Some say the world will end with fire.

Others say with ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those that favor fire.

But if I had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate,

To say that for destruction ice,

Is also great and would suffice.

Robert Frost



"YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID" - Ron White



"Good things come to those who wait, but, only the things LEFT by those who hustle." - Unknown (at least by me)



"Life is wonderful, without it you are dead." - Hy "Pete" Peterson - Park City and Kenecott Miner



"Don't worry about those people in your past---there is a reason they are not in your present." - Unknown



"Life's tough - it's even tougher if you're stupid." - John Wayne



"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary!" - Vince Lombardi



"If you aren’t living on the edge, you’re probably taking up too much space.” ~ Attributed to Jim Whittaker by Doug ‘Swani’ Swantner, Alaska Smokejumper and Air Attack Base Manager (Ret.)

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I am married and have seven children and twenty grandchildren. I retired January 1, 2010 after working 39+ years for the Forest Service...NEW CHAPTER IN MY LIFE HAS BEGUN!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

MY WATCH

I have been thinking about my watch or my career which ever you want to call it. I have been really proud of the things that I have been able to get done. We spent some time talking about that in Reno and one of my friends told me I didn't understand it but that I was the sponsored one.

I asked him what he was talking about and he said to look at the record---he said ever since he has known me---and that is a long, long time---that the budget just follows me wherever I go and we always have more jobs to do that we can ever get done.

I spent part of today reminiscing and he's at least partially right---I have never left anything on the list of things I wanted to do in any of the places we have lived undone. Why is that? I really don't know but there have always been people in my life that agreed with where I was trying to get and made sure I had the budget to get there. He calls that sponsored---I call it relationships---and I have had a lot of good relationships with the budget guru's and they HAVE taken good care of me.

Would have been nice if a lot of that money had come in my personal check---but I have loved all of my jobs and will miss the people---not the job---when I walk out the door.

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