for convenience sake every time you see STO obviously that means shade tree Okie\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By nature a Shade Tree Anything tends to want to tweak something a bit more, always kinda feeling it not quite done yet. A STO feels this little edit here or there will do the trick. A totally finished product is not the possession of anything in a STO’s life. Including this blog so expect a few changes here and there<\/a> as long as I’m still here or there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is me. Started being amazed by sling shots (also know as bean flips) to being curious about everything including how best to build and present this STO website for your consumption or taste or not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n So many stores to tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Why call my story the ‘Shade Tree Okie’?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I grew up in the sticks of Oklahoma. And I mean the sticks… way way back in the hills, creeks and so-called red neck country of Oklahome. Specifically Okfuskee County Okla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I often sought out shade trees and spent a lot of time under one, getting out of work, resting from work, day dreaming, talking and planning life. Becoming a shade tree chameleon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Living in those parts of Oklahoma is a lizard very similar to a chameleon and it’s called the American chameleon or false chameleon. they are native to the forest shrubs and backyards of southeastern Oklahoma. They’re not really chameleons they just mimic chameleons. They can independently move their eyes and change color from bright green dark brown depending on their temperature, health, or meed. they are not actually related to true chameleons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After I left Oklahoma everybody, because they appeared so different than what I knew back in Oklahoma, fascinated me! I wanted to know more about them I even wanted to be like them at times .., people and culture fascinated me then and still do but I feel my biggest success, probably the most rewarding, was my becoming a shade tree black, brown or whateveer! A whatever that closely resembled the shade tree’s cultivated in the soil and by the cultures i was privileged to stand on, with and for. To dive in so deep that i could feel what it was like to be a semblance to who i was with when i was with with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s why calling my last story ‘The Shade Tree Okie’ fits so well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To write a biography you gotta be for yourself but if you call everything you are and Shade Tree just that you’re really not bragging.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To some degree or another, during certain point in my life I was or became a ShadeTree Okie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Loosely speaking there was times that I morphed into some of the shade tree items listed below in a somewhat dark and unusual way, but not always, most of what I did or accomplished doing them and becoming them was fun and helped form and developed who I am, as a person today\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n On many of the items below I no longer identify or barely even resemble those labels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Alphabetically Sorted List <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Actor \u2022 Adventurer \u2022 Agave Expert <\/a><\/strong>\u2022 Agent Orange Survivor \u2022 Agnostic \u2022 Airman \u2022 Armchair Quarterback \u2022 Arrowhead Hunter \u2022 Attention Getter \u2022 Barfly \u2022 Bartender \u2022 Baseball Player \u2022 Boozer \u2022 Bow Hunter \u2022 Breeder \u2022 Bull Rider \u2022 Businessman \u2022 Cactus Connoisseur \u2022 Capellophile \u2022 Carp Gigger \u2022 Cash Register Sales And Service \u2022 Castrater \u2022 Chauffeur \u2022 Cheater \u2022 Coffee Shop Owner \u2022 Comedian \u2022 Conservative \u2022 Coon Hunter \u2022 Corn Shucker \u2022 Cotton Chopper \u2022 Cotton Picker \u2022 Couch Potato \u2022 Coyote Bobcat And Badger Trapper \u2022 Dad \u2022 Deer, Elk, And Antelope Hunter \u2022 Desert & Mountain Backpacker \u2022 Developer \u2022 Disruptor \u2022 Do Gooder \u2022 Doodle Bugger \u2022 Druggie \u2022 Electrician \u2022 Engineer \u2022 Equipment Operator \u2022 Explorer \u2022 Faker \u2022 Family Historian \u2022 Fanatic \u2022 Farmer \u2022 Feminist \u2022 Fighter \u2022 Fisherman \u2022 Foodie \u2022 Franchise Developer \u2022 Friend \u2022 Frog Hunter & Gigger \u2022 Gardner \u2022 Globe Trotter \u2022 Grandad \u2022 Guide \u2022 Hater \u2022 Hay Bailer \u2022 Hippie \u2022 Horseman \u2022 Husband \u2022 Hustler \u2022 Intellectual \u2022 Inventor \u2022 Jogger \u2022 Killer \u2022 Liberal \u2022 Lover \u2022 Lumberjack \u2022 Magician \u2022 Marksman \u2022 Mathematician \u2022 Mechanic \u2022 Mezcal Connoisseur<\/a><\/strong> \u2022 Millenarian \u2022 Mover \u2022 Music Lover \u2022 Navigator \u2022 Noodler \u2022 Operator \u2022 Organizer \u2022 Patriarch \u2022 Peacenik \u2022 People \u2022 Philosopher \u2022 Photographer \u2022 Pill Popper \u2022 Pioneer \u2022 Pleasure Seeker \u2022 Plumber \u2022 Poker Player \u2022 Pool Shark \u2022 Preacher \u2022 Programmer \u2022 Public Speaker \u2022 Radar Man \u2022 Rambler \u2022 Realtor \u2022 Sissy \u2022 Small Time Thief \u2022 Snipe Hunter \u2022 Social Worker \u2022 Soldier \u2022 Squirrel, Rabbit, And Possum Hunter \u2022 Stock Trader \u2022 Storyteller \u2022 Student \u2022 Survival Agent Orange \u2022 Survivor Earthquakes \u2022 Survivor Tornados \u2022 Table Tennis Player \u2022 Technician \u2022 Theologian \u2022 Tour Operator \u2022 Tracker \u2022 Travel Advisor \u2022 Travel Agent \u2022 Traveler \u2022 Tree Climber \u2022 Tree Hugger \u2022 Tweaker \u2022 Uncomfortable Motorcycle \u2022 Veteran \u2022 Wanderer \u2022 Warmonger \u2022 Weed Hoer \u2022 Wolf And Coyote Hunter \u2022 Wood Cutter \u2022 Wrangler<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is not Braging or an exaggeration. No doubt some of you reading this list could check a box on manny of these Shade Tree items and probably add as few!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n By extension and experience and appreciation for their culture I feel i loosely identify as a Shade Tree Asian \u2022 Ecuadorian \u2022 European \u2022 Indian \u2022 Iranian \u2022 Mexican \u2022 New Mexican \u2022 New Yorker \u2022 Peruvian \u2022 Texan \u2022 Vietnamese to name just a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “But before I became all that I was just a kid in Oklahoma learning how to live life on my terms and my greatest accomplishment to all I’ve ever done is my being a shade tree music lover… calling myself a shadetree anything is not cause i wanted to fix things, I didn’t, I just wanted to experience it<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some would say (and rightly so) why not just be myself? Actually I’m mainly an unstable shadetreeokie meaning i’m always myself. 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