William McDougal:  

Retired for the last ten years, I am finally getting to enjoy the landscaping and the home in Coventry, CT that we built almost thirty years ago. Many days, my vehicle doesn't leave the property. Instead, I take a walk around and decide which of the seasonally dependent outside projects needs my attention the most. I have cleared the brush, nearly to the corners, and spend many days keeping it that way. I'm almost finished building a patio and fire pit from big flat stones I found on the property. It's been functional since last winter and I use any excuse to have a bonfire. I'm a fly fisherman and travel to New Brunswick, Canada twice a year for a week Atlantic Salmon fishing. I've been taking an annual trip to Patagonia, Chile to fish for trout. I'm a member of a trout club in Stowe, Vermont and spend several weeks there with my wife, Pat, invited friends and family, and other friends who are members. In the Spring and early Fall, I fish for a few hours in the early morning, nearly every day I'm home I'm a pheasant hunter and have an eleven year old English Setter and a German Shorthair Pointer, who is two. I hunt with them, in season, nearly every day. I have one son, Bri...Expand for more