Enjoying the morning sun and the outdoors with a good cup of java. Excercise - running/walking (about 2 miles a day), health club (time to time), Sports - tennis, kayaking, biking, mountain biking, hiking, canoeing, and coffee houses and martini bars. Also enjoy the game of craps in the casino's as well as the occasional night out for clubbing cocktails and dancing & romance. .. (Empire Bluffs looking over Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes - Lake Michigan, Empire, Michigan) .. (Sylvan Lake, Michigan during "4th of July" - "My Hood") .. (Cranbrook Institute of Arts - Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) .. (French Canadian/Iroquois "Mixed Bloods" Canoeing Freight Canoes in the Great Lakes/Rivers - circa 1870) .. (City of Detroit Skyline) .. (Motown Record Museum and Recording Studio of the 1960's) .. (Fort Wayne, Detroit, Michigan - built in 1840's) .. .. .. (1968 World Series Champions - Detroit Tigers) .. (Michigan Cavalry Charge into the Texas Rangers during battle of Gettysburg - Civil War - 1863 - led by George Armstrong Custer - which drove back the Confederate's) .. (Michigan went to war with Ohio over the Toledo Strip in 1835 with state militia's fighting battles over cow pastuers) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. (Wild Things !!!) .. .. .. .. ("Sosh's" from the Mid 1960's" - note: White Straight Leg Jeans and Madras Shirts - the uniform of the "Middle Class") .. .. .. ("Law of Attraction" indicates "I will win the Megamillions !") .. .. ("Law of Attraction" indicates "I will always win big in the casino especially at the game of Craps !") .. .. ("Law of Attraction" indicates "I will win the Michigan Millionaire Raffle !" .. .. ("Telekinesis/Psychokinesis") .. .. .. ("Spring Break" - Nassau, Bahama's - Breeze's Resort) .. .. .. .. .. ("Law of Attraction" will create a major oil field in Arcola, Saskatchewan, Canada making all mineral right's owners extremely wealthy !") ..
Some great historical figures include: God, Mother Earth/Nature ,Jesus, King Milesius and the Iberians who settled Ireland, Vercingetorix (leader of the Gauls), Caratacus (leader of the Celts), Boudicca (same),St Patrick, King Arthur (leader of Romano Britons), Charles Martel (leader of the Franks), William the Conqueror (leader of the Normans), King Richard the Lionhearted, Robert the Bruce, Joan of Arc, St Francis, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, King William III (William of Orange), Chief Pontiac, Daniel Boone, Joseph Brant, Butler's Rangers, Tecumseh, General Brock, Lord Wellington, Davy Crockett, Abraham Lincoln, "Michigan Cavalry" (during the Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War)General George Armstrong Custer-(in the Civil War see Michigan Cavalry charge above - Gettysburg),General William "Tecumseh" Sherman, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan...(below is apart of my heritage: (State of Michigan Flag, Province of Ontario Flag, Flag of England,Flag of Ulster,Flag of Scotland,Flag of France before the Revolution, Original Flag of Ireland, Cross and Painting and Map of the French Calvinists)
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(Flag above is of United Empire Loyalists and to the right are the landings in Canada of the UEL's. To the bottom left is an early Pioneer Homestead in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. I am descended from United Empire Loyalists who had their lands and possessions confiscated "illegally" by rebels and they had to leave for Canada settling in the Chatham, Ontario area in the 1790's.)
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(During the French Revolution from "1789-1802" approximately 150,000 "French Royalist Emigres" left France for good to settle in other nearby countries with 40,000 alone settling in the "South of England" creating a new "Franco-British culture". Many of the children of these emigres would eventually make their way to America).
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(My Blood Type is "A Positive" of which the "highest concentration is - in blue"on the 1) west coast of Iberia (N.Portugal/NW Spain (Galacia) and 2) the western alps of Eastern France/Switzerland and SW Germany - "DNA Tribes.com" indicates my DNA is from these 2 areas)
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(About half of my ancestry that came to North America went to Canada)
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(before coming to North America - 75% of my ancestry was from the "British Isles")
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(1/3rd of ancestry is from "Ulster")
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(1/3rd of ancestry is from "England")
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(Great Great Grandfather Callow was from "Isle of Man")
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(Prior to the 1600's - about 1/4th of ancestor's were from Scotland)
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(above: Hex sign of the Pennsylvania Dutch/Germans and the Castle Linn in Krefeld, Germany - I am about 15% Pennsylvania Dutch. below: Folk costumes of the Southern French and French Canadian map. I am about 25% French (according to my DNA) - my ggg Grandfather - "de la Mothe" was a Colonel in the French Royalist army and left S. France for England during the revolution.
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My gg Grandfather "Lochlien/Lalien/Lien" was French Canadian Mixed-Blood (Iroquois) and was raised at the St Regis Mission in the St Lawrence which he ran away from in his youth).
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"THINBLOOD HALL OF FAME"
(note: The Thinblood Hall of Fame is dedicated to those who have some or a little Native American ancestry ie: 1/8th, 1/16th, 1/32nd and who "do not" receive any recognition by the U.S. or Canadian governments)..
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Love all kinds especially Pop/Rock/Surf Guitar/Instrumentals from the 1960's to the 1990's. Really dig the "1 hit wonder bands" and "garage bands" of this era. (Offspring "Gone Away", No Doubt, Sheryl Crow, Green Day, Crowded House, Smash Mouth, etc.)
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Braveheart, American Pie, Kingpin, Shallow Hal, Goodfella's, Casino, Northwest Mounted Police, Last of the Mohican's, The Graduate, Born Losers (motorcycle gang films/Billy Jack films), Paranormal Films (Pyscokinesis, Psyhic Powers, Strange Phenomena), Comedies and James Bond .. .. .. .. .. <imgsrc=
I tend to channel surf but like interesting specials on just about anything (ex: "Survivorman", "Corner Gas" the History and Discovery Channels. (Video below has footage of the "Busing Crisis in Pontiac, Michigan in 1971" in which I was in the Fifth Grade - Daniel Whitfield Elementary School, Sylvan Lake and the black kids were bused into our school for the first time). .. .. ..
Pretty much anything on history, self improvement, etc. (see movies above) .. ..
Teddy Roosevelt (for saving our wilderness) , Chief Pontiac (for defending his land) and Davy Crockett (For taking a stand at the Alamo !) Jeffrey Wand (World renowned Psychic, Criss Angel (Mindfreak), Rachel Carson (Silent Spring ... .. imgsrc= .. .. .. ..