[kimbottles]

It would be the end of the world for me if I lost SWMBO!
She is irreplaceable!
(Damn was I lucky to meet her! DerekB was really lucky I met her too!)

[Jamie]

“We all need someone to look at us. we can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under. The first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public. The second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. they are the tireless hosts of cocktail parties and dinners. they are happier than the people in the first category, who, when they lose their public, have the feeling that the lights have gone out in the room of their lives. This happens to nearly all of them sooner or later. People in the second category, on the other hand, can always come up with the eyes they need. Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is as dangerous as the situation of people in the first category. one day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark. And finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. they are the dreamers.”
― Milan Kundera

[Panope]

We've only got 7 years together. So far so good (great). In addition to the "boat in the yard" acceptance, She has a few other good qualities.

She was into the motorcycle thing already when we met.

Flying came naturally for her with much of her training occurring with our daughter still in the oven.

She even has a better job than me (I don't get to play with her money but at least she does not play with mine).

The only snag is that she is not to keen about being around water. I'll get Panope in the water in a couple of months and begin her initiation. It is not going to be as easy as flying was. She had no fear of the air (unlike the water). Born and raised on a dry wheat farm in Alberta - no webbed toes, no gills or scales either. I checked everywhere.

Steve

[Olaf Hart]

Hmmm ....Guzzi AND Ducati.

A few delights there mate.

A guy round here turns Californians into cafe racers.
Raises the rear, drops the forks and made his own moulds for a new tank and fairing.