Hello
My name is Michael D. Blackston, I'm 58 years old and retired as of 31 December 2003. I live in Georgia and Florida (depends on if the fish are biting).
I spent 23 years in the military, and now that I am retired, I have decided I wish I had stayed three more years! (oh well). I am an instrument rated Commerical pilot, but no chance of making any money at that. I Plan to run a small charters fishing business from Mexico Beach, Florida starting this spring and we will have to see how that goes. The name of the business is "Gulf Charters", and I do have a web page, but you will have to type in "Gulf Charters" in the Yahoo search engine to go there! (Hi Rich, was this OK? no URL
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My interests are:
Reptiles
Fishing
Raising bees
Wine making
Tae Kwon Do
Flying my airplane
Building/working on airplanes
Collecting die cast aircraft
Building model airplanes
Anything to do with the ocean
Candle making
Lure Making
Rock gardening
Raising Koi
Growing tropical plants
Computers
Woodworking
Making knives
Other stuff I can't think of right now
(Like I said, I am retired)
At the present, I have only one snake, a female Cal King that I raised form the egg (she does not even know she is a snake). I did have about 30 or so assorted Corns, Milks and Kings, but had to sell them when I thought I would be going overseas. Now that I am retired, I plan to purchase a male and maybe another female and breed a few cal kings. (I love the Corns, but here in Georgia we are not allowed to keep them...You can however, keep a pit viper which could get loose and bite your children, buts that OK with the rocket scientists that run this state).
I don't post much on the forums, but I "visit" a lot.
Here is a photo of me and N9896U, Cheetah. I don't have many of me as I have been a photographer since 1968 and usually I am behind the camera.
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