datil6942's profile

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Relationship

Single. Interested in meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking

Hometown

Donora PA

Places I've been

Served in the Navy during Korea, Attended Lehigh University, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Worked at Bettis Atomic Power Lab, Los Alamos and Sandia Labs. Reactor Studies on the first Attack Boats, and the first Missile Boats, Divorced. Built my first Computer in '80 Traveled with a Pick up Camper over much of New Mexico. WW II buff, Train and airplane buff. In High School, I drove a delivery truck for a Mom and Pop grocery store.

More about me

I live with my dog Amber in the West Central Mountains of New Mexico. We live in a small development just outside of Datil, NM. The elevation here is 7800 feet and I have Ponderose Pine, Piñon Pine, Alligator Juniper, and Western Juniper growing on my property. I often sun bath in the nude. I am a cancer survivor, and now live with COPD. I hope to see the 100th anniversary of my birth. Physically I am 5 foot 7. 220 pounds, brown eyes and grey or white hair.

Activities

I am a rock hound and I collect stones. and I polish the ones that can be polished. Quartz and petrified wood are what I work with most. I am amateur photographer and I photograph trains, planes, wild life, and flowers. I have photos of over 50 different wild flowers that bloomed here last year following a wet summer. I am trying to identify them plus their local names.

Favorite Charities

Breast ( I cannot be your sister, but I can be your brother), and prostate cancers

Favorite Music

I go from Bach to Brubeck, Segovia to Cash, big band and elevator music

Favorite TV Shows

History Channel, Westerns, TCM, Discovery

Favorite Movies

I have a collection of movie dating from 1939 (Stage Coach) up to ??. I have 7 Days, 6 Nights and I am not sure if I have anything newer.

Favorite Books

I read Science Fiction, War II History, Louie La Mour, Tony Hillermann, and anything else that catches my eye.

Favorite Quotes

Try or try not, There is no other

Favorite People

I try to like everyone And I try to follow the teachings of Jesus

Favorite Places

Railroad yards, Aircraft muesums, auto shows. MY home. The Forests and Mountains of New Mexico. The Pennsylvania of my childhood

Favorite Animals

My Dog Amber and My Ex's twin Chows.

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