January 4, 5, and 6, 2012

[gcreekrch]

You are definately one of the few that didn't waste all of their energy in their youth George.

MY FIL homesteaded this ranch, raised a family of 4 girls and had a bush mill from 1959 to 1978. Then he added a dump truck and 2 loaders for hwy construction work. 1987 he started a large logging show that contracted for the mill that moved in here and logged until 1992 when the mill co. and the govt. had a difference of opinion when govt tried to change the rules on reforestation. My wife and I bought the ranch from him in 1991 and her parents moved a few miles away to another small property where they built their present home.

At 60 he bought a gravel crusher, batch plant and 2 cement trucks to service a demand for cement in the area. It was at that point MIL told the neighbors that he hadn't retired but had retarded.

He slowed down considerably at 72 when he had open heart surgury and then was diagnosed with Diabetes but is still self sufficient at 81.