Tibby
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Science |
| Occupation | Retired but busier than ever! |
| Location | Northern Michigan, United States |
| Introduction | Dances with woodcock. Giddy about grouse. Affinity for pheasants. Habe GSPs gern. Liebe meine Frau, Familie, und Freiheit. |
| Interests | Ruffed Grouse Society, Michigan Woodcock Banders, Pheasants Forever, NAVHDA, Ducks Unlimited, Michigan United Conservation Clubs, Canada Creek Ranch, Trout Unlimited, Cedar Rod and Gun Club, and the NRA. Orchardist and organic farmer; young forest habitats and planting trees. Epicurean interests: fine Northern Michigan wines; teas; and artisan cheeses. My beautiful wife and family. German Shorthaired Pointers. |
| Favorite movies | Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others); The Green Mile; Casablanca; Gone with the Wind; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Lawrence in Arabia; Dr. Zhivago; The Sound of Music; Jerimiah Johnson; It's a Wonderful Life; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; Animal House; Jaws; The Quiller Memorandum (1965 with George Segal and Senta Berger); Dances with Wolves; The Unforgiven; The Last Samurai; most movies with Jimmy Stewart, Charlton Heston, Robert Mitchum, and Clint Eastwood. |
| Favorite music | The Eagles; The Rolling Stones; Jackson Browne; James Taylor; Carly Simon; Carole King; Jimmy Buffett; CCR; old Elton John; Guess Who; Gordon Lightfoot; Eddy Arnold; Johnny Cash; Bobby Darin; Patsy Cline; Roger Miller; Alan Jackson; old Allman Brothers Band; the original Lynyrd Skynyrd Band; George Strait; Brooks & Dunn; Willie Nelson; ZZ Top; Alison Krauss; Sara Evans; The Temptations; Carolina Chocolate Drops; Marvin Gaye; Al Green; Louis Armstrong; Cat Stevens; most Bluegrass banjo & fiddle music; Classical artists: Beethoven; Mozart; Rachmaninov; Johann Strauss. |
| Favorite books | The Bible; the U.S. Constitution; the Declaration of Independence; Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It; Arnold Gingrich's The Well-Tempered Angler; W.G. Sheldon's The Book of the American Woodcock; Ernest Hemingway's The Nick Adams Stories and The Old Man and the Sea; John Gierach's Trout Bum; Robert Ruark's The Old Man and the Boy; John Voelker's Trout Madness; The Lewis and Clark Journals; Teddy Roosevelt's The Wilderness Hunter; Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac; Rachel Carson's Silent Spring; Jim Harrison's Legends of the Fall; John Fenimore Cooper's The Leatherstocking Series; John Eldredge's Wild at Heart; Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf; Jack London's White Fang and The Call of the Wild; Rudyard Kipling's Garm a Hostage; Lord Dunsany's My Talks with Dean Spanley; Corey Ford's The Road to Tinkhampton; George Bird Evans' Troubles with Bird Dogs How Many Days?; Burton Spiller's Drummer in the Woods and Grouse Feathers and Grouse Feathers Again; all books by Mark Twain; Wolfgang Borchert's Draussen vor der Tur (The Man Outside). |