Well, I promised an intro, Jus’me, My Wife, My two Girls, Three dogs and four horses. I am an engineer, a carpenter, a blacksmith, a cabinetmaker, a snowboard instructor, a hunter, a fisherman and a dad. The Last Chance Safari Company is an idea I have been tossing about for a couple of years. The first blog that I read was "Backroad blog", it turned up in a search for information about the .204 Ruger, "Gutrumbles" was the next, I was hooked, The whole internet weblog thing appealed to me. Long ago I realized that the news media was a flawed institution, as a source of reliable information it had limitations. I’m not one to label left or right, but I began to feel more comfortable with the bloggers opinions about events and occurrences than the "facts" according to Dan and Tom. And certainly with the most previous presidential races’ occurrences of slightly cloudy events, I began to spend more time reading blogs and less reading (and believing)the news. The most humorous part of this change was the efforts of the media to discredit the bloggers, and then the flip of the media to include their own" blogs"on their web based mastheads. I am not a computer wizard, so a lot of this posting comes hard by me, but my oldest daughter has agreed to be a co conspirator in this venture, unfortunately, she’s off to college soon, so there will be some times where the posting no doubt will be sparse. We live in rural New York State, in the sothern tier. I have a sixty mile commute to work every day, however this leaves the fast paced urbania far away when I come home at nite. We are a typical nuclear family. You can check out my website to see pictures of the horses and dogs, we currently have a litter of Labrador Retriever puppies that are for sale. I have a workshop where I build the projects that occupy my spare time. I love the warmth and strength of real wood furnishings, and abhor furniture made from chipboard, plastic laminates and wood byproducts. Testimony to the fact that I am not alone in this appreciation is the number of "Amish Furniture" retailers that seem to be cropping up along our roadsides bragging about traditional hand made hardwood furnishings.
I have two daughters, one is a freshman in high school, one is a freshman in college. Both ride and show our horses, like to camp and canoe and both ride and teach snowboarding.
We have enough acreage to raise our own hay crop for the horses, we have a vegetable garden, and nearly three acres of lawn for the girls to keep trimmed and tidy. Mother can’t muster the courage to drive past a garden shop, so every nook and cranny around the place houses flower beds. This gives her a pleasant pastime every evening, weeding and watering, picking off old blossoms and cussing the puppies for their assistance in the flowerbeds. Well that’s us in a nutshell.