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SECRET TALENT: I have a Merchant Mariner Credential to operate a vessel of 100 tons or less. When I lived in Oregon, I was a fishing guide for 10 years. I fished for Chinook and Coho salmon in the Pacific Ocean, bays, tidewater, and rivers. I also dropped crab pots for my clients and got them limits of Dungeness crab in the ocean and bays and we occasionally fished for white sturgeon as well as steelhead. It was awesome to see clients catch 40 plus pound salmon as well as 8-to-10-foot sturgeon for the first time.
CLAIM TO FAME: I really enjoy barbequing and have done so for most of my life. I started out using charcoal grills and have evolved to the use of my pellet grill to cook almost anything. I like making homemade bacon, jerky, pepperoni sticks, pizzas, beer in the rear chicken, smoked turkeys, pork and beef roulades, as well as the normal stuff like steaks and burgers. I like the to challenge myself to refine the recipes and techniques to provide good eats for friends and family to enjoy. My wife and I are contemplating to have our own food truck when we retire. We are interested in traveling around the country to see the sites in our food truck, but also to provide delicious homemade food to everyone along the way.
OBLIGATORY CONSTRUCTION FACTOID: I enjoyed working with my father building and doing things around the house until I left for college and got a place of my own. My dad could build or fix anything, and I truly admired that. I picked up those same skills along the way. He would have a rough material list, no sketches or blueprints and he always completed high quality builds. He was a visionary and always had the plan in his head as well as such neat tricks of the trade with fantastic problem-solving abilities. My father prepared me for my career and my sister was a conduit to get me into construction as she worked for a construction firm in Wausau.
CONTEMPLATIVE THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Take some time to reflect on your accomplishments of the day before to set up your priorities for the next. Keep a positive outlook when it comes to challenges, looking at problems with a positive mindset will help enable positive outcomes. Treat each other the way you want to be treated. Make your trade partners successful, and in turn they will make you succeed.
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