Years and years ago, I would hunt way up in Maine. Every morning I walked into the woods just before the sun came up and every morning as I stepped onto a particular game trail, this giant raven would "croak" at me...as ravens tend to do. Always made me jump and curse. That raven sat in the same tree every morning and after a while, I noticed that it would sometimes fly over me while I was on stand. We got to be kind of friends...this huge raven and me. One day, I got caught in a squall and couldn't find the trail so I hunkered down for a few hours and ended up coming out of the woods late at night. The wife was quite worried when I got home but I told her I was fine...being kept watch over by the keen eye of a raven. I never forgot that bird. there's something uncanny about ravens. Almost human, like they see and know more than they let on. Anyways, hence "Ravenseye". Mostly because of my friend, the raven, and somewhat because of the way the word sounds. I've used it for years. I'll never forget that bird. I'm very connected by animals and the nature that we have just an arms reach and a half away from us all the time. When animals bridge the gap between us and the really big world of nature, I tend to hold those animals dear to me and they become some of the few memories that I get to take with me someday.
A "stripstrike" is the motion used when setting the hook while fly fishing, particularly when fly fishing in the surf. You strip the line back quickly, basically as if you were retrieving line. Fishing in general and fly fishing in particular have always been my primary hobbies as long as I can remember. Indirectly, it's how I got interested in bees. Fly fishing has a dotted line to stream/river ecology with a strong slant toward entomology. Just makes sense, in a protracted sort of way.
"When animals bridge the gap between us and the really big world of nature, I tend to hold those animals dear to me and they become some of the few memories that I get to take with me someday."--Ravenseye.
When my son set up my computer he thought it was funny, and set it up that way. He said our last name is Brooks,i had bees and farmed so there you go.Jack
I'm a knuckleballer for the local amateur baseball team. Also called nukes. Had no idea when I started on here that nuc, pronounced the same, was a bee term so not meant as a crossover.
fatscher (also my e-mail username) is the last name my great grandpappy had when he left the old country (Germany) in 1880 and emigrated to Philadelphia, PA. Then, when it was VERY unpopular to be German (with German-sounding names), around the time the Kaiser's army was gassing allied troop in the trenches in France, my uncle changed the name to "Fletcher". Most Americans couldn't spell, nor pronounce, "Fatscher", so it made sense to anglicize it to Fletcher, which my name still is today (Keith Fletcher), around 100 yrs later.
Spent a couple years in Germany back during the cold war, couldn't drink what they called beer when I returned home. Started homebrewing about 12 years ago. My favorite beers come from Czech Republic. Have been to the original Pilsner Urquel brewery in Pilzn (Pilsner beer). Budvar is a similar quality, probably better known here as "Czechvar", due to naming rights issues.
I'd like to think I make a pretty mean Bohemian Pils, so there is the name, budvar.
It seemed kinda natural as it reflects my initials. I also use same in my amatuer radio callsign. WD9BB. Nice to hear (read) everyone sound off on this one....seems I now know you folks even better.
Wow.. For some reason I thought I had already responded to this one.
Char short for Charla
M middle initial.
D Was my maiden initial, So I'm Charmd Been charmd my whole life. and quite honestly I think I'm charmed too. Therefore add the 2..
Charmd2
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