Thanks for the invite, Pat...
I am Jim, known on the internet as Faceman, or Face. I know a couple of you - may know more by different names.
I live in the foothills of the Arkansas Ozarks on a small (by Canadian standards) 80 acre ranch with my bride of 29 years - Mrs. Face, 3 Araloosas - Chile, Casper, and Peanut, 2 Appys - Cheyenne and Cody, and my son - Son of Face, who has his own place on my ranch and lives with his significant other - Significant Golddigger, 2 Malamutes, and a Great Pyraneese/Chow mix.
I got my first horse at age 10, a QH/Shetland cross, my second horse a year later, an Arab, and then migrated to Appys because the Shetland cross bit me all the time and the Arab was smarter than I was.
I bred and raised Appys and Araloosas for about 20 years...stopped about 5 years ago when the market went south and the horse population came to far exceed the demand. I raised nice, but not great, horses, and had a steady stream of buyers, but decided I didn't want to add to an already saturated market.
Recently we purchased a home in the Branson area, about a 3 hour drive from our ranch, to which we will retire sometime in the next couple of years, and turn our ranch over to Son of Face.
Career wise, I was originally a Geophysicist, left the oil business in 1986 to enter public service with the U.S. Small Business Administration, retired from there 4 1/2 years ago, and am currently a Commercial Banker. Mrs. Face, also originally a Geophysicist, works for the Veterans Administration regional office, where she recently moved from coordinating Cancer Programs at the 10 VA Hospitals in her region into the rapidly growing rural telehealth area, helping to coordinate telehealth efforts between the VA hospitals and many rural VA clinics in the region.
You now know more about me than you ever wanted to know...
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