60th Birthday report (Photos)
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60th Birthday report (Photos)
Well men (and ladies), I know it sounds totally ridiculous, but I turned 60 years old while up on northern Ontario at a friend’s cottage. It seems absurd to me that I’ve hit the bit 6-0 but the calendar says it’s so. Anyway, I took ‘Old Savage’ along, my working Winchester 30-30 carbine made the same year I was born, just in case we had bear problems. Here is a photo …
Activities for the week included fishing for Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass and Northern Pike. Here’s the Old Geezer with a nice wild Smallmouth …
Here’s another photo of my oldest Granddaughter with a Rock Bass she caught all by herself off the dock …
… and a photo of my oldest son showing his Northern Pike to one of his daughters, another granddaughter of mine.
They couldn’t find a ‘6’ candle, so got a ‘9’ candle instead, but the wick was such that they couldn’t turn it upside down for the cake, so I wound up with a ‘90’ on top of my birthday cake. I felt I needed to do something to make up for being mistaken for 90 years old, so I figured I’d show the young lads that I still had other guns besides Winchesters and encouraged them to aim to still have something when they hit my age. They ain’t the biggest guns around, but I can still lift the fork to my mouth …
Then there was an evening canoe with the Queen of Hearts (otherwise known as my wife). Like all Elven Queens, she never ages, at least it seems so to me, but she just laughs and says I got something wrong with my eyes …
For my 60th birthday, she told me that she figured I needed an old John Deere tractor so I’d have something to get out and do a bit of plowing with. Well I will tell you … any woman that will get her man a vintage Johnny Popper for his birthday is something else. There are more ways to a man’s heart besides just food, and a classic John Deere tractor is one of them. Today, I drove it home and here it is, a Model 620 made in 1958 …
Activities for the week included fishing for Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass and Northern Pike. Here’s the Old Geezer with a nice wild Smallmouth …
Here’s another photo of my oldest Granddaughter with a Rock Bass she caught all by herself off the dock …
… and a photo of my oldest son showing his Northern Pike to one of his daughters, another granddaughter of mine.
They couldn’t find a ‘6’ candle, so got a ‘9’ candle instead, but the wick was such that they couldn’t turn it upside down for the cake, so I wound up with a ‘90’ on top of my birthday cake. I felt I needed to do something to make up for being mistaken for 90 years old, so I figured I’d show the young lads that I still had other guns besides Winchesters and encouraged them to aim to still have something when they hit my age. They ain’t the biggest guns around, but I can still lift the fork to my mouth …
Then there was an evening canoe with the Queen of Hearts (otherwise known as my wife). Like all Elven Queens, she never ages, at least it seems so to me, but she just laughs and says I got something wrong with my eyes …
For my 60th birthday, she told me that she figured I needed an old John Deere tractor so I’d have something to get out and do a bit of plowing with. Well I will tell you … any woman that will get her man a vintage Johnny Popper for his birthday is something else. There are more ways to a man’s heart besides just food, and a classic John Deere tractor is one of them. Today, I drove it home and here it is, a Model 620 made in 1958 …
Kirk: An old geezer who loves the smell of freshly turned earth, old cedar rail fences, wood smoke, a crackling fireplace on a snowy evening, pristine wilderness lakes, the scent of
cedars and a magnificent Whitetail buck framed in the semi-buckhorn sights of a 120-year old Winchester.
Blog: https://www.kirkdurston.com/
cedars and a magnificent Whitetail buck framed in the semi-buckhorn sights of a 120-year old Winchester.
Blog: https://www.kirkdurston.com/
Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
cool, here's to another 60.
careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
5. U is my elder
4. I respect u
3. Can I get yer opinion?
2. SIR can I help you LOL
1. U is old
Happy Another Year Older Day. Look forward to more of your post and pics. Todd/3leg
4. I respect u
3. Can I get yer opinion?
2. SIR can I help you LOL
1. U is old
Happy Another Year Older Day. Look forward to more of your post and pics. Todd/3leg
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Congrats on the big 60. Nice John Deere your Bride gave you too. Here's wishing you many years of use out of it!! I have a Massey Ferguson T035 made the same year but it isn't near has pretty.
Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Nice pics of the family Kirk, thems memories your making for all. I Like the JD it has class. danny
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oh you lucky ole dog you!........happy birthday
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Nice pics of your trip. And you're still young. A tractor is a vast improvement over the previous power units for plowing. I still remember "helping" my uncles ready their teams for either the days work or a nights rest. And although I have the tack & implements, either of my tractors (Ford 3000 & JD 950), are less work!
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Congratulations and thanks for sharing
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Great Birthday with great people....
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
KirkD -- Happy B-day, and thanks for sharing...I have to confess that as a NY urban kid I have spent many hours behind the wheel of a similar John Deere--worked on a huge farm in Ohio in the 70's, brought in a allot of hay, corn, soybeans--you sir are a blessed man... :)
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Great report and photos Kirk, as others have said, you are blessed......
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Congrats old mate, happy birthday. Your posts & photos are always interesting.
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Happy Birthday KirkD !.Can't think of a better way to spend your Birthday ,with your family ! Great Pictures and nice tractor! ,,,DT
Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Happy 60th Kirk.
Looks like you had a great time, thank you for the pics.
I love old machines. Your JD 620 is beautiful. Your wife is obviously a keeper, you are a lucky man.
Your 94 carbine has a very nice stock for one produced that late. My very first Winchester is just like yours and only a couple years newer.
Looks like you had a great time, thank you for the pics.
I love old machines. Your JD 620 is beautiful. Your wife is obviously a keeper, you are a lucky man.
Your 94 carbine has a very nice stock for one produced that late. My very first Winchester is just like yours and only a couple years newer.
"Oh bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round.
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
This tractor actually came from Ohio. The fellow I bought it from brought it up about 20 years ago and restored it.1894c wrote:I have to confess that as a NY urban kid I have spent many hours behind the wheel of a similar John Deere--worked on a huge farm in Ohio in the 70's, brought in a allot of hay, corn, soybeans-
Kirk: An old geezer who loves the smell of freshly turned earth, old cedar rail fences, wood smoke, a crackling fireplace on a snowy evening, pristine wilderness lakes, the scent of
cedars and a magnificent Whitetail buck framed in the semi-buckhorn sights of a 120-year old Winchester.
Blog: https://www.kirkdurston.com/
cedars and a magnificent Whitetail buck framed in the semi-buckhorn sights of a 120-year old Winchester.
Blog: https://www.kirkdurston.com/
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Well Kirk, you guys do a lot of cool stuff. You are young ... Not to fret, time will solve that.
Nice rifle :-;
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Oh, man, grandkids. I am sooo jealous! Welcome to the seventh decade Kirk!
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
60?????????!!!!!!!!!! Your just a kid. I turned 60 waaaaaaayyyyyy back last month in July.
We have a few John Deere people around here as at one time that's about all there was. My FIL, a farmer used JD's since the late thirties. I bought a JD 400 in 1976 and used it continuously until 2007.
JD's are cool, but Winchesters & Colts are cooler. ------6
We have a few John Deere people around here as at one time that's about all there was. My FIL, a farmer used JD's since the late thirties. I bought a JD 400 in 1976 and used it continuously until 2007.
JD's are cool, but Winchesters & Colts are cooler. ------6
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Congratulations on your 60th. Loved the pictures, congratulations on that amazing tractor.
I have a 94 exactly my age, hunt with it every year, I'm 69 and love my old Winchesters more
every year.
I have a 94 exactly my age, hunt with it every year, I'm 69 and love my old Winchesters more
every year.
Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Lovely photographs kirk.
Very pleased for you Sir.
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Very pleased for you Sir.
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Great photos. And it looks like you had a great time on your 60th. Congratulations!
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Congratulations Kirk! Sounds like a perfect way to spend any birthday!!!
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Congrats man. Oh, to be 60 again, (that was 15 years ago).
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Congratulations, you Sir, are a lucky man indeed Great pictures.
And many more happy and healthy years to you and your family as well.
And many more happy and healthy years to you and your family as well.
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GREAT posts, as usual, Kirk! Congrats on a great day!
So, for your 60th Birthday - how old are you, now?
So, for your 60th Birthday - how old are you, now?
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIRK, Canoeing and fishing in the northwoods is great any day, especially with the family.
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Wonderful thread, brought back some great memories of canoeing in Ontario.
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Congrats ya whipper snapper. I just turned 68 a couple weeks back.
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Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
I'm a little late here, its all been said,.
Happy 60
PLOWBOY
Happy 60
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Congrats on your 60th. Awesome tractor!
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