Overview: Model airplanes, bluegrass, banjos,
sailboats, computers &
programming, Facility Maintenance System (FMS), Vietnam (71st Evac Hospital) , poetry, humorous(?) anecdotes,
Danish Mission stuff, Political commentary, family history and more...what a deal!
Boy, is this web out-dated!! ... I'll get to work on it! Thanks for visiting. steve - 12/7/11
What I really enjoy doing most is sitting around the house, visiting with my family, watching TV or working on the computer. Realizing those are hardly stimulating topics to a visitor, however, let me tell you about some of my more active pursuits:
I've flown radio-controlled airplanes since 1971, which makes me a crusty old-timer here in Southeastern Idaho. When I first started flying R/C, I think there were only one or two other fliers in my town of Pocatello. Now we have a club, the Eastern Idaho Aeromodelers, with more than forty members, our own field with paved runway and four flight stations, in the middle of hundreds of acres of flat land, located near the Pocatello Airport.
Recently, my interest in bluegrass music was rekindled, so I bought a banjo, some books, some tapes, some finger picks and started pickin'. It's been fun and I have a couple of other bluegrassers with whom I jam once in awhile. My poor old fingers just don't move as fast as they should, though, so I tell people that I play "slow-grass", not real bluegrass. My favorite song is "Fireball Mail", but I also enjoy "Groundspeed" and "Home Sweet Home" and others. It will be a few years (like NEVER!!) before I can play it like Earl Scruggs (yeah...right!!).
Here's what I'm playing right now, a Pruchka Custom Legend ES. I ordered it as a custom-built special from the Pruchka Banjo Co. in the Czech Republic. It is hand-built to an extremely high standard, sounds AWESOME and looks GREAT! What more can one ask of an instrument??
Ever since about 1965, during what Jerry Garcia called "the Folk Scare", I played a lot of folk stuff with a couple of high-school friends. We'd all just returned from missions around the world and just wanted to play. We did a lot of Kingston Trio
How about sailing?. I had a fourteen-foot Catalina a few years ago, that I only sailed twice, then sold, then I bought a beautiful, vintage Lightning, but you'll have to go to my sailing page to get the story of that ill-fated purchase.
Old motorcycles are a renewed interest of mine. Back in 1961, I had a Triumph Trophy 500 Scrambler for a while. It was, I thought, a VERY cool bike. The thing that made it cool was the extraordinary amount of NOISE it made!! I've always been a sucker for anything that is loud and/or fast!! I currently drive a 1966 BSA Victor 441 that I bought as a basket case on eBay. It looks good now, though certainly not concourse quality, and runs great! Recently a friend sold me a 1977 Triumph Bonneville 750cc engine/trannyt and wheels...don't know yet if I'll build it up or sell it. Also in my garage is a 1970 Hodaka Ace 100, also a basket case. The Hodaka was together when I bought it, but I tore it down, had it media blasted and there it sits...another piece of unfinished business in my life. Anybody want to buy a Hodaka or a Triumph???
Well, I hope you've found something of interest here. Thanks for coming and may all your landings be wheels down...
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