Self-Description: I am an easy going guy... laid back, "a gentle spirit"... "tall,
red and ... handsome???" I think I have a sense of humor. I am
compassionate and passionate. I don't have the "typical" redhead temper...
it is the atypical redhead temper. I have a L-O-N-G fuse and things seem to
work out before the fuse gets anywhere close to being considered short. I
would rather avoid confrontations and arguments but, allowed to continue,
the fuse looses a wildman .... who runs amok for 30 seconds or so before I
can grab him and stuff him back inside.
I have had my share of redhead taunts growing up ... "Red on the head..." ,
DON"T say this to me unless you are a really good-looking Red-haired lady.
In my early years, I didn't think much about having red hair... in junior
high school it was a detriment... by high school realized just how unique
WE are... and I have been proud of my hair ever since.
Children: My two oldest (Geoffrey & Molly) are shown on my motorcycle in the third photo. Awww... little red-haired kids... aren't they cute? (they're both in their 30s now!)
Interests: Surfing... Something I have done since I was 14 in Southern
California. It really feeds my spirit.
Flying... Flyiong little rag-wing tail-draggers allowing me to look down on
the earth and to see out beyond distant horizons.
Motorcycles... I ride a sport-touring bike everyday ... except during ice
and snow ... it gives me a sense of freedom.
Bicycling ... a great way to get some exercise and flex these old arthritic
knees. I ride 3-4 fund-raiser bike rides a year... lots of fun and a
challenge.
Strangely enough, I enjoy my job of drafting sewers for the City of
Portland... if I am going to work, I might as well enjoy it!
More: Well, it seems I DID wait too long and the hair is turning grey
fast! But I used to be not-quite-auburn. I love redheads... two of my
three children have red hair ... their Mother and her sister and my brother
are redheads, too. My brother & I were adopted at birth. From what I
understand, our biological-father was Welsh and our birth-mother was Native
American... yet it was our Mother who had the red hair. My brother
inherited her skin tone and tans nicely. I got my father's Celtic
coloration and I burn. Growing up in Southern California I loved being
outside, especially the beach... when older, I worked outside. I managed to
repave the skin on my face on a weekly basis ... I jokingly call it
Perma-burn.
Strangely enough, for a sun-sensitive person such as me, one of my favorite
things to do is surfing... no, NOT surfing the web. No, NOT windsurfing...
REAL surfing... with waves on the ocean. It is something I have done for
over 41 years now. As the T-Shirt says, "KEEP OUT OF DIRECT SUNLIGHT"..
well that wasn't me. I still do it but away from the SoCal coast
now-a-days... The Oregon waters have me in a full-length wetsuit with only
my head exposed.
I know some would like to know my astrological sign... to tell the truth, I
don't believe in any of that stuff... after all us Cancerians are VERY
skeptical. But everytime I use the word... the word ... for my astrological
sign I get antsy. "Cancer" (....EEK!!!) Being in the sun so much I
developed a melanoma on my left ear back in 1997... and had 3/4 of an inch
removed. I have gone on a personal crusade... WEAR YOUR SUNSCREEN. I don't
want to see anybody getting parts cut off.
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