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I began attending Osborne in 1956 as a small boy. My family moved to Canada for a while, and then came back. My parents owned a construction business in the Valley, and the C-2 Cattle Ranch in a very remote area of British Columbia, Canada. So for many years I was back and forth a lot (but ONC was always my home church). I grew up simultaneously in 2 very different worlds! It was great!!
I left ONC in Jan. 1980 because I moved my family to British Columbia, Canada, and I've lived up here in B.C. continually since then. The only things I miss in L.A. are my great friends, the beaches and ocean, and Osborne Neighborhood Church!
I am currently living alone, on the edge of a small town in a valley nestled between mountains, on the shore of a huge lake. I attend a very good church here. But I could move back out in the 'bush' at the drop of a hat! I have always been happiest when living in the bush.
Many of you know my older brother and his wife - Greg 'n Angela Thomson as they are Osborne sponsored missionaries, and have been for over 35 years!
I'm hoping that this website will 'catch-on' at ONC as it would be a good place where old-timers that have moved away but really miss ONC could still be a bit connected!
So if you know any ONC old-timers who do not know about this site, please tell them!
I'll add more soon....
I've been unresponsive and out of touch with some of you lately due to health reasons.... sorry.
Contact: grizzlystew@yahoo.ca Phone: 250-833-5695 Pacific Standard Time
Geoff's Quote For The Week
“If sinners are to be damned, let them leap over our bodies to do so”.
–Charles H. Spurgeon Geoff's Verse For The Week
"If you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness and your gloom will become like midday. And the LORD will continually guide you, and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail."-Isaiah 58:10-11
Activities
I Love:
-Being in the bush
-Hunting
-Exploring
-Fishing
-Visiting with bush people
I don't like:
-Hanging out in towns and cities (I really honestly tried, but I always felt like a fish out of water). | | Interests - God and my relationship with Him is foremost…
- Nature…
- Teaching my Hunting Courses and Firearms Courses…
- World current events…
- World history…
- World geography…
- Amateur architectural design…
- Building anything with wood…
| | Movies Yuck... I'll have to think about this.. | | Music My Favourite Music?
THE SOUNDS OF:
- Loons at night during summer on our awesome Canadian lakes…
- a fast running stream…
- wolves and coyotes howling at night…
- thick lake ice cracking at night at -35 below…
- a crackling, popping campfire…
- wild geese honking while flying north in the spring...
- a waterfall…
- baby Bald Eagles when they start squealing as mom approaches with claws full of food…
- a marmot whistling at high elevations in the BC mountains…
- ospreys in the air when fishing…
- a doe deer warning other deer of my presence…
- a nighthawks wings when they dive-bomb me at night, when I come too close to their ground nest…
- a beaver slapping it’s tail on pond water when aware of my presence, warning other beavers…
- any owl at night…
- black bear cubs bawling at just about anything…
- wild red meat frying in a cast iron skillet over a campfire…
- Indian fry bread frying in the same skillet above…
- a bull moose answering my call (grunt) on an icy cold September morning…
- a new morning fire crackling in the wood cookstove on a cold morning…
- a horse chewing oats…
- the sound of a large trout jumping and splashing on still water…
- a 3-day old colt sucking on my finger…
- my old dog “Nuthin’” growling at any and every wild creature (except porcupines and skunks!!)…
- some other poor guy building a campfire on a freezing morning, from inside my sleeping bag…
- a horse groaning while sleeping lying in the pasture on a warm summer morning, with my ear pressed to it's ribs…
- a horse drawn hay mower (I really miss that)…
- somebody else wrangling the horses on a freezing morning, from my bed…
... --THESE SOUNDS ARE MUSIC TO MY EARS ...and there are many more... | | Books ...will add later. | | Television Documentaries... - History Channel... - FOX news... - CNN... - In Focus with Dr. Charles Stanley (if I miss it on TV, I watch it on-line at:
http://ww2.intouch.org/site/c.dhKHIXPKIuE/b.2287421/k.944D/This_Week_on_TV.htm - some 'Nature' programs... - The Angler & The Hunter... - Canada in the Rough... -Nightime soaps like: - Criminal Minds... -24... |
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Kathy Rojas says ...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEOFF....... |
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Doug Martin says ...
Thanks Jeff! Getting cold up there yet? A friend of mine in Colorado says they only have two seasons there cold and snow :/ The fishing makes up for it though. Hope your well!
Doug
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Laurie says ...
I see that you have really aged right before our eyes according to your profile - Age: 107 | Gender: Male | Location: Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada
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Kathy Rojas says ...
hey
what does a star mean on a comment? does it mean i did something right? I'm all about approval. I thrive on it. speaking of eyes.... I have the beginnings of macular degeneration. That means I'll probabally be blind in my 80's it's a slow moving disease. If I make it to my 80's I'll be happy to feel my way around the house. :) |
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Laurie says ...
Happy belated Thanksgiving Geoff. Enjoy your leftovers, the best part of any Thanksgiving !!!
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Laurie says ...
Regarding your comment to me, "This new background looks nice, but now I can't read some of the text! ...'specially the Comments. Is it just me? I don't know where my magnifying glass is!!!" My answer: I am having no problem reading the text on my page.....is your vision challenged? LOL - I have changed my background to something lighter, so you won't have to find your magnifing glass, at least to read my comments!
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Sandra Hurst says ...
hi, thanks for the birthday greetings, don't feel older, I am.
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Gary Olson says ...
I don't hunt but there where 6 deer in my yard when I came home last night. Send me your GPS cord. so I can spy on you as you spy on me. Get well.
Gary
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Kathy Rojas says ...
lol, you silly guy you've been spending too much time in the bush........
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Bill Sams says ...
Yes, Geoff, I remember chaperoning at the high school grad trip to Palm Spring very well and sitting out in the hot tub with you guys for several hours at a time.
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