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    Default Hello from the soggy NW edge of Wisconsin!

    A brief intro... I have wandered careers and countries, following my enthusiasms and giving back what I could. Medicine brought me from urban research early on, to living frontier medicine in the sub-arctic with the Cree. Honeymoon in 1970 was 14 days by canoe with only flour, oil, salt, and beans. Time now in retirement is split between a farm in the woods, and travel to dig gems and stones all over the planet. Gardening and hunting produce 80-90% of all food my wife and I eat. [Darn well wish I could grow a good olive tree here in WI]
    Woodland life here offers natural dyestuffs, mushrooms, maple syrup, and critters. I make lots of antler/obsidian knives, but prefer to slice and shape agate slabs as handles for steel or damascus blades. My agate buttons are found in most quilting/yarn shops in our state. When it is cold here, I hunt sapphire and opal in the outback in OZ. Gems may not help you survive - but as my wife points out, they can sure make your remains glitter nicely when some future archaeologist digs you up!!
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    Howdy welcome aboard
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    Welcome from Central WI
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    Welcome from Alaska.
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    Welcome. have a sister-in-law in Clam Lake (I think that's in your neck of the woods)
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    Hunter63 saying Hey and Welcome......
    Far south east, on lake Michigan....and the hill country of south west on the Kickapoo River.
    Yeah been pretty wet, river was up to the edge of bank this morning.
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