Thread: Is there something wrong with me?

I build real steam trains in my home machine shop that run on coal and water and smoke a real pipe (Dunhill). I like to be off-the-grid to wind down. I also keep going backwards in technology at home, even though I teach high school computers. I like classic drinks: Rob Roy, Sidecar, Manhattan, and yes...Martinis. (A martini is always with GIN!!!!!)

Welcome to the classic way of doing things. You are very sane.

Originally Posted by steammaker

I build real steam trains in my home machine shop that run on coal and water and smoke a real pipe (Dunhill). I like to be off-the-grid to wind down. I also keep going backwards in technology at home, even though I teach high school computers. I like classic drinks: Rob Roy, Sidecar, Manhattan, and yes...Martinis. (A martini is always with GIN!!!!!)

Welcome to the classic way of doing things. You are very sane.

Steammaker--your taste in pipes is exquisite and you are correct--A martini is always with gin.

You're at the right place.
I'm 47 and I also fish with bamboo flyrods. (hence my screenname)

Originally Posted by bamboozle

You're at the right place.
I'm 47 and I also fish with bamboo flyrods. (hence my screenname)

What's your favorite (so far)?

Originally Posted by milehiscott

What's your favorite (so far)?

My "go to" rod is an Edwards 8 1/2', 6wt. that casts very nicely. My wife also fly fishes and lately she has taken a liking to my 8', 5wt. Winston bamboo rod. I knew it was only a matter of time before she started using bamboo.
I also drink Highballs. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's an older drink, whiskey and ginger ale. I like CC and ginger.

I'm in process of building a Dickerson 8013. Should be fun to fish if I can ever get some time to work on it.

hmmm....I think the OP struck a chord with most everyone on this forum.

At a ripe old 25 years old I can say I love "antique" shaving, wooden bows without wheels, flyfishing (although I've never gotten my hands on a 'boo rod), old music, old books, a good mule, "seasoned" cars that would make the EPA gag, trying to build a lapstrake canoe out of mahogany, and heating with wood.


Seems like everything took a wrong turn sometime in the last century...doesn't it?