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Originally Posted by John Davis
The gun will make a great shooter but I can't believe you were so anxious to leave God's country.
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Having lived all over the world during my youth, I developed an affinity for a certain climate type...and Georgia ain't it! Don't get me wrong, I lived there for a total of 14 years, but I've been in Kentucky for 30, and the northern tip of Kentucky at that.
What made me leave is I was a senior at the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine. My first rotation in Senior Clinics was Equine Lameness. I got to be the handler to run the horses on hot black asphalt while the Clinicians diagnosed the cause of the lameness. Problem was it was July 1986, and it was 108 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade for a week straight! I went home dehydrated and vomiting every night, and managed to lose 15 lbs I didn't have to lose in 1 week. I made my mind up that if I was going to pursue my dream of being a mixed animal vet and spending a significant proportion of my time outdoors, it wasn't going to be Georgia. So I started looking around, and wound up in Kentucky. Met my wife here, and the rest is history.
Different strokes...
Charlie Daniels song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" comes to mind...cuz' he felt at home there!
I just can't handle the heat. I keep thinking my next home is going to be in Alaska!
Greg