I think Granny had it right.

05 January 2014, 18:42

All of these threads trying to coerce people to donate money, shaming those that haven't, ridiculing and shaming people for there mistakes, worrying about what people say behind your back, etc. etc...yadi yadi yada...make me remember what my Granny always told us:

"If you spend enough time properly tending your own business...you rarely have any time to tend anyone else's business...much less worry with what they said about you."

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J. Lane Easter, DVM

A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House

No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991.

05 January 2014, 18:46

Bwana Bunduki

05 January 2014, 19:03

mboga biga bwana

05 January 2014, 19:07

cal pappas

Lane:
Grandmother was a wise and wonderful woman and we need more like her in the population today.
You were a blessed man to have her in your life.
Cal

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Cal Pappas, Willow, Alaska
www.CalPappas.com
www.CalPappas.blogspot.com
1994 Zimbabwe
1997 Zimbabwe
1998 Zimbabwe
1999 Zimbabwe
1999 Namibia, Botswana, Zambia--vacation
2000 Australia
2002 South Africa
2003 South Africa
2003 Zimbabwe
2005 South Africa
2005 Zimbabwe
2006 Tanzania
2006 Zimbabwe--vacation
2007 Zimbabwe--vacation
2008 Zimbabwe
2012 Australia
2013 South Africa
2013 Zimbabwe
2013 Australia
2016 Zimbabwe
2017 Zimbabwe
2018 South Africa
2018 Zimbabwe--vacation
2019 South Africa
2019 Botswana
2019 Zimbabwe vacation
2021 South Africa
2021 South Africa (2nd hunt a month later)
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05 January 2014, 21:50

BaxterB

Yup. Eric Hoffer mentions this in his book True Believer. He says people mind their own business when it is worth minding. When it ceases to be worth minding, they then turn their attention to the affairs of others. There are a lot of people like that these days who can't leave the lives of others alone.

05 January 2014, 22:05

joester

Makes sense cognitively and intuitively.

05 January 2014, 22:31

TexKD

I must have missed most of it. Thats good.

Lets just all go hunting and enjoy it while we still can.

05 January 2014, 22:31

SBT

To Granny:

05 January 2014, 22:36

Beretta682E

quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
All of these threads trying to coerce people to donate money, shaming those that haven't, ridiculing and shaming people for there mistakes, worrying about what people say behind your back, etc. etc...yadi yadi yada...make me remember what my Granny always told us:

"If you spend enough time properly tending your own business...you rarely have any time to tend anyone else's business...much less worry with what they said about you."

Good words to live by !!

05 January 2014, 23:03

Bill73

Best post ever!!!

05 January 2014, 23:16

AnotherAZWriter

quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
All of these threads trying to coerce people to donate money, shaming those that haven't, ridiculing and shaming people for there mistakes, worrying about what people say behind your back, etc. etc...yadi yadi yada...make me remember what my Granny always told us:

"If you spend enough time properly tending your own business...you rarely have any time to tend anyone else's business...much less worry with what they said about you."

I will make it a point not to comment on any hunter's lion.

05 January 2014, 23:33

boarkiller

That's right

" Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins.
When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar.
Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan
PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move...

Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies...
Only fools hope to live forever
“ Hávamál”

06 January 2014, 02:09

ledvm

My Granny Easter had 11 kids all but the last 4 born at home. I have pictures of her going to town horseback with one kid sitting behind her and one in the oven.

They lived in a house heated by wood that had a porch on the back to store the ready-to-use wood and a BIG pile out behind.

When they got older...my Dad sent me by every evening to make sure that porch was filled with wood. They had an old home-made cart used to move wood from the big pile/splitting area to the porch.

One day we were sitting by the fire having a cup of coffee warming up and and I said something like: "I wished I had a dollar for every stick of wood I have moved in that cart."

Grandad shot me a look and said: "your Granny has toted more wood in the curl of her apron than you have ever moved on that cart." (she would grab the bottom of her apron and curl it up for a sling)

I think about that everytime I think I've done something better than someone else has. Kind of puts things into perspective for me.

06 January 2014, 07:13

Jerry Huffaker

Great post Lane, I can relate to your last story. My grandmama told me one day she couldn't imagine a woman complaining about putting clothes into a washing machine. We still have the scrub board she used to wash clothes by hand when she was young, still has some ly soap on it. Our granny's were educated by sweat, they didn't have time to sit around and have the likes of internet pissing matches, they had to work.

06 January 2014, 08:21

Use Enough Gun

Yes, Granny did have it right! One of the best damn posts in a loooooooooooooooooong time!

I too, was part of the generation that was lucky enough to be taught the insights of that generation by the same type of grandparents!

06 January 2014, 08:29

pagosawingnut

That post has wisdom beyond our years sir! My Granny was almost identical. Damn is she missed.

06 January 2014, 08:45

Balule

Spot on!

And there is Balule's Law of the Universe:
No good deed shall ever be left unpunished.

06 January 2014, 12:52

cjw3

Go Granny!!!!

06 January 2014, 15:57

Thunder Head

AMEN !!!

I don't finish half the threads I start reading on here because they quickly degrade into a pissing match, mostly about nothing.

06 January 2014, 20:22

impala#03

How many of your grannys said,"If you don't have anythiing good to say, don't say anything". Mine did. If I don't remember anything she told me, I try to remember that.

06 January 2014, 23:00

ledvm

Mine used that one too!!!

07 January 2014, 00:15

zimbabwe

My Grandmother raised two daughters (a third one died less than a year old) on a farm having only one leg. She cut her foot with an axe cutting kindling and with Medicine as it was then ( before the 20th century) before they could finally get her to New Orleans to a hospital she had contracted gangrene. The other was removed at the hip when she was 16 years old. She was on crutches all that time and what really reminded me was in all this time they only had wood fire,wood stove in the kitchen and wood fireplaces in each room. I have seen her so many times gather one edge of her apron (which she ALWAYS wore)with one crutch hand and navigate up stairs from the wood pile to the back porch. Try that some time when you are feeling frisky. She was lucky in one respect,there was another woman in town who was missing the other leg and they would buy a pair of shoes together. She was lucky in that the woman wore the same size. She was probably the second most wonderful woman I have ever known.

07 January 2014, 01:25

D R Hunter

By Dr Easter:
"If you spend enough time properly tending your own business...you rarely have any time to tend anyone else's business...much less worry with what they said about you."

I do believe the intent of such "old-fashioned"
wisdom is that we should not be meddlers, and not
be concerned with general gossipers. Much agreed!

It does NOT mean that we should turn a blind eye
and walk on by, when an elderly person has fallen
down and is unable to get themselves up; nor does
it mean that we should stay quiet while the FALSE
words of another are causing serious harm to our
good name. {Your UNmarried daughter is seen enter-
ing an abortion clinic and remaining there for hours.
Some old bitty is telling the whole community what
she saw and adding "You know what that means...".
You KNOW she went there to talk a friend OUT OF HAV-
ING AN ABORTION because you drove her there and
spoke with her on the phone during the time she was
there! You know you'll address the old biddy and set
her straight! At least I know I would!}

07 January 2014, 18:06

ledvm

quote:
Originally posted by D R Hunter:
By Dr Easter:
"If you spend enough time properly tending your own business...you rarely have any time to tend anyone else's business...much less worry with what they said about you."

I do believe the intent of such "old-fashioned"
wisdom is that we should not be meddlers, and not
be concerned with general gossipers. Much agreed!

It does NOT mean that we should turn a blind eye and walk on by, when an elderly person has fallen down and is unable to get themselves up; It does NOT mean that we should turn a blind eye
and walk on by, when an elderly person has fallen
down and is unable to get themselves up; nor does
it mean that we should stay quiet while the FALSE
words of another are causing serious harm to our
good name. {Your UNmarried daughter is seen enter-
ing an abortion clinic and remaining there for hours.
Some old bitty is telling the whole community what
she saw and adding "You know what that means...".
You KNOW she went there to talk a friend OUT OF HAV-
ING AN ABORTION because you drove her there and
spoke with her on the phone during the time she was
there! You know you'll address the old biddy and set
her straight! At least I know I would!}

Not sure how you could ever infer that (bold above) into her intended meaning.

08 January 2014, 19:17

D R Hunter

Hi Dr Easter,

If I am so occupied with getting my business taken care of, how could I possibly choose
to insert myself into the business of some older person who has fallen down?

I don't believe your granny would want that to be one's thinking at all!

Instead, make the fact that an older person who needs your help is your business when
you can do so, is what granny would put forth.