Not so deep anymore.

[Anonymous]

Well in a panic I jumped in here and asked a question and received more than I deserved so I felt it best if I backed up and introduced myself in appreciation for all the great help.

A little about myself. I live in South East Idaho and have 8 acres on the famed Henry's Fork of the Snake River so I fly fish my life away, I have a drift boat to float the river, tie all my own flies, build my own fly rods, I have a 68 California Special Mustang that I've had for years and tinker with and I'm going to start a complete restoration here fairly quick once I complete my current project which is finishing the inside of my garage and shop.

Living in the Rockies near Yellowstone National Park offers a lot of back country to explore so I do a lot of camping, we just purchased a new Toy Hauler which is a camp trailer where the back end is a ramp and we can load our two Suzuki ATV's in and go camping and you just unload them when you get to your destination and it save taking a second vehicle to haul the ATV's. We do a lot of ATV riding in the mountains and while camping and riding I fly fish of course in the high mountain lakes as well as Geocache with a hand held GPS and just recently picked up a metal detector to play with as there are a ton of old mines in the areas we ATV. I'm also a Jeep Wrangler owner and it's an off road toy that I play with.

My wife Trina runs a daycare in home. She watches up to a dozen kids. We have one 6 year old Jace "Squeak" and I have two children from my first marriage, Dusty 20 and DemriRose 18. I'm a Superintendent in a Potato processing facility. You know Spuds in Idaho are the best.

Thanks again and I plan on hanging out here and learning what I can and I plan to ask many more questions which I'm sure will be very well answered.

One last thing, sorry this is so long, but I wanted to mention if I can help anyone out on anything that I'm knowledgeable in based on all my hobbies be sure to ask I'd be glad to return the favor.

Hook

[ChiefEagles]

Hey, there is another Idaho guy on here [goes by pigseye]. Now I have to find the card of the folks from Idaho that were travveling in the motor home. Met them while I was doing a Bass Pro Shops show in Savannah, GA. Real nice folks. Told me that if I ever got to Idaho, I had a free fishing trip.

[dougdagrump]

Best be careful Trout, come winter you might end up spending more time with the trains and less on the Mustang restoration. They can be addictive. [(-D]
Welcome to the group.[#welcome]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dougdagrump

Best be careful Trout, come winter you might end up spending more time with the trains and less on the Mustang restoration. They can be addictive. [(-D]
Welcome to the group.[#welcome]

Thanks for the welcome and you could be right. If the wife didn't do daycare I would be setting up one of the extra bedrooms right now as a train room. However with the daycare room is at a premium even though we have a 5 bedroom house one of which is my fly shop and custom framing and matting shop, another hobbie I have is collecting art prints and I do framing and matting as a side business. So no spare room to build the train set in yet. I am eyeing up an old shed out in the field and thinking of a way I can lift it and move it closer to the yard and possibly do some remodeling and sealing and maybe turn it into a train room. The other thought was there is an add in our local paper for a train caboose for sale. I thought that would be perfect but I don't know what it would entail to move the thing.

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[dougdagrump]

You will also discover that a lot of the folks here are ex-motorheads so hotrods and customs find their way in here as well.[:D]

[Anonymous]

[#welcome]Good to have someone else on from our fine state, even if I am a transplant. I cant find many o gaugers around here,but a few s gaugers. Could be because there arent that many people to begin with. But thats fine with me after living near Houston, Tx. for 25 yrs. I have 20 acres here, the up slope of a small mountain. (Butler Mtn) . Our forest service road is 3 miles long and there are 8 homes on it. I live 1.9 miles up and I get to take care of 1.2 miles in the winter.So all you guys back east, I dont ever want to hear you conplain about plowing snow. Thank God I have the equipment to take care of it al with. We got about 146" of snow this past year, but it sure was beautiful today high 81 low tonight 54 and 20% humidity.Sorry to run on...... Im about halfway between Coeur D Alene and Sandpoint 3 miles off US 95. If you get this way come by,Train folks always welcome....................Tim Mitchell... Check my website ...greyrockfarm.com

[Anonymous]

Hey, snowplow man myself and I love it. Have a snowplow on my pickup and for some reason I see it as an absolute joy to go out and plow snow. I have about a 200 yard long drive with a circle all the way around the house. Nice thing is I have plenty of room to pu***he snow where ever I want and I try to be creative. I plow up some nice hills for the day care kids to play on...Ok I play on them with'em. Plow some up so they can build snow forts...Ok so I can build snow forts, who says you can't be a kid in your 40's. We have our own personal cross country ski trail as well along the river and out through all the trees and back to the house so we can ski without having to leave home. I could not live without all the seasons. Hope I can still say that when I'm 80.

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[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ChiefEagles

Hey, there is another Idaho guy on here [goes by pigseye]. Now I have to find the card of the folks from Idaho that were travveling in the motor home. Met them while I was doing a Bass Pro Shops show in Savannah, GA. Real nice folks. Told me that if I ever got to Idaho, I had a free fishing trip.

Consider that two open invitations for free fishing trips if you ever get up this way. Always looking for someone to row the "Grey Drake" my drift boat so I can fish. [:D] I started a fly fishing forum several years back and I now have half a dozen different family's that all come spend anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks with us each summer. Two of them pull in big 5th wheel campers and spend a couple of weeks. I have hook ups set up for the campers and an RV dump site here at the house so they can dump before they leave. We call the place the Hookedtrout Ranch and when it works out we try to get them all here at once we call it the Hookedtrout Fly Fishing Extravaganza. This is the first year in 4 years that we aren't all getting together at one time. One is from New Hampshire, Love that accent. Great people all of them and we look forward to their visit every year.

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[ChiefEagles]

Plow snow????? We had what I thought was plenty of snow this year. [wet snow] Just sit and let DOT plow it and it usually melts in a little while. Some years, we don't get snow. Who cares? I'm retired. [:D]

[FJ and G]

OHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Boy.

Another fisherman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(welcome aboard; trout's my favorite fish. We're being invaded by Snakeheads down in these parts)

Dave Vergun

[lionelsoni]

Hook, my train room doubles as a workshop. You might be able to do something similar. Build the layout around the walls, open in the middle and high enough to accommodate furniture, tools, storage, etc., underneath. Mine is 45 inches high, but many layouts are deliberately made higher, just to create a ground-level view.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for telling us more about yourself! It's greatto have you on here!

[dougdagrump]

Plowing snow at your own place ain't to bad but when it is one of your jobs that can take the the fun out of it. We lived for several years up in the Colorado Rockies, about 10k ft, so during the winter I would end up behind the wheel of either the plow or the tractor equipped blower for as much as 36hrs stopping only for coffee or food. That gets old very quick, although we miss the 4 seasons I don't miss the lumpy truck/tractor seat.[^]

[Anonymous]

I don't plow snow. I've got a blower & a short driveway. We've had a few storms dump what is for us a lot of snow, but we get nothing like you guys in the middle of the continent do. You'll never hear me complain. At least not about snow!

Tony

[spankybird]

We move away from our snow belt area. In NE Ohio snow belt we would have 210 inches a year and many times I would wake up to 18” of partly cloudy in the driveway. Where I live now, we get about 80” a year, and just 2 miles south will get 100” a year.

Sure am GLAD its summer.


tom

[FJ and G]

I've always enjoyed the snow. Brings back lots of nice memories: tobagganing, sleigh riding, shoveling snow, skiing. I'd take 12 feet of snow any day over a hot summer day. The older I get, the colder I like it. I'm sure I'm in the minority, however.

[Buckeye Riveter]

Hook,
I'm been to your area of the country. What a great place to live! I was there in 1988 just before the big fires in Yellowstone and then again in the winter of 1992 when we snowmobiled through the park at -13 degrees.

I also own a Jeep Wranger and love to fish. (Did you know that the Chief is a big wheel with Bass Pro Shops and should be sending you free stuff. My new Nitro boat is in the mail.)

You can see my fishing web site at:

http://www.geocities.com/algomafishcorps/

Turn on your speakers.

[ChiefEagles]

For a Yankee, Buckeye can do a great video.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Im about halfway between Coeur D Alene and Sandpoint 3 miles off US 95. If you get this way come by,Train folks always welcome....................Tim Mitchell... Check my website ...greyrockfarm.com

Beautiful country up that way.

Hook

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by FJ and G

OHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Boy.

Another fisherman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(welcome aboard; trout's my favorite fish. We're being invaded by Snakeheads down in these parts)

Dave Vergun

What part of the country do you fish?

Hook

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by FJ and G

I've always enjoyed the snow. Brings back lots of nice memories: tobagganing, sleigh riding, shoveling snow, skiing. I'd take 12 feet of snow any day over a hot summer day. The older I get, the colder I like it. I'm sure I'm in the minority, however.

Ditto on the heat, heat kills me. I crack my window open all winter long, sleep in the basement, and have a thermometer in the room and it was around 54 degrees in the room this winter. perfect sleeping temperature. Curl up in a ball and sleep tight. Anything over about 75 outside is too much for me but I can handle up to about 90 and then I just want to kill over. We have a lot of 20-30 below zero days and I'd rather have that than 100 degrees anytime, you can dress for the cold and in this day and age they have some nice fleece and Gortex but you can't get naked enough for the heat.

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