ronjohn55
New in Town
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Hi all,
Finally got a chance here today to sit down and type out a proper introduction, not the quick two-bit one I left in the beer thread. ;-)
As I said in the other thread, I have to thank jkath for sending me the link here, I've thoroughly enjoyed lurking about and reading up on some of the threads here! It's really played into a lot of the information I've been trying to track down for the last 18 months.
A bit about myself, I grew up and currently live in Michigan. Naturally that means that I went to work in the auto industry when the time came... At first, it was the local company with the big blue oval on the building. They decided I needed to live in Dallas, TX and travel all over the south. After 3 years of that, I had a better idea and moved back home. I now work as a project manager type person for one of the Japanese imports.
My wife and I started to step back in time when she fell in love with the houses in the neighborhood I grew up in. Having grown up swearing I would never own one since I knew how much work they were, I got roped into it anyways. We're now the proud owners of a 1919 Model "F" Ford Home. These were some of the (if not the original) houses ever to be built using assembly line techniques. (One crew dug basements, another did framing, etc.)
Shortly after we got back to Michigan, I took up brewing beer and making wine/mead/cider at home. This is where my interest in the the subject matter of this site has really tied in. My mom passed in June of 2004, and our home sort of became the gathering place for the family. It wasn't long before what I was up to in the basement became a topic of conversation. I was then clued in to the fact that I had unwittingly revived a long standing family traditon! As it turns out, a great number of the relatives that my uncle can recall visiting (He's older than my mom was) were forever making homemade beer and wine. In fact, his father (my grandpa) has long been rumored in the family to have been running booze for the Purple Gang.
So here I am now, trying to reach back in time in order to recreate what I've sadly found to be a spotty family history, yet becoming more and more fascinated by it with each new discovery...
Sorry to be so long winded!
John
Finally got a chance here today to sit down and type out a proper introduction, not the quick two-bit one I left in the beer thread. ;-)
As I said in the other thread, I have to thank jkath for sending me the link here, I've thoroughly enjoyed lurking about and reading up on some of the threads here! It's really played into a lot of the information I've been trying to track down for the last 18 months.
A bit about myself, I grew up and currently live in Michigan. Naturally that means that I went to work in the auto industry when the time came... At first, it was the local company with the big blue oval on the building. They decided I needed to live in Dallas, TX and travel all over the south. After 3 years of that, I had a better idea and moved back home. I now work as a project manager type person for one of the Japanese imports.
My wife and I started to step back in time when she fell in love with the houses in the neighborhood I grew up in. Having grown up swearing I would never own one since I knew how much work they were, I got roped into it anyways. We're now the proud owners of a 1919 Model "F" Ford Home. These were some of the (if not the original) houses ever to be built using assembly line techniques. (One crew dug basements, another did framing, etc.)
Shortly after we got back to Michigan, I took up brewing beer and making wine/mead/cider at home. This is where my interest in the the subject matter of this site has really tied in. My mom passed in June of 2004, and our home sort of became the gathering place for the family. It wasn't long before what I was up to in the basement became a topic of conversation. I was then clued in to the fact that I had unwittingly revived a long standing family traditon! As it turns out, a great number of the relatives that my uncle can recall visiting (He's older than my mom was) were forever making homemade beer and wine. In fact, his father (my grandpa) has long been rumored in the family to have been running booze for the Purple Gang.
So here I am now, trying to reach back in time in order to recreate what I've sadly found to be a spotty family history, yet becoming more and more fascinated by it with each new discovery...
Sorry to be so long winded!
John
