other hobbies besides photography!!!!!
Dec 17, 2011 23:43:18 #
phishkillr wrote:
I always got enjoyment out of woodworking. It was a good relaxation from being a Paramedic. Then when I would get the time I would go out and shoot Skeet and Trap. That would go along with fishing.
Oh shoot! I forgot shooting (not hunting) and fishing! That too. They don't call me Annie Oakley for nothing.
I am NEVER bored
Dec 17, 2011 23:46:18 #
rockdog wrote:
I agree that was on interesting period in Mexican history. These old photos are great. Can you just download from the National Archives?
Yes, many documents and photos are digitized and available to the general public without charge. They have thousands of items that are really cool, at least to history buffs.
A good place to start is: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
This is the Library of Congress website which controls the NARA, National Archive and Records Administration. A history nut could spend MONTHS browsing around in there! :thumbup:
Dec 17, 2011 23:49:18 #
Lmarc wrote:
quote=colo43 I guess i would change my name as we... (show quote)
Lmarc,
I still have my grandads uniform from WWI, including the wrap leggings. He was in the "Yankee Division", trained on the New Haven, CT green before deployment thru NYC. He was part of a 2 man team that operated one of the water cooled .50 cal. machine guns. He was wounded in the Ardennes Forest campaign (shot through the space between his ankle and his achilles tendon....said he was running too fast to feel it at the time :roll: ) Interesting that the unit insignia on his tunic is a swastika (it wasnt a negative symbol til Hitler reversed the prongs and used it). Ive got all of his medals (3 french, 3 US) framed with a photo of him parading down Main St. headed off to training. We heard lots of colorful stories growing up, and I know a few "less than clean" marching songs that my grandmother hated us hearing and repeating...LOLOL
Dec 17, 2011 23:49:40 #
Horseart wrote:
Oh shoot! I forgot shooting (not hunting) and fishing! That too. They don't call me Annie Oakley for nothing.
I am NEVER bored
phishkillr wrote:
I always got enjoyment out of woodworking. It was a good relaxation from being a Paramedic. Then when I would get the time I would go out and shoot Skeet and Trap. That would go along with fishing.
Oh shoot! I forgot shooting (not hunting) and fishing! That too. They don't call me Annie Oakley for nothing.
I am NEVER bored
I agree about shooting and not hunting, but I'm FAR from Annie Oakley! I do have a tack-driver 1896 Swedish Mauser 6.5mm. It's far more rifle than I'm marksman.
Dec 17, 2011 23:56:44 #
rocco_7155 wrote:
Lmarc, I still have my grandads uniform from WWI, ... (show quote)
That is super-cool!! I'm familiar with that division and it's swastika insignia. I, too, have a few less-than-clean marching songs. :oops:
I've seen the Browning, Maxim and Vickers approximately 30 calibre water-cooled machine guns, but I didn't know there was a water-cooled fifty. Do you know what it was called and/or who made it?
Dec 17, 2011 23:59:15 #
Dec 18, 2011 00:03:18 #
Lmarc wrote:
quote=rocco_7155 Lmarc, I still have my grandads ... (show quote)
It was a Browning. I've always thought it was .50 cal but it certainly makes sense that it was .30. Most .50 cal stuff is usually vehicle or fortification mounted. I know it was heavy (from his stories) and he was not a big man.
Dec 18, 2011 00:03:50 #
[quote=Lmarc]
As nasty as WWI was for our American Doughboys, they were so "lucky" that they didn't have to suffer through this:
rocco_7155 wrote:
He was wounded in the Ardennes Forest campaign (shot through the space between his ankle and his achilles tendon....said he was running too fast to feel it at the time :roll: )
As nasty as WWI was for our American Doughboys, they were so "lucky" that they didn't have to suffer through this:
Poilus at Verdun 1916
Dec 18, 2011 00:06:57 #
rockdog wrote:
quote=Lmarc quote=rockdog I agree that was on i... (show quote)
I just took a quick look at the web site you gave us. Another place to get happily lost...thanks again
Dec 18, 2011 00:10:28 #
[quote=Lmarc]
The inscription on the bottom of the print is inscribed on one of his French medals... I think it translates to "They did not Pass"
Lmarc wrote:
As nasty as WWI was for our American Doughboys, they were so "lucky" that they didn't have to suffer through this:
rocco_7155 wrote:
He was wounded in the Ardennes Forest campaign (shot through the space between his ankle and his achilles tendon....said he was running too fast to feel it at the time :roll: )
As nasty as WWI was for our American Doughboys, they were so "lucky" that they didn't have to suffer through this:
The inscription on the bottom of the print is inscribed on one of his French medals... I think it translates to "They did not Pass"
Dec 18, 2011 00:56:38 #
Well, I am a hunter and a fisher. Took me a while to make the conversion from bass on the east coast to trout in Utah but I love the Kokanee Salmon up at Flaming Gorge. I could eat them daily. Camping, hiking, writing stories are also activities I love and fit so nicely with hunting and fishing.
Other hobbies...well, most everything is on pause till I recover from the financial issues caused by my injury but I was a scuba diver (mainly for catching lobster in New England)but that might be lost now. I used to sky dive but think that hobby is over too along with class 3 white water canoeing (open boat, not a kayak). Messing with computers I should be getting back to soon. I plan on building myself a new system as soon as I get back to work.
For you history buffs, I wish I had my fathers photo collection to share. He had an interesting job with the military that involved photography. He was in Germany during the building of the Berlin wall and worked with remote controlled surveillance planes. I will try to steal them from him around summertime if he will bring them with him to Utah.
Other hobbies...well, most everything is on pause till I recover from the financial issues caused by my injury but I was a scuba diver (mainly for catching lobster in New England)but that might be lost now. I used to sky dive but think that hobby is over too along with class 3 white water canoeing (open boat, not a kayak). Messing with computers I should be getting back to soon. I plan on building myself a new system as soon as I get back to work.
For you history buffs, I wish I had my fathers photo collection to share. He had an interesting job with the military that involved photography. He was in Germany during the building of the Berlin wall and worked with remote controlled surveillance planes. I will try to steal them from him around summertime if he will bring them with him to Utah.
Dec 18, 2011 01:15:18 #
Dec 18, 2011 03:40:52 #
Holdrens wrote:
quote=bsteed61 I enjoy investigating the paranorm... (show quote)
When will your Haunted Natchez Trace come out. I'm gonna have to get me one!
Dec 18, 2011 03:44:19 #
Dec 18, 2011 03:53:21 #
1941Buckeye wrote:
quote=Holdrens quote=bsteed61 I enjoy investigat... (show quote)
I have always had "people" coming and going. I usually just feel comfortable or curious.Where I live now has a lot of action noises--I am Deaf, so hearing noise dosen't exist. I've never 'seen' anyone and I don't know the history of the house.
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