Hi, everyone. I’m glad I found this community as the description sounds like the kind of online community I love being a part of. I look forward to spending time here. I am a former substitute teacher and bookseller. Also, I have a birth defect called Spina Bifida. I don’t remember exactly when, but as a boy I became interested in gentlemanly things as I saw them in the men around me and in movies. Those things inspired me to continue pursuing the ways of a gentleman.

The Wolf Moon is the traditional name for the first full moon in January, named because wolves were heard howling more often in the winter due to hunger or to communicate. Picture taken in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Pictured below is my mother, my wife and my aunt/God Mother . The others have passed on to heaven whom also pushed me to be my best

The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money (Margaret Thatcher). NYC will find out soon enough.

I am a bird watcher (Birder). Here are pictures of a male Downy Woodpecker, male Cardinal and a male Red Bellied Woodpecker at my suet feeder and back yard.