DanP in Real Life
Highschool
Homeschooled
College
Hopefully U.S. Naval Academy
Interests
Playing music, Running, Cooking, Politics, Rifles, The Military, Reading, Coffee.
Favorite Music
Django Reinhardt, Riders in the Sky, Kyle Creed, Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, Jack Johnson, Pete Seeger, Wade Ward, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Norman Blake, John Hartford, Sam McGee, Sally Douglas, Isaac Stern, New Hot Times, Bela Fleck, Earl Scruggs, Chet Atkins, Bill Monroe, Ricky Skaggs, Chick Corea, Frederik Chopin, Eric and Travis Vick, Tommy Jarrell, Leroy Troy, Bruce Molsky, George Gershwin, Underoath, Aaron Copland, Mewithoutyou, The Beatles, Troyisms.
Favorite Movies
Braveheart, Twelve Angry Men, On the Town, The Last of the Mohicans, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pork Chop Hill, Stalag 17
Favorite Books
The Bible, Endurance, The Warrior Elite, Shaking the Nickel Bush, Lone Survivor, A Walk Across America, The Education of Little Tree, The Fields of Home, Ultramarathon Man, Anything C.S. Lewis, The Count Of Monte Christo, My Side of the Mountain, Walking on the Happy Side of Misery, Little Britches, The Lord of the Rings, Farmer Boy, Johnny Tremian, The Old Man and the Sea, Anything by O.Henry, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
A Couple of Good Days
March 03 2008
Soo. I'm a little bored, and I though I'd write(type) about the last couple or three days.
Saturday: Was a blast. I spent almost the whole day by myself, and sometimes that's nice. It was a lovely day, and when I got up, I found Momma organizing the closets. YIKES. That definitely meant I needed to spend the day outside. So I did my chores, grabbed my knife, a gun, flint and steel and some string, and went on my merry way. I decided that I would just chill in the woods, and see if I could kill anything and eat it(I'm particularly fond of squirrels). First off, I went down to the pond and decided to try to catch a fish. So I cut off about six feet of string, whittled a fish hook, and went to look for some bait. Rotten logs are usually good places to find grubs, so I found a log, rolled it over, and found a salamander instead of the grub I was expecting. I reckoned he would be good bait, so I caught him and cut off his head. Trot line in place, I went to look for some meat. I went around beating the brush, and scared up a couple of cottontails, but they always seemed to be running toward the house. I couldn't shoot in that direction, so I decided to build a rabbit trap. I've been trapping rabbits with Curtis for years, and so I went to the house for a shovel, and built one. There really wasn't much to do but wait, and so I Just whittled and shot at trees to pass the time, but eventually, I had to go in and go to bed.
Sunday: I stayed home from Church because my brother was going to call from boot camp, and someone had to be there to take down his address. So I got up early that morning, and it was a lovely Spring day again, so I sat outside under a tree and read my Bible for about an hour. Then I went inside and cooked breakfast, and stumbled my way through a few hymns on the piano. It was really a great time, and I realized how much emphasis we put on church for Church's sake. Then I just read, and played the Fiddle until Curtis called. They only let him talk for three minutes, but it was good to talk to him. It took that long just to get his address, so I didn't get any details about boot camp, but it made me realize how much I miss him. Pretty soon after that, I went to bed.
So now you've had a look at my EXTREMELY exciting life. Happy Birthday.