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 Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:53 pm Post subject: WAY off topic. Was: Check this out |
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Good Afternoon 'Lectric Bob,
Way off topic, but I was wondering what your address is in Medicine Lodge? Just wanted to check it out on Google Earth. Nothing but idle curiosity!
Happy Skies,
Old Bob
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In a message dated 8/7/2009 2:12:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time, nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelectric.com writes:
| Quote: | --> AeroElectric-List message posted by: "Robert L. Nuckolls, III" <nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelectric.com>
At 11:45 AM 8/7/2009, you wrote:
| Quote: | --> AeroElectric-List message posted by: "Terry Watson" <terry(at)tcwatson.com>
My suggestion about a very large contributing factor to this problem is that
so few of us are raised on a farm or ranch anymore. Any farm kid learns that
if something needs doing, you need to be able to do it; when something
breaks, you need to be able to fix it.
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You are quite correct sir. I've lived both sides of that
coin. My grandfather came to Wichita from Arkansas as a
nurseryman but skilled in building every resource needed to support
that trade. By the time he was 40 he had built, operated and
sold a nursery, started a contracting services activity.
Traded land in Wichita for farm land in Medicine Lodge and
added farming to his constellation of endeavors.
This is one reason I'm moving back to M.L. and hoping to
take all my kids and grandchildren with me. We have great-
grandpa's and grandpa's legacies along with a home that
will house woodworking, hvac, locksmithing, electronics,
catering, tree trimming and publishing services managed
by two professional teachers and four professional craftsmen.
It's my new career goal to die stone broke with
my family living in paid-for houses and radiating a
culture of "how can we help you today?" mentality.
| Quote: | Maybe it's just teaching kids the
joy of working with their head AND their hands at the same time, or the
satisfaction of playing with or living in or riding in or flying in
something they built with their own hands.
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Yup, that's what launched my father's lifestyle and
ultimately my own . . .
http://aeroelectric.com/articles/In_Memory_of_Robert_L_Nuckolls_Jr.pdf
Unfortunately, difficult to achieve in an Wii, Ipod,
let's-get-eternally high/excited/pleasured-culture. I'm seeing only
vestiges of that in M.L. so far. Perhaps we can help
plant the seeds of a few old but well proven recipes
for success there. I'll be seeking out other real teachers
first.
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