PhilB_Prairies from Rosthern, Canada

Love reading and enjoy a very eclectic range of reading interests. Very health conscious - both nutrition and exercise. Love travel and adventures. I have a large range of interests and enjoy learning about “how things work” whether biological or mechanical. For many years worked as a farm animal veterinarian doing both medicine and surgery, but now focus almost exclusively on nutritional as well as health management and environmental improvements for dairy farms in Western Canada. I also spend part of my time solving problems and helping manage a residential/commercial interior finishing business that I am a partner in. Over the years have taken many courses and earned certificates or licenses in many areas including mechanics, welding, pilots license, open water diving certificate, HKC (hardstyle kettlebell certification) and others. Enjoy working with my hands and my head. Enjoy music, natural history museums, and virtually anything where I can learn something. Have many things I would like to learn and try – learn to play the violin, learn to dance, learn to cook interesting dishes, build a small four place airplane, skydive, ride horses and take riding and camping excursions into the mountains of Alberta.

Very important to me would be to find someone who can be a true friend that I can completely trust and share with. Someone who is strong enough in themselves to be able to not be scared or threatened by opening themselves up totally to another person who would want the best for them. I would like someone who is strong minded and knows them-self and is willing to challenge me and help me grow and improve and take on new challenges, and would not be put off by my insatiable curiosity and love of learning. I would love to have a woman who I could share her life with and help her to explore her potential. I know I would like a woman who at times enjoys being nurtured or “protected”, and is not completely self-reliant. As well, being a support or helpmate in my various businesses or endeavors would be nice, but not essential. An interest in maintaining a healthy brain and body is important to me. Enjoying music, playing a musical instrument or enjoying singing would be nice. Being able to teach me to dance or being interested in learning to dance with me would be welcome. A university degree, particularly in an area related to biology, agriculture, medicine, psychology, science, nutrition or related areas would make conversation and relating to each other easier, but is not essential. Having raised children, or even still having children living with her, would not be a problem. Enjoying children would be an asset. Having experienced some large challenges in life are not negative to me – the only negative would be if the past cannot be confronted and left. Looking after a home would be important, although a shared responsibility. An attitude that recognizes and comes to terms with the past and focuses on the future is important to me, therefore optimism and a “growth mindset” is very important.