Hello from Western NY
My name is Greg and my background is in IT, but I've always loved the outdoors. I spent my youth splitting time between playing in the woods, reading of great adventures and explorers (real and imagined), and tinkering with computers. In nearly my 40th year of life, after a youth spent in study, video-watching, dreaming, and saving, I recently bought a long-neglected 9ac horse farm, and intend to make it my own. The true and final catalyst was the 2020 riots. As I kept guard over my last house, smelling the smoke and hearing the sirens come and go into the night, I made a silent promise that I would leave life in the suburbs behind, and be an example of
freedom, independence, and self-sufficient living to my children. It took 3 years to find and buy the right place, but we are here, and I am ready to start.
My passion is the marriage of the old a new: the agricultural life of our ancestors coupled with technology that has the potential to make that lifeway easier, yet still rewarding. Offline,
local, homebrew home automation of all stripes is part of what I'm hoping to accomplish here; with technology acting as the farmhand I otherwise couldn't afford.
I have about a year of work to hew a functional piece of
land out of what nature has tried to reclaim, and I want to share in the
experience of ideating and improvement with a community of like-minded people like those here. I used to run a forum, have moderated one, and was a member of many more, but haven't been in a place like this for almost 15 years, when
Facebook subsumed most
online communities and left empty cyberspace in its wake. I have been social media free for 2 years, and am finally ready to return to my
roots in a community forum.
About me: I love reading and writing. Firearms history is a passion of mine, and I worked as an "old gun" gunsmith for 5 years. As mentioned before, I am a dad and husband. I have strong, specific, and private philosophical and political beliefs that I keep to myself - unless asked for them. I am more interested in learning from others than fighting with them over things. I'm happy to be here.
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