Why you would want to know is beyond me, but here goes.

Present:

I live in the small farming community of Howe Valley in central Kentucky. I own and operate a small farm here, producing cattle and tobacco. I usually tend a pretty good size garden, raise a few chickens for eggs and meat, finish out the occasional hog for slaughter and keep honey bees.

I also work part-time at Thomas Academy Farm, helping where ever I am needed. We raise row crops there as well as cattle and tobacco. We seed and tend greenhouses in the spring of the year; starting tobacco plants for sale. As sideline businesses to the farm, the Thomas's also sell seeds, planting medium, greenhouses and other accessories for the tobacco farming community. In addition to that, they are also a distributor for LG Seeds; a premium seed corn and soybean supplier.

Most of my spare time (what ever that is) is dedicated to writing. Either doing freelance work for clients or writing stories and poetry for myself or publication. If I am not working or writing, then you will most likely find me reading something or another.

Past:

Following is a list of 100 things about me. It may or may not help you get a better grasp of who I am.

I am fairly well read. I have read everything from Plato to Louis L’Amour, Dickens to Chaucer, ee cummings to various Haiku’s. And about everything else in between.
I have shoveled manure.
I have been the CEO of a high tech company.
I can speak German fluently enough to function in that country.
I have assisted in giving birth to calves during difficult deliveries.
I can milk a cow.
I have over 175 college hours, but have not matriculated.
I once owned a laser to cut metals up to ½" thick.
I have lived in Europe for three years and have visited since on several occasions.
I like buttermilk.
I have only owned a couple of cars, preferring pick-up trucks everytime.
I have raised hogs for meat.
I did my first creative writing in high school and still have it in a chapbook.
I was the Battalion Commander of my Navy JROTC unit in high school.
I received advance placement on entering high school in math and science.
I used to breed English Setter bird dogs and own one now.
I have been married 3 times and divorced 3 times. Women! Goodgodamighty y’all.
I have jumped from perfectly good airplanes.
I have been inside a salt mine in Salzburg, Austria.
I have lived in South Korea for a year.
I know how to catch a monkey with a shiney object and a coconut.
I have hunted and fished as the only source of meat for the table.
I have drawn water for the house from a well.
I am a cardholding Journeyman Carpenter with the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Millwrights.
I can whistle.
The last knuckle on the little finger of either hand is crooked a little. A trait I inherited from my mother.
My ears ring constantly from duties performed in a Heavy Mortar Platoon at Ft Carson, Colorado.
I know how to filet fish.
I have thrown snowballs on the top of Pikes Peak on the 5th of July.
I have seen the Northern Lights.
I have stood across the table from soldiers of North Korea in the meeting building at Panmunjom, Korea.
I have sailed the East Coast on a Naval Vessel (the USS Newport News).
I have rappelled from a helicopter.
I have been to Mexico.
I have ridden on a paddle-wheel steamboat on several occasions.
I have walked to the top of Pikes Peak on several occasions.
I have ridden a ferry across the English Channel.
I have seen the white cliffs of Dover at dawn.
I was on the precision drill team in my NJROTC unit in high school.
My mother was the Valedictorian of her class.
I shot competitively in high school on the rifle team and was rated in the top ten shots in the state at the Junior NRA level.
I have been inside of Hitler’s Eagles Nest.
I have eaten monkey.
I sometimes make wine here at home.
I know how to field dress and butcher a deer.
I can navigate by the stars in either hemisphere.
I had a bottle of wine and cheese with a young lady, while sitting on a steep hillside vineyard over-looking the Necker River in Bavaria.
I was a science major in high school with a leaning towards pre-med.
I walked to school about 2 miles for the first six grades.
Both of my grandfathers died before I was born.
I was born in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky.
I learned to shoot before I could ride a bicycle. My earliest memory of this is on a pond bank, sitting between my father’s legs as he held the rifle up and I shot dragonflies in two with a scoped .22 cal rifle.
I like to fish with a fly rod.
Blue is my favorite color, but I like dark reds and browns as well.
I can (could, anyway) skate backwards.
I can find water enough to survive in the desert.
I know how to make and set booby traps using just what is locally available.
I can disassemble/reassemble an M-60 machine gun in the dark or blindfolded.
I have been to the castle and down in the catacombs where the Von Trapp family escaped the Nazis in the "Sound of Music".
I have seen "Gone with the Wind" (Uuaaaaaaah)
I have been to Munich for the Oktoberfest.
I have been to the Tower of London.
I have stood beside the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie.
I attended and completed the Master Cattleman’s Course offered by the University of Kentucky.
I tend honeybees.
I used to hate sweet potatoes, but raise them now.
I have received training and am competent as a cabinetmaker.
I can walk through my native woods and name most of the beneficial plants and trees (even with the leaves off) and tell you what their uses are.
I have plowed with a mule.
I know how to make and use a fish trap.
I have helped raised cane and make molasses before.
I have backpacked across Europe several times
I have spent weeks at a time alone in the Rocky Mountains fishing the various beaver ponds there for trout.
I have spent the night on several occasions in old ghost towns in the Rockies.
I have been in the building in Berlin where the surrender of German forces took place.
I have stood in awe over the endless cemeteries around Dunkirk and Calais France.
I have been on a tour of the plant in Wolfsburg, Germany where the VW Rabbit is made.
I have been in East Germany and had dinner in a pub there before the Wall fell.
I drove an 18-wheeler over-the-road for a while.
I worked in the oil fields briefly.
I can skin a squirrel or rabbit and clean game birds for the table.
I ain’t eating the guts out of nothin’. Nope. No liver, kidneys, hearts or gizzards here, thank you very much.
I spent a day at the concentration camp at Dachau once. Very moving thing that was.
I have been to the house where Mozart was born and raised in Salzburg, Austria.
I have been to Lincoln’s birthplace as well.
I have been to the grave of General Douglas MacArthur in Norfolk, Virginia.
I have been to and across several seas and oceans, but they just don’t do much for me. I prefer the mountains.
I was a Staff Sergeant in the Army.
I have one son and one grandson (that I know of, lol).
My mother is still alive and my father died 23 years ago
I have one half brother and no sisters.
I have met three women from the Internet and have found them all to be very nice, warm and decent people.
I can swim well, but don’t do it much for recreation.
I was the NCOIC of the Ft Gordon, Ga Drill Team while I attended a school there. My fondest memory of that was the privilege of performing for and having dinner with Gen. Omar Bradely before he died.
I had my private pilots license at one time but let it lapse when I no longer had a need for it.
I have ridden on trains all over the world. If you have never done that, you should give it a try.
Fall is my favorite time of year.
I like to play practical jokes on people and guard against them "getting even".
I lived in South Carolina for 8 years.
I am working on a book I hope to get published next year.

Why you would want to know is beyond me, but here goes.

Present:

Past:

I am fairly well read. I have read everything from Plato to Louis L’Amour, Dickens to Chaucer, ee cummings to various Haiku’s. And about everything else in between.

I have shoveled manure.

I have been the CEO of a high tech company.

I can speak German fluently enough to function in that country.

I have assisted in giving birth to calves during difficult deliveries.

I can milk a cow.

I have over 175 college hours, but have not matriculated.

I once owned a laser to cut metals up to ½" thick.

I have lived in Europe for three years and have visited since on several occasions.

I like buttermilk.

I have only owned a couple of cars, preferring pick-up trucks everytime.

I have raised hogs for meat.

I did my first creative writing in high school and still have it in a chapbook.

I was the Battalion Commander of my Navy JROTC unit in high school.

I received advance placement on entering high school in math and science.

I used to breed English Setter bird dogs and own one now.

I have been married 3 times and divorced 3 times. Women! Goodgodamighty y’all.

I have jumped from perfectly good airplanes.

I have been inside a salt mine in Salzburg, Austria.

I have lived in South Korea for a year.

I know how to catch a monkey with a shiney object and a coconut.

I have hunted and fished as the only source of meat for the table.

I have drawn water for the house from a well.

I am a cardholding Journeyman Carpenter with the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Millwrights.

I can whistle.

The last knuckle on the little finger of either hand is crooked a little. A trait I inherited from my mother.

My ears ring constantly from duties performed in a Heavy Mortar Platoon at Ft Carson, Colorado.

I know how to filet fish.

I have thrown snowballs on the top of Pikes Peak on the 5th of July.

I have seen the Northern Lights.

I have stood across the table from soldiers of North Korea in the meeting building at Panmunjom, Korea.

I have sailed the East Coast on a Naval Vessel (the USS Newport News).

I have rappelled from a helicopter.

I have been to Mexico.

I have ridden on a paddle-wheel steamboat on several occasions.

I have walked to the top of Pikes Peak on several occasions.

I have ridden a ferry across the English Channel.

I have seen the white cliffs of Dover at dawn.

I was on the precision drill team in my NJROTC unit in high school.

My mother was the Valedictorian of her class.

I shot competitively in high school on the rifle team and was rated in the top ten shots in the state at the Junior NRA level.

I have been inside of Hitler’s Eagles Nest.

I have eaten monkey.

I sometimes make wine here at home.

I know how to field dress and butcher a deer.

I can navigate by the stars in either hemisphere.

I had a bottle of wine and cheese with a young lady, while sitting on a steep hillside vineyard over-looking the Necker River in Bavaria.

I was a science major in high school with a leaning towards pre-med.

I walked to school about 2 miles for the first six grades.

Both of my grandfathers died before I was born.

I was born in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky.

I learned to shoot before I could ride a bicycle. My earliest memory of this is on a pond bank, sitting between my father’s legs as he held the rifle up and I shot dragonflies in two with a scoped .22 cal rifle.

I like to fish with a fly rod.

Blue is my favorite color, but I like dark reds and browns as well.

I can (could, anyway) skate backwards.

I can find water enough to survive in the desert.

I know how to make and set booby traps using just what is locally available.

I can disassemble/reassemble an M-60 machine gun in the dark or blindfolded.

I have been to the castle and down in the catacombs where the Von Trapp family escaped the Nazis in the "Sound of Music".

I have seen "Gone with the Wind" (Uuaaaaaaah)

I have been to Munich for the Oktoberfest.

I have been to the Tower of London.

I have stood beside the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie.

I attended and completed the Master Cattleman’s Course offered by the University of Kentucky.

I tend honeybees.

I used to hate sweet potatoes, but raise them now.

I have received training and am competent as a cabinetmaker.

I can walk through my native woods and name most of the beneficial plants and trees (even with the leaves off) and tell you what their uses are.

I have plowed with a mule.

I know how to make and use a fish trap.

I have helped raised cane and make molasses before.

I have backpacked across Europe several times

I have spent weeks at a time alone in the Rocky Mountains fishing the various beaver ponds there for trout.

I have spent the night on several occasions in old ghost towns in the Rockies.

I have been in the building in Berlin where the surrender of German forces took place.

I have stood in awe over the endless cemeteries around Dunkirk and Calais France.

I have been on a tour of the plant in Wolfsburg, Germany where the VW Rabbit is made.