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How did you meet your mate?

per

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There is an interesting thread on Agriville in which a rancher is looking for a wife and wondered how we all met our wives. Soapweeds letter writing campaign made me wonder the same about some of you. Here was my post.

I knew she was going to be at a small house party at a friends that I was also invited to. I decided to fly in and make a large entrance. Buzzed the house with my Cub and swung around and put her down on the highway just as the startled masses came out of the house. Taxied up and parked on the lawn up front. She took the bait and we have been married for 20 years.

OK now the rest of you must have a story. :???:
 

Faster horses

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Ok. I was a kid. 8th grade. In school. Went to a school dance. He was
there and we danced.
Then I moved away. Came back a year later. His neighbor's
son had a pickup and no drivers license. Mr. FH had a drivers license
and no pickup. So, he drove the neighbor kid to school. I went out
with the neighbor kid, Mr. FH was still driving...soon I was going
out with Mr. FH. See how that works??? :shock:

We married young. It was 1963. And the rest, they say, is history.

Your story was much more dashing and romantic, per. :tiphat:

P.S. The neighbor kid went off to become an accomplished musician.
Played in Connie Smiths band...us; we just kept ranching. :p
 

per

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There are some similarities. The one who drives the transportation gets the girl. Thanks faster, as yes all those single girls that want a northern Sask. agriculture life here's your opportunity. :wink:
 

hillsdown

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We met through friends, we had actually missed each other before in our lives and lived in the same places a few times.

I think you have to believe in fate sometimes as there really is no real explanation to how our lives have intertwined.

That is all I can say , except things work in mysterious ways.
My husband is my best friend in the world and we love each other dearly. I was the city gal and him the coutry guy with a degree in Agriculture . Now I am the country girl and he is the experienced oilman , who leaves the house and everything else up to me to handle. I have grown alot since we met and I have done things that I nor my friends and family would have thought possible. Like AI'ing etc. And he has changed in different direction as well, but we still come back to what means the most to us. Each other.
 

Nicky

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I got my knee operated on and couldn't do much outside work for awhile so was working at the vet clinic. It was the clinic Mike used, and the vet was one of his best friends...the rest is history :) We'll be married 19 yrs in July.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I guess you could say Mr Lilly and I are high school sweethearts. Only he asked me out several times...and I said no. But only because I was dating someone else at the time. One wet rainy night in Dec of 1982 I had gone to town to get a coke at Sonic. Make the drag.....that sort of thing. Well I seen his lil Black 67 Cougar flyin down the drag goin the oposite direction. I was single....might as well give this a go I thought. Chased him down to the local discount store where he was taking film in to be developed for his mom. Wrote my phone number on a corn dog wrapper that was layin the the floor board of my truck. I was a junior..he'd just graduated the past May. We got married in August of 84 after I graduated in May. Been married for 25 years, with not too terribly many bumpy spots in the road. :D
 

jigs

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we met at the 1989 National FFA meeting in KC ....my best friend had the hots for her sister, those two sat between us, and we never really spoke much at all...then flash forward a year and a half... summer of 1991, we were at the Lake, and hit it off... dated, fell head over heals and almost two years to the day we met, we were married...be 19 years this fall....and she STILL swears up and down that we never talked at KC.... really makes a guy feel good about himself!
 
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Anonymous

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One late night a drunk ran over a Highway Patrolman...I arrived on the scene right after it happened- and after getting the drunk settled into his new home- went to the hospital to check on the Patrolman...He was getting X-Rayed and my future wife was the X-Ray Tech... Several of the nurses (who are all matchmakers) had been trying to get us together for sometime...
That was 36 years- 4 kids and 4 grandkids ago...
 

Big Muddy rancher

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Tam and lived only 4 miles apart but the border was between our ranches. I had heard of her Dad but thought he was a old bachelor. Guess I never heard about his 8 kids. :oops:
We were both out at the Golden Wheel night club in Plentywood MT and were introduced by mutual friends. The next week was the blizzard of the century so it was 2 weeks before i got out again. Tammy happen to sit in my chair(Just like George Strait) and the rest is history. :D

It really sucked that she lived 4 miles away and it took 40 miles to go pick her up. I could drive for almost an hour and still see my home gate from the hills south of her yard. :x 35 more miles to Plentywood then turn around and do another 75 miles to take her home then get myself home. It was handy in the winter with the time difference as i could get to her place before i left home but it was bad taking 2 hours to get home. Usually in time for chores. :roll:

We had to get married. :wink:

I couldn't afford the gas for the 4X4 Dodge. :lol: :lol:

Oh ya we got 30 years beat this past May :D
 

jodywy

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Went down Dancing at Dad's Bar in Thayne Wyoming one Saturday night , asked a gal I went to high school with and was going to college with to dance. She said no , I got a date asked my friend and I did and this tall long legged blond says yes. Ssked her to fix a picnic for the next day and I'd take her horse back riding. Comeing back out of the forset we stopped by the house on the way up the road to the barn. My Granddad was there. We rode up, he couldn't see too good so got really close and talked to her about the good horse she was riding. He gave me a wink. Year later we were married , that will be 29 years this next Aug....
 

gcreekrch

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I was working for a mutual family friend. All through first silage crop he talked about this dream girl his friend had raised out in the Chilcotin. My employer made a deal with the crew (including his two sons) that if the first crop was in by Anahim Stampede Time (this event is actually part of the Chilcotin calendar) he would pay the trip for all of us. We went.

In my case, I fell like a pole-axed steer. I chased her around until she broke her leg and had to slow down and get to know me. :D A month later we were engaged and were married a year after we met.

It will be thirty years next July.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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gcreekrch said:
I was working for a mutual family friend. All through first silage crop he talked about this dream girl his friend had raised out in the Chilcotin. My employer made a deal with the crew (including his two sons) that if the first crop was in by Anahim Stampede Time (this event is actually part of the Chilcotin calendar) he would pay the trip for all of us. We went.

In my case, I fell like a pole-axed steer. I chased her around until she broke her leg and had to slow down and get to know me. :D A month later we were engaged and were married a year after we met.

It will be thirty years next July.

Hey I broke my leg so Tam was able to catch me as well. :wink:
 

gcreekrch

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Big Muddy rancher said:
gcreekrch said:
I was working for a mutual family friend. All through first silage crop he talked about this dream girl his friend had raised out in the Chilcotin. My employer made a deal with the crew (including his two sons) that if the first crop was in by Anahim Stampede Time (this event is actually part of the Chilcotin calendar) he would pay the trip for all of us. We went.

In my case, I fell like a pole-axed steer. I chased her around until she broke her leg and had to slow down and get to know me. :D A month later we were engaged and were married a year after we met.

It will be thirty years next July.

Hey I broke my leg so Tam was able to catch me as well. :wink:

I can't figure out why you wasted all that time driving when a good saddlehorse would have crossed the border and made those four miles in the dark in much faster time. :p
 
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Anonymous

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gcreekrch said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
gcreekrch said:
I was working for a mutual family friend. All through first silage crop he talked about this dream girl his friend had raised out in the Chilcotin. My employer made a deal with the crew (including his two sons) that if the first crop was in by Anahim Stampede Time (this event is actually part of the Chilcotin calendar) he would pay the trip for all of us. We went.

In my case, I fell like a pole-axed steer. I chased her around until she broke her leg and had to slow down and get to know me. :D A month later we were engaged and were married a year after we met.

It will be thirty years next July.

Hey I broke my leg so Tam was able to catch me as well. :wink:

I can't figure out why you wasted all that time driving when a good saddlehorse would have crossed the border and made those four miles in the dark in much faster time. :p

I was thinking about the same thing...Back in those days- he must have been one of the only ones living near the border that actually used a port of entry crossing.... :wink: :lol:
 
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