Other hobbies & loves

psdubl07 · October 18, 2004, 06:05:44 PM

-- Flyfishing
-- I'm really into food and wine. I work part-time for a winery. It's fun, I've learned a lot and get great benefits! [:o)]
Brewing beer too, although I haven't done it in a few years but am gonna do some this year for x-mas.
-- Flyfishing
-- Born and raised in Seattle, so all the outdoor stuff.
-- Married w/ a 10-month-old girl
-- Did I mention Flyfishing? Everything from salmon in my homewaters to Trevally in Hawaii.

BTW, this board and the people on it are great! [:D]

EDIT: Not sure why that 1st pic is so huge....

whitetailfan · October 21, 2004, 04:50:38 AM

Hey there all,
Been meaning to get on this topic, but lack of time lately. Wanted to give it some thought, but my thought wound up being if I keep waiting for something to be better, I'll never get to it, so here goes:

Outdoors - Camping, Hunting, Fishing in no particular order.
I'm a hardware kind of guy by way of upbringing - that is I was tought to shoot a gun and fish with spinning lures. 2 years and 3 seasons ago I took up bow hunting so I may one day learn to fly fish.

Family - Married 6 years, two boys one 3 and one about 7 months.

Newest passion of course is the world of smoked food. Best thing I've done in a while was buy the Bradley and join this forum. This is the only forum I am a member on and it has been more than a lot of fun[:D]

Other hobbies used to include leather work, but I kind of fell off of that lately. I'm taking a cabinet making course right now and it is great, I love working with wood.

One thing I was delaying in posting this reply, is that I needed to upload a pic to photobucket. Here is a pic taken last month that sums up a whole lot of my other loves:

whitetailfan
"Nice Rack"
Lethbridge, AB

Fuzzybear · October 21, 2004, 01:22:00 PM

Nice couple of "bucks" you got there Mr. Whacker! Points and all!

Nice to put a pic with a name.
'
Fuzz

"A mans got to know his limitations"
Chattaroy, WA - USA!

nsxbill · October 21, 2004, 07:07:54 PM

Whitetailfan.

Great picture of you and the apprentice smokers!

Bill

jaeger · October 22, 2004, 03:58:47 AM

Nice picture Whitetail! Looks like a couple a fine boys. You must be proud. You know what...the ears look kind of big, (on the deer) that wouldn't be a muley buck would it?[:D]

Doug

whitetailfan · October 22, 2004, 04:10:13 PM

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 Nice picture Whitetail! Looks like a couple a fine boys. You must be proud. You know what...the ears look kind of big, (on the deer) that wouldn't be a muley buck would it?[:D]

Doug
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Good eye Doug, and thanks for clarifying whose ears look big![:)]
I only had the bow out the one time this year so far. We haven't had whitetails on the farm for some years now. They were going in cycles where the WT would be plentiful and then the Muleys but for some time the Mules took over and won't go away.

Rifle starts in a week, so I doubt I'll be out again this year with the bow. Happy to have taken this guy. Actually that was the only way I was going to get a MD this year. Our zone is now draw for general season and I missed out this year. WT have always been a general tag, so until that changes I chase them every year...

whitetailfan
"Nice Rack"
Lethbridge, AB

Chez Bubba · October 23, 2004, 03:05:01 AM

I see one future smoked & two future smokers![8D][8D]

http://www.chezbubba.com
Ya think next time I check into a hotel & they ask "Smoking or Non?" they would mind?

jaeger · October 23, 2004, 05:17:08 AM

Whitetail,
About the only deer we have east river South Dakota are whitetail. I have only hunted east river so I have never tagged a muley. I was looking at the rack (which looks different than a WT) and noticed how big the ears were.
Nice Rack,
Doug

Oldman · October 23, 2004, 02:30:39 PM

You all and you deer...LOL

If your deer where the size of our Key West Deer you would throw them back into the water and tell them to come back when full grown~~!

I bet your jack rabbit is longer than our deer it tall! [:D]

owrstrich · October 25, 2004, 03:25:16 AM

im from indianapolis... have not missed the indy 500 since my very first race in 1975 at an age of 15 years old...

im am first and foremost a indy-style racing enthusiast... secondly a sprint car and midget car racing enthusiasts...

next on the list would be the drags, flat track motorcycle racing and more racing and more racing...

live rock concerts is something else we dig... it all started with robin trower at the indiana state fairgrounds in 1975 and the latest was alice cooper at the grove of anaheim two nights ago...

i have been to approx 150 indy-style races... approx 40 nhra-style drag races and approx 200 others... i have been to approx 200 rock concerts...

so thats it... racing and rock n roll...

i have an engineering license and spent 20 years in the hvac business in indianapolis... then i started a european-style indoor go-kart racing facility which went out of business a year after selling my stock...

now i travel the west coast in a f550 draging a 38' featherlite trailer which houses 8 individual hearing test booths... me and my girl micki (who is the worlds number 2 racing fanatic) go from factory to factory providing audiometric test for workers...

while doing the audiometric job i have my hvac license farmed out to a local company in indianapolis which keeps me in the loop...

we have no home and stay in hotels 340 nights a year and the other 25 nights at friends houses... the only thing we own is a jeep which is in mickis moms barn in waverly iowa...

i got the bs because i dig the pig and i dig the cow... its hard low-carbing always rolling on... the bs makes low-carbing easier and the spoils are now even better...

so now its all about racing... rocking... smoking the meat...

the thing i miss most about being on the road all the time is doing things with my old friends... other than that its a wonderfull life...

owrstrich

MallardWacker · October 25, 2004, 09:47:27 PM

White,

Simply wonderful! Looks like you are doing things right. Those two little ones, take it from me(if that means anything) it only gets better from here. My 2 kids are almost gone, love those guys like they are leaving tomorrow-you will never regret it. They are gone before you know it and regrets are something I don't wish on anyone. Thanks for the pic.

SmokeOn,

mski
Perryville, Arkansas
Wooo-Pig-Soooie

If a man says he knows anything at all, he knows nothing what he aught to know. But...

Smalls · November 02, 2004, 06:31:58 AM

Well, I see that I have a lot in common with many of you. The people you pass on the street and may not even notice could be more like you than you know.
-Homebrewing- I also have not brewed in about two years but hope to during the holiday season. When not brewing I enjoy Yuengling Lager (A Pennsylvania beer mmmmmmm)
-Cooking- This has always been a passion of mine. It's a good thing because my wife's abilities are limited.(She's in bed so she can't see me typing this)
-Backpacking- My favorite trip was a 10 day adventure in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. There's no sense of accomplishment greater than climbing until you can go no further...then having to go further and making it.
-Hunting- Small game and whitetail. I hunted for 18 years and never shot a deer. That didn't matter as much as the time that my father and I spent together in the woods. In Aug. of 2002, my father passed away from a heart attack at 58 yrs old. I took his gun and his deer tags hunting with me that year. At 7 am on the first day of deer season I shot my first buck with his gun and tagged it with his tag, bagging my first and my father's last deer. At 1 pm I shot another buck and tagged it with my tag. It was a good tribute.
-My dog Sadie- She's a four year old Vizsla (Hungarian pointer) and she's still got a lot of puppy left in her. Tracy and I love her to death and spoil her like a child. Early last week my wife took her cat (Emily) of 11 years to the vet with respiratory problems. The vet found masses in three of her six lung lobes and a mass around her heart. Her lungs were filled with fluid and she could not breathe. After several tests and treatments, the vet said there was nothing else they could do. We made the hardest decision I ever had to make and decided to put her down. You want to keep them around for as long as you can but there reaches a point when their suffering makes it selfish to do so. I never was a cat person but I miss that cat so much. The next morning, my wife woke me up and she was crying. I thought she was upset about Emily and asked her what was wrong. She told me that she had just taken a pregnance test and it was positive. We are going to have our first child. Then she said, "I guess that's why Emily had to go". It amazing how the Lord works.
-Collecting- Almost anything. Guns, coins, sports cards, comic books. Our house looks like a yard sale exploded.
-Camping- My wife and I go to the Jamboree in the Hills every year in our motorhome. 1977 GMC, real beauty. Oh well, at least the 8 track player still works. The Jamboree is probably the best party I've ever been to (and it turned my wife into a country music fan) Get on their website Jamboreeinthehills.com.
I graduated with a dual degree in Anthropology and Criminal Justice. I was an archaeologist for four years before becoming a police officer in PA six years ago. A lot of people don't realize that cops are the same as everyone else. We all have the same fears, hopes, dreams and aspirations. I'm 32 and still don't know what I want to do when I grow up. Thanks to everyone for sharing and helping this new smoker out!
Bill

Chez Bubba · November 05, 2004, 04:46:26 AM

Now dammit Bill, don't go takin' all the fun out of this thread with all the dyin' & birthin' stuff![:D]

J/K, you kind of struck a chord. No kidding about how similar total strangers can be. My dad died at 44 when I was 19, his rifles still rest proud in my rack.

There's also a fair contingent of us that do know cops are just regular guys. My best friend in a detective for the Goshen Police Department, and I have several others on that force & the county's that I consider friends. You're all underpaid for the service you provide, yet the expectaitions set for performance, both on & off duty, are far above what is expected out of civillian America.

If I had my way, you, the firefighters & the teachers would be earning a lot more & the elected officials a lot less. If they want to be lobbed into the category of "serving their community or country for the good of America", they should be willing to do so for a lot less. You certainly do.

Smoke On[8D],

Kirk

http://www.chezbubba.com
Ya think next time I check into a hotel & they ask "Smoking or Non?" they would mind?

Smalls · November 05, 2004, 04:32:25 PM

Chez Bubba elect in 2008?

MallardWacker · November 05, 2004, 09:29:29 PM

Smalls,

It has always been a dream of mine to be an officer of the law. I actually started college for that reason, Police Science was my major. I wanted to work for the Treasury; I always thought that part of the Secret Service was very interesting. My second choice was the FBI and third, a State trooper. Life does through you some curves, and sometimes you have to go with them. When I first entered college they gave me this huge, honkin test to tell me what I would like to do with my life. It told me that I needed to be a cartographer (map maker), the counselor didn't even know what that was. Two separate test told me the same thing. Two years ago I changed my job(after 20 years) and guess what I do. I survey road and highways, then draw them and interface with cops and troopers in several states for accident reconstruction. Well it's not exactly what I thought things would turn out like, but it's kind of close.

SmokeOn,

mski
Perryville, Arkansas
Wooo-Pig-Soooie

If a man says he knows anything at all, he knows nothing what he aught to know. But...