About Me

I am married to a nice lady (Jan) and after bailing out of New England in 1994, am presently working on our farm (Sweetbriar Farm) in central Missouri. We raise primarily Alpine and Sable Dairy goats, with cows, sheep, chickens and dogs (Tucker the boxer and Duffy the smooth collie mix), and cats thrown in for good measure. I've worked for thirty two years in the quality assurance and nondestructive testing field, with twenty three of those years in the nuclear industry. I enjoy sailing, old boats, old cars and motorcycles, ship models, airplanes, and a bunch of other things as well. I have recently sold the Zenith 701 airplane kit that I had been building and am now working on a 1954 Penn Yan runabout and a 1972 Triumph Bonneville motorcycle.

Received my pilots license in June of 2003, but haven't used it much. I finally finished my BST/BS in Mechanical and Welding Technology from Excelsior College on June 15, 2007. I retired from the Missouri Department of Transportation on June 1, 2007 and am trying out new things.

The Portland Head Light in Maine on a beautiful fall day.

Well, here's a picture of the character that's running this site.