RAF,
It sounds so fine.
Regularly I talk with folks in your state, NC, on the radio. I will talk with
some of them tonight on a "net" on 80-meters. A net is a meet-up, as we do
here.
My call-sign comes from a fellow in SC, Jim Parsons, W4DXW, who I admired in
1965-1969, while I listened as a kid on a short-wave rig from New Jersey. Old
Jim -- long since a Silent-Key... I think we lost him in 1979 -- was a 40-meter
AM-er, I think that's all he worked. I had the chance to get a "Vanity-call",
to replace the sequential call I received from the FCC at my first licensing
time. I always considered old Jim as my mentor, though I never met him, spoke
with him, shook his hand, nor worked him on the radio. He was an exemplary
operator, "A-1". It was an easy decision, and I had the good fortune to find
the call available in our "7" district, which covers nine Western states.
I feed only wild birds in the center of this desert city. It's illegal to feed
what the City calls "fowl", which is Rock Doves, aka, Pigeons, and I don't much
care for them. Javelina come into town, running along washes at night. So do
Coyotes. We don't feed them. The Coyotes are infamous predators and kill
domestic dogs and cats regularly, though. We keep garbage tightly sequestered
to prevent the city being overrun by infiltrators. But what I know is that
Nature wants the place "back", as if it had ever left her hands! No.
Yet, to see her sky aright, I must leave town, myself.
Wishes, and Friendly Greetings.
--Joe / Tucson
> R A Fonda <rafonda@...> wrote:
>
> On 11/29/2012 6:55 PM, Joe wrote:
> > So, what's going on in *your* life? ...
> > You wrote lines about wine and animals.
>
> I live as a semi-recluse in a forested cove in the mountains of western
> NC; by "semi" I mean that I drive into town to buy supplies when I need
> to, but otherwise prefer to remain on the mountain. I am working toward
> leaving an essentially self-sufficient homestead for my wife, sons, and
> grandchildren. The only animals I keep in captivity (now) are chickens,
> currently 63 of them, and a pig, but I feed deer and turkey, as well as
> other birds, during the winter following a failed acorn crop, such as
> occurred last year and this, or when there is deep snow on the ground.
> So that's what "feeding critters" is about. I raise as much of our food
> as is convenient, and the same for animal feed. So that is what the
> sowing, tending, and reaping is about; the ATtending is about Ikkyu and
> me. I make wine from the wild blackberries, as well as our cherries,
> plums, pears, and grapes, so that covers the rest of what I wrote.
>
> RAF
>
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