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<blockquote data-quote="dannyboy" data-source="post: 564254" data-attributes="member: 484"><p>As a driver, I developed many interests, and did a lot of things. Foster parenting was one that we invested a lot of time into, but thats another story.</p><p> </p><p>I enjoyed building water features, fish, especially Koi, and water plants.</p><p>Opened up a business that was seasonal, and had it open only on weekends. IT grew to be too much just for weekends, so we opened 6 days a week.</p><p> </p><p>Then people asked me to design and build ponds for them. Really did not have the time, but I did some of those jobs on the weekend.</p><p> </p><p>Then when I tore my knees out at work, I was layed up for quite a while, both before and after the surgeries. I worked part of one day after that, at which time it was determined that going in and out of the package car would cause me to have to replace both knees.</p><p> </p><p>It was at that time that it was determined in the best interests of both myself and UPS that we should part ways. I had over 33 years in, was able to buy out three years of my retirement, so out I went.</p><p> </p><p>As the business grew, we got into spray-in liners for ponds. That led to doing what is called large animal remediation, a fancy name for making the animals more comfortable in an enclosure.</p><p> </p><p>In the last 3 years, we have done Urban Outfitters corp offices in philly, Outdoor adventure's white water rafting course in McTeer MD, several exhibits at the Hershey Zoo, Knoxville Zoo, and built ponds from upstate PA to Naples Fla, just to name a few.</p><p> </p><p>While I dont really like being away from home, as a business man, you have to go where the business is. </p><p> </p><p>And I am way to young to just sit down and die.</p><p> </p><p>d</p><p> </p><p>PS I know that for some that this might be corny, but I do believe in a God that was watching out for me. I think he was wanting to get my attention. He did.</p><p> </p><p>But without His guidence to see to it that I was taken to the right hosptal (I was put on diversion twice to end up at duke) and to see to it that the head of micro surgury was already there(after all the other surgeons had declared it a lost cause even for just the thumb), I was way more than lucky, I was blessed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dannyboy, post: 564254, member: 484"] As a driver, I developed many interests, and did a lot of things. Foster parenting was one that we invested a lot of time into, but thats another story. I enjoyed building water features, fish, especially Koi, and water plants. Opened up a business that was seasonal, and had it open only on weekends. IT grew to be too much just for weekends, so we opened 6 days a week. Then people asked me to design and build ponds for them. Really did not have the time, but I did some of those jobs on the weekend. Then when I tore my knees out at work, I was layed up for quite a while, both before and after the surgeries. I worked part of one day after that, at which time it was determined that going in and out of the package car would cause me to have to replace both knees. It was at that time that it was determined in the best interests of both myself and UPS that we should part ways. I had over 33 years in, was able to buy out three years of my retirement, so out I went. As the business grew, we got into spray-in liners for ponds. That led to doing what is called large animal remediation, a fancy name for making the animals more comfortable in an enclosure. In the last 3 years, we have done Urban Outfitters corp offices in philly, Outdoor adventure's white water rafting course in McTeer MD, several exhibits at the Hershey Zoo, Knoxville Zoo, and built ponds from upstate PA to Naples Fla, just to name a few. While I dont really like being away from home, as a business man, you have to go where the business is. And I am way to young to just sit down and die. d PS I know that for some that this might be corny, but I do believe in a God that was watching out for me. I think he was wanting to get my attention. He did. But without His guidence to see to it that I was taken to the right hosptal (I was put on diversion twice to end up at duke) and to see to it that the head of micro surgury was already there(after all the other surgeons had declared it a lost cause even for just the thumb), I was way more than lucky, I was blessed. [/QUOTE]
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